skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes may build the foundation of a productive society, but reproduction builds the actual society. And in both taxes and coerced reproduction, something is taken by force from someone who has not consented to that. In the case of reproduction we are talking about roughly nine months of effort (at least), and in the case of taxes it depends on the country, but in mine it is roughly six months of effort (Tax Liberation Day falls on June 20th here). So that's roughly six month of coerced slavery, and unlike reproduction, it comes back every single year.

So I see a lot of similarities, yet one is generally accepted, and the other... not so much. Even though most of the world is heading towards population collapse, and surely the moral obligation you speak of also applies when it comes to ensuring society survives in the first place.
I'm curious, how do you run ML in the same process?
> From my point of view, people in Ljubljana had every right to continue using the .yu domain if they wanted to, and they could've maybe made a deal to manage the domain together. But it seems to me this collides with the desire to be independent, so my assumption is they were kind of happy to switch to their own tld. Or maybe you know this is not the case?

According to the article they kept running the domain and using it for email for two years until Postel transferred it to Belgrade. (The article phrases it as though that email use was less important or less serious than the unspecified "work" that the group in Belgrade wanted to use it for, but that smells like a slanted narrative to me)
Lithium ion batteries that can handle a thousand to several thousand charge cycles and only see 80% reduction in capacity have been available for ten years.

My 2013 Macbook Pro has just such a battery, rated for 80% capacity after 1000 cycles, and it lasted over 6 years before the battery's internal resistance rose enough that heavy load would cause a brownout and the machine to force sleep.

Yet they are not in widespread use; most devices have prioritized capacity/weight/size over longevity, Apple included. My current M1 has lost 10% of its capacity after just 120 cycles and less than a year of ownership, even using a utility that allows you to set a limited maximum charge level to preserve the battery. And the battery is less accessible, less replaceable.

Battery companies and device manufacturers don't care. There's no incentive for anyone involved and consumers have gotten used to replacing devices every few years.

Solid state batteries with 10k charge/discharge cycles are never going to happen for the same reason incandescent bulbs are purposefully manufactured by every single lightbulb manufacturer to fail when they figured out a hundred years ago how to make them last forever.

We need something like a e-waste import duty, tax, fee, or 'recycling deposit' on devices with non-replaceable lithium ion batteries.
I love having an honest measure of performance. Of course I'm slowly declining, but seeing it in hard numbers is somehow reassuring. In every other part of life, success is bound up in stories and memories and political measures of position. On the track, I know exactly where I stand. It's also a lot of fun. There's a tactical element to middle-distance running and it's very fulfilling to pull of a (relatively) good race. And always an incredibly friendly sport that brings together people from all walks of life. Millionaires racing high school kids, lawyers vs labourers - none of the usual markers of status matter on the track. I'm sure other sports are similar but this is the one I do.

Other than track (where times are very important), I absolutely love cross country. Not sure about elsewhere, but in the UK it's still a big deal. The leagues are 100% amateur, no flashy medals or goody bags, just pure competitive running. Running is usually an individual sport but cross-country is very much a team thing. The time doesn't matter, the distance doesn't matter (it's usually not more than about 10k), but it's incredibly competitive and the camaraderie is great. The fact that it takes an enormous effort and is generally cold, wet and uncomfortable makes it all the more satisfying.
This is at least 24 years old.
> We can't even fix the problems on our first planet. How (and why) can we even begin to think about another one?

For precisely this reason?

We can't stop asteroid impacts. We can't stop a well-adapted plague, either (Ref: Covidiots). We have dictators with nuclear weapons that we can't stop. etc.

Having a self-sufficient colony somewhere other than Terra is almost certainly the first step toward avoiding a "Great Filter" event.
Typst handles hyphenation very similarly to TeX.

https://github.com/typst/hypher

https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/hypher/
There is a tradeoff here which might mislead. That is that when you're wirelessly recharging a battery "good" is defined by "charges in a short time" which means a lot of current and thus a lot of heat. When operating a device "good" is defined by "runs a long time" which means minimal current and thus little heat.

So before we could dismiss the idea, we would really need to run the experiment of "running" via wireless power to see how the current requirements in that state would be reflected in device heating (or not). I agree with you though that if the answer was "always smoking hot" then it is a non starter.

As for size, the "wireless" part is really really thin (a loop antenna). Battery size is a function of how much electrolyte it can carry and LiOn batteries are about 0.5g/cc and 250Wh/kg (or .25Wh/g) iPhones are around 12Wh so about 48g of battery which is 96cc of Lithium. Call it 100cc and you're looking as a "7.8 x 15 x 1" cm "battery card" (order of magnitude approximation based on that math and rough measurements of my iPhone 13SE which is a smallish phone)

I like the idea of magnets but I don't like the idea of the battery being "jostled off" my phone in my pocket and so effectively turned off when I think it should be on. So I think that would take some design work to get right.
You develop an eye for it eventually. Some people unavailable, some are just not interested that night, some are hostile. These things change through the night so someone that was hostile earlier might warm up or become friendly over time. The body language is Usally a good tell.

They are also other signs that hint towards compatibility such as wealth, class, education, social anxiety you get a feel for it over time. I would trust that over what you see in a profile. Not that you can’t lie on those just that it’s much harder.
Plus The dark things people tell you after a drink or 2 would often be enough to get one cancelled off the internet.

Also keep in mind that a lot of people screened themselves out just by not going out. All those gals that don’t have anything money, live with their parents and go to bed at 9 or have no friends. You won’t find them at the bar but on tinder you might
I also loved that chapter.

Deutsch really argues for Popper's "conjecture and refutation" model of science (or as he renamed it, "conjecture and criticism") and one of the great points he makes is that both those processes can be done entirely in the mind. Physical evidence may be necessary for some kinds of criticism, but sometimes reason alone can produce useful criticism.
> [fewer product sales per unit time] is a problem that can be solved using one of Apple’s favorite financial tools: higher product margins.

It's weird people forget the main message Apple has been touting for years now: services revenue.

Even without removeable batteries, with right to repair device longevity will increase, and they've seen the writing on the wall for a long time.

Apple will continue increasing services revenue. They'll fight the bitter end for the 15/30% tax on everything, iCloud tiers, Apple Music, TV, etc.

If they find a blue ocean, it will be in services. Their entry into emergency satellite calls and other "wouldn't you feel bad being dead because you didn't pay us ?" push could be that.
> Similar for SSRIs. Asked the shrink why SSRIs versus something else - 'got to start somewhere'. Asked them why one SSRI over another, same answer.

At the risk of over-simplifying - and certainly not justifying blasé, ambivalent answers... the brain is a very complex organism. And we have barely scratched the surface of how it actually works. Most of it, we just don't know.

So, from this to psychiatric drugs - SSRIs, MAOIs, SNRIs. Read the drug information sheet in the packet. Not just the "standard" paragraphs on side effects and warnings. All prescription drugs are required to specify "how" the drug works.

For a startlingly high number of these drugs, this paragraph starts with the words:

> It is not understood precisely how [drug] works. It is believed that it does X, Y and Z...

(emphasis mine).

We know that they can work for some people and not others. But while we can perhaps make decent educated guesses, a lot of the time, we can't, because, hell, we don't really know how it even actually works, so we can't know it will work for you.

Disclaimer: while I am medically educated and work as a prehospital provider, I'm not a MHP, despite my use of 'we' in the previous para.
Anecdotal, but all humans I ever met are very much domesticated.
A newer text is:

_Make: Calculus: Build models to learn, visualize, and explore_ by Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make

It's part of a series with matching books on Geometry and Trigonometry.
Even this isn't very relevant. So they won't return to the company that laid them off, but that doesn't mean they won't work for a different company that laid off other people. I highly doubt any of these companies will have a hard time hiring people because of their layoffs. In the end, people will still go work for them because they pay at the top of the market.
Why do you include your undergraduate degree as part of your medical training? I've asked dozens of doctors (and lawyers) about the relevance of their college/undergraduate education to their day-to-day work and none have said it was critical, most have said it was not relevant, and some have had completely non-medical majors (music and physics). Of course, maybe it's different for you, which is why I ask.
Wireless power is too inefficient for this to make sense. You’d be throwing 30% of the battery capacity to the wind
Comprehensive Geoneutrino Analysis with Borexino
Epubs are horrible for technical documents
Geist, a typeface specifically designed for developers and designers
There's also a ton of optimization savings in doing this. your DB already has to move from media to cache, so why not do the pipelined processing in place where it's cheapest?

Instead, we haul that shit to the NIC, then across the network, then copy it into memory on some server (probably inefficiently), do the operations there, or we have to reinvent this with pushdown functions for distributed databases.

There are many cases where moving function-to-data is the right answer.
So first of all you said
"There is nothing in the GDPR that relates to "exposing" or "transmitting" anything (other than transmitting further from a processor to a third party). GDPR relates to how data is stored or processed." .

That was false, since the definition of processing explicitly includes transmitting.

VS Code requires accepting the all-encompassing Microsoft privacy statement, and I couldn't find quickly what legal reasons they use for telemetry.

"Legitimate reasons" can practically indeed mean almost anything, and the only limits to it are those placed by subsequent guidances or interpretations of the central or local privacy authorities.
It's what largely makes the gdpr a joke.
It's very likely that Microsoft relies on it, whether that's acceptable or not.

You seem to consider a local software as part of the software's copyright holder infrastructure, and that appears ludicrous, transmission of usage data from a local application to an other company's server is most definitely transmission.

If VS Studio's telemetry is legal or not I don't know and I'm not interested in delving into it right now, if I had to use it I'd block it and probably wouldn't use it if it became impossible.
How do you dispatch to multiple cores in a single process in Python?
>But my X timeline is full of crap from people I don't follow

You know you can just switch to the timeline to see people _you explicitly follow_?
Sheep die in the wild.

Farmers protect sheep, supplement their feed, have medical care and also keep the grass healthy.

But tech workers know how to fend for themselves, like using their hands and traveling and social skills and they know how society and things like farms work, right?

Sadly tech works have become so useless they don't have multiple tech skills anymore, many don't have any tech skills, just look at HN. Many blame Google because they can't even use search.
The strangest thing is that Japan is thinking about burning ammonia together with coal

https://about.bnef.com/blog/japans-ammonia-coal-co-firing-st...

which I just can't imagine being clean when I consider that nitrogen oxides are also a concern with combustion fuels, not to mention it being an inefficient "battery" if you're making ammonia from green hydrogen and then burning it and spinning a turbine.
You'd still need some in-device battery to keep the phone from fully powering off every time you change the outside battery. I think people want their phones to not have to fully power off all the time.
It doesn't matter.
If a company is able to figure out how to build a great, high performing team without the office overhead, then they will have a significant advantage, especially in an environment where financing becomes more difficult.
Happiness is relative. Paris Hilton might feel distraught if her credit card is declined, if that's the worst thing that's ever happened to her.

That's why it's important to understand context, both local and historical, to understand our place in the world and how we should feel about it.
Can great, quality software come out of a group of 'mediocre' people? I think you'll find that you do indeed need a strong(er) process and set of rules to follow, that's fine but not always applicable.

I think you need to tailor each group and their process carefully, depending on available talent pools and the complexity of the work being attempted, and sometimes you will need active management of requirements to achieve better outcomes. If your process grows faster than the core coding team does, you probably do have a negative process jerk happening you need to disrupt.

Maybe you'll get better results by not calling people 'mediocre' to start with, as if that's anything but a hateful subjective label.
They are probably referring to the know issue of tremors caused by natural gas extraction.

For example:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/business/energy-environme...
This saga clearly is a counterpoint.
Pretty damning view of the shape of society if we think this is accurate.
I fully agree. It's all about meeting enough potential partners with similar interests. Shared-activities with healthy gender balance (at least for heterosexual relationships) are the best bet for most people. Many such activities also don't require long-term commitment or hanging out with same people all the time, so rejection isn't as awkward as in workplace for example.

Of all things I tried shared activities worked the best, Tinder the worst.
> On the other hand, a lot of what I do doesn't require 12 years of training

What, besides surgery, really requires 12 years of training? I've found I have a greater success rate with self diagnosis and treatment than I have with seeing my physician, and I've found a very good internist. An hour spent with ChatGPT and Google and I always find a couple options that fit what I'm experiencing as well as detailed descriptions on how to narrow it down. And since I'm the one experiencing the symptoms, there's no chance of a communications breakdown between me and the doctor who is trying to diagnose me.
Many jobs require a “doctor’s note” for absences.
> It did not serve as a medium of exchange in the same way coins or modern digital money do.

Source for the confidence here? We know that a corvée economy existed, but I’m skeptical that we can rule out private quipo-based exchange. The evidence base is pretty thin; a lot of stuff didn’t survive Pizarro.
It's possible and even relatively straightforward to eliminate that network hop without moving all of the application logic into the database.
Here's a memory device for you: vikings don't yodel.
I would guess that the original PC color palette was selected to match or at least be similar to the colors on the 3270-style mainframe terminals.
The thing that bugs me a bit about Occam's razor [paraphrased] - All other things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the right one - is I've seen too many people smugly quote the second half, leaving off the, "All other things being equal" bit.

That's not Occam's fault. Razors are meant to be sharp, and people cut themselves with far blunter implements.
Yeah, yeah. My comment was my reaction 30 years ago.

I find it a mildly interesting intellectual exercise that you can do NSA with weaker axioms than choice. But for all cases I care about, I can already prove it with NSA without ANY additional axioms!

How is this possible? From Shoenfield's absoluteness theorem, you can prove that all statements that an be made in the Peano Axioms that can be proven in ZFC, are also true in ZF. (Note, they must be statable in PA, but not necessarily provable there.) But PA can encode any statement we can make about computation. So take any calculation we can talk about that can be approximated on a computer. We can rewrite it in PA. We can prove it using NSA. We then know that it is true in ZF. And we know that it is true without any additional axioms beyond ZF!

That which we can actually calculate in any useful way can all be calculated on a computer. And therefore NSA can prove anything about Calculus that I care about without needing any axiom beyond ZF.

But in the end this is using a mathematical sledgehammer to drive in a thumb tack. Many approaches to Calculus do not require assertions about the existence of sets that we cannot construct, even in principle. Even though I understand how NSA works, I'd prefer to use any of those.
Technically only true for formal systems where you can axiomatically define A = not A, which is principally arbitrary.
ORMs basically exist because people doing coding refuse to learn the relational model and want to program with OO instead. Most of the time they are, at best, irrelevant but eventually become expensive, slow, complex and painful. Everyone in coding knows, once they get a lot of experience, that translation/mapping layers are a waste of cycles, memory, and are complex and where assumptions mismatch results in tons of bugs, and that applies to ORMs in partcular.
Is there a codified definition of urban center? Because it’s not a term used by the census definitions; they define urban area.

If your define non-urban center as one far from mass transit to defend the need for cars, it becomes circular logic. It’s probably better to refer to more official definitions, which already reference population density.
Doesn’t seem to follow Moore’s law.
It could be more of explaining the total duration and cost of how long they went to college.

If it's required to have an undergrad I believe one can mention it, even if the undergraduate isn't required.

Like in Belgium you need to have a masters for certain government jobs, but it's not relevant in which field.
It takes being a Marvel superhero to extrapolate from yesterday and today to tomorrow?
Copyright and intellectual property doesn't real.
Not going to happen. Battery life is good enough for 99% of people that they aren't going to want to swap batteries. Only nerds really did that in the first place.

Battery technology has improved so much that removable batteries are less desirable.
I think the situation with TS has improved, but yes, I only really use it with a bundler where that isn't an issue - in this case, Vite. But typically Vite does most of the things you'll need out of the box, and I find I rarely need to think about it, so it's the sort of complexity I'm mostly happy to take on.
They don't want to show the same ads to everybody: they maximize their advertising income when they show different ads to different people depending on what people are interested in and buy.
They sometimes use weird techniques to produce electrodes with specific area on the orders of thousands of square meters per gram.
Even if it has to be flat, there's little holding you back from stacking 10k layers as long as you can manage the heat.
change and power do not necessarily make one happy
WA state during COVID basically authorized EMTs to administer the vaccine. I mean it's literally "find this landmark on the lateral arm, steadily insert needle into muscle tissue, depress plunger, withdraw needle, massage site, bandaid". They had to do a 30 minute "training" on it.
I’d rather have hot swappable batteries where you have a ten minute battery in the device and the main battery can be swapped out on the fly.
i would call this "paying attention".
As a second nomination, I hold a PhD in economics and found the book interesting.
"all" is doing heavy lifting here in a way that distorts the observation the person you are replying to was making.
This is the kind of content adblock users are missing out on.

https://twitter.com/baroquespiral/status/1716488758030118931
This is why you shouldn't combine your registrar with whatever services you have your domains pointed at. Domains should be delegated to services using a simple OAuth2 protocol. DomainConnect is technically close but very corporate and not good for self-hosted services.
And outsiders don't understand the pronunciation of either language.
I don't think "2 years" is valid anymore. It seems like the rental companies are hanging onto their cars for closer to 5 years, now.

This would also link into their "extra damage" problem.
You could have low profile metal contacts between the battery case and the phone to achieve full efficiency.
It's shiny and very easy to work and doesn't rust. The complete opposite of iron, which didn't really become that widespread until the bronze age trade routes collapsed (tin and copper aren't found in the same place). Bronze was also a much nicer metal than iron back in those days. Much, much easier to work and about as strong.
That only works if the other party is capable of verifying it. Also how do you tie people to keys? Have the government issue them?
Ask HN: Do you use a mini PC, and what's your workflow?
I work fully remote, and like to go out for lunch during the day. Sometimes a work emergency will come up and I either need to head home, or have a laptop with me.

I would prefer to have a small 7 or 8 inch netbook which can fit in a very small bag, but it seems like they don't really make these types of PCs anymore. I do, however, see a LOT of mini PCs. This product confuses me: who is frequently near a monitor and power outlet, but not a desktop computer or laptop? It seems like a niche product but there appears to be quite a lot of mini PC manufacturers out there.

Do you use these things? What is your workflow/use case?
John Deere sells tractors because of their oncall process

When you're in the middle of harvesting and your tractor breaks down, you want it fixed now, not at somebody else's convenience.

Mechanics and tow trucks also form an oncall for broken down cars.

There's oncalls all over the place for tech of all kinds. I think the biggest difference with software is intellectual property - we've made it so nobody else is allowed to fix whatever's broken, so of course, we need oncalls to fix the problems instead of letting customers go to their preferred mechanic
I would happily pay for YouTube if they didn’t ban and demonetize creators who I would pay to watch.
We would be still in caves if everybody followed your logic.