skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa… I never thought of that. If complex life were possible on a tide locked planet that held onto its atmosphere you could ride the powerful currents this would create at least much of the way to orbit. You’d probably need a rocket to reach orbital velocity and escape but the atmosphere might be almost like your first rocket stage.

Such a civilization would also have endless free energy via solar harnessed from the sun side and continuous prevailing powerful winds. The latter would probably get tapped first. Huge wind turbines would just always spin.

This would be true from their dawning of industry, which would be interesting. No energy wars. I’m sure they’d find something else to fight about if they were aggressive and territorial like us.
It's not just any compression algorithm, though, it's a specific sort of algorithm that does not have the purpose of compression, even if compression is necessary for achieving its purpose. It could not be replaced by most other compression algorithms.

Having said that, I think this picture is missing something: when we teach each new generation what we know, part of that process involves recapitulating the steps by which we got to where we are. It is a highly selective (compressed?) history, however, focusing on the things that made a difference and putting aside most of the false starts, dead ends and mistaken notions (except when the topic is history, of course, and often even then.)

I do not know if this view has any significance for AI.
Now I know where Poolsuite came from: https://poolsuite.net

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As said below, the sequence of the junk DNA does seem to mutate a lot faster than parts of the DNA which is known not to be junk, heavily suggesting that at least the exact sequence is not so important.

Furthermore, in rats and mice, large swaths of junk DNA have been experimentally removed, without any detectable effect on the phenotype.

If the junk DNA has any positive effect, it may be to protect against viruses or transposons inserting themselves into random areas of the genome. Keeping the majority of DNA "useless" may decrease the risk that these insert themselves into vital parts of the DNA.
US has its Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), multiple countries have this kind of law, I have no issues with it.

Why Georgians should be scared?
Lots of people will variously find any one platform unusable, at any given point. That you and others find X unusable isn't remarkable.

For every person that mirrors your sentiment, there is someone who doesn't. And then the same would hold for your opinion about the relative usability of other platforms.

It's unclear to me why you'd expect "people" (in quotes bc using that word to encompass everyone is strange in this context) to not use X and to be more approving of other platforms.

Last, its unlikely that any platform that primarily exists as a response to another platform will ever have a primary use as anything else. For example, Bluesky's future is likely only to be as a protest platform contra X. This is its identity that it will have difficulty shedding.
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I dunno. That seems a pretty quick path to a 74th income stream that makes $0. Especially at the moment, I'm not seeing a lot of money trees around. Not that I needed them, but when I semi-retired a number of possible revenue streams sort of evaporated--not that I looked too hard.

But if you deliberately quit, that may be the thing to do. A more conservative person would probably counsel getting at least a part-time job that pays a salary though.
If those Yandex engineers should want to come to America, Silicon Valley would be happy to take them and ignore any previous affiliation as long there's money to be made.
Actually, sometimes it means hiring rank amateurs, and training them to reliably complete tasks like a real business. Understanding the time constraint would be lower for Jr, and thus the equivalent pay scale will be less lucrative... but it is up to individuals to decide their own work ethics.

Using PERT deliverable/vertices redundancies is often necessary for projects no one has seen before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_...

Note, the simple system uses probabilistic time estimates of key deliverables, considers redundancy, and explicitly mitigates teams that introduce liabilities.

If it put people on the moon, than I figured it was good enough for most of my ridiculous projects. Have a great day =3

Rule #17: "Always listen to the person that signs your paycheck. Everyone has an opinion, but some opinions are more profitable than others"
How so? Or are you just mirroring my response?
Ahoy is one of the best creators on the platform. I’d would recommend his video about Polybius. Great stuff.
https://youtu.be/_7X6Yeydgyg
Socializing kids is about actual interactions with other kids. Something that nomadic life takes away from them.

In many cases they simply dont have any friends at all.
Or are always the incomers.

Of course you can live in a place with lots of kids of your own age and still be lonly, or the kids can be dicks, but in my opinion there is benefit in socialization at age 4-10.
Kids could go out ans play together. The nomads cant.

IMO permanent group of friends and place, repetition, predictability are a foundation for growth. Then you can sprinkle one off things on top.
Not a life of unpredictable mess when you are on your own.

Also if you dont speak the local language how can one even socialize
For anyone interested in the topic of Copernicus' heliocentrism, I can recommend Arthur Koestler's 'The Sleepwalkers': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleepwalkers:_A_History_of....

While it does contain some speculation that is, in my opinion, poorly grounded, overall it is very informative and does a good job of dispelling some of the oversimplified narratives that are told about e.g. Galileo's persecution by the Church. (Of course since this is HN I can't wait to hear somebody tell me about some oversimplified narratives due to Koestler!)

It's also just very written and full of amazing anecdotes - e.g. about how Kepler's mother was accused of witchcraft(!)
Humanity has never seen such an extreme wealth transfer from young to old as what is going on in the industrialized world right now.

Pensions: Wealth transfer from young to old.

Taxes: Wealth transfer from young to old.

Socialized health care: Wealth transfer from young to old.

Rent: Wealth transfer from young to old.

Inflation: Wealth transfer from young to old (who owns the real estate?)

Capitalism: Wealth transfer from young to old (who owns the stocks?)

National debt: Wealth transfer from young to old.

It seems like all different systems at work in industrialized nations has the single goal of extracting all productivity from young workers and giving it to the current generation of elderly. Even the ideologies who on the face are against each other (socialism vs capitalism) both work mainly to reap everything form the young to give to the old.
New doctors, conventional engineers, and lawyers only come with analytical status, though. That hiring process focuses on what you’re like to work with as a person. I recommend that formula because those domains know how to layout a firm which can avoid malpractice. Those firms compete on problem solving, where 10x skill or availability might eventually mean 10x salary.

Firms which associate disruption with profit are altogether different. No such thing as malpractice; and if there was, they’d prefer to hire the “risk taker”.
Can't find a primary care doctor in the US either, so we're even.
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This is amazing, thank you for the link
I don't know if that's true. I'm not saying software engineers don't fake it, but I think many doctors and lawyers are faking it, too, if we're defining faking it as looking up information, or even assisting with your core job responsibilities. I don't consider that faking it, but I think that's what we're talking about, isn't it?

One time I asked my optometrist what he was doing when he left me in the examination room for 15 minutes. He said he was looking up the details of the medicine he was going to prescribe me. I don't consider that incompetence, and it sounds a lot like what I do when I need to know about some technical issue. Everybody in my industry knows that Googling stuff is a huge part of the job, but you're not allowed to acknowledge that in an interview.

I think it is actually an interesting and relevant question: why don't past performance or job references play more of a role in hiring, compared to technical screens many people hate and think are pointless? Checking references and former calling employers—if it's done at all—is often a pro forma final step, rather than the first step, which might plausibly be a more effective way to screen candidates.
The consequences of one's first programming language
There’s an obvious religious element to this. Whether it’s the idea of Maya or that this realm is but a precursor to heaven or hell. I think that at least some people believe that morality is more arbitrary if this realm is not ”real”. And just as people seek refuge in religion or other ideologies in order to give their life meaning, if this realm is not, in fact, real, then the meaning they thought they had established evaporates.
He does some bad things but he would not get away with anything as extreme overturning an election based on a pretext like this, nor with widespread voter fraud. Eventually he will lose an election, just like Law and Justice in Poland. Judging by the polling trends that could be as soon as 2026:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_H...
Traditionally Sherpas only make up a small percentage of "native" workers and they they tend to work in more mountaineering adjacent roles (fixing ropes, etc.) which come with more prestige, money and better equipment donations from privileged clients.

Grunt work (porters, cooks, etc) is done by migrants from lowlands, on poor wages, with poor equipment and often effectively at higher risk despite not being involved in, for example, summit pushes. They do not benefit from the biological adaptations, nor noble savage mystique payday.
Why Running the Government Like a Business Would Be a Disaster
I’ll sell you a $600/mo revenue stream for $80k any day of the week. Bro should have just bought a business.
I thought most of the Yandex office and engineers moved out of Russia before the ban or sanctions. Effectively Yandex is no longer a Russian entity ?

And does Kagi pay Yandex to use their image search ? If not does it / would it still matter?
Alternative link: https://archive.ph/2024.12.07-131609/https://www.nytimes.com...
Agreed. That comment was just a response to the parent who commented that they hadn't seen RAN chargers often.

Of note, right by the Shasta station was a large Supercharger bank, so the planning for this was probably done before the Rivian deal to use Tesla chargers and the free adapter program Rivian implemented. They may have kept that one anyway, considering the Shasta Area is probably underserved and fits Rivian's target market for their stations ("adventure" areas)
re: citizen's united. something i've been thinking about lately, with the latest rise of gen x tech power: elon musk et al (andreesen, thiel, david sacks, etc) got extremely lucky with timing. the 90s internet boom and all of the tech that came after allowed them to become very rich, thanks also to the zero interest rate policy of the 2010s. combined with the timing of citizen's united, you now have elon musk who reportedly donated $250 million to the trump campaign and is now reaping those rewards.
Aren't they either way funding an extermination, in a small amount, by paying USA taxes right now?
What I don't understand is why we don't see Chinese manufacturers disrupt the market with cheap knockoff of printers. That should be quite easy for them and give good rentability.

Probably a lot easier than 3d printer knockoffs or smartphone that are still commons.
Those aren't remotely comparable platforms.

There isn't anything that currently exists to "pick up the crown" which itself doesn't identify in-full as a reaction to X.

There's nothing in the human social-sphere that has become dominant by defining itself as a reaction to something else.

That's first assuming that it'd overcome the second-to-market popularity issue.
Yes: but do they use collectively agreed upon rules?

Do they agree that it is possible, and even more importantly, good that they can loose?

Will they end the system that empowered them once in power?

Liberal, meaning non-fascist, political movements do not destroy the peaceful means of the transfer of power once they have achieved power.

Pretty simple, really.

Care to try to unseat Putin?
Wonder how that will work for your health.

January 6th: anti-democratic, attempting to use force to reverse the peaceful transition of power, hence fascist.