skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the "weird nerd" who is obsessed with the truth ever existed.

Is the lamentation that academics today are less objective, and presumably the tech and finance workers would have been more objective? I don't think the tech and finance people would have been academics in the precise areas of research that are suffering from an objectivity/truth crisis. Certainly it's not computer engineering that everyone is lamenting about.

As for the supposed objectivity of the "weird nerd", I don't know what to say. I have met more conspiracy theorists in my interactions with "weird nerds" than in my everyday interactions with normal people.
Our company has exactly this and I think it works really well! We are a small engineering team spread out across 4 states with tiny offices/hubs for those that want to get together. I work with a friend in town and we go to an office 3 days a week on the same days and I love the schedule.
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Not really constant but growing maybe double the inflation?

Most of my money is invested in things that pays 2/3x inflation and are quite safe investments. Also I'm not planning on starting taking the money out yet so probably will get to 20 or more years of expenses. Then, just the profits of the money would be enough to pay my expenses.
Quick chemistry lesson; when you dissolve a solid into liquid it becomes more soluble as the temperature increases. Temperature equates to the energy with which atoms move around, so the solid can sort of shake free of its pattern and fall into solution. Liquids and gases have the opposite relationship where higher temperatures means lower gas solubility. Gases are already free, so when the temperature is lower its more likely that the bonds of the liquid are stronger than the gases propensity to bounce around.

Which brings us to heat pollution; heating a river will cause the water to lose oxygen (which it already does not carry much of nor very well). Anything that depends on that oxygen will suffer as a consequence.
God created the weather along with the rest of the universe he doesn't predict it. The only way he wouldn't know the outcome is if there is an outside force or source of entropy not created by him.

If I program a virtual world that includes virtual beings it would be idiocy to blame them or worse punish them for any choice they make, I programmed their ability to make choices they only do what I created them to do.
According to the above tweet it seems like they are taking it down because of Nintendo libraries, not because they want to? Presumably Nintendo reached out and asked valve to take down the project? This doesn't seem like Valve initiated action unless I am misunderstanding something.
That is incorrect. The PS5 disc version was available at launch. The recent refresh has an optional disc accessory.
The water can be clear to begin with, but I assume some chemicals are leaching into it from the entire apparatus that the water cycles through. Just like clean water was cycling through lead pipes in Flint and eventually became toxic.
I’ve got two of the table version and find the heights to be fine. The one in my living room, used as an end table, seems to be slightly higher than my non-IKEA end table. It’s definitely not a table for doing “stuff” (working, eating, etc) at.

The other one is in my home office and serves mostly as a step to help the cats get to the window, the short height is a definite benefit here!
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When every day it starts feeling like increasingly a bigger struggle to get ready for work (could be the company, team, or specific work - it’s usually the company). That’s one sign that tells me it’s time to leave.
I generally agree, but the weight loss seen during endurance sports events is mostly just dehydration. I can do an Olympic distance triathlon and burn fewer calories than are stored in 1 pound of fat tissue (and I'm taking in carb supplements throughout the race).
You know what‽‽‽ The world needs more interrobang usage.
The signal:noise ratio with crypto/blockchain is remarkable.

I'm pretty sure some neat niche use cases are out there, but the sheer volume of scams or scam-adjacent schemes is just so phenomenally high.
The sound is a randomly-selected C, D, E, or G note. Emoji are also selected from a random pool of plants and creatures. There is no way to control this which is a part of the point and fun of the project
My pet peeve is that I wanted to buy a couple blu-rays a few years ago to watch on my PS4. But I either I had to buy the DVD, or the Blu-Ray+DVD. There was no blu-ray only option, and I was like... what I'm gonna do with the dvd?
The problem is that the people who advance are not the people who are good at science, so you end up with top down direction to chase fads while promising leads get passed over. When the fads don't pan out, the PI will push their postdocs to find something to publish just to keep publication counts up, and it doesn't matter if the articles are bunk because the lab is part of a citation ring so the authors influence will only continue to increase.
Saying some people don’t enjoy psychedelics is FUD?
This is an interesting thread for me. I’m definitely a cisgender man but that sentence makes total sense to me. She probably uses exclamation marks to be friendly or otherwise communicate a certain “happy” kind of tone. Like it’s intended to be said a bit passionately. Removing the exclamation marks makes it read as more serious; more like it’s just a pleasantry which is expected but not necessarily meant.

It’s very distinct to me as the difference between these sentences:

> Thanks, Alice!

> Thanks, Alice.

Now I’m curious about how others see it. Does one of the examples read more aggressive, more friendly, less genuine, etc.?
So I can “commit” a repo containing some history as the new version of a previous repo containing a different history?
I mean what do you expect? If you ask the Native Americans two hundred years ago, or the Hawaiians a century ago, I doubt they would have anything good to say either. Ultimately when two parties claim the same piece of land and one is militarily superior, it's no wonder the other party hates their guts. I don't understand why people bend backwards trying to defend the slogan.

Sure it's hate speech, but it's very justified hate speech because both parties do hate each other and want to expel their counterparts from the land they both claim. Pretending that both just secretly want to live in peace is patronizing and rob them of their agency.

If they want to kill each other, let them. There's no need to appeal to moral righteousness. Yes, children and innocents are dying. Yes, the US government is picking sides. Yes, one side like to use terrorist tactics. Yes, one side likes to assassinate opponent scientists and engineers on foreign soil. Yes, the calculus of the US foreign policy does not care about morality outside of public relations. Yes, the Jewish diaspora is influential. Yes, they are being harassed by members of the other Abrahamic religion. Yes, they are being persecuted in some parts of the world.
All these can be simultaneously true and still nothing will change about the situation.

If the Muslim religious groups in the US truly care so much about support among US academia, perhaps they should donate more. The only reason why the Harvard presidency fiasco happened was because the board said so. If their religion and culture wasn't so insular and limit their donations to their particular in-group, then they would have a greater say in how upper class education institutions are ran. The house of Saud and the Qataris and Emirates have plenty of money. They should consider donating to the state schools instead of wasting it on stupid vanity projects. Where are the Carnegie Mellons funded by the middle East? There are plenty of donor funded US research institutes by people with the name of Schwartzs and Schmidts, where are the Islamic names? I don't see any Mohammad schools of medicine, nor any Al Aqsa hospitals on the east coast while medical facilities named after Mount Sinai are everywhere. Go to California and all the engineering and science schools have buildings named after their Asian donors, often in tech. Isn't MBS's diversification efforts supposed to be tech's greatest savior through softbank's infamous Vision Fund? Where's the MBS Fellowship? Or the Bin Salman School of Engineering?

They have only themselves to blame. Influence and public relations are not free.
Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking you were comparing to general advertising and the impact on drinker/user base.

If you saw a measured rise in hiring, I will trust you on that. My assertion here is largely on the trajectory that Netflix seemed to already have and how there is no clear "inflection point" in any of their numbers post this contest that I have been presented with. And probably more cynicism than makes sense for how little impact ML seems to have on any choices that Netflix seems to show.
You're overstating considerably.
I don’t think it is constructive to say they “may have to concede”. I think it is more constructive to say a compromise must be reached. Some give and take will be required on all sides.

Their concerns require consideration to avoid the chilling effect on communication. If pilots aren’t on board with the changes the intended benefits may not be realized.

Pilots aren’t robots. You can’t dictate behavior to them. They’re human and intelligent, that makes the environment complex and delicate. The mutual trust from a blameless culture must be maintained. That means treating pilots with respect and listening to their concerns.

If the concern is retaliation (reasonable concern IMO) then pilots need stronger protection to alleviate that. They are probably most likely to trust those protections if they come from the union rather than FAA or the company who can then “alter the deal.”
I like some of the original content, but I quit when 5/5 times I wanted to watch an old movie, it was not available.
It's a bit down on the front page

https://metahead.webflow.io/#faq:~:text=Frequently%20Asked%2...

But we got this feedback - we will make it more visible
As a mid-90s Westinghouse winner weird nerd who never ended up in academia because of a desire to be left alone to do my research thing this hits hard:

"Biology Professor Jason Sheltzer has an interesting thread today that points in this direction. Through an ad hoc analysis, Jason discovered that while 66% of the top national winners at the Intel/Westinghouse Science Fair from 1990 to 2002 pursued careers in academia, this number dropped to less than a third for winners from 2003 to 2014. Now, for this to support my and Nate’s observations, you have to assume the Science Fair winners are good representations of the Weird Nerd. I personally think that’s a valid assumption! If you scroll down in his thread, you will see indeed some illustrious names of current academics among these winners. I’ll add to this list recent Nobel Laureate Katalin Kariko, who describes in her book having scored 3rd in her country in the Biology Olympiad. This is the closest thing Eastern European countries have to a Science Fair."

* Finalist but not top 10 which is what the data here was about.
I do, yes. Most of the bills can be paid via cash or bank transfers. I keep a list of recurrent ones.
> New employees last less than a year

Isn’t this ideal? Find out if it’s for you quickly? And if it’s not move on to something that you actually will like doing?
This basically reflects reasons I went from academia to industry. There is no real IC career path in academia, if you want to get paid more than peanuts you basically spend your entire life applying for grants and managing other people to do the work on them.

Now firmly ensconced in big tech, my cash bonus is roughly speaking the same as my previous salary, I don't spend my entire life filling in grant applications, and I get to work on interesting and relevant problems with a supply of cutting edge hardware rather than whatever I could find a grant to purchase, or the 5-year refresh paid for from the central pot, or some amount of hours on whatever the IBM rep managed to offload to upper management as a "supercomputer".
An alleged screenshot of their version control a few years ago suggested this is the case but there's nothing else to confirm it.
This is such a wild statement. Why are we so caught up on ensuring people don't die? What if someone doesn't want to be alive anymore? Personal agency and absolute freedom are more important to me than life.
Nope, it's random. The 4 possible notes are a subset of the major pentatonic scale, so they sound reasonably harmonious in pretty much any order.
Taking the most generous interpretation of this desire: It might just be because management is just not used to fully remote. Most workplaces aren’t healthy and satisfying, they’re somewhat toxic and in many cases incredibly so. The adaptable managers that have a consensus based management style find a way; those that are used to doing things by decree find themselves ineffective in controlling the direction of their reports. Literally the number one priority of leadership is to control the direction of the team; if they’re unable to do so there’s not much else for them to do.

Any company seriously considering adapting to the new environment should consider some kind of retraining program for their managers and have a support system that will help them adapt.
I genuinely don't think Netflix discovered or believes that. I think if they could they'd have the highest quality and most extensive library possible. I think other media companies got stupid business school level FOMO and tried to copy Netflix when they didn't realize that Neflix is the Steam of videos/shows and as a user I don't want N streaming apps I want one or two. So the market is selecting for a few high quality streaming implementations because the market doesn't want 20 separate cable bills all tallying more than a single cable bill with content licensing. Netflix will be the streaming service I purchase again once their library comes back online, unless Apple TV+ is competitive at that point.
Does anybody know of an application to more easily map out a garden space?
So just dump the hot water a few kilometers out, where there's a desert.
Haha, did you check the flexbugs workaround? I'm gonna try to do max-width:100%

A safari friend will try if this works tomorrow lol
search engine's stopped focusing on search and behind the scenes became select engines and they would do the searching in advance.

this was probably sometime around 2012 when the first big hacking scandals on the web that were causing mainstream media to focus on them and those places were routinely pointing out using basic search modifiers in Google to find. Google pulled all the useful operations and neutered their search functionality. Then they worked with a variety of different interest groups to steer the discussions and search results online for optics and political reasons and actively started to monitor and change search queries and inject not just ads but additional content based on various factors.
Apple has a history of gradually strengthening ITP until it breaks all the tabbos you'd never expect.

Today it strips ?utm=928931823 from abc.com/foo?utm=928931823 but tomorrow it can strip the 928931823 from abc.com/foo/928931823 leaving abc.com/foo ... after all it can just look at all the links arriving in mail, and use an algorithm to deduce the pattern abc.com/foo/:trackingId and simply mangle the URLs.

Think they'll never do it? They already deleted FIRST-PARTY cookies and much more!
You don’t need for config for the SSH piece as it defers to SSH’s own config for it.
They're talking about 0.999999 vs 0.999998, or ~1 part in 1 million different
According to the calculator at https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/physics/kinetic.p... , 1 gram traveling at 29,979,245.8 m/s has 449,377,589,368.41 J, or about 449 gigajoules.

According to a quick search, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had about 300 zettajoules of energy. 1 zettajoule is 1,000,000,000,000 gigajoules.

So it would be on the order of a trillionth as much energy as the Chicxulub impact.
It's usually a silly complaint, though. The change is to a small area, and small areas are naturally different temperatures for all sorts of different reasons. Dredging the beach and changing the water elevation will have similar temperature effects.

At electric beach it creates a nice, unique ecosystem and there's nothing wrong with that.
Not only being watched, but most desired. Like, people threatened to cancel netflix if they implemented password sharing but inevery country they implemented it, they actually grew on subscriber numbers..
I think AAC is pretty rare where I am (Oregon) but apparently there's a company in Bend that specializes in it. They're a Hebel distributor.

https://northwestaac.com/

AAC floor and roof panels do exist.

My impression is that ICF is a lot more common in my area than AAC, though it's still not super common compared to, say, stick frame construction. I'd guess that's probably because with AAC you'd need to add additional insulation, whereas with ICF you wouldn't -- but maybe there are other reasons.
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Try turning a patch of the garden into the same symbol!
I think the thing I really miss is that episodes still had to work on a standalone basis. If you look at an episode of Mad Men or Breaking Bad, they still had a structure to them with an arc and multiple storylines in an episode. You had to be satisfied with a single episode for a whole week.

A single episode of The Mandalorian may literally have nothing happening and no memorable moments and only exists to be consumed between two other episodes.
I mentioned a few other too and as you say - the clue is in the name - renewables. Coal isn't renewable. The Carboniferous period only gifted us only so much to play with.

There have been some impressive sun blocks in the past but if, say, Yellowstone went off in a doomsday scenario, then we would not be worrying about electricity generation. It is far more likely that we (humanity as a whole) would be back in the stone age but with jolly refined language skills!

If we have all the other renewables available we do stand some sort of a chance of keeping going, despite a cataclysm.

I don't think that banking on coal n that is a good idea.
Google's, for example, is LERS. https://lers.google.com
Well, it would be an invalid assumption. The pipes are just pipes. There are no chemicals.

Do you also avoid touching water from your kitchen sink? Your bathroom shower?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Literally everyone was saying it was going to happen. And how bitcoin is going to crash because you’re all suckers.
I love how the internet collectively discovers obscure git config and writes about it.

I wrote this about 3 or 4 years ago detailing exactly the same: https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/conditional-git-config.html
So the entire premise by which they were “recruiting” was dishonest? No one sees any problems with lying to people? Dishonesty has apparently become the norm, not the exception. Honestly and trust is a bedrock principle of society. It’s no wonder our society is in the state that it’s in today.

You really cannot trust anything anyone says, especially large companies. They basically always lie and manipulate and are at a constant advantage to those of us who find dishonesty morally wrong.
Similarly, "genuine leather" is the leather equivalent of American "cheese" (much of which isn't legally cheese).
You can have anything you’d like in your ssh config and it will be treated as a server name for auth and auto completion.

So “work-github” can be a Host entry (with a HostName of github.com) and key A. While “play-github” would use key B.
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Interesting site! A minor suggestion would be to resize the area when the browser is resized, but cool nevertheless.
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Perhaps! But it looks like other people teach it too, so if he's getting 65% of the student body, it's probably an indicator that he's a good instructor.
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Just to be clear, I’m suggesting it because “The Cher” is clearly the funniest way of satisfying the two names requirement.
> They also said they’ll be supporting AV1 and NVENC codecs soon

You mean HEVC (x265)? I believe NVENC is just nvidia's hardware accelerated implementations of existing codecs.

Anyways, that sounds really interesting for both streamers who want more control over their streams' encoding, but obviously for Twitch, as it saves them compute power (though upping their intake bandwith?).

I wonder how feasible it would be for most streamers. Pushing one stream vs 3 or so is quite the difference.
You can, if histories are related. They usually are - you add commits on top. Your history will be reverse-transformed in such a way so that its impact on the whole metarepo can be assessed. So if you modified a file in a library that ten other applications depend on, those applications would get this modification applied and would trigger a CI run to verify your change.
I'm still surprised Netflix hasn't bought a bunch of media companies with big back catalogs. I feel like it'd help with people complaining about lack of content and give them better negotiating power.
Funnily enough A Fair Judgement fit perfectly with the Damnation material — it was the rest I wasn't quite ready for.
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I wonder if the real goal is the secondary effect. If you watch a show on Netflix and enjoy it, that’s good for customer satisfaction. If you watch their exclusive original content, not only are you satisfied but now you are telling all your friends about something only Netflix can provide.
It seems like lemonsqueezy or paddle can work for us. What country are you in?
Honest answer?

You work at one of these companies for enough years and someone will accuse you of supporting terrorists eventually.

What you learn working for a multinational corporation is that as an international community, people don't agree on much. Including definitions of "terrorism," fairness, geopolitical borders, or the law.

It's a weird feeling. If you ever wonder how companies can stray so far from "obvious" morality... That's how. Things get a lot less obvious when you're in the position that everyone has an opinion and the opinions often conflict.

So to answer your question more directly... It doesn't take long for outsiders accusing you of supporting terrorism to be met (if only in your own internal filters) with "Oh you have a problem with my approach? Get in line."

(On the flip side, a lot of the training for people acting in that capacity in a big corp is how not to get phished. When you are in the front-line of moderation / customer interaction / etc., bad actors will attempt to use you to compromise third parties. There's a reason there are formal processes for dealing with law enforcement, for example).
This is the first time I heard about this so I'm very curious and it turns out of course it's delayed because of talks with Indonesia lmao.
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I took it as an excuse to add more exclamation marks!
I'll definitely get out of the way of my neighbourhood Komatsu 900 class. Keep your head on a swivel! Stay safe out there! Yield to gross tonnage!