skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With regard to general populations, the overall consensus amongst historians appears to be that many were aware of a hatred towards the Jewry, but not insofar that a significant comprehension of the Nazis' genocidal policies was reached. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_i...

Wikipedia is often hardly a good source for anything even slightly more controversial than the plot for a Pokémon episode

However the paragraph you are quoting regards the knowledge of the general population in german occupied europe, not in Germany

By 1939 more than half of the Jewish population had fled Germany, so they might have been on to something

I really think you are severely underestimating what life in Nazi Germany looked like, and overestimating the current brand of populist republican politics, which has exact replicas in the democratic party as well
We need a fedicodonut events, where everybody walks to the shop, then skip and buy water and a kiwi.
Restaurant dining rooms are a complete waste of valuable real estate. Everybody wanted to live like millionaires in the 50s without a thought for sustainability. Two hour drive into downtown to park your cat in a reserved spot and walk your wife and 2.5 children to their reserved seats, eat a 3 course meal with a waiter all for under 100 bucks including gas and tip.

It was never going to last. If you don't use your resources efficiently from the very beginning your country is going to stagnant
>Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
Have you measured _transactions_ per second? For both “insert only” and “mixed insert/update/delete?” This might be a more telling metric in terms of the stress it puts on the system. There’s a big difference between 1 transaction with 150k inserts, and 150k transactions with 1 insert each – especially when the workload shifts to include updates in the middle of those.

If you’re doing insert only, you might benefit from copying directly to disk rather than going through the typical query interface.
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I guess you could pack all the meals in a truck, drive it to the edge of the city and then load all the drones and send them out over the burbs
Sure are lots of HN software developers that confidently know everything about everything in this thread.

I enjoy HN a lot when the subject is software or software adjacent. I find myself avoiding the comments section in actual engineering topics, though. You'd never catch an electrical engineer claiming to be an expert on whatever the flavor of the month is in development but every developer is an expert when it comes to all things that are even tangentially related to electric fields.
I tried for fun:

https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=cfc9b9e8207961f777766e1...

Seems like it would be 160k USD a month.

I could not input my actual IO stats there, I was getting:

Baseline IO rate can't be more than 1000000000 per hour.
Some maths.

1 squared meter surface times 10 km in depth yields ... 10,000 cubic m of mass to be vaporized and then "dispersed" into the atmosphere.

At a density of 5.5 kg/dm^3 it would weight about ... 55 thousands metric tonnes of rock.

To vaporize 1 kg of liquid water it takes 2250 kcal of energy.

If that mass was water it would require 1.23e11 kcal of energy.

I suspect that both the amount of energy needed and the amount of pollution added would be unbearable.

And this is for a hole that's "just" 10 km deep.
Tangential, but what are folks' opinions on Vivaldi?
Based on my limited knowledge, you have to point your root domain (e.g. example.com) to their IP address because it’s an A record.

For the a CNAME record (e.g. wwww) it can be pointed to their CDN.

I think if you use Netlify DNS for your domain, then you can point A records to their CDN because it’s an alias at that point. Like, A record aliases on AWS Route53.
Read section 5.2 of the paper
Always a pleasant surprise to see Peirce linked here!

He influenced many people, both directly and indirectly, but had a...difficult personality. He has many thousands of pages of written work, but resisted finalizing anything "publishable". His style is (IMO) an extreme example of that dense, meandering, 19th-century Victorian style, which can make for very hard reading.

But he made significant contributions to many fields, from mathematics to experimental physics to logic to (nascent) computer science to philosophy.

This 2019 article from Aeon magazine outlines much of it: The American Aristotle https://aeon.co/essays/charles-sanders-peirce-was-americas-g...

Umberto Eco said: "Charles Sanders Peirce is undoubtedly the greatest unpublished writer of our century." (cf. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2907146)

Cornel West said: "Charles Sanders Peirce is the most profound philosophical thinker produced in America."

For example, Peirce coined the term "fallibilism":

> For years in the course of this ripening process, I used for myself to collect my ideas under the designation fallibilism; and indeed the first step toward finding out is to acknowledge you do not satisfactorily know already; so that no blight can so surely arrest all intellectual growth as the blight of cocksureness; and ninety-nine out of every hundred good heads are reduced to impotence by that malady — of whose inroads they are most strangely unaware! Collected Papers, §1.13

He was the first to articulate the type/token distinction. He has truth tables ~40 years before Wittgenstein. He had diagrams of electrical circuits that could do basic logic. He was the first to show (in the 1880s) that NOR and NAND were sufficient to reproduce the other logical connectives.

He was the first to propose tying a standard unit to an absolute measure (in Peirce's case, defining the meter in terms of the wavelength of a spectral line): https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/62/12/39/390647/Ch...

The ideas in the paper where he proposed that were taken up by Michelson and Morley, who credit Peirce in several of their interferometer papers.
The parliamentary structure of the invader doesn't matter very much to the invaded. The assessment that the US is more likely to invade another country than china is not ridiculous anymore.
The problem is one of self awareness, or rather the complete lack of it. The values I see extolled in matter of fact tones are a consistent feature of not just these forums, but are particularly noticeable here.
All well and good until you have producers burning (or otherwise using) the cheap, taxed fuel to produce the expensive, subsidized one while creating more net pollution in the process. It's hard to get this stuff right at the best of times.
I like it, and one additional thing (because isn’t there always): It’d be nice if this could be offline to use with local development.
Check `browser.zoom.siteSpecific` in `about:config`, in Firefox it defaults to true.
I have always thought that very deep geothermal is a massive potential source of renewable energy that gets far too little attention.

If we can make it work, we have a source of "limitless" (at terrestrial human scale) energy that doesn't require expensive battery backup and is dispatchable. It could also be used as a source of industrial process heat, cogeneration (if it's safe to do near or inside city limits), etc. I've even seen proposals to make methane or liquid fuels by injecting CO2 and H2 or H2O down there and using it as a thermally driven in situ synfuel reactor.

Solar is one way of using a ready-made natural nuclear reactor. This is another. Some geologists believe the Earth's core is a natural fission reactor, and a few people have proposed other even more exotic possibilities:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37740
I've never understood why their free bypass extension doesn't release it's sources on public platform.

Their git pages just refer to bundled extensions.

You can get the sources from the extension, but I doubt that anybody audits them and kind of afraid to install it in my browser with access to all tabs.

Could work for a dedicated browser only for paywalls bypass though.
it doesn't recognise a url without the scheme? come on!
If you’re someone who is interested in these drugs, just know that you can get them from China for 1/10th the cost of what telehealth providers want. I’ve since supplied a few of my friends who have been interested in various peptides and it has been great overall. Some thought it would be a scam or bunk but they’re losing the weight with no side effects. It’s been great.
Some of those pharmacies were using crushed Rybelsus as their source for semaglutude.
Is this for the times when the main binaries can't be made with cosmopolitan libc?

I'd love to see a tool that could combine all these into one executable. (The lanucher and the target of the launcher)
Even if you remove the holocaust from nazi germany, you are still left with a regime that created concentration camps for its own population and went on a mass killing campaign on its disabled population, converted a failed democracy into a completely totalitarian society and all of that without considering the war and its atrocities such as mass killings, slavery, kidnappings and probably any evil imagined

All of these are, a bit far from any action Trump has accomplished in the 4+ years he has been in office

which makes these comparison in my opinion be, both in extremely bad taste and dangerous as they trivialize history
> If a hypothetical Chrome Corp. couldn't figure out how to use the exact same data Google is harvesting with the browser to at least move in the direction of profitability, then they're hypothetically idiots.

Selling that data to the government and other corporations is user hostile though, and that is exactly what is going to happen when Google is forced to sell.

I can see why the government would love this though so it makes sense they pursue this hard now,
My thoughts are that you ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=01-_- ) are the same user as https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cannibalXxx and that you are evading the ban to your account and your site that you linked above and the *couch related one. Possibly also the same user as https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gorpo85, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saturn85, and https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hidden24.

My other thougts are that you should probably stop self-promoting on HN in violation of the guidelines and that @dang will notice your submissions soon.
Spent 5 minutes browsing but still couldn't figure this out. Would it be able to target FPGA?
"I still find the end of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish quite moving."

Moving, but maybe still depressing?

So warning of spoilers, but Arthurs sole mission is to find the place he is supposed to visit, before he can finally die.
(His only wish because his girlfriend vanished from existence)

And in the end he finds the place, which is not what anyone expected and they indeed all die, including his daughter.

After they concluded, there is no other place, no other home, because, every other place is also falling apart.
Pretty dark ending in my opinion.
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> Something that always bugs me is restaurants that charge $2 or $5 surcharge for takeout. I'm saving the restaurant a ton of money by not using the dining room, why would they discourage that?

Take out customers rarely order drinks, which is where dine-in has high profit margins. The extra charge compensates for that.

The extra charge doesn’t discourage much because most people have already decided that they’re not dining in.
Just curious: why?

It wouldn’t be more funny ha-ha, just more funny strange.
I never had an N900, but my wife and I ordered N9’s from overseas (we are in the US) and used them as our primary phones for years. I still have them in a drawer and used one last year for a few weeks just to see how it was.

OLED screen, excellent (for the time) camera, 64GB storage with a high end DAC, downloadable maps for navigation anywhere, and so many other features that were so ahead of its time.

I would love another phone like that.
I am interested in the assumptions or new paradigms. How to distinguish “from first principles” from “intuitively from scratch”?
At depth, natural gas is in the liquid phase in the reservoir due to high temperatures and overburden pressure. Once the drillbit penetrates the seal of the formation containing natural gas or other liquids then the gas will begin to be carried up the annulus of the well in the drilling mud to the surface. As it moves closer to the surface it expands and crosses into the bubble point into the gas phase which is the dangerous condition that leads to blowouts and the loss of the well and potentially lives at the surface.

It is important to be able to detect the formation boundaries and to have the mud weight tailored to the expected pressures within the target zones so that blowouts can be avoided. Pre-drill predictions of downhole pressures are made from seismic data and can be extremely accurate, especially when correlated with borehole data from regions with similar geologic history.

I did pre-drill pressure predictions as a geophysicist. Very interesting stuff.

Here is a little info about well control and gas kicks.[0]

[0]https://www.drillingmanual.com/gas-kick-behavior-expansion-m...
Not everyone needs to pay exit tax, only if your net worth is over $2mln or your 5-year average annual tax paid is over $190k or something like that.

IANAL so do your own research. Google "covered expatriate".
For me, std.array seem fundamentally inferior compared to C arrays. A good standard string type is indeed missing, but it is also easy to define one. RAII, I can see, but I also some advantages to have explicit resource deallocation visible in the code and it is not really bothering me too much to write this explicitly.
No, because people tend to invest in what generates revenue. If Apple no longer gets billions from Safari most people would stop investing that much in it, so that is likely what is going to happen.
It’s kind of the new Internet Explorer.

It doesn’t matter what the standard is. It has to work in chrome because of its market saturation.

That makes chrome the standard regardless of what any standards body says
49 modules with only one maintainer and over 600 modules with only one maintainer if devDependencies are included. This is only a matter of time until the next module becomes compromised.
Isn't that essentially how the AP has functioned for over a century? (Consume press release, produce news article, often nearly verbatim.)
I’m not sure if you’re telling me that I’m right or that I’m wrong.
I deleted my Amazon account some time ago. It seems that with subsequent updates, they must have reactivated recording by default again. I discovered 2.8 GB of voice recordings, and creepily, not all of them were initiated by the designated trigger word. However, with the provided command detected JSON, you can analyze the recordings to identify words you may be mispronouncing.
Thanks for posting this. I can not t use Graphviz as the diagrams look too amateurish to be shared in a presentation . But D2 diagrams look amazing and polished. I will try it out and maybe I can finally get rid of Visio. I find working with Visio very tedious.
"LeCun has been on about it for a while and it's less controversial these days."

Funny how that sentence could have been used 15 years ago too when he was right about persevering through neural network scepticism.
I actually wasn't aware of Aurora DSQL, that's incredibly bad product naming.
Have you used it much? I'd like one, but I can imagine it sitting on my desk for years unused. I have "Secrets of Mental Math" by Arthur Benjamin and have wanted to practice some of those mental math skills, and I wonder if learning the soroban will interfere with my existing mental calculation framework (which is admittedly weak at the moment).
There's also "white" which is naturally occurring pure hydrogen.

Mostly it's seen as being economically infeasible to extract, though there is one working well in the world, and some other potential sources that may be feasible to extract discovered recently.

But the big problem with hydrogen is that right now, the majority of the supply is grey/brown/black, which all emit CO2 to produce. Green is far more expensive, and the carbon capture needed for blue is also expensive and the methods of storage are dodgy.

The thing about green hydrogen is that it's more efficient to transmit and store electricity than convert it to hydrogen and distribute and store that, so it's basically just a worse way of utilizing green energy sources. The only reason hydrogen is at all economical is that grey/brown/black are cheap, and it's hard to see any path for green or blue to become competitive (and truly zero emissions for blue).

It's possible that we'll find reserves of white hydrogen and efficient ways to extract it, but that's purely speculative right now, while building renewable energy sources, electric distribution, and batteries can be done right now.
Might also be influenced by CloudKitchens, a company founded by the Uber guy. I’ve heard them called both tho.
There is no absolute direction for a galaxy’s spin—it’s always relative to the observer’s perspective.

So I’d suspect they’re saying time and distance would need to be factored in rather than just looking at static images relative to our position today since our own spin may have caused a particular galaxy to appear to have been spinning in a different direction at another point in space-time
It’s the way Apple works, and their behavior so far has been consistent.

Blue bubbles are a branding thing, they wouldn’t share them with others. Then what’s the point of having the branding?

They do actually indicate a difference of functionality. RCS doesn’t support iMessage apps for example, not that those get much use.

But like I said, even at parity I think they’d keep the branding.
wow, this is a cool website

I've never thought someone marketed .su to western audience
> If nobody wants Chrome, and it's only profitable use is a social negative, let it die?

Its just going to get more user hostile, that is the point. Google has a reason not to sell that data, Chrome company does not.
It'd be neat if the universe were essentially a nested Russian doll of black holes. Our universe is a black hole with black holes inside and black holes inside them and so on, and the larger universe outside ours is also an even bigger black hole. Some of the really huge black holes in our universe might be big enough to host interesting things within, but the smaller ones probably just contain "toy" universes without much happening.

I recall reading about our universe as a black hole once -- one thing posited is that everything that is happening and what we think of as space is really information processing occurring just at the surface of the event horizon. There was some possible way of explaining non-local phenomena like entanglement that way, but I forget the details.

It's fascinating to think about how the actual universe might be something quite alien from our ordinary perception. It's not that our ordinary perception is wrong. What we're perceiving is just one perspective on something much larger and weirder. In this case our perspective would be from within this information substrate. It's almost universe-as-simulation, except that the simulation does not have a builder. It's a naturally occurring phenomenon. The Matrix has no architect, or if it does it's something fully outside the event horizon of this object and thus un-observable.

Of course at this point we're well into physicists smoking pot territory.
Hard disagree, just look at the manifest v3 fuckery.
> Blue Jays imitate the calls of Red-tailed, Red-shouldered, and Broad-winged hawks, for example.

I've seen this. We've had Red Tailed Hawks nesting in the area and used to hear them calling every morning. (True fact: Most "eagle calls" in media are Red Tailed Hawks because they sound more intimidating than the chittering from Bald Eagles.) One morning I was out and about and heard the "hawk" in the tree directly above me. I stopped and searched through the branches which were just starting to develop leaves. A bird the size of a hawk should have been easy to spot. After searching for a minute or two, I spotted a Blue Jay hopping around the lower branches.

> The function of these imitations is unknown.

I have a couple guesses.

* Blue Jays being jerks.
* Blue Jays mob hawks and maybe just wanted to find one in the area.
* Blue Jays just wanted to see what - if anything - would react to the potential presence of the hawk in the area.
> 6. Some people had automerging of such updates enabled, but this is not Renovate's default behavior. Even without automerging, an action like this might be able to achieve its aim only with a PR, if it's run as part of PR builds

I'm not sure how this could exploited by just making a PR, unless you for some reason have secrets enabled for builds by unknown contributors, which obviously would be a mistake. Usually, only builds using secrets only run on certain branches which has a known contributor approving the code before it gets there.

> people mistakenly assume that git tags are immutable

If you're distributing a library on GitHub used by many other people/projects, then you really need to setup `protected branches` and `protected tags`, where you can prevent changes somewhat.
20% loss isn't really "huge", is it?

10% of power is lost to distribution anyway. Batteries can also lose 10%.

The issue with hydrogen isn't producing it, it's that it's an absolute nightmare to transport and store. Hydrogen can soak into metals, causing them to become brittle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement and it leaks if there's absolutely any chance of it possibly leaking (thanks to the small molecules, and its tendancy to cause everything it touches to go brittle), and can cause a very big bang if it does leak.

It might work well for planes (where power to weight is at an absolute premium) but for cars and buses the weight of a bigger but tamer battery just makes more sense. It's absolutely a good rocket fuel.

The issue isn't that it can't be green. The issue is that it's rocket fuel - high performance but dangerous and high maintenance. Putting rocket fuel in a bus is just dumb.
...Or they're lying because they don't want to get attacked by domestic terrorists. There is a difference.