skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think religions played a too often underestimated positive role in past societies, and I say that I someone who isn't particularly fond of what I would call the "religious mentality".

For example in Buddhism there's the notion of karma: if you do something bad/good, you'll meet bad/good things in return. Now, there's the "fantasist" interpretation, with reincarnation & cie, but there's also a pragmatic approach: if you keep doing bad things, people will want to get back at you, you'll get a bad reputation, and others won't want to deal with you anymore.

Or, frowning upon sodomy, considering that feces are a transmission route[0] for many common infections. Same thing with advanced promiscuity and STDs. Or the importance of sturdy couples (marriages, Confucianism) for kids's well-being (see e.g.[1]).

What I mean to say is that, we may have a very hard proof that religions were effective to help societies, at least to persist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal%E2%80%93oral_route

[1]: https://ifstudies.org/blog/children-first-why-family-structu...
>but I kind of doubt I could be very intelligent about it without a bunch of catching up.

I doubt you'd need to catch up because of expired knowledge. Rather things you forgot or areas that you didn't deal with yet.

I think embedded can have a lot of depth if you get into certain details.

There's basically no framework churn like in webdev, though. C and C++ are still very much current.

Rust is becoming more of a contender, but still not common.
"indigenous tradition or something that might distort or endanger"

Are certain groups not allowed to change? Why use the word distort or endanger?

We aren't talking about the discussions inside the community. We are talking about people outside the community applying judgements to their decisions and actions.
> If Palestine could end its attacks on Israel, almost all international support for Israel would dry up within 6 months.

Public opinion polling shows that the lionshare of support for Israel in America, where it matters most, comes from Evangelical Christians. They support Israel because they believe it is necessary to reincarnate their Messiah. Their support is unconditional, not rational, so what you propose is nonsense.
those things needs all sorts of permits and interactions with governments. This illuminates the true cost of such
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For engineering teams working on desktop software, what and why would I want to go with Web technologies to build a desktop app rather than going for the native experience? What’s the incentive of not using native frameworks to build complex desktop apps?
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> And many candidates are asking for 400k+ salaries.

I don’t understand this.

Yes, for some engineers, in some roles, in some locations it makes sense - but that’s a tiny part of the overall market.

I’m 40, live in a rural area in a Southern US state, and have right at twenty years’ experience. I’ve worked a big companies, have been the first tech hire at a startup, and have specialized somewhat in healthtech. I feel like I’m the best I’ve ever been; I have room to grow but I know exactly where that room is and how to make it happen. I’ve done everything from knocking out new tickets every day from a queue to architecting large distributed systems. I love my current job that consists mostly of two things: figuring out what the product side of the org actually wants/needs and making sure it gets done, and supporting all of the other engineers with internal tooling and support.

I make $170k base.

There is equity to consider there as well, but equity in an early-stage startup that doesn’t yet have a firm exit strategy. That’s not compensation - that’s a lottery ticket.

You can get junior engineers in my area for $60-70k, and mid-career around $120k.

I’m at the point where I believe I could _justify_ a salary of $400k… just not in my current role. Not in any engineering role that consists primarily of actual engineering work. That’s the kind of money I’d expect if I were looking at an engineering director or CTO position. I’m very comfortable at my current rate; moving “up” into those roles would require significantly more of my time and energy. My kids are teenagers, and I want to be able not only to spend time with them, but to actually leave work at work sometimes and focus on supporting them. I don’t plan to target those roles for another ~7-10 years.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. This is an excellent question in light of recent AI innovation.
How long will it take before all of the content on wikipedia is kanged onto this site? I mean, the license explicitly allows that kind of thing.
It's on the hiring manager to decide what if they need a senior or a junior. High functioning teams need a mixture of both skill sets.

Your job in the interview is to show that you are a senior. Not to make business decisions for them.
I'm not debating the original point - I'm commenting on the clearly quoted section which says what white men are allowed to call other white men.

Like, it really doesn't ring any bells of "something is not right here" when you read it?
> So people don’t have to buy an autodesk product to view these types of plans.

Can Autodesk products still be bought these days ?

I thought they had switched to full-on leech mode (subscription).
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I'm not sure you've understood me.

Based on polling, Gazans don't support Hamas overall, just their actions on Oct 7.

I would never justify forgoing elections in favor of relying on polling, as polling is only indicative of broad sentiment and not precise enough.
ah. ok.

I do get that. I agree.

Maybe top pro's keep APM at 400 over entire match, but not really, there are ebbs/flows/spamming. While AI can max out at 400 and do that the entire match, and it isn't spamming, so every move is probably meaningful.

Maybe, throttle both AI and Human both to 200? Something like that? So both are capped lower.

For real time games. This 'throttling' is tricky. For turn based games, time limits are equal. But real time, because if we are measuring AI performance, it could be unleashed and be faster than a human and win. So is slowing down the AI really allowing for measuring the AI performance?

Like in real life.

Lets say you have a robot with a gun, and a human with a gun.

They both need to draw, aim, and fire.

Would we 'slow down' the robot to match the human? That doesn't seem like the way to measure how 'good' the AI is at doing those tasks. It could be faster.

Netflix has documentary on AI. Military had AI flying F16's, and it could beat all the best human pilots. Of course, No slowing down the AI.

In real world there are physical limits. Just need someway to translate that to real time games.
Modern Indian People Have a Wide Range of Neanderthal DNA, Study Finds
100MWh = 3.6 * 10^11 joules

sand's heat capacity = 830 J/kg degree C

sand battery size is "13m tall and 15m wide". Assuming most voluminous possible shape that's 13m * 15m * 15m = 2925 cubic meters of sand (100% fill, no account for insulation, etc.)

Dry sand density is about 1600kg/m3

Total weight of sand would be 2925m3 * 1600kg/m3 = 4.7Mkg (4.7kt)

4.7Mkg of sand has a heat capacity of 830J/kg * 4.7Mkg = 3.9 * 10^9 joules / degree C (it takes this much energy to heat up entire battery by one degree C)

So from this, we get that 100MWh of energy would heat up the battery by (3.6 * 10^11 J) / (3.9 * 10^9 J/C) or about 100C.

If we include a different shape (a cylinder), and account for a thick insulation needed, this becomes closer to 200C of temp diff.

I guess it checks out... It is going to be more difficult to estimate heat loss.

But sand is quite expensive so my question is, why sand and not water? Water has 5 times higher specific heat per weight, about 3 times per volume. Water is way cheaper than sand and much easier to find, transport and extract energy from. The only real problem with water is you can only heat it up to 100C.
Think of it as a highly runtime optimized diff.
> all folks that value privacy would not participate

How much privacy do you need to talk about a programming language?

Official Discords are great!
The ISS will be gone in a few years anyway, so this problem should sort itself out.
I would view it more in the lines of this

https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1320

It is fairly common for "serious scientific journals" to publish stuff occasionally which is explicitly not part of their normal formal peer reviewed content, but nevertheless they think is likely to be interesting for their readers.

The Science Wars issue was different from the business as normal publications of the journal, and explicitly contained stuff that they wouldn't usually publish.
I experienced and saw it with the crypto bubble too. It was near guru level of mania and belief. Very telling.
Moderation is fine, but it must not be confused with censorship.

Moderation is when stuff is filtered out for you, because you don't want to see it. If you got to see it by mistake, you would agree that you didn't want to see that - maybe because it was factually wrong, maybe because it was disgusting, maybe because it was just irrelevant. Doesn't matter. All moderation is justified in terms of what the user wants to see.

Censorship is when someone hides something for you, because they don't want you to see it. Maybe because they're afraid it'll turn you into a racist, or into an idiot, or into a slave of consumerism, whatever. Doesn't matter. All censorship is justified in terms of what it will do to the minds of the recipients.

Now, maybe there are some people who are afraid for their own minds. Who are afraid that they will turn into a racist, if exposed to racist propaganda, for instance. But it can't be many. So there's little actual overlap between moderation and censorship.
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So effectively there will still be centralized censorship.
I'm focusing ASIC designers who write synthesizable SystemVerilog. So I choose language features to avoid mismatch between synthesis and simulation.
Verification engineers is a second group. But verification features like SVA and UVM are too large.
So I think it may be better to achieve these features by interoperation with SystemVerilog instead of adding them to Veryl.
Turns out that putting things in space isn't really all that expensive, once you move past the Old Space models.
Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
This is honestly so true. I'll admit i had to do some research on what plan 9 and Multics is. My only question is why do you think we should be using Multics?
It will be interesting to see if this project ends up being seen as a success or a failure as things evolve, hopefully it inspires zoning reforms if it works out. I expected the article to be race-baity because of the gross comments here but no, it's pretty fair overall and apparently HN isn't above bringing up anti-white rhetoric unprompted.
The Violence of Relentless Positivity in the Workplace
OpenBSD vmm VPS 60usd for 12 months
Hey me and the team are starting a new thing, we're renting out 25GB of VPS, powered by openBSD to people.
We're looking to expand our customer base ^^.
There are different options available.
Support and guidance also provided... It's a great way to get into sysadmining and start learning.

I am not sure if submitting threads like this is allowed here, but I thought I can try.

Thanks
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Religious justifications for support of Israel can only continue for as long as geopolitical justifications align with them.

As we've seen in Ukraine, thankfully conservative thought currently does not dominate the US's foreign policy.
Not s important if it's markdown or wysiwyg in the interface (although an intelligent mix like the obsidian editor would be nice)

The main thing is to have markdown as the output format and if I copy text from the editor that it pastes in markdown
To be very clear/direct, the HTTP pipelining you're referring to never fully worked and was always hit with problems with middleboxes, problems with servers, significant security vulnerabilities around request smuggling and more besides.

Every project I've been involved with that tried to use them eventually turned them off. So the quote is true in practise.
As a fellow lover of fiction, I agree that there is nothing offensive or unimaginative about viewing writing as a way to deeply understand and consolidate your knowledge about technical material. I think writing of any kind is about processing information. In the case of fiction or poetry, this may be more about processing your emotions, or a profound life experience, or a cultural heritage, or a set of hypotheticals. Great literature, that stands the test of time better than more pulpy stuff, often tackles something the author and many others need to intellectually process, therefore leaving you with that feeling of revelation you may get after reading a good book.
> I currently use isolate (https://github.com/ioi/isolate) which is just a wrapper around cgroups/namespaces, and it's been a lot faster.

Yes. This is the fastest you can get.

If you want safer, add pr_set_seccomp _in addition_ to it. but that would be a custom solution.
It's not even clear that the ISS is the issue, that's just the opinion of one dude from the UK. It's a very strange article.
> I’m not pining for the HTML-only version of GMail, I promise.

> If your calendar was a bunch of progressively enhanced checkboxes and a submit button, you could be riding off into the sunset and counting money instead of taking support calls from frustrated octogenarians.
99% of the users you're talking about won't see any benefit in switching to this alternative from Wikipedia anyway, so what's your point?
It's in the constitution. If you register as a publisher (ansvarig utgivare), a different set of free speech laws are used (freedom of press).

This is probably the "license" they're mentioning.
looks like they have docs for self hosting, but it's pretty buried:

https://www.comet.com/docs/v2/deploying-comet/overview/
I think AARoads might be a good example. https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/wikipedia-road-highway-...

To me the main argument for decentralized wikis is when a community wants to capture deep subject focused knowledge. It's why I created https://wiki.osdev.org. Wikipedia is great but at it's core it will always be an Encyclopedia with a large breadth of knowledge. Specialization in a field is best handled elsewhere with links out from Wikipedia if possible. Especially when there will be original content.

Hyperlinking is all the decentralization you need in some cases. Activitypub for wikis is of interest for people contributing to a collection of specialized knowledge. No one is going to subscribe to all the specialized wikis of the world except maybe search/aggregation systems.
You vastly underestimate the scale required to serve a large country like the US with cell towers. Maybe in Kansas sure, but hilly areas block line of sight.

I live an hour from SF and I don't have cell service in my house. I can make/receive calls because of Starlink.
It is truly amazing!

Funny thing is that excel can do such thing but cannot replace dates within the sheet. For example on Windows in Office 2021 if I want to replace text cell which has value 2023-10-10 with new value 2023-10-11 I have only two options as the result: 10/11/2023 or 45210.
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It basically makes making characters you can chat with pretty easy. As in defining their motivations, personalities, etc. Obviously with good prompting you can do this with most LLM-based systems, but they've optimized for this use case.
Guess this is the crux:

"The full specification of a "world" in mathematical terms doesnt require intelligence. At that point you can use the dumb strategies of alphago."

I fall in camp that humans are just glorified amoeba, twitching at stimuli.

Eventually an AI could model 'us' with dumb strategies, because really baked into the human brain/body are just dumb strategies.
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Haha, now I got you and apologize for inaccurate choice of words. Those bells didn’t ring, as I’m not American and not native speaker. Of course, everyone can use it.
Woohoo! We're halfway to Tau Day

[1] https://tauday.com
I'm thinking more of having 1000 extremists replying to your message, drowning out any useful replies
I wonder if this has a name, it's a common reflex that pops up regularly, and yeah most of the time nothing comes out of it.
Similar reasons why flying can be better than ground based methods. There are lots of obstacles to putting in roads/tracks/etc. (existing structures, mountains, rivers/lakes/oceans, complex jurisdictions, and so on).
That comes across as naive to me. Surely any boss would be more than happy to pay you (much) less than you are worth?

If your work isn't be recognized does not mean it's not good or useful. It just means it's not recognized.
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Yeah, I know about that. Still, a good point. Thanks.

Nevertheless, in practice, I haven't seen any perceptible performance cost in using attribute selectors. It may have been the case years ago, when browsers weren't as efficient or devices as powerful.

I'd say the reduction of specificity here is well worth the theoretical cost.
I would expect two large groups of user behavior:

1. People who never adjust font size.

2. People who regularly adjust font size as needed.

The first group is helped by a reasonable responsive font size. The second group isn't hindered by it.

Is there really a significant group of people who carefully set their preset font size, but then do not adjust it as needed when they visit a page? It seems unlikely to me. Even if all webpages used your defaults, there’s still no one-size-fits-all preset to pick, since typeface, weight, layout, leading, colors and many other things also impact readability. The tool to take control of all of that is reader mode, which is a great option when a website has screwed up its typography.
Live stream from Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZpBOxMopc
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms
Solar hot water hasn't been viable for a decade or more; the ROI is piss poor. Efficiency falls as the water heats, and once your storage container is hot enough, the panels are useless.

At least in residential and commercial installations, you get a much higher ROI by putting in solar electric, using the electricity to power your home/facility, and dumping the excess into the grid to earn money/credit.

Resistive heat storage is also a thing these days; hundred-plus gallon tanks that will take power from the panels if it's more cost effective than returning it to the grid or the grid doesn't have the capacity to take it. That water then feeds a second water heater which brings it up to the final temperature, if necessary.

The efficiency relative to area doesn't really matter, as rooftop space is rarely at a premium.
I'd rather run both in parallel, and I do, as do most of the people here abouts.

No single point of failure, sun heats the water directly and provides power, with a breakout box that accepts power in from the grid (if required), exports excess for points, hopefully that gets better over time, and accepts a local generator input if the PV panels are offline for some reason when there's a local grid power outage.

This is pretty good for now, there's loose neighbourhood discussion about perhaps getting a local area battery in a sea container that can buffer ~200 standard homes to further secure the town's energy stability.

Flexibility, in rural settings, is about having options not a single point of failure | dependency.

Eg: Way up the hill it's good to have PV panels on the bore pumps and better to have these independant of the house circuits with cables in place to route power "in case" .. along with option to use a generator if needed.
It's quoted in the article in the first paragraph and is mentioned on page 16 of the order that is linked in the article...
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My friends in a village in Romania has gigabit internet. This is literally a first world problem, with mad permitting, and land ownership obscured through shell companies, etc. in UK it’s illegal to put up a cell tower over 20 meters in height. People submit objections to planning permission for underground cables, claiming they will ruin the landscape. Solar panels get noise complaints.

On warfare, it’s possibly the opposite - every major nation has ASAT missiles, and you don’t need to shoot down thousands - destroying just a small fraction will fill LEO with hypersonic debris and turn all remaining satellites into Swiss cheese.
Phone number? Heck if you know their first name, city of residence, and approximate age that's already enough in most cases.
I'm a founder in this exact same boat. Had enough calls with ex-FAANG that have gone this way that if someone has worked there I basically don't even bother.
Facebook page with AI-generated Jesuses every minute
Been curious if you can't do this with houses generally. Set a temperature range of say 21-25c. Drive the temperature up when there is excess wind/solar (was primarily thinking of EU) then let it fall off.

Obviously works better the better insulated a house is. Has the advantage of turning everything in your home into a thermal battery with the only real cost being furnace controller, potentially even just software. At one point I meant to do the math to figure out the rough storage/efficiency for an average home but never got around to it.
The correct slur to use here is Honky.
Thing is, the linked-to noyb piece doesn't even characterize the Guardian article correctly. This piece says: "a “Guardian” report about rival gangs using data brokers to learn the geographical location of their opponents to carry out attacks".

The Guardian piece says "reports at the time said it could have been a neighbour related to a gang member."

That's the location of the relative of their opponents. And "could have" indicates uncertainty. Has the investigation since then determined why the bombing took place, and if a data broker or public data was at all relevant?

The Guardian piece only conjectures, yet noyb seems to think it's a solid foundation. This makes me distrust noyb's ability to support their position - making a mountain out of a molehill.

For that matter, how did the bombers know that gang leader had a relative, and that relative's name? Is one's family tree information also public in Sweden, or did the bombers know it from some other means? Like, did the gang members grow up together before joining different gangs, so knew each others' extended family?

In that case, public access to the data would be irrelevant.
>>I'd be happy to change my mind, once someone delivers better evidence.

So you're happy to approve a massive intervention with large numbers of disbenefits and no evidence to support it? Got you.
The first time I watched this video I folded a strip of paper into a pentagon as demonstrated. What a surprise! The pentagon looked perfect. With a bit more effort, I next folded a heptagon that looked nearly as good. Haven’t gotten the Miura fold to work yet.