skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you are not getting much computer for your money."

a couple of things: these computers are very very cheap if you purchased used and replace the bios yourself. I've been using Macbook2,1 with libreboot and it is fast enough for most purposes.

And if you do need a power machine, you can use one of the libreboot-supported servers as a desktop machine. I've installed libreboot on kfsn4-dre server for $50 and which can max up to 12 barcelona amd cores and up to 64gig ram, which is plenty of power for most large jobs, and they are freeing even more powerful servers.
The first link when one googles "climate model parameter":

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch8s8-1...
What I think most people miss, is most people don't live near the equator for a wide range of reasons and most infrastructure can't be moved. Also, there is less sunlight when you move further north so worm does not mean good farmland.

Yes, civilization will survive, but it might cost ~20% world GDP which is far more than swapping to non CO2 energy.

PS: Just stare at the read line on this map for a little while: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/World_ma...
I can't say that I'm affected by this sort of thing to the same extent that you are, but the feeling of 'suddenly losing interest after gaining understanding' is easy to relate to. I have no problem keeping focus for hours trying to understand how a particular bug could possibly be happening, continuing to work after hours until I figure it out. When I'm still in that 'learning / understanding' phase, there's no effort required. I want to know what's going on here and it will bug me until I get it. And hopefully, the end solution is a couple line fix.

And very often, it is. But sometimes it ends up being the type of problem that requires a much more involved architecture change to solve correctly. It's not just a one line change, but something the whole team will have to sign off on. Which will require at _least_ 100 times the work of the usual two line fix. By this point, I already 'know' how to solve the problem, and it could be very easy to lose interest. But the error emails keep on coming. And they're easy to ignore because "they're just those weird errors we get from that 3rd party API we use so there's nothing we can do about it."

But these emails are really annoying. So I find I have to reframe the problems from understanding how to fix the issue to how to get buy in and get the fix actually deployed, and I haven't run out of these types of problems at any company I've worked at, and that works for me to keep my attention.
Ask HN: What do you do for excercise?
[0] is a sensible line for a metric of a certain level of success. Just because some ultimate goal of %100 free computing is not perfectly achievable nowadays doesn't mean shouldn't celebrate certain reasonable benchmarks.
Microsoft made a decision to move away from the SharePoint/Groove "OneDrive for Business", mostly because of the broken sync engine.

I thought the OneDrive changes were driven by the enterprise considerations. Stubbing would be very useful to VDI and an uptick in solutions like VDI that commoditizes the Windows experience in a manner that isn't complimentary to Windows.
I'm pretty calm at the moment, particularly now that the servers seem to be cooling down a bit.

Startup culture says Launch Days Are Really Important. This is not our first rodeo. We know 0.01% of the people who are going to play this game are even aware it exists at the moment. We're pleased as punch that y'all are playing and some of you are progressing in it, but long-term, a few teething problems on launch day is a no-op.
But where else will I look to not be awkward?!
Titan Appears Earth-Like in New Image
So they can't spend or earn interest the money given to them until the card is redeemed?
FitHacking – A Tech Approach to Healthy Living
> Ok, let's pretend we have an infinitely fast computer in every way, with infinite memory. No bottleneck of any kind.

Simulate the set of all possible states and find the ones which resemble AGI.
It's hard to take on the surveillance state when you have to make a living and all the money and jobs are in surveillance and surveillance based business models.
Then you need to form the steak and beer commission and fund a study.
Minimalism is underrated imho. Just because is simple, doesn't mean it sucks. Most sites are so full of crap they take minutes to fully load. My point is that you can build a site that covers 90% of your needs in 5 minutes. Wheter typed.pw looks good or bad is a question of taste. I like it, the most important aspect for me is readability anyway. What I absolutely dislike is sites that are too "modern". They mess with the scrollbar, use lightboxes/popups, use the same color for normal text and links, make textfields almost indistinguishable from the rest of the page, etc.

My main point is that we fail to use the tools we have properly and build something that is more powerful than needed. And sometimes this is damaging too (e.g. sites taking minutes to load, etc.).

BTW not having features sometimes IS a feature. YMMV.
Regarding sunlight simulation, especially for SAD:

http://meaningness.com/metablog/sad-light-lumens

http://lukeskaff.com/diy-sunlight-simulator-light-therapy-fu...
Finally, an explanation that kinda sorta makes sense of why it's reversable.
Ok, we took that bit out of the title and replaced it with the year.
This is such narrow minded logic. I know you're referencing the logic of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs. Saying for any individual consumer, paying an extra 5% for their maple syrup on average is a drop in the bucket, so if sales are $1 billion USD, we're basically letting the farmers extract $50 million from consumers, and that's not too much money, so who cares?

Well, I think $50 million is a lot of money, but that is seriously neglecting the other, bigger cost: the blocking of incentives to maximize production quantity and develop innovations.

If the cartel were dismantled, it's not just that prices would fall for existing consumers, but total supply curve would increase as well, since farmers would each have the incentive to produce as much as possible. Maybe it would turn from a $1 billion market to a $1.25 billion market. Whatever the particular number, it's bound to be a huge amount of value destroyed.

But the most violent sort destruction is that production quotas kill the incentive to innovate. Look at publications like this - there is very little incentive to experiment with new techniques like this in Quebec, because even if you could double your production, you wouldn't be allowed to sell anything past your quota. http://modernfarmer.com/2014/01/maple-syrup-revolution/ Destroying the incentive to innovate is murdering the future.
There are lots of great techical reasons already discussed, but I would like to add one factor to consider: the "mercedes effect". Apple devices do have a certain status associated with them. Combine that with many startups like to showcase their developers in videos working on dual monitor 27" imacs and macbook pros.

Food for thought.
This whole saga has been terribly embarrassing for anyone who was evangelizing for onedrive, whether they were employees or just excited fans.

They now have to go back on their word and explain that 30gb is actually somehow 5gb unless you provide a credit card # then it's 1tb for a year for free and after that if you don't remember to opt out $100/year or something. Why not leave everything as it was for current customers and just limit new ones. They've done it before when they had skydrive/windows live mesh/windows live folders/office live workspaces which each offered an independant amount of free data (usually somewhere between 5-25gb) when they eventually consolidated them all anyone who had previously used the services got 25gb while OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) offered 15gb.

And in general grandfathered deals aren't unprecedented, nearly every credit card/cell phone plan/[any service with long term agreements] that changes lets people who had the original keep what they had and just changes things for new customers.
> "Wow, what an asshole,"

Which has a long history between the Germans and French...
I agree on the point about coffee being a wake-up process. I do a pour-over as well, and the process of preparing and attending to it for 5-10 minutes helps me wake up and appreciate the coffee more -- not to mention it tastes better!
I don't know but my gut reaction to the video was: "That is so f---ing cool I can't even believe it."
Thats what you get from it, it doesn't mean that how other people feel.

I think one of the major advantages of open source is that you can fix a bug or add a feature that you want.
> And of course the real title is "The big question: are books getting longer?".

But the body of the article contains nothing to the contrary, so it seems the submitter's edit was in keeping with the guidelines (i.e. change the title if it is misleading).
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
Or bring scissors to cut the net?
OpenRC – dependency-based init system
That's exactly what the little drone said when it got stuck in the police drone's net.
> Nothing wrong with that.

Much wrong with that. Mathematics should not proceed based on a secret sauce. In mathematics, the details of the computation are almost always far more interesting than the result. The details are the very raison d'être of the subject.
That seems to be in line with what the author wants. Plenty of people prefer open source to mean "you can copy my code," and not "let's build something together". You using, or not using, the author's code will likely have no impact on him.

I have a variety of open source projects, and some fall towards each end of the spectrum.
No, they can. It is the same as if they took a loan out. They received x dollars in cash and now owe someone x dollars, except in merchandise. That x dollars is theirs and isn't tied to anyone, because cash is cash, but the loan is redeemable on demand. They just can't record that as revenue until the gift card is actually used.
Do you mean this?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html

If that then sure, that might work too if you really need to do it. I wouldn't go so far as to say its the right way - it seems very bothersome to me.

Its more of a "yes, I'm willing to go through all this incredible pain, because I get some gain for it (constrained hardware? idk). Rust, please help me do it right."

Of course you can't do that in Go. Not only you don't get static guarantees, you can't even write a generic map with atomic access.

edit: by pain I mean this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/concurrency.html - and yes, thats painful compared to using immutable data structures.
A few other tips:

* If it's on YouTube, you can get an automatic transcription. That's not the best; you can use something like https://speechtotextservice.com/ (no relationship with them). Or hire someone on fiverr. Having searchable text is good for SEO but, more important, for visually impaired users.

* Though OP sort of poo-poos cool intros, brief ones (the best kind) can be done very cheaply on fiverr (again, no relationship) and help keep viewers awake and are simple to reuse.

* Watermarks are good if it has genuine editorial use, as should be the case, because it makes theft harder.
how do you determine what things are a link in a way that can't be easily evaded?
Some others I like:

rev, vipe, comm, bfr, xxd
Is there a similar program for 3DS development? I looked around, but all I could find was a page that really pushed individuals to try the Wii U Developer program.[1] For anything else, it looks like Nintendo wants a real company with prior game dev experience.

1. https://developer.nintendo.com/register/about
How are you going to test each state for AGI-ness?
This is all well and good, but consider that this his just his routine; you have to find your own routine to be successful at switching your schedule.

I think the most important tip is just start waking up early. Like 5am early. By the end of the day you are exhausted. It'll get easier to go to bed at the right time and waking up will get easier. Things like stimulants, diet, light, sound, etc are all well and good, but nothing trumps just being awake and active for 18 hours.

It will probably take a week or two for your natural sleep cycle to change. I find morning exercise helps this process. (Yes, you too can be one of those crazy assholes at the gym at 6am!)
An interesting version of: All 100 people in line to board the plane drop their boarding passes and decide to sit wherever they please. How many do you expect to sit in their originally assigned seat?
While it's certainly no coincidence, there's a lot of confounding reasons. The industrial revolution's timing of shift work placed a very long-lasting and extremely strong weight on punctuality. And that punctuality often run 24/7, meaning that the clock's crucial tipping points often landed at unpleasant hours like 7am (be at your station at 7am, which means getting there between 6:30am and 6:45am, which means leaving the house by 6am, which means waking by 5am...)

Add that a lot of people who work physically hard in that sort of tiring shift work (especially people my parent's age) learn to consider early rising a moral virtue and a badge of worth, and you've got a lot of pressure to hold it up as an admirable standard. It can get pretty silly, to the point that I've seen people promoted for punctuality despite a record of poor performance; factories are different, of course, but America was built on the power of heavy industry, so it's a philosophy that pervades. To wit: even in fields where work spans months instead of hours, getting up daily 'before your competitors' gives you an 'edge'. It's a really odd notion if you look at it closely.

On the other hand, I find the added mild stress of waking early, combined with a ritual (absolutely and especially like making coffee as noted in the article) helps me have an excellent start to the day. I don't usually do that, but I really like it when I do.

Waking early is nice, so long as I'm not horribly sleep deprived to start; or so stressed that I can't fall asleep early.

EDIT: I should note that I'm just skimming the surface here. That industrial timing may really be rooted in how trains had to be critically on-time, which forced plants to be ready or miss the ride, and vice-versa. The whole topic is stressful to read about, but really interesting.
Or drones with blades that cut as they turn.
∞ score doesn't sound bad. I should start up an LLC and give away 99% of my score to that LLC, for charity purposes.
No, just that it wouldn't be as bad as classicsnoot was suggesting. Though I'd agree with him that our current efforts at reducing emissions are not having much effect. I'd lean towards not worrying two much for the next decade or two and then reducing emissions to less than zero when solar is seriously cheap and robots can cover the Sahara with it.
“You have to understand we were caught up in this whole
movement,” he said last week in a telephone interview.
“This was reaction to Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia.
There was a wave of protests everywhere. We thought it
was important to do as much as we could to register that
protest, and that’s what we did.”

Wow. The next time there's something as worthy of protest as the Vietnam War, I certainly hope we're smarter about how we protest it than these nitwits were.

This story reminded me of the time the Earth Liberation Front protested genetic engineering by firebombing a greenhouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington_fireb...).
This is a sane idea, but sunrise is often far later than when people are expected to get up 'early'. And add the crazy that DST is to one's schedule, and waking up early becomes a very strange, shifting ideal. (Lately, I've heard 4am to 5am match this ideal; personally I like to have attainable goals, like slouching into work before the crack of noon.)
None of these countermeasures will matter after the Tokyo police start injecting stomach acids that digest the victim drones from the inside out.
Fortunately, it was mitigated before Let's Encrypt was publicly trusted.. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/acme/current/msg00611.h...
For the same reason so many developers use javascript in the back-end - misapplied laziness.
> Dare to be creative at hackathons and art conventions - not an airport. Ever heard the phrase "time and place"?

Remove tattoos and piercings at the airport, really?

> stating how things are

Like hell. Your view of things 100% implies that Star was in fact culpable for her own arrest, which isn't true, so I don't believe your disclaimers that you are just neutrally commenting.

> without purposefully being dishonest...

> ...Am I being patronizing enough to make my point crystal clear?

That you're being an ass? Sure.
Is look of any use? Isn't grep fast enough?
Yaskawa Electric Corporation teaches robot to mimic master swordsman
The kidnapping ended when the protestors chose it to end

Well, no, it didn't really end until the staff disarmed the bomb the protesters left behind.

What a bunch of feckless asshats. Lucky ones, too, since it appears that nobody served more than three months of prison time as a result.
does the same applies for using only laptops?
if only it explained how it works!
A better one-line description would be

"look(1): binary search for lines with a given prefix in a sorted file"

Which tells you exactly what the pros/cons are compared to plain grep.
Pixel C Tablet Review – Google’s High-End
Watching this gave me a distinct "the future is now" feeling. Odd-shaped hovering craft designed to take down other hovering crafts would look at home in most scifi movies.
It's a bit like Tor, except worst since it's all controlled by one entity?
Run 2,000 Docker Containers on a Single Weave Cluster with DCHQ
Well, you could run a proxy locally, force all traffic through that and serve your own version of the page.
Unfolding the 8-Bit Era: 8 players, 8 projectors, and one NES [video]
Mobile Editing Apps
Show HN: UnicornFig – Lisp to produce configuration files and Go code
I wanted something like this and was reading about GUI toolkits when I decided to take a moment to check HN. Talk about good timing!

On the other hand... I kind of want vector graphics, and cairo would be really great for that, and if I use cairo, well I might as well use gtk, and... hmm. I see why these things end up with lots of features.
oooh, parent porn, when does this start? My 1 and 3 year old are up at 5am every day...
People have Macs for similar reasons as iPhone for similar reasons as Apple Watch
Wondering if there are any plans to support Google Cloud?
> People apparently survived during the Ice Age, which was quite a bit colder than 4 deg, so I'm guessing the +4 deg is handleable, too.

As far as I'm concerned, the point isn't about what temperature is objectively best, it's about the degree of change, and the cost of adaptation. Modern industrial civilization is built up progressively in certain geographical locations, with absolutely enormous sunk investments. If we had built our cities, our towns, our power plants, and ports during a climactic equivalent to the last ice-age, we would be absolutely fucked if the climate shifted in a short period of time to where it is now. During the last ice age there was a land mass which linked Britain to Norway, Denmark, France and the Netherlands, and sea levels were 100m lower than they are today. The northern ice cap covered everything north of London, and the Sahara was fertile. To go from that climate to the climate today would involve a level of cost that it is difficult to comprehend.
> If that then sure, that might work too if you really need to do it. I wouldn't go so far as to say its the right way - it seems very bothersome to me.

There are plenty of bothersome things about "immutable only" too.

I've employed both approaches in earnest. Each have their own set of trade offs.

> Of course you can't do that in Go. Not only you don't get static guarantees, you can't even write a generic map with atomic access. You have to remember to use RWMutex every single time. No generics.

I'm quite aware of Go's limitations, thanks.

I find it amusing that you've dismissed an entire category of practice to statically eliminating data races at barely a glance. Irony, it seems. The very thing that people lament about Gophers is precisely the behavior you've demonstrated here! (Quite literally in fact. How many gophers have you heard say something like "generics is bothersome"?)

You've been polite, but snobbery is vexing, no matter where it comes from.
Superbug bacteria resistant to ALL antibiotics reaches Europe
Modern academic cryptographers have veered off into a land of purely theoretical constructs. Now I love the cool theory we have in crypto, but it's sad that despite all this cool theory, very little of it becomes applicable in building practical privacy-preserving systems.

Rogaway, is a famed academic cryptographer, student of Silvio Micali, who basically founded modern academic cryptography. He is highly respected within the crypto community, so his words hold a lot of weight, and my interactions with crypto professors indicates that they agree with what he says.
Lots of people seem to have significant "difficulties" with sleeping and waking, or at least a strong preference that demands willpower and tricks and habituation to steer away from.

My body just doesn't really seem to care. If travel or work demands it, I can pretty easily get up at any time in the morning. Usually I enjoy it. I almost always wake up right away if I've set an alarm, and have little inclination to snooze unless severely sleep deprived. But usually I just go to bed 8.30 hrs before I need to be up, and things take care of themselves.

Here in Thailand where I'm staying there's a custom of waking up before sunrise, so I've been going to sleep around 9 to wake up at around 5.30, enjoying the sunrise with a cup of Nescafé and some reading.

I think the fact that my 3G is metered, plus the warmth and the dark evenings, make it rewarding to sleep early. And I do love the early mornings. Walter Benjamin has a quote that I can't help but agree with (in One-Way Street):

> Anyone seeing the sun come up in front of him while awake, dressed–out walking, say–will retain throughout the day above all else a sense of the sovereignty of an invisibly crowned king, and anyone having the day break over him at work will feel, around noon, as if he had crowned himself.

I can't identify with being either a night owl or a morning person; I just go to bed when I find it reasonable and wake up 8 hours later. The struggles some people have with sleep seem tortuous; I feel blessed.

However, if someone is snoring ever so quietly... Or a clock is ticking... No sleep for me until the infernal noise is silenced. Rain audio works too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

I think what you are describing isn't exactly a patent troll.

If your idea is a software process or program, the likelihood that you would have the resources to fight off others who want to use your technology is slim.

There are always so many ways to accomplish the same task in code, that if it is truly valuable, somebody will find a way to work around it.

So, you have an idea for something that you can get a patent for. Getting the patent will take you a huge amount of time and a decent chunk of money. Then you need to build a business out of it.

I'm not saying don't go for the patent, but if your goal is to create a business, than focus on that. If your goal is to license the IP out to others, than clearly you need a patent, but if you are trying to protect your idea from being copied, I wouldn't worry about it.

As everybody says, it's your execution which will define the success or failure of your business. You need to decide if having a patent is a key part of your execution or a distraction.