skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why does it looks like it was coordinated by the Ukrainian military, and hypothetically, would would Ukraine win by weakening gas supply to western Europe?
I agree with both, but the "indoctrination" isn't some liberal political plot for censorship. Because colleges are not educational institutions, they are investment businesses first and foremost with a side gig as a research institution that just so happens to teach people.

They're going to censor any reputationally damaging speech like any and every business in the US. It just so happens that a lot of the right-wing talking points aren't attractive to a left-leaning student body. It's all brand protection, and we see that now with a lot of colleges struggling to find a way to handle campus talks, orgs, and protests about the Israel-Palestine conflict since the public left-leaning response is not lining up with the political left-leaning response.
It could be that type of target. It can also be a low commitment way for people who are on the fence to scratch a particular itch they are feeling. For some, the only "output" it produces may be, "I do not enjoy this."

That happens to be valuable info in its own way.
That doesn't help much when electricity cost is 4-5x more per kWh. I can heat with either AC or gas, but the latter comes out cheaper.
> If only there were some sort of publicly available record showing transactions performed. (Yeah, I know, they don't include the USD value)

I don’t even mean the USD value. I mean the raw transaction itself.

In theory it’s persisted forever. In practice, the data is neither readily available nor searchable in the ways you’d actually need to properly account for transactions.

On the flip side, if you can’t get the data there’s no chance the IRS would ever be able to figure it out right?
Yep there's a baffling disconnect between widespread reporting on college "intolerance" and the reality. "Coddling of the American Mind" has a lot of mindshare but cites stupendously low numbers of "attempted disinvitations" as evidence of widespread left wing intolerance among students while moving the discussion right past actual nazi groups flyering Evergreen College and sending death threats to students.

My alma mater is the University of Virginia. A wealthy conservative was so incensed by a sign saying "Fuck UVA" on a lawn dorm room that he went to campus to physically tear it down. This man was later appointed to the university Board of Visitors by the governor.

My wife is a professor at a different university. There are groups of trained reactionary students who very carefully harass some of her colleagues and friends for being trans, for teaching african american history, and for teaching climate science in ways that ride right up against the edge of legal protection. 18 year olds don't know how to do this without help.

If universities are commie monocultures, then why would these things be happening? And surely if universities were commie monocultures, we'd see the boogeyman departments like history and gender studies getting all the funding they want when what I actually see is these departments being completely unable to hire and all of the growth going to computer science programs.
The Dunbar Number for Chatbots Is One
"Your statement implies that the situation/economy/whatever is a zero sum game. It's not."

^thats what I'm tired of. Baseless statements like that.

Fundamentally all things are negative sum. Anything beyond that are temporary local phenomenons.

Energy is has no "limit" in the sense you imply. It always exists. Once you "use" it, it still exists. In this sense energy is zero sum. The quantity never changes. Unless you count mass which is convertible to energy. Mass and energy are fixed zero sum things.

And since mass and energy are zero sum. Fundamentally, everything that extends from mass and energy is also zero sum.

The quantity outside of this that is negative sum is entropy. It always increases. But that's only because we set the baseline. It could be that maximal entropy is equilibrium and we are just an oscillation away from this baseline. In this case even entropy would be zero sum.

All forms of computations including coming up with cures for cancer or inventing quantum computing requires conversion of part of the universe from low entropy to high entropy. Once that conversion happens, the overall entropy of the universe goes up and it cannot be reversed. Even from a practical perspective we are using up fossil fuel resources and solar resources faster than then the sun can regenerate.

So if you technically knew what you were talking about. You'd know life and reality is overall practically and universally speaking is zero sum or worse.
I always wondered if some hidden pattern would be exposed when visualising numbers in unconventional ways in numbers with no known pattern such as Pi or prime numbers. A sort of multi-dimensional rendering that suddenly reveals a hidden pattern.
Earthquakes aren't uncommon, but what's happening in Grindavik is more than a earthquake. They were having hundreds of quakes an hour, a fissure opened and magma might come up soon. All in a little town and near a geothermal power plant which also fuels the Blue Lagoon. This also isn't super far from the main airport and the road that leads to it.
> We don't put any time/money/energy into the fundamental problems of our society

We spend untold billions and trillions on these things. You will never solve every problem for every person. Utopia does not exist. You see, a lot of different people have a lot of different ideas on what the fundamental problems of our society are. Some people think it's because people have abandoned traditional values and religion. Other people think it's because of that. You can't solve all the problem for all the people. You can't care for everyone because you just end up caring for no one.

> Perhaps having a society that is a bit more communally focused, and less self centered.

Your vision, to my judgement, sounds self centered though. It's saying "take care of me first instead of fulfilling your ambitions". There can't be a single "community". It's just not possible or realistic. It will always be plural because to be quite frank, many groups of people do not like each other, will not change for each other, and don't want to waste their lives trying to be accepted by other groups. And that's OK.

> We should try to improve and solve some of our cultural, philosophy, and systemic problems -before- we replicate them in isolated pockets of humanity.

This is saying we should paralyze ourselves until an arbitrary group of people say everything is good now. Again, why would we do that?
Ad Hominem is a poor substitute for an actual argument.
>it is quite reasonable to 'cross that bridge when we reach it' (which may be never).

Unless you are a junior copy writer... Or a midlevel photographer... Or production artist... You better cross that bridge before your next rent check is due.
Downvoted because people don’t like the question? I would also like to know, apparently others don’t
The numbers have got to be underreported, if there are no logs the chances of attack being spotted in the first place...
Disagree.

I see the same thing where I live. Natural gas heating is much cheaper than electric. And we have one of the lowest electric rates in the country.

Gas heating was also cheaper when I lived in the Midwest.

In fact, I often feel the opposite of you - that Big Electric is pushing propaganda. I often see people switching to heat pumps "because it's more efficient", but they don't see their bills go down, and on top of that it's a lot more expensive to install. Even if the bills go down a little, they'll probably not make up for the added cost of equipment in the whole time they are in that house.
For regular buildings, the differences between 99.5%, 99.6%, etc. mostly matter to the supplier's Marketing Dept. and Sales Dept. (Vs. whoever's in charge of HVAC for the building it's installed on.)

Though some of the other properties - especially withstanding ~1,000 °C - make it sound pretty useful for military equipment which might be facing weapon-grade lasers or nuclear fireballs.
Or to give an example: Unity provides a decent workflow for artists. XNA doesn't.
I expect that when we have a colony on Mars, exports will be found. Either mineral deposits which are rare on earth, or manufacturing processes which are easier with lower gravity.

A human being able to lift 3x as much without machines already opens up possibilities for greater productivity.

Stuff that must happen in the cold is cheaper to do too...

Think of Vegas - no economic output at all, tourist destination alone. Mars could do the same.

It only takes one thing - there is no need for a mixed economy.
I'm not a fan, but I do find the Windows 11 animations buttery smooth.
Maybe - but why they forget all reasoning and try to jump directly to the answer?
You seem to be basing the value of education solely on employability, but that misses a huge amount of the value of a liberal arts education -- not just to the individual, but even more so to society at large.
Nice move. I 'm sure they will crack down on using shell companies to avoid tax as well.

OECD is a cartel and increasingly acts like it the past 5 years (global tax rates , seriously)
Parent: Child, please go wash your hands.

Child: Why?

Parent: Because X (i.e. you will eat food now / you just came from outside...)

Child: Washes hands according to X
You aren't wrong, but the topic of interest here is the volcanic eruption. They are also relatively common compared to elsewhere in the world, but most are small and not in populated areas. See: https://www.visiticeland.com/eruption/
Yesterday it was way worse. Then the cracks in the middle of town opened and it seems that's sensational enough to use instead.
That's not your flat
Some products are viable as opensource projects but not as a commercial venture, and the overhead of a business entity might be enough to get out of viability.
My favorite variant is Pascal's Mugging:

A person comes up to you and tells you "I am a god. Give me your wallet or you will face eternal suffering in the afterlife."

The person isnt a god: you lose the $50 you had in your wallet and an afternoon requesting new cards / IDs if you accept, and nothing happens if you refuse

The person is a god: you lose the time and money if you accept, and face the worst possible punishment if you refuse

Surely the only logical option is to give the person your wallet!

(Note: I do agree with the original OP of this comment chain that it is worth the cost of climate mitigation. Climate change mitigation is not a kind of Pascal's Wager because global warming is scientific fact. We know with certainty that it will continue to happen without a course change, and that this will cause problems for humanity and the environment)
Something to consider -

You are nonplussed by paying ~2x as much for heating and you prefer engineered meat to the real thing. Absolutely nothing wrong with these preferences but this is not where most of your fellow humans are at.
When your friends, family, kids, are sick and unable to afford treatment or go bankrupt because of medical bills you may be singing a different tune unless you are either so totally selfish to ignore their plight or rich beyond millions to pay
What's interesting to see in the pictures is that they already built a detour around the fissure: it starts in the area of fresh asphalt to the right of the guy in this photo https://cdn.mbl.is/frimg/1/45/18/1451863.jpg, then goes through an also freshly paved-over parking lot/former green space and rejoins the road in the background (behind the construction fences).
Newer heat pumps work well in much lower temperatures https://www.mncee.org/cold-climate-air-source-heat-pump-fina...
"Most Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-r...
Here is the original report, no fracking sponsorship. The data in the article is accurate.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/WinterFuels.php#tab...
Sounds bad. I hope they change their rules to allow upgrading to heat pumps one day.
One might even say, expensive…
I treat strangers like I want to be treated: ignore me unless you have a reason to talk to me. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of extroverts telling us we need to change because they think the situations that make them happy are the default and best way for the world to be.
Oh, yeah, my brain skipped over that part of the constraint. Does ruin the simplicity a bit.

(findall(C,member(L,W),S),length(S,1))
On the other hand, having tasted Nix, the process you are describing seems as backwards and archaic as operating punched card computers to me. So much wasted human time, serving a need (of an ecosystem) now obsolete, thanks to Nix.
Funny that in a lot of Sci-Fi of the non-dystopian type white and shiny materials often seem to be widely used. I suppose they made it like that due to white looking clean, sleek and welcoming, so it would be cool if it actually turned out that way.
Ideally this could switch to ultra-black for the Winter months ;)
I like these kinds of bit twiddling puzzles.

One that I recently did was for iterating over possible errors of weight w in a quantum stabilizer code (for [1]). In a classical code this would just be the problem in the blog post, since there's only one type of error (bit flips). In a quantum code you have bit flips (X) but also phase flips (Z) and combination-bit-and-phase-flips (Y) all having weight 1. So the problem becomes: given ints (x, z) find the next (x2, z2) such that popcnt(x2 | z2) == popcnt(x | z).

The solution I came up with, which is likely very suboptimal, was to iterate over single-integer solutions for a given weight. Then, for each single-integer solution m, iterate over the pairs x,z where x|z == m. Here's python pseudocode for the second part:

def pair_sat_increment(x: int, z: int, m: int) -> Tuple[int, int]:
"""Returns the next (x, z) such that x | z == m."""
inc = x & z
up = ~inc
inc |= ~m
inc += 1
inc &= m
up &= inc
z &= inc | ~x
z ^= x & up
x ^= up
return x, z

[1]: https://github.com/quantumlib/Stim/issues/397
"much cheaper"

I can believe it has a lower price, but I'm sure the cost is higher.
But it isn’t.
Tuition has skyrocketed, public funding has decreased (if not "plummeted").

e.g. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-r...
Not a function of space, but a function of people.

Finland has 5.6 million people; Greater NYC has ~23 million people.
How much more does a heat pump installation cost?

How many years before the heat pump pays for itself?

I've got friends and family who installed solar panels a decade ago and claim they haven't "broken even" (the investment hasn't paid for itself) yet and that they may never b/c they're now facing maintenance, upgrades and/or replacement of old components. Also their insurance went up b/c of the solar installation (higher likelihood of roof damage, greater risk of fire, etc.)

I'm a KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) kinda guy and have remained unencumbered by these "social complexities" so far.
No, that's just one interpretation of the facts that we are relatively sure about.

But nobody knows who the paymasters were. Note that there are still Ukrainians fighting on the Russian side and that 'the fog of war' is a thing.
The €4.5M business investment in 2000 was to make it a freemium product. This obviously failed, which is why the community was able to acquire the rights via a €110k crowdfund. Just because they shoveled a lot of money into it, doesn't mean they actually created a great product. Blender wouldn't have been open-source today if the investors didn't decide to shut down the (quite incomplete) project due to disappointing sales.

The next substantial investment was a €1.2M grant in 2019, and it was a direct result of the development of 2.80, both the new GUI and other improvements. It suddenly became an actual viable alternative to commercial products, making it worth investing in. These developments only happened due to the hard work of mostly volunteers, and a lot of donations from primarily the community.
In general, one should not instruct GPT to solve a problem. The instructions should be about generating code, after a human thought process took place, and then generate even more code, then even more, and after merging all the code together the problem is solved.

The particulars are roughly what you describe, in how to achieve that.
> my fake citation was obviously tongue in cheek

I didn't realize that. There have been a lot of idiots in HN who have written comments like your unironically, so I've become much more combative to misinformation
You encountered Maken saying that?
It's not that hard to see parallels between economies with near-zero interest rates and academic institutions that have an equal almost-unlimited money supply with near-zero risk (one cannot get rid of student debt in bankruptcy court).

Unchecked growth for sure.
> Large cities contain more people but less community than small center

Large cities comprise neighborhoods where lots of community is found. Chicago has 77 and very warm.
You absolutely do not need exponential growth for UBI in a world with heavy automation. UBI is needed in a world where a large percentage of jobs have been automated, that implies everything in your supply chain is run by robots.

When robots produce the goods, UBI is just a mechanism to distribute those goods evenly among society.
Certain programming jobs will be replaced with AI. My prediction is that by the end of 2024 we will have a commercial AI that does an okay job of converting UI designs to frontend code. By the end of 2025 a commercial AI will be able to create UI designs and produce frontend code that's at least 80% complete.
Ivy League isn’t going to leave you with crippling debt. The majority of students don’t pay anywhere close to the sticker price, and the network you build is worth the cost of admission.

It’s the lesser known private schools where you can rack up massive debt in private loans that don’t have income based repayment plans. That’s when you get into trouble.
I want an "I'm adult" switch, which will stop bombing me with popups until I press Tab (for completion) or F1 (for help).

It's unusable, because it distracts on almost every keypress with popups, type hints, and additional characters inserted. Sometimes, these popups even block the CODE I working on. It similar to browsing without an ad-blocker.

I want a helpful and predictable editor, not a kaleidoscope. I don't want to think "hey, what happened?" after a key press.
I know I'm breaking the rules, but ... please read the actual article.

Where I live, heat pumps are usually still not cheaper per month. And even when they are, the amount people save doesn't make up for the added cost of a heat pump. If you want to be green, get a heat pump. If you want to save money, don't.
It helps with carbon emissions though.
"In higher education, students are not the customer, they are the product. Society is the customer."

Not 100% true, but worth thinking about.
A Short Primer on Java Debugging Internals (2022)
Instant turn off due to that god awful website
I've seen people that normally wouldn't align with any sort of creative identity suddenly light up when placed in the role. Even more when their contributions are meaningfully acknowledged and dignified as valid creations.

Reminds me of the difference between learning piano from someone that's scolding you and smacking your hands, and someone that is encouraging you, starting from where you are, leveraging your innate interests, opening your eyes to patterns... when the gates are down, it's much easier to get in.
Wow amazing, that's traffic everywhere!
This sounds horrible.

I'd rather sign up for a salary and time blocks during the day to be available for meetings, but my contribution is measured in output, not hours I logged.

If I take 40+ hours to do my work, that's on me.
> Natural gas heating is much cheaper than electric.

Does this include the cost of dealing with the effects of emitting CO2 into the atmosphere?
>My kids are ahead of their peers academically and socially,

>socially

How are they ahead socially? Are they so cool that the other kids don't talk or play with them? What does ahead mean here?
Pretty sure it's inheriting it from the xbox since I use a family domain and even though I created a local Windows account it wants to link the MS account.
It's odd to me when people generalize the whole of Europe when it comes to healthcare. The quality of welfare/healthcare in Eastern Europe for example is very different than what Nordic countries like Sweden and Norway offer (they are typically considered the highest quality of living in Europe), or Spain or France.

Likewise, the same can be said of the United States. Quality of private healthcare is going to depend greatly where you are. Remote areas and smaller towns and cities are not going to have access to top-quality physicians like larger cities will have. But, top-quality physicians will have very long waiting lists. I'm currently on the waiting list for a top-national orthopedic surgeon in the Bay Area and my total appointment wait is 5 months.
Delivery on web IOS specifically is the PITA. This post however uses CMAF and with IOS offering better API's for video from the next release there is a bit of hope that this protocol could be implemented without Apple needing to do it, once private relay on ios supports http3, all the bits needed to do this should be there.
It feels like the value in political virtue signaling is quite past its peak, in fact I think there's something of a negative value to it in a lot of important circles.
Good China article from the BBC, which actually provides analysis rather than US foreign policy talking points. Low interest rate environment (China has very low inflation) means profits from MNC's are being parked in high interest rate environments. Fascinating moment right now, with major economies attempting - in their own way - to pivot away from consumer tech / property investment manufacturing / high tech growth.
On the inverse though, it takes a few days for missiles to get to you and far more energy to do so. Which would make their launch far more noticeable.

Hypothetically a battery of missiles on the moon could be launched without being noticed by anyone on earth. With modern radar absorbing/scattering designs their transit could also be unnoticed. By the time they arrived at Earth they would be moving far faster then any ICBM could ever hope to achieve. Which puts them well outside the envelope of any existing/soon to exist missile defense system. You would also not have nearly enough time to launch a meaningful counterattack, and any that you did launch would be much easier for our moon based overlords to spot and counter.

Basically putting nukes on the moon breaks MAD pretty thoroughly for the foreseeable future.

My hope would of course be that opening space up would provide humans with sufficient rocks that we would stop trying to blow ourselves up over this rock. I don't expect that will be the case, would be nice though.

Small edit: Double checked the published reentry speeds of some modern ICBMs, ~8 km/s, it's a lot closer to the moon to earth reentry speed of ~10 km/s then I thought. Should point out though that the first is a ceiling and the latter is the floor. So my point still stands, it just means that the moon nazis will have to push a little harder to kill us all.
And yet, heatpumps are very popular across Scandinavia. All my Norwegian friends and colleagues seem to use them, and those I've talked to about it say they work just fine - even airsource pumps when it's -20C!