skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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1 kwh on the power grid produces 0.9884 lbs of greenhouse gas: https://carbonfund.org/calculation-methods/

0.1163 kWh of human energy produces 0.64 lbs of greenhouse gas: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/runni...

If we even humor this sentiment (I don't buy that we should, 5$ vs 50$ of compute is not why we're struggling with climate change. Compute period is 10% of all electricity production, we're not going reduce that with a few hours of optimization here and there.. It's way too late to be taking such half-measures seriously), the math doesn't work out.

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Thinking about climate change on a personal level is positive, but I also feel our efforts should be grounded in reality, not just things that feel good.

The hours you spend optimizing your bootstrapped service to reduce it's CO2 footprint... could be spent in plenty of other activities that actually reduce your carbon footprint.
Your logic is there can be no individual person who did good work on the campaign, if the overall campaign was bad?
The Dollop podcast did a great episode on this: https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/111---the-emu-war-live
I'm not sure I follow. If a topic is interesting, it's fine to post it here, even as a Wikipedia article, though of course more specialized sources are often more interesting.
It is possible to run into more than enough trouble with data without being a data broker.
And there’s also now been reporting that the DNC has taken over the recount:

https://mobile.twitter.com/kendallkarson/status/122481061735...
Intelligence agencies never confirm or deny such things, and how can you debunk something that's not currently possible to prove or disprove?

I think almost no one, including the media, knows what really happened. There are a huge array of different forking possibilities.
Someone have mentioned spam after being forced to provide his/her phone number to Twitter, and I have known of similar cases in 2019. I also remember a case where the police matched a twitter handle to a phone number and proceeded to arrest a guy who have been a strong activist against electronic vote. So I can conclude that this bug was well known at the beginnings of 2019.
Then (forgive me if I'm mistaken here) it seems like you are probably clinging to the Enlightenment myths of human supremacy and inevitable 'progress'. To be angry that humans aren't transcending physical and ecological reality implies that you think it was possible to have done so. A bit like a lapsed Catholic still feeling guilty in the face of accusations from a God that they claim to no longer believe in.
This actually looks pretty cool. It's extraordinarily ambitious to create one's own language for frontend development, but I think you did a decent job.
Do what companies have always done: pay for user studies and focus groups.
Not open source ==> not auditable
I guess these sovereign wealth funds are the real whales on the markets. I wonder if China could have a sovereign wealth fund invest in us companies... or the us can literally just buy the stock market of a country as economic warfare.
This reminds me of those apps that will call your phone so that you have an excuse to get out of a social interaction by pretending to have an emergency. Rather than, you know, being a grown-up and just telling the other person you have to cut things short for whatever reason.
The sad thing is, they don't know, and they don't care. Like at all.
> Not normal doesn't imply bad, it means not normal

"Normal" is derived from "norm" which does indeed carry a strong moral connotation. Someone who is not normal ("abnormal") is failing to live up to society's norms. There's a reason why people have been pushing against using this word for years — it has a negative connotation.

If you're trying to simply say "statistically uncommon", then "atypical" or "unusual" are better neutral words.
name.com (don't really like them but my domains have been there for years) with cloudflare
I wonder if the extremely affordable tablets from Monoprice also have this problem. I don't have a use for one but I know a few others who use them and claim they are fantastic in quality and not overpriced. If they don't phone home, perhaps that could be another marketing point: respects your privacy.

For years I've avoided the software packaged with hardware whenever possible, e.g. printer drivers (a few MB of actual driver at most, and a few hundred MB of useless bloatware all installed together); now I guess there's another reason to do that.
I wish. In hacker circles they definitely would, but to reach a broader audience they'd definitely have to do some education.

But maybe ...
I'm inclined to agree.
My thinking is they simply didn’t do any dry runs with possible simulated data (bad data, malformed data, partial data), they didn’t consider all the ways things can go wrong in real time. This is less about load testing but more about exception handling/fallbacks.
I have an anecdote to share. I work in embedded space for a living. A web developer (which is quite funny) from another team somehow convinced our director to use Rust for a critical process that involved a lot of concurrent processing. Ok, I said, and began developing that process in Rust.

I estimated that it took me about 10x the time to implement something than it would have taken if I did that in C. The reason for that could definitely be because I'm not a Rust expert at all. That's fine though because I will happily invest more time in programming if it saves me hours of debugging later. Plus, the claim that "if it compiles, it works" was enough for me to fight the compiler for hours if it gives me no trouble during runtime.

Fast forward a week, we have that binary deployed to a non-critical set of our field devices. A few days later, we get reports of that particular binary crashing. I logged into one of those devices and fetched the logs. The binary was reporting a panic on an MPSC channel's tx send. There was nothing useful in that error message that would point me to the root cause. I had no tools to attach to a running process because I'm on a device with an ancient kernel.

To fix the situtation "temporarily", because the customer is getting infuriated, we redeploy our old C binary. It has been there since. I basically now say "fuck off" to anyone who tells me to use Rust because it doesn't work if it compiles.
My biggest challenge is communicating with non-technical family and friends. Teaching them Whatsapp was a challenge, but things like IG and FB are simple to install and log in to. I've never been able to quit them without suddenly being isolated.
While both are valid concerns, pretty much the entire scientific establishment disagrees with your priorities.
The DNC doesn't directly run the caucus, but the DNC (or maybe, more precisely, the democratic party) chooses to accept the results of the Iowa caucus and subsidizes (or entirely funds) the running of the caucus.

Additionally, the Iowa dem caucus (and primaries) aren't a governmental thing, the political parties aren't government organizations - they're private organizations that are just _all about the government and politics_ as such the Iowa caucus is really weirdly in a grey zone where there is even less necessary oversight than the administration of the general election in Iowa will have - but sort of more oversight since the DNC could just reject the results outright... Buuuut things like the voting rights act have forced some regulations into primary operation - it's all quite confusing...

The TL;DR though is that the DNC doesn't technically run the Iowa caucus but is more than capable of making the Iowa dem caucus committee feel a whole lot of pain and hold them accountable.
This is the same Facebook that inflated view numbers?

We ran Facebook ads when I was there and they just didn't convert at all. It was pissing money away. We got better engagement from posting on Twitter for free.
It makes no sense why use of a small-scale nuclear weapon would somehow escalate to armageddon. It seems to hinge on the assumption that government leaders are completely irrational robots that, once a nuclear weapon of a size equivalent to a conventional bomb is used, take that as license to use nuclear weapons of any size.

It's much more likely the "unwritten rule" you speak of would just shift, where nuclear weapons of a certain payload (probably equivalent to conventional weapons) would be acceptable for use. Government leaders, being acutely aware of MAD, would clearly communicate the new accepted boundaries and proceed from there.
These guys deserve all the credit they get...
While Sanders raised complaints about both the opaque results and Microsoft's role, other candidates also raised complaints about the opaque results; the move to allay all those complaints wasn't “move away from Microsoft” (a move to a historically Clinton linked and currently Buttigeig linked firm wouldn't allay Sanders bias complaints, anyway, on it own), but the transparency requirements imposed by the DNC that required.

Now, this necessitated a new app, since the Microsoft one provided previously didn't address the new reporting requirements. But it was the reporting requirements, not moving from MS to a firm that had even clearer reason to suspect anti-Sanders bias, that was intended to negate the complaints of Sanders and other candidates about the 2016 cycle.
Support doesn't have to be voluntary, and often isn't. If you are coerced into supporting the status quo, that doesn't mean you aren't supporting it, it just means you lack the freedom to make this decision.
Github is too big now to adjust the course to follow this. They are going after enterprise.

I think to pull this off, you need to be a "scientist outside of science". Also I'm not sure how this would make money.
With all the furor around election tampering, why aren't there regulations around vote counting hardware/software?

Is the CMM still a thing?

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

"The CMM was originally intended as a tool to evaluate the ability of government contractors to perform a contracted software project."

For something as important as elections, developers (organizations) should be required to adhere to CMM 5 and use a very tight waterfall + TDD practices. Further, the product and testing requirements should be public. Not this shadow development crap.
Gandi - and very happy with it
It seems clear that Epstein was involved in Very Corrupt Things with VIPs. I don't know that I would say more than there's a lot of arse covering at this point, but it doesn't look good for those who visited his palaces - they have a vested interest in covering it up.
You have a valid point, I did some Deep Learning-based medical research as well as analytics on top of FHIR and having more data is absolutely essential for e.g. finding correlations/covariate conditions/risk factors etc. However, there are massive privacy risks, economically-ruinous or literally life-threatening.
Airborne emissions maybe, the eventual mechanical breakdown of plastics will deposit microplastics into our water systems.
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not open source ==> not auditable by the public
Ugh, one of the graphs is for YoY decline in CPC rates, but it it shows 2015 at the right and 2019 at the far left. Who does that?

And it shows it by quarter, so is this a rolling window?

Then:

> As long as Google can keep growing the blue line -- growth of paid clicks faster than the red line its ad click deflation -- then it is golden.

> Every three months Google has to find faster ways of expanding the total number of paid clicks by as much as 66%.

NO! The blue line, from the 68% value, was their growth in click quantity. And the direct comparison between CPC and clicks isn’t valid: GOOG could have the less clicks but increase its CPC revenue if it targets poorly. Total revenue is what we should look at.

Other than all this, this seems to be much ado about nothing. If GOOG can better target ads, they’ll get more clicks. And when an ad pays well, publishers create content that will show that ad, driving down rates but increasing clicks.

And GOOG’s ad growth is international. Where GDP is lower; as CPC rates will go lower. And international increasingly favours CPM in my opinion. A fast food chain or a brand of soap doesn’t need clickthroughs.
As cycloptic mentioned, journald is one of the few tightly-coupled components.

The difference is the utilities you mention interoperate at the level of bare UNIX pipes and execv/argv. Systemd components are largely integrated via dbus (UNIX domain sockets), as they're mostly services, daemons, which users don't generally interact with via execv/argv.

You're comparing apples and oranges here, and I'd like to note that GNU has already consolidated a lot of those CLI utilities into monorepos and I expect more consolidation like that to happen in the future as it's a natural evolution as the system stabilizes and active developers move on to other projects.

I think your argument would be more valid if systemd weren't establishing stable dbus interfaces, and instead were inventing all sorts of snowflake, constantly changing interfaces, but that simply isn't the case.

We already have examples of systemd components being forked and used independent of the project, to fulfill some of those interfaces without bringing in the entirety of systemd. [0] [1] I have mixed feelings about those efforts, but it at least demonstrates an ability to relatively trivially break off pieces you like and leave out the stuff you don't.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind
First, what is that pilot gym paying you, and what does the competition charge? If this is a freemium play, research the percentage of apps that make money. It's currently basically none.

In the heyday, a lot of people made money in apps, but that's just a rumour echoing through time now, and is no longer reality in the present day.

Second, your mistake was not conducting market and competitor research first. You wanted to jump in and start coding. Business doesn't work like that. Construction is the very last step, not the first step.

Third, yes it's unlikely to be worth continuing, due to the winner take all nature of networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, vs who?). The only antidote is to pivot to a space that that big (and therefore well funded) competitor isn't targeting.
> Statistically this is overdue and only a question of time IMO.

A dirty bomb is an act of terror and not much else. No, seriously. Likely builds aren't extremely dangerous, except to those constructing them. There's many ways that you could create these, including amassing fire alarms (there's issues with this).

So you make a pipe bomb with some nuclear material in it and there you go. You have cancer, and now your pipebomb sets off geiger counters. Added terror, but little added in terms of damage. The truth is that setting off a pipebomb in a NYC dumpster is going to cause relatively the same amount of terror as if that same pipebomb had radioactive material. Difference is your suitability and cost, so why do it?

We're not overdue. We've never seen one in use. We've only seen a handful constructed. It just doesn't make sense. Its added kill count is potentially +1 (you) and added terror is only slight. It is much cheaper and easier to just make a bunch of standard pipebombs and place them around a major city. But we aren't seeing that happen. Why? Because there just aren't that many terror attacks (sorry to those that supported the patriot act). [0]

So sorry, we aren't overdue. We haven't seen one because they are just a dumb idea that is expensive and difficult to execute.

[0] Between 9/11/01 and 10/15 there were 3066 Americans killed by terrorists. 2961 of those were on American soil. 2902 were on 9/11/01.

https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_AmericanTerrorismDeaths...
I'm at work so unable to spend time finding the source, but I recall seeing declassified documents that a US opening attack probably would have started with one or two missiles to trigger exactly this sort of response, followed by the all-out strike at around the time the first missiles would be confirmed by ground radar and they couldn't hide it anymore. Fun!
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The criticism was about the products / services.
"Honestly, the biggest thing is—I don’t want to throw it under the bus—but the app was clearly done by someone following a tutorial."

HAR!
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In terms of Erlang, my understanding is it began life as a modified Prolog, implemented in Prolog, around '86. But by the end of the decade Joe had created JAM, Joe's Abstract Machine, with others writing a runtime in C and the libraries. Nowadays Erlang runs on BEAM, which has since been improved and heavily optimized.
We're talking about the person who _led_ the software and data efforts for Clinton in 2016. Clinton's data was bad and misleading and stale, which contributed to the candidate taking victory tours a week before losing four states the campaign thought they would easily win. Yes, I think every high-ranking official of that campaign should be unemployable in the same field.
It would be good for it to support SPIR-V everywhere despite Apple's sabotage of the idea, but wouldn't you still need to use higher level language (HLSL/GLSL) to generate SPIR-V? Writing shaders in SPIR-V assembly directly would be pretty tedious.
Heh. Brace yourself; Burp is very weird.

It's worth learning though. I haven't found a better intercepting proxy, and the community edition is pretty powerful.
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Wonderful essay!

I've found myself going through a similar path in my own research and thinking.

My hope is that an optimism of computation picks up over the coming decade and beyond; an optimism that computation can serve us at the individual level, beyond what others have created for us.
Policy would change what the 99.99 percentile is. If having a large family means that you don't have to work, many more people might do it.
>> Your link doesn't seem to support your conclusion very well

> Sure it does:

> "Before World War II, government money for research was rare, and was mostly aimed at aeronautics and agriculture studies."

But that's kinda irrelevant, no? We were talking about the iPhone, and most of the relevant basic research and technology development occurred after WWII.

Is it your view that basic research activity should be reduced by 75-90%, to the level that can be sustained with private funding?
> their tanks were "nuclear radiation hardened".

Because their tanks are made of plastic?

(I am being a little facetious, but if you know just a little about radiation shielding, a common neutron (what you'll see in a bomb) shield is polyethylene. They do make bullet proof vests out of this but I've never heard of a tank being made out of spectra)
> It goes on to argue mostly against the need for intuitive explanations, not the establishing of causal relationships.

And then fails to acknowledge that we don't even have intuitive explanations for a lot of AI models! And for a layperson, it's just a complete black box; for cases where we do have intuitive explanations, I'm not sure experts are at all effective at translating them into something a layperson can understand.

I'm not a physicist or aeronautical engineer, but I can grok intuitive explanations for how airplanes work without much trouble.
If your commander in chief is unwilling or unable to use nuclear weapons you are effectively disarmed. However, it is unlikely that anyone would be happy about the use of such weapons.

If any nation was threatened by imminent nuclear attack they would expect their government to use whatever means it had available to prevent such an attack, including the use of nuclear weapons, were such available. It is unlikely they would be happy or cheering.

I am not a psychologist but it seems to me that being pleased about the use of a nuclear weapon would be aberrant behavior; far outside the normal range. Only a tiny number of people are likely to demonstrate this level of psychopathy.
It supports SPIR-V everywhere I believe.
I'm not sure if Apple is trying to sabotage this effort, I actually honestly believe that they just think they have a nice way of doing things and want to tell the world about it.

I think they have made some very good choices in WebGPU as well as WSL.
the egg came first.

on a serious note, yacy is good enough to crawl a bunch of sites you like and get much superior search results be it limited to your own interest. google is complete garbage. specially nowadays google just returns unrelated cnn pages. try search for corona virus map, I get tons of news articles talking about the same page but the page is not in the results. whatever you add to the query it keeps returning the same news articles from the same sources. if you populate yacy with pages about the topic you will yield real results.
They said they don't want to reveal the details, but, yeah, they seem to imply something along those lines. Maybe that or no SSL cert validation. Either one would be embarrassingly bad for a food delivery app, let alone an election results app.
What a terrible name ('HTTP API'), it's taken me some time to figure out what this is about...

Blog post on the announcement last year:

https://serverless.com/blog/api-gateway-v2-http-apis/

And now I see that the APIGW page does mention it:

https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

But it's really not searchable. Maybe it doesn't matter, and is just an implementation detail of Serverless? I don't know, I still don't think the 'choice' of HTTP, REST, or websocket is well-named.
Well, if you're already at the grocery store, you probably have a shopping list and a pre-filled box isn't what you're there for.
I read the parent comment as against the idea of shipping HLSL/GLSL, not the languages themselves.
So WebGPU with SPIR-V will work in Apple's browsers, or you mean they should be ignored as crippled for WebGPU support?
Not mentioned here, but definitely plausible: public health monitoring and enforcement action via infrared thermometers in public places. China has already deployed facial recognition all over the place, it would be fairly easy to add thermal imaging on top and actively track people with fevers if the temperature resolution is good enough.
He's confused on the yachts (easy to do, I suppose). DJT bought Adnan Khashoggi's yacht. Emad is his cousin. Emad's yacht was bought by Maxwell. Adnan's yacht was bought by Trump, which was foreclosed upon a few years after he purchased it.
It's true, until you show them how much data is collected and who is buying and selling the information without their consent. Then a significant portion start to recognize the threat. There's a reason none of these companies mention it.
For once I wish services like Netflix and YouTube would announce that "we've improved streaming video quality at the same data usage" as opposed to "we've improved data usage at the same quality". YouTube's compression is _horrid_, and Netflix's isn't much better. The quality between a 1080p BluRay versus Netflix's 4K stream is quite noticeable, especially in darker scenes.
this "bug" made hundreds of thousands Chinese activists' account "disappear". Sad.
Open source has near-zero appeal outside of the hacker niche. The vast majority of people only care about price and maybe customer support.

Open source isn't feasible for any of the mainstream systems anyway. It's not up to the camera makers. The silicon vendors would have to open-source license their chipset drivers and firmware source, which isn't going to happen any time soon.
Yeah, like what does that mean? Their post requests had bad data from the frontend? How were they validating what they were sending?