skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its a great way to start the conversation as most will likely see behavior in there that they can identify with or see in their immediate family. The information is also presented in a way where everyone should be able to understand whats at stake.
Not necessarily - if (I think this is true but am not able to prove it) the earth is on a slight negative carbon slope, and renewables reduce that slope we are still making an impact on long term temperature.
How Her own IBS illness led one woman to set up global firm The Nue
> Many legitimate login flows result in the official login page opening in a web view and asking for a password, which is indistinguishable from a phishing page.

I don't understand how Google/Facebook/etc can allow this to happen, let alone encourage it. I'm just baffled.
A Possible Sign of Life Right Next Door to Earth, on Venus
What a dire article!
Sounds like they're just using pessimistic numbers to make the point. Even if you multiply the existing datacenter footprint by 4 orders of magnitude, it still only results in a 0.01C raise in temperature.
freebsd-update prints out what you need to do next at each step though. If it wants you to reboot and run it again it says that.
I think you are arguing for the same thing your parent comment is? That comment is trying to show that even in the absolute worst case of no efficiency gains and 10,000x increase in data centers the impact that using the oceans to cool them would have on the ocean is absolutely minuscule.
In my opinion- the big question in politics is - "what is the big question in politics?" We spend so much time trying to figure out whats even important in the first place, and when theres this much disagreement on what the big question is, then figuring out which big question is the real important big question seems like a good place to start.
Agreed; also, this book is golden: Threaded Interpretive Languages (R. G. Loeliger)
It doesn't matter.

The burden of truth is supposed to be on the accuser.

Consider if you will - a robber is caught by police in his own house. In this house, they found the items the robber stole. Should they:

a) take the items the robber stole
b) take everything
ARM doesn't make any chips. They license IP (CPU cores and the MALI GPU) needed to build those chips to companies like Apple, Samsung, TI, ST Micro, Microchip, Qualcomm ...

That margins on $1 microcontroller are "thin-to-non-existent" is thus completely irrelevant - those are margins of the silicon manufacturer, not ARM's.
> the only way it leaves the planet is by black body radiation

But, if you're heating the oceans, you're putting an entire other mass (the atmosphere) between yourself and space. So you're heating the water, the water is heating the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is radiating that into space. It's adding a step to the overall cooling process.
That would be noble, but alas the ship was given a 'moronic name' and he was happy with that.
What's really nutty is that if it were a tax and dividend system, the majority of households would actually end up with more money back in their pockets. That this hasn't already been implemented is absolutely maddening.
The outcome of the game is ever-changing. There is always the possibility that next hand (or dice roll) will give you the dopamine rush you crave. That is why it's addictive.

But.. that has nothing to do with the premise that reading books can be compared to social media.

>And if influncing behavior is such a sin why are you speaking

Because I'm on a message board whose accepted purpose is to read and share thoughtful (your comment excluded) ideas and views.
To clarify: 0.32 microJoules of energy are added to every 1 litre of the ocean every second.
> In general, comprehension seems to have plummeted in the last five to ten years. I send people e-mails asking two questions, and only get the first one answered.

OMG, this happens to be all the time, and I don't even use email as a primary communication mechanism. It's so frustrating. I think the case is that people are reading and responding to emails on the go on their phone and so don't have/take the time to write a full response.

In the "old days" it was appropriate to answer emails by leaving a partial quote in place and responding below that for each answer. Something changed (I blame Outlook) and now that never happens.
I love the idea of biodiversity, I love seeing the huge variety in nature. But for 99.9% of people would make zero difference their lives. except maybe crop extinction

I understand why I'm being downvoted. The point I'm arguing is " They ended up flat-out asking me why anyone should care about biodiversity." If you down vote me please write an note saying how biodiversity makes a difference to the life of the average person.
X Talks – Leonard Susskind about physics of black holes and information
If you can't legally be a faithless elector, then there is no point to having an electoral college. Just let the popular vote decide, since that's how the electoral college is obligated to vote anyways.
Electric vehicles are just one piece of the solution. We stop the output of new CO2 emissions for private and commercial transportation. Then we gotta do agriculture. Then we gotta decentralize the power grid. Then we gotta further decentralize agriculture again. Then we gotta better manage tens of millions of acres of hardly traversable terrain that's been fuel loading for a century. The list goes on and on. We've lost decades of progress by side-tracking ourselves with complete bs narratives being pumped out of monied interest groups that prefer things stay they way they are. I hate to be a pessimist but we might be right and truly fucked at this point.
Love the shoutout to Gairos. But man that on-call was a pain in the arse.
There's always an incentive to offshore to where costs are lower. A carbon tax like you suggested at least prevents hiding the costs of CO2 emissions across national borders. This is fair to both consumers and producers but it is not going to be costless to developing nations. Developing nations will either need to match developed ones on energy supply cleanliness or see their export oriented cost competitiveness eroded. This is a good thing for all parties in the long run but it is also a real cost.
Ocean water is already used to cool nuclear and coal power plants. I suspect these would radiate far more heat than a data centre.

I'm surprised msft wouldn't propose to pipe the ocean water in like these power plants before going through the challenge of building under the ocean...
This seems to me as a fundamental inability to coordinate without hierarchy, which probably has something to do with a limit on the number of trust relationships each human can maintain. The rest may be a consequence of that.

For instance, no matter how much you hate the President, you have no idea who you would appoint to be deputy secretary of interior farm management, so you’re not really offering an alternative solution.
> Many people grow up in terrible conditions and are never given a proper chance to acquire a decent education. It's not especially fair or helpful to insult them.

Hasn't it become painfully obvious by now that the upper class is full of "idiots" too? There's a kind of smug complacency that can arise from being comfortable. One is never forced to question one's assumptions.

You keep trying to pivot to poverty, but there's little reason to think that's the problem. I attended a well-regarded high school in a fairly wealthy suburb, and the ratio of "seat fillers" was about the same there as you'd see anywhere else. It just seems to be human nature, a normal distribution.

I'm not saying every education is the same. There are clearly better and worse schools. I'm saying that even when you give everyone in a group the same education, the results still tend to vary widely.

The reason I emphasize "seat fillers" is this: there are a lot of things you can teach a student by forced rote drilling. But it seems to me that critical thinking is uniquely not one of them. Isn't critical thinking the opposite of rote forced drilling? I wonder, then, how much critical thinking can even be taught to unreceptive students.
No I have an older relative who creates a new account every other week for whatever reason.

Think of how many accounts are created for games reasons. Some games require friends taking action to progress. Some allow friends to send prizes like lives/money/resource.
Personally I find the Java engineering to be excellent & not overblown, & I appreciate so many of their patterns. Making Service Provider Interfaces for everything? Epic awesomely powerful. Maven? Shockingly regular & predictable & clear, although what a lot of the plugins do is wild. I really don't understand most people's grief & complaints about Java, they seem abstract & emotional, but I for one don't mind typing, & don't feel bogged down in JAva.

There's some good words in the grandparent about who uses Java, that I respect a lot & holds enormous truth.

I don't know anything about COBOL. But neither do any of my programmer friends. But COBOL is also far from dead, yet it might as well be to the rest of the programming world, I feel like. It has no mutual impact, it's too far removed from the regular happenings, & I'm not sure how or where dialog would open.

So yes, like, I think the Roman example is really good. Communication are getting cut off, people are stuck. Things might be good here, but the world is regressing to a pre-Romanized status, with little overland travel, unable to harvest the breadth & intelligence of the many great citizens, that Java used to be a contributing key part of.

I don't think Java is stagnant or dead, it's not so glum. Micro-profile is being wonderful. DropWizard is a very lovely quite popular scene still. But right now, Java's presence in the AP Computer Science curriculum is doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting for Java, and once that dam breaks- and it doesn't seem like there are many fitting replacements atm, with all the nice neoclassical columns & facades to make the language feel academic/computer-science-y- it's gonna be harder days for Java, & the weakness within, the being more cut off, is going to hurt.
I'm surprised anyone would 2x the speed on such a podcast. I usually prefer to skim text for quick information gathering but not for a podcast. To me podcasts are about having a certain intimate experience and really don't like doubling up the speed. For instructional videos yeah, doubling up is very productive.
this! another way to look at it: your solar panels are temporarily "stealing" heat generated by sun rays hitting a surface of equivalent color. When you use electricity to do some work, it will be turned back to heat.
so if you want to be 100% "heat neutral", all you have to do is to ensure that for every square meter of solar panels you also paint an proportionate area with a color that reflects the right amount of sunlight to compensate the difference between the color of the solar panel and the area that was there before you installed the solar panel.

If you think that's silly (and rightfully so), then perhaps that can sharpen your intuition on how insignificant is the total amount of heat produced by our devices (even if cumulatively they are a big looking number); the total amount of radiation that comes from the sun down to earth is staggering.
Yes. I've used this for public speaking. Also for parachuting, where I finally got a clean jump (back in solo static-line days) by working through in my mind all of the distractions: stall alarm sounding, jump-master shouting instructions, clambering into the door (seated position in a Cessna), smell of exhaust fumes, slipstream.
The similarly extreme version is kind of an interesting comparison, and similarly irrelevant.

The 84,000 ppm for 60 minutes is roughly the lethal CO2 concentration. Local CO2 concentration is often several times atmospheric CO2 levels. That’s clearly addressable but I suspect around 8,000 ppm atmospheric we would start to see deaths from this which is achievable from coal deposits. Reaching a fully lethal atmosphere is of course much harder.

So, I think you’re right temperature pollution at extreme levels is worse.
Cargill is the largest private company in the world.
That's news to me. Very cool actually. It's not far from jq on speed, either. Looks like you are the maintainer of this tool, so thanks!

~/xidel % time ./xidel - -e '?SitusAddress!(.)' < ~/parcels | wc
**** Processing: stdin:/// ****
29066 149317 903704
./xidel - -e '?SitusAddress!(.)' < ~/parcels 2.55s user 0.18s system 99% cpu 2.733 total
wc 0.01s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2.733 total
~/xidel % time jq -r '.SitusAddress' < ~/parcels | wc
29066 149317 903704
jq -r '.SitusAddress' < ~/parcels 0.95s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 0.958 total
wc 0.00s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.957 total
The swimming club that I'm a member of organized a tour last Sunday in which they swam around the Singel (which is Dutch for a round canal encircling a city).

With 5.8km it was quite a swim for the attendants.

EDIT: Translated Wikipedia page of 'Singel': https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...
It increasingly seems that public businesses seem incapable of making long-term plans, even rather trivial ones, if the cost of ending the experiment results in immediate gains. The driving force is the single most important metric: this quarter's upcoming earnings report. Businesses that tend to place bets on multi-year investments are either privately held (e.g. SpaceX) or are participating in specific public/private partnerships.

While I do think we are seeing the limits of what a publicly-traded company can actually realize, there are of course counterexamples: Google always seems to have multiple irons in the fire, and there are many other examples in the comments on this discussion of corporate research labs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200764
There are plenty of states who were once economic powerhouses and are either stagnant (Chicago), in decline (Mid-west) or empty shells (Detroit) of what they were.

Saying "I don't care if businesses leave" seems like taking for granted that they'll always be there (or want to come to your state).
The irony is that this phrase predates the Torricelli experiment, in which he used a glass vial and mercury to produce a vacuum, and the eventual discovery that the vast majority of nature is a vacuum (outside of the atmosphere of planets and stars).
> and embedded ML.

I believe that's where they'll hit the hardest. They can keep GPU at the same competitive state, could even make it "easier" for competitors, but if they get a bit of advantage over ML, that's where phones and everything else will be kind of forced to go Nvidia for both GPU and ML.

They don't have much competition as far as I am aware in that sphere, so they'll be able to argue that GPU were able to work with ARM without issues, even did X and Y to make it even easier for them while masking that they made it harder for everyone to compete on ML.

That's just conspiracy theory though, I still have hope they understands the value of an open environment like ARM and buying them was just a way to protect that environment.
yes! i know this is a hyperbolic example, but infinite clean energy would clear up a lot of problems on this list.
Writing a script? I'm not going to have my script open a web browser so I can attempt to interact with a web console.
Depends on the reference. If the underwater datacenter produces only e.g. 3% atop, 30% is still "far more".

But without scientific sources, these are only wild speculations.
I don't think we understand redundancy as well as we say we do. We have backups and alternatives within cultural and civil systems and we often try to cut them back.

Different organisms have come up with different solutions to the same problem, and because of that they can break in different situations. The 'service' they provide will be affected differently by an environmental shortage or excess. If twenty microbes are responsible for recycling organic matter and dust or drought or some chemical affects 10 of them, the others will expand to pick up some of the slack.
Not a great comparison, since if alcohol were invented today I'd expect it to be banned or at least much more tightly control. It is incredibly damaging to society and we only tolerate it for historical reasons.
Unrestricted imports into the US? No way to sanction that based on patents?
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Political interference with CDC's weekly scientific reports
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I have the same questions about the temperature. Seems like that might add some extra heat to an already-warming ocean. Especially if this is done at massive scale. I’m not a scientist though!
I'm not sure I agree with this advice in its current form, since the "adjust" phase of the three-year rule is arguably the most important. My current self would be unrecognizable to myself three years ago.

I'm still learning how to be productive long-term. I started gaining a lot of momentum when I shifted my thinking from short-term impulsiveness:

Wow, I just discovered X! I will read everything there is to know about X today!

To long-term sustainability:

In three months, I want to be someone who is familiar enough with X to recognize when it might be useful, and pull out that knowledge as needed.
We are building the noosphere here. We don't all have to wear that mantle, but some of us should have hopes and ambitions in our jobs. They don't even have to be consuming, but simply seeing this as an ongoing continual project seems due. We're coming close to RFC10000. No one goes home. We strive to open possibilities for humanity so we can all each keep exploring & going further.

Edit: oh good to see you again pjmlp, after last week. We fell to different sides then too, but I have continually enjoyed your writing, & again, while I talk & disagree, I would also not say you are wrong. You are more than correct, in the vast amount of cases. But I would suggest that this field in particular must also be heads up looking up & about, that just a job doesn't fully describe us all.
There are known abiotic pathways. They've been ruled out.

There are unknown biotic pathways known to exist (from the press conference, biotic phosphane production on earth apparently still has some large question marks attached?).

There might be unknown abiotic pathways ('unknown unknowns'). In principle, there could be some clever way to rule them out based on the constraints of the Venusian environment.
This idea sounds viable from my point of view. Whatever OP finds best for their needs.
Yeah, it’s a theoretical limit. You don’t need to boil any ocean to use ZFS.

Reference: >>>

If 64 bits isn't enough, the next logical step is 128 bits.
That's enough to survive Moore's Law until I'm dead, and after that,
it's not my problem. But it does raise the question: what are the
theoretical limits to storage capacity?

Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum
mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate
and information capacity of any physical device. In particular,
it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter
of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second
on at most 1031 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd,
"Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054
(2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain
2128 blocks = 2137 bytes = 2140
bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be
(2140 bits) / (1031 bits/kg) = 136 billion
kg.

That's a lot of gear.

To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the
entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy.
By E=mc2, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is
1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the
temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celcius, and thus about
400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling.
The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg.
Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about
2.4x106 J/kg \* 1.4x1021 kg =
3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit
storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling
the oceans.
Not surprising. Years ago one of my (gray haired) mentors opened my eyes to ageism in this industry by asking me to pay attention to how many programmers in the office have gray hair. Once you start looking for it, it becomes obvious that age discrimination is rampant. Some blame the young workforce on the industry being young, but the industry is decades old at this point so I don't think that excuse holds water.
> We already have tens of thousands of bright scientists who work on drugs where the patents go to the corporations, not for those who actually did the research anyway.

That's because corporations do the part of drug research that actually matters, viz. translational research and safety/effectiveness studies. And it would be just as expensive if non-profits were doing it, so talking about "profits" is just not relevant.
Hi, really cool stuff!

Right now it seems I can use it easily on web with the supabase web sdk, how would you suggest using this in mobile iOS and android codebase?

Overall, supabase could be a better solution for me since I am also using postgres for my main data repo, and only used firebase for auth and now chat because of how easy (literally <30 min) it was to set up.

Thanks!
The process of finding what your missing is what will make you an expert. PhD is finding novel information that impacts a field. Try to think of something at the level that no one else already knows and consider how you might learn that novel info - read research papers and see how others approach it.
This is neat! Thanks!
I don't know if Nvidia is eager to re-enter the SoC market. It wouldn't be a clear path to more money, since they would need to then handle modem, wifi, ISP, display, etc... instead of just CPU & GPU. And they'd need to work with Android & its HALs. And all the dozens/hundreds of device OEMs.

They could, but that's more than just an easy money grab. Something Nvidia would already be familiar with from Tegra.

What seems more likely/risky would be nvidia starts charging a premium for a Mali replacement, or begins sandbagging Mali on the lower end of things. But Qualcomm already has Adreno to defend against that.
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Ask HN: What are you using in place of Google Hire after it's sunsetting?
Our company lost a very valuable tool in Google Hire. Prior to this we were loosely managing things in Google Drive for things like resumes and Google Sheets for capturing information about the interviews.

1. Are there other solutions people have transitioned to that seem to be a competent replacement?
2. Do people have any recommendations for processes or templates on how to execute and capture information?

I feel like we were doing things largely off-the-cuff before and now we are back to the drawing board.
I learned about this in journalism class in high school over 20 years ago and it's still one of the most valuable lessons I remember from high school. As someone with ADHD, I really appreciate when people follow this style.

Blog articles, especially medium, are really bad about this. I've clicked on headlines about an interesting topic only to find the article no even mention the topic from the headline until 2/3 of the way into the article.
Life does not need to be RNA/DNA based.