skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a website of the Swiss government calling its system of governance a direct democracy. I'm talking about political theory, not the Swiss government's publications about itself nor the Swiss curriculum for "Staatskunde" lessons in schools.

I understand that Switzerland calls itself a direct democracy. I understand that many other representative democracies refer to the Swiss form of governance that way. I understand that this language may even have ended up in laws and legal interpretations, but that doesn't change that "direct democracy" means something very specific (i.e. literally everyone voting on every issue, often in the form of proxy voting or delegation) in political theory. I'm not saying Switzerland does not offer more voter participation than other representative democracies. It is a lot closer to direct democracy than any of its neighbors or fellow European democracies. But it's not a direct democracy.

Think of direct democracy like functional programming: there are plenty of programming languages that were originally conceived of as procedural or object-oriented or class-based that claim to support "functional programming" and some are actually very good at it but that does not make them functional programming languages in the same way as languages designed as functional programming languages from the start. Switzerland started out as a representative democracy and introduced and strengthened its participatory instruments over time to behave more like a direct democracy (check out the PDF at the end of the page you linked, it even uses the same narrative of Athens and the French revolution used by other representative democracies to explain their origins). That does not make it a direct democracy, it just makes it a representative democracy with exceptionally good participatory instruments.

It makes perfect sense for Switzerland to describe itself as a direct democracy when it wants to contrast itself with all the other representative democracies because those instruments borrowed from direct democracy set it apart. But that's like Ruby bragging about being a functional programming language by comparing itself to Python and Java because Haskell and Lisp are not part of the conversation.
I believe it’s not true as well, UI specialists aren’t often working with backend templates and backend release cycles, and backenders generally have bad UI skills.
Here the repo with the open source license: https://github.com/openenergymonitor/heatpumpmonitor.org
Cool! Thanks for sharing this. I will check them out
Given the track record of the US enforcing these laws and managing water infrastructure I doubt that it makes a difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity
It seems like the original post may be just a little biased against Matrix in favour of XMPP ;)

Matrix has been going strong for 10 years, and while it's true that the Matrix.org Foundation (and Element) need funding (c.f. https://matrix.org/blog/2024/01/2024-roadmap-and-fundraiser/ and https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-...) it's clear that elsewhere in the Matrix ecosystem there's loads of $ flying around: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/wordpress-com-owner-automa... etc.

So I think it's a little ridiculous to call Matrix "unsustainable" (at least any more than any other FOSS project).

> I've really enjoyed running our community on Matrix.

I'm glad, thank you for using it.
The Internet Has Changed
That's true. Strictly speaking a heat pump doesn't need a resistive heating element, but I've never heard of units not containing that feature. After all it's dirt cheap and enables the reliability, we're discussing here.
Based on the general track record of Chinese manufacturing QA and Chinese EV QA, they can make a lot of mistakes just fine.
Ayn Rand fled the USSR to come to the US. I assume this nugget of wisdom came out of that experience.
“people simply weren’t using it.”
> I'm married with children. If my wife sleeps around and doesn't tell me (or the children), who was hurt? As far as I can tell, no one.

> Yet laws prohibiting adultery would punish her for this activity with the assumption that I'm the victim even though I suffered no injury.

I'm not following your argument.

If your wife sleeps around and doesn't get caught, how do the laws against this punish her?

If she does get caught then your children are harmed, in which case the laws will punish her.

I don't see how it is possible that she doesn't get caught and still gets punished.
This is really cool. And having that skymap makes it so much better!
Set up a home media server (if you work from home). I just recently wrote a script for mine to play media with a playlist on the iphone and desktop that bypasses all restrictions and stupidity imposed by the iphone. I no longer need to stream media from the internet while at the house. The last thing left to figure out is to play avi video files in the browser without third party software.
What is an object-passing style?
> I was now in charge of a small team of developers, and our startup has made many promises to many partners

This was the problem. I saw it myself in one place. The sales guys go out and promise the moon on a stick. After all, they're incentivised to sell, and the won't be one ones stressing to get the job done. They probably have no clue that that one feature they've just agreed to is massively complicated and probably not that important anyway.

Unless a decision is made with the CTO/an architect in the loop, forget it.

If it was and is unreasonable just tell them and then forget it.

You only get stressed if you accept other peoples' made up deadlines. They probably get you to do this with the promise of a meagre bonus or something. Just don't buy into any of that nonsense.

The other source of stress for a founder is the illusion of control. Just do what you can and keep shipping. It's a marathon. Be kind on yourself.
Using clone or Arc with boxing everywhere to avoid using references with lifetimes at all will lead to code that's slower than Go/Java, yes, unless you're just cloning small objects that don't internally use heap allocations or your algorithm dictates to only need moves, not sharing, or perhaps except it will likely use less RAM which in some situations may still make it faster. But such "newbie" code will probably still be using some other existing code that is using references internally, which makes things faster for those parts. Also, the difficulty of the use of references varies depending on how long / indirect they are going to be used, in many places references are easy to deal with even for a beginner; so it becomes a question of how much the code relies on clone and reference counting.

When I learned Rust, I actually never went with the "use clone or Arc to make your life easier while learning" recommendation but always used references and learned how to use lifetime declarations and program design to go as far with them as reasonable. TBF I had experience with C and C++ already. But once reasonably experienced working in Rust (after a year?), your code should be faster most of the time the way you write it on the first try without needing optimization work.
This is great news for the Open Source Godot game engine - Slay the Spire is a massive indie hit and the developers have ported the sequel to Godot after the recent Unity licensing fiasco.

If Slay the Spire 2 is even half as successful as the original, I think it's gonna be one of the most popular Godot titles ever launched.
How to make sure your corporation dies: ensure problems are swept under the rug and never solved.
If you mean the "embassy" building it's not Iranian territory. They are not defined as such, it's false information from movies and did you forget the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina? They sure didn't have an issue then.

If you mean assassinations of nuclear scientists in Iran then sure you are correct but then what do you expect when Iran's leaders again and again say they are going to wipe Israel off the map?

"How is that better than arming Israel's opponents?" - Got me there buddy, how is it better than targeting military targets who fund and direct terror vs aiming blindly 100k rockets into population centers.. gee they are so equivalent

When all your neighbors wants to murder you and throw you to the sea you tend to be a bit overly defensive, why is it any different than the US/Russia/China nuclear arsenal as a deterrent?
> By 5K years ago, it's primary subgroups, i.e Hellenic, Slavic, Germanic, Italic, and Indo-Iranian were already forming

Didn't this process last a very long time though? IIRC the current consensus seems to be that Anatolian split off very early but Baltic/German/Slavic staid on the same branch until quite late (maybe even as late as 1000 BC) with other groups somewhere in between.
That's interesting. It's about the same speed as the M3 Max then.

Have you tested it yourself?
After the network didn't really work out, you could pick up the base stations and phones pretty cheaply so my family had these as our home phones for a while. They were very chunky and tough, with an aggressive beep when you pressed the buttons. I suppose that was due to lugging them round outside. Surprising in retrospect that smartphones look like they do instead of Panasonic Toughbooks.
> Why don't we trust the machines? Is it because they have bugs and are sometimes actually wrong? Or because we trust our feelings more?

I can't recommend enough to read the book "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser. You will be surprised how often we barely escaped nuclear war because wise people chose to not trust the machines.
> If you had actually read the thread you'd know that it's Wikipedia policy not to include links to sites containg content illegal in the US because that can actually get visitors in trouble.

Not really though.

They have WP:ELNO which includes this, but that excludes WP:ELOFFICIAL. Official links are exception to that list.

> "These links are normally exempt from the links normally to be avoided, but they are not exempt from the restrictions on linking"

The only things that are restricted for official pages is what is in WP:ELNEVER

> 1. Policy: material that violates the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations should not be linked, whether in an external-links section or in a citation.[a] External links to websites that display copyrighted works are acceptable as long as the website is manifestly run, maintained or owned by the copyright owner; the owner has licensed the content in a way that allows the website to use it; or the website uses the work in a way compliant with fair use. Knowingly directing others to material that violates copyright might be considered contributory copyright infringement.[c] If there is reason to believe that a website has a copy of a work in violation of its copyright, do not link to it. Linking to a page that illegally distributes someone else's work casts a bad light on Wikipedia and its editors. This is particularly relevant when linking to sites such as Scribd, WikiLeaks, or YouTube, where due care should be taken to avoid linking to material that violates copyright.
> 2. Technical: sites that match the Wikipedia-specific or multi-site blacklist without being whitelisted. Edits containing such links are automatically blocked from being saved.

According to wikipedia's own official policies, links to 8chan and kiwifarms should be allowed as official links, as Stormfront and The Daily Stormer is, as they don't break copyright and are not on spam blacklists.

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again my problem is not censorship (I am for that), it's just that wikipedia acts like it isn't happening and cannot make an official ruleset that they follow.
Many of these countries have extremely harsh punishments for drug offenses, AND have corrupt law enforcement where bribery is normal, but I challenge you to provide a single example of where a Westerner refused to bribe police and were subsequently shot in the head and dumped in a ditch. That makes little sense on multiple levels.

Edit: Ironically, searching for examples of such an incident only brings up examples of Indians and Vietnamese folks getting shot by police in America.
Yeah iirc you could use a command line option to prohibit the steam update (step 3 in your process), but this feels very familiar.
For reference I looked up the tool I mentioned

https://steamcommunity.com/app/353370/discussions/1/65161932...

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images...

But good to know that someone bothered to publish the written down instructions.
US to forgive $7.4B in student debt for another 277,000 borrowers
So, Amazon's 'AI-powered' cashier-free shops use a lot of humans? Not surprising
Show HN: A website curating successful online indie products
Hi, as someone who loves consuming success stories from indie makers, bootstrappers and solopreneurs, I made this website to share what I discover with everyone, curating all the products that are making handsome income in surprising niche markets, started by these one-man armies.
Was it George himself, or a person working for a bounty that was set up by tinycorp?

Also, a question for those knowledgeable about the PCI subsys: it looked like something NVIDIA didn't care about, rather than something they actively wanted to prevent, no?
Top Amazon exec says it's a 'myth' robots steal jobs
Ground source heat pumps don't have the icing problem. More expensive to install, though.
And people tend to trust you for it since they admire your honesty. Often pretty rare in companies full of people sucking up for promotion.
Whilst still being 1/3rd slower than the Go version.
IDK about the cell phone radiation but given the trickle/torrent of bad indicators about our biology and plastic, my rule is no plastic near food, at least at home where I can control it. Definitely no freezing, heating, or microwaving plastic near food. Feels like one of the many accepted facets of space-age modern life that is too convenient to examine closely for most people, and I think it retrospect it will be viewed somewhat as we view lead in paint and fuel, asbestos in buildings, smoking in public, etc.
> But why would you want to be able to pass an apple to a function expecting a banana?

I would never. I know that I'm holding a banana, I want to pass it to a method that receives a banana. But what I can't do is put my banana through a rotateFruit function first, because then Java will forget that it's a banana and start treating it as a fruit.
If you want to go someplace fun, just book a ticket to someplace fun.
I actually got in the wrong plane once. But I was already heading someplace fun, and I'm glad I didn't end up going somewhere I didn't want to go.
I was in another country catching a connecting flight. My gate was changed but I didn't notice. I got in the plane. They let me. I was sitting in my seat when a gate agent came and got me.
> People not getting their salaries and the company going bankrupt. I think that’s a big enough reason to risk burning out.

Like for deadlines : most of the time it isn't. People can get new jobs. You can found a new company.

But burnout is like losing a limb : you will never be able to operate at the same level again (not to mention the months it's going to take before you can start do even part-time work again).

There are very few situations where such a sacrifice would be worth it. Probably only those involving family members, and consider that after that they will have to deal with your now relatively crippled status for the rest of your life.
Go is an object-oriented language
A dead rabbit would be plausible though: it could have been trapped in the foundations and found during remedial work, for example.
Perhaps, instead of spreading FUD, it would be worthwhile to mention these "certain temperatures", so that people can make an educated decision of whether it applies to them at all.

I'm looking at the datasheet for my Fujitsu system and it is specified to work down to -25°C.

Does it lose efficiency when it's cold outside? Sure. But guess what, it's still more effective than resistive heating! I am starting from a SCOP of 4.89.
Any tips on how avoid Boeing planes when booking flights? My last flight was on a 737 and we were delayed an hour at the gate after boarding because of an issue with the thrust reverse on one of the engines. Not exactly reassuring.
It'll be nice while it lasts, until they start locking this down in the firmware instead on future architectures.
Is that just the website? Is there a way to export the raw data?
Just tested out Command R+ with some niche SHACL constraint questions and it performs considerably worse than GTP-4. Might be a bit better than GPT-3.5 though, which is actually pretty amazing.
Is this one of those features that's disabled on consumer cards for market segmentation?
There is almost a unicode for it: ʁ
As-engineered and as-installed/configured figures have the potential for a wide spread. Both are useful, but as a homeowner, I’m interested in seeing my as-installed figures more than the manufacturer or test lab’s figures.

As a shopper, I’d want to see a nearby house’s figures as-installed by my prospective contractor.
Tbh, I feel like you wouldn't get much benefit avoiding Boeing specifically - but would be interesting to see the data and be proven wrong!
Airlines usually let you know the plane build when you search for flights. They don't have a filter or "sort by" but when you click open flight details the plane will be listed.

Of course it doesn't preclude them from moving you to another flight or changing equipment
FyneDesk – Linux desktop environment in Go
Dig Where You Stand
Skimming the readme this is p2p over PCIe and not NVLink in case anyone was wondering.
The US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability
Abacus Books for the Atari ST, Part 1 – By Paul Lefebvre
A brief, weird history of brainwashing
This impacts me quite a bit as I use this often.
I pay for Google One for the extra storage and VPN. Now the VPN is going away but my costs will stay the same.

That's absurd to me.
Biden urged to ban China-made electric vehicles
Great, but while the encryption vs signing choice is presented by common software (albeit in a way that does not make this consequence clear), it completely does not present the encrypt for communication and encrypt for storage options.
Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools
can i ask why?
Twitter is the living proof that we should never underestimate the value of luck.
Another article that HN will use to justify their biases.

Without details, this article is worthless.
Explore Metro, Buses and Train Route, Maps, Fares and Travel Time
https://routemaps.info/ Routemaps.info is an online website that provides route info, fare, stations, stops of metro trains
I think, like me, this is about sending a message to Boeing.
You'll have to investigate the fleet owned by each airline and pick airlines which pick non-Boeing aircraft. Because pilots trained on a Boeing aircraft can't just jump to a different airframe (i.e. origin of the MAX disaster,) or manufacturer without training, a lot of airlines will prefer one over the other. But this will vary with the routes they fly, and how old vs. new their fleet is.

If you're in the US, that is going to be very difficult. In EU, its more likely but will depend on the carrier.

I think it is next to impossible to accomplish on a per-flight basis, given frequent equipment changes can be.
And, maybe in the future, gallium as a dopant in silicon cells, since it doesn't experience nearly as much light induced degradation as boron does. But dopants are used in very small amounts.

I think some power electronics uses europium silicide (or was that erbium?) as a gate material, so maybe in inverters? Again, the quantities would be small.
To be fair, there was a time that flexion did not exist and extensive use of media queries was the only way to create a responsive website.

Those efforts don't just dissappear quickly, since that was the only way available that worked across all browsers for nearly a decade.
>> Of course it's not the whole AI community. My intention with my post was just to give some perspective, some background for people who have not heard about Gary Marcus before.

Yes, I get it. And the perspective you wanted to give was to not take Marcus seriously because the people you follow on social media say he's not to be taken seriously. That's nothing but a form of collective online bullying that attacks the person and not the opinion, and like I say in my other comment above, shameful.

Consider for a moment the impression that you make when you say that some people you know, when they're not publishing on NeurIPS, are on social media dogpiling on someone who criticises their work. That's not researchers any more, but common social media trolls.

>> But let's not make this so much about Gary: Most of these people disagree with the opinion that Gary shares, i.e. they don't really see such a big need for symbolic AI, or they see much more potential in pure neural approaches (after all, the human brain is fully neural).

To my experience, the majority of neural net researchers don't know anything concrete about symbolic AI, just what they have heard second-hand, usually on social media again, usually by people who disagree with Marcus, who's the most famous proponent of neuro-symbolic AI (NeSy). So whatever opinion they have on NeSy is not an informed opinion.

There's plenty of literature on NeSy which is a bona fide field of research with a conference etc. This year Leslie Valiant was the keynote speaker and Yan LeCun the honoured guest:

https://sites.google.com/view/nesy2023

You really don't have to listen to what Marcus says to form an opinion on NeSy. Btw, I am not with them and I think they're going the wrong way, but at least I know what they're doing. That is much less than can be said about most neural net researchers, who rarely know anything outside their own work besides whatever preprint is trending on X. That's to the detriment of nobody but themselves.
Oh... I have used EDIT. It's actually fun to see the patterns of editors evolving from line-based editors to modal full screen ones, to non-modal full-screen.
I think we're past bias... there's certainly enough evidence.

(In terms of details, they're quite literally provided in the opening sentence.)
Unfortunately N95s don’t stop VOCs in the slightest, as VOCs aren’t particulates.

The best option is to turn on the bathroom fan and open a window, or use activated carbon.
From the title, I thought this would be melancholy. I'm glad you found a positive lens to view these changes through.

Did you ever tell the junior about the ticket?
How is that connected at all to the Twitter fiasco? One is a very sophisticated backdoor attempt in an open source library, the other is an utterly boneheaded and simplistic mis-feature in a closed source platform. They could hardly be more different.
just check https://grumpy.website there’s lots of mainstream, popular apps/websites/tools that have plain broken UX and users have to work around that, but keep using them.
Compare the last two S. Altman interviews on the Lex Fridman Podcast. Dude already got lawyers breathing down his neck not to make unsubstantiated claims. I guess, they can't deliver, and the suspicion of fraud is in the air.
Kayak let's you select: https://youtu.be/Q8oCilY4szc?t=1695

Also historical flight data like on https://www.flightradar24.com/

Will let you go back hundreds of flights, and find the airplane
the airline uses most of the time, for that flight.
+1 yes we need a way to export and analyze data to get the insights we want. Would be great if we can share through Datasette which is tailor made for such applications
State insurance tax would be nice, but only cover to median car amount. Everything over it - insure yourself if you wish to.