skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put together a team, design it, make some renderings and run a Crowd Funding Op, I'd consider contributing.
> or the life of me I can't phantom why none writes a compiler for it. Would be a huge advantage

Pick your poison:

PyPy https://www.pypy.org

Cython https://cython.org

Nuitka https://nuitka.net
This is changing the meaning of what you stated at the beginning.

You can't say "you can say this among friends" and then turn it around and say "well, you can't expect it to remain private" as an excuse for your repulsion of the statement.

It was a bunch of school board members talking together amongst themselves at either the start or the end of the meeting. If this were in the physical world, it would have been to an empty chamber, or between meetings as they walked.

It just so happens that someone else was in the meeting that they didn't notice; and that person decided to record what they were saying and share it with the internet.
I am one of those people who wants their code to be poetry. Ideas and logic expressed in the simplest most elegant terms. But when I left academia for industry and started working on a bigger project requiring coordination between many dozens of people, I realized that this approach is not conducive to making money. My idealism collided with the complexity of the real world. Software is a mess, but a beautiful mess. I now realize this is not necessarily a reflection of the skill of those who write it, rather the complexity inherent in the users domain.
> PCs that store UEFI variables on the SSD

Which PCs do that? Where do they store, on the ESP?
I can't imagine something less consequencial to get in a rage about. I hear more offensive or frustrating political remarks made openly and publicly targeting people like me on a daily basis.
I think this is a jab at some or a group of politicians, but I genuinely don't know who -- it seems NASA's problems go far enough back that several different parties/groups have held control of the government and NASA has mostly stayed the same, for better or worse.
You could also make 0 dollars a minute standing on a surf board, hiking in a national park or reading a book. There are a lot of things in life that are more interesting than computers.
If emails are taken out of context, then Google is free to provide context.

An employee's working conditions are not company secrets. They have a legal right to discuss them.
The first reason it's hard to just landfill it is optics. Local government asked people to sort their trash, made a big deal about it. And it's a scandal when people find out of course it's just being buried with the rest of the stuff. Recyclers were able to do two things; a) play a shell game which diverts the waste in an opaque, hopefully deniable way and b) deal with the waste more cheaply than landfilling it. They did this by exporting it, and all the externalities.

I mean, your argument is good but I feel it's contradicted by reality in a sense; megatons of waste plastic were being sent to China before the import ban.

You have to pay to put stuff in landfill, whereas the recyclers were paying _you_ to take the waste.

I think you might also be surprised by the cost of landfill. Sure, there's plenty of space, but there's not as much government approved, environmentally audited space as you might want - that won't leach into the water table, has good geography, neighbours who won't NIMBY it, no rare frogs that live there etc. Obviously it all needs ISO 27000 management, union labour and regular safety and environmental audits.

Caring about none of the above is how Chinese waste entrepreneurs could take mixed plastic from 1/2 way around the world and make a profit out of it, instead of losing money putting it into the ground. Their margins are slim and they have to pay for landfill too (much less of course), so dumping it in the ocean or similar saves money unless they get caught.

(For what it's worth I do agree that putting it in the ground might be the best thing to do, i.e, cheapest considering all externalities, and local government should just be transparent about what actually happens to your recycling).
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Do _you_ know any teachers? I've certainly not been hearing about how much they love working from home with the exception of one.

The rest find it more difficult to teach, especially with complicated technology and decade old laptops.
I know a lot of teachers and they don't want to go back for fear of their personal safety.

They understand that parents want babysitting, and they don't want to endanger themselves to give it to them.

Kids aren't are pretty low risk from covid, but teachers are older and have higher risk. Some are elderly, some are pregnant, and some have medical conditions. Many that I know would quit before going back without a vaccine.

That said, return to classrooms has worked well in just about every other country, even during their lockdowns.
I haven't gone as far as that, but have deleted anything on my phone that provides "infinite content". Twitter, the reddit app (still use logged out in browser so I get the ~20 top posts for a couple specific subreddits), things like that.

I notice the same phenomena- I haven't restricted any behavior on my computer, but notice I am spending a lot less time on it
And we don't owe them the benefit of the doubt if they don't care to explain themselves.
I don’t think there’s anything in what the person said about being a Covid denier, but if you don’t like being a teacher, perhaps you should’ve chosen a different career path.
VASAviation already has the radar/ATC video up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-zh7Sebr8
Okay, so why don't you volunteer to update it?
Come on. Following that logic you'll be hard pressed to speak a full meaningful sentence about a topic because, not surprisingly, language evolves!

"Steal" has been used as "copy" long enough that it's part of the standard usage now (and has been for a long time), just like "literally" being used as an intensifier, or "cool" meaning "good" as opposed to referring strictly to temperature.

And it's likely not even a misconception (like "a napron" => "an apron" was) but rather a conceptual metaphor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor), which is what helps you understand that you shouldn't be afraid of cutting yourself on someone's "sharp wit", and that you don't need to bring a ladder shopping even though "prices are rising".

Hell, even "conception" (as in "misconception") was originally only used for talking about literal pregnancies, the metaphorical extension didn't come about until the 14th century (source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/conception). Or is that okay? If so, how old does a semantic extensions have to be to be accepted into the lexicon?
Poetry is an artistic expression and so it can be, as you say, ideas expressed in simple and elegant terms. But it can also be opaque, complicated, confusing, awkward, and abrasive, and still be great poetry.

When working with others it is all the more important that the code be elegant and simple. That’s the only way to fight the always encroaching complexity.
Most that I know don't like working from home, but still would quit before going back without a vaccine.
As there are no commercial fusion reactors using helium-3 or not. Why would we believe this resource has direct value within the next 5 decades?
Homebrew is meant to be language agnostic.
Please stop complaining about Python 3 already. Feel free to use and maintain Python 2 indefinitely. Most of the rest of us will move on since the conversions were not that hard and the improvements worth it.
> and eventually living space in space protected from radiation and, if you build sub-surface tracks, enough acceleration to live normally.

Can you clarify what you mean by that please?

What protects from radiation?

What are "sub-surface tracks" and the "acceleration" they provide?
Great idea about the eink display, any way to save battery power is good, plus, the readability of the eink displays is fantastic.
Gotta have a robust water resistant keyboard though.
I do wish it were required to give a reason or comment to downvote. I upvoted you to compensate since the downvoter did not do this.
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You cannot win this argument.

One concerned citizen will point out that glass is heavier and supposedly uses more diesel to move around and requires more trucks to do so. Another concerned citizen will point out that more carbon is used in firing sand into glass. Still another will tell you that the warm water used to clean a used bottle will also produce carbon.

The only answer is to move next to a spring and drink the water with your hands, but some other person will be concerned that you are disrupting the spring’s ecology.
In fact, we were basically cheering them last year for doing the very same when they were being forced to work.

We cheered and demanded the closing of schools when kids were taking videos of the unmasked masses walking the halls.

Huge percentages of teachers _have_ quit for that very reason.
> By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.

Sounds like math.
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> This appears to have more to do with teachers not wanting to return to the classroom, and using COVID as an excuse not to. IMO it's the same reason we have to wear facemasks on airlines: Flight attendant unions demand it. School districts and municipalities, like airlines, are so afraid of the union they don't want to do anything that might upset them.

That's decidedly the speaking of someone that doesn't think covid is serious, if people are "just using it as an excuse", "in classroom and on planes"
Would be very interesting to see a current-day behind the scenes video of 2021 manufacturing process and compare to 1943. I wonder how many humans touch current day crystals. In the video it’s at least at least a dozen.
> The author is being slightly inconsistent

I agree, and I'm not sure the scenario given could happen. The basis of the possibility of the scenario is "the universe is deterministic" and "we have infinite computing power" - but then, is the infinite computer itself part of the universe? b/c as soon as the top layer interacts with the sims, it diverges, which means the sims are not the same as the top layer anymore, so are not equivalent to it even though they are otherwise deterministic - the first sim under the top is deterministic, but dependent on interaction with another deterministic (top level) universe. Hence, the first sim is no longer representative of the top level - the top level can still interact with the first sim, but it can no longer consider it to be a mirror - this is the answer to the paradox of "running the sim into the future" - once the top level observes the sim, it is altered in a way that might cause the sim to diverge.

> when the simulations reach the time of the original reversal?

The sum total time of the reversal is finite, so the top (level 0) level will observe the reversal in a finite time, the level 1 will therefor observe the same finite delay wrt the top. Hence each level N will be delayed by the same amount wrt the level above.

The idea of a "loop" would be wrong, b/c when a sim reaches "the time of the original reversal" the result only affects the next sim down. But each sim as level N does go through the loop N times, because it shares the loop of each of its parents, hence if a loop delays by 10s, level N which goes through N loops is delayed wrt top by N*10s

> The moment the 'camera' appears in a simulation, it has diverged from the 'real' world

True, but now the "next" sim interference will not be replicated between level 0 and level 1, which in turn can cause level 1 to diverge, and so on.

> with no memory of the camera having once appeared

You could just stop all the sims after you interfered with them, and them restart the sim without interfering (or equivalent - like rewinding the sim and then playing it w/o interfering) - the same would happen in all sims too, so they would be, and have, the same pristine sims.
I'm skeptical - what happens when NNs are no longer susceptible to simple adversarial examples, or they take proportionally more power to compute?

I'd sooner spend the effort on legal challenges.
> Some imported DMR radios do support AES encryption, but using it can get you in trouble if you're caught.

What would be the specific crime & punishment for this?
The notion that human malevolence is a recent enough development to have somehow been caused by this entity “Hollywood” is laughable on its face.

Are you under the impression that humans led some kind of Edenic existence before we started watching movies?
I don't know exactly what the OP means but putting something big and sold between it and the sun is a good way to limit radiation. Maybe the moon in this case?
You’re partly right, programming as a whole and on a sort of macro level is soils crushingly boring and pointless. But on the micro scale, even boring pointless programming tasks can offer challenges that are interesting enough to keep you entertained for a few hours until you look up and remember how pointless it all is.

I like to compare it to solving sudoku. If that entertains you and you can make 200k doing it, it’s not the worst thing in the world, even if it is sad and boring when you see it in a wider context. Who wants to go through life as a programmer?
The shaking would concern me.
>I think this is a jab at some or a group of politicians

Yes, all of them. The last politician that matter who believed in government was Nixon.

Everyone since then has done their best to weaken it, with the result being a country that is unable to build any engineering project larger than a football stadium without cost and time overruns larger than the original projections.

The US right now is in the position of the barbarian tribes squatting in the former Roman Empire. Using the infrastructure build before them, wearing togas and pretending to be Romans, constantly sniping each other over who is more virtuous, while everything rots and falls apart, only it's happening slowly enough that no one notices. We didn't need those baths anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruin
Check out the M17 project, they seem to be making inroads in that area.

https://m17project.org/

Mobilink tncs are really nice but you're still limited by APRS.
Anyone who grew up with Pascal has seen := a lot. On a personal note, I do hate the overloading of =.
What about biodegradable plastics? If regular plastics were made illegal or heavily taxed, wouldn't industry quickly come up with biodegradable alternatives?
That’s honestly what I’ve been waiting for from this game. Game is decent enough, but the AI needed work. I was looking to build my own for years, just never had a decent interface for it.
> in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose

Parents who think about their kids in this way don’t deserve them and should not have them.
Tweets now often start with the 3 gyrophares then “breaking news urgent!!!”

It is highly stressful. A good tip is to write “Breaking”, “Alert” and “Urgent” as spam words in the Twitter administration, so all tweets containing it will be hidden (or leave them, to ensure the Twitter experience is as bad as possible until you hate opening it).
....says the moron...
If you're new at it and you're trying to induce them as much as possible, then you're going to be falling asleep and waking up at arbitrary times, or trying to trick your brain into remaining awake while the rest of your body falls asleep. Also, if you have a particularly intense lucid dream, it's not uncommon to wake up immediately after. So I would say yes, if lucid dreaming doesn't come naturally to you, then inducing them will disrupt your natural sleep patterns.
BREAKING NEWS: More people died of COVID today. I see see often headlines in my Google news feed saying something along those lines.

I've stopped clicking on YouTube videos that give me no idea what they are going to be in the thumbnail/title. For example on Linus Tech Tips second channel ShortCiruit a good chunk of their videos do this. Latest one from 3 years ago in my sub box "I almost hurt myself open this...." and the thumbnail is him maybe holding a big TV with a game on the screen. I can't tell if it's a big monitor, a tv, or if the video will be about what's on the screen in the thumbnail. I wish that videos/news/blogs that use titles like this could also just tack something on the end in brackets saying a couple words about what it's actually talking about.

Too often I'm having to fall prey to the clickbait just to see if maybe the video will interest me or not. More often than not it doesn't and I just wasted time.
Why should we wait?
I've literally been in the local facility that sorts recycling, they do a good job of sorting clean stuff by type and throw everything else away, into the landfill where it is located. Should I not believe my lying eyes?

So someone pays to haul stuff away on trucks and I'm supposed to believe that they are dumping that stuff in the ocean for some reason. Or shipping it to China and then dumping it in the ocean.
Ah, fair enough. That's far before my time, so my frame of reference was much shorter.

Can't say I haven't thought the same about where we are as a civilization, and how eerily similar it really is in some regards to the "End Game Roman Empire". I guess we had a good run while it lasted?
You can print to a pdf from your browser and upload that to the device as a simple workaround. It's pretty straightforward.
> The last politician that believed in government was Nixon.

If your definition of “politician” is “US President from the GOP”, that's maybe true (George H. W. Bush might make even that wrong, though.)

If it's any broader, then, just, no, not even close.
TIPS (inflation-protected treasuries) are the purest bet on inflation.
But you can still teach historical examples in the context of civics without a full-blown history class, which arguably has a much wider scope (and commitment to providing fuller context), and therefore is a greater undertaking.
I wrote most of my first source management system (NSElite, mentioned elsewhere in this thread) in perl4. I was learning perl at the time and my first and second efforts were awful. Perl really lets you get sloppy and create unmaintainable code.

My 3rd rewrite was very stylized and, I felt, maintainable. Which proved to be true as I had to fix bugs in it.

I did weird stuff like using $whatever as the index into the
@whatever array.

But I digress. On the <>, Little has argv so you can do

int
main(string argv[])
{
int i;
string buf;
FILE f;

if (defined(argv[1]) && streq(argv[1], "-") && !defined(argv[2])) {
while (buf = <STDIN>) bputs(buf);
} else {
for (i = 1; defined(argv[i]); i++) {
if (defined(f = fopen(argv[i], "r")) {
while (buf = <f>) puts(buf);
fclose(f);
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "unable to open '%s'\n", argv[i]);
}
}
}
return (0);

}

but why would you want to when all of that is

int
main(string argv[])
{
string buf;

while (buf = <>) puts(buf);
return (0);

}

I mean, come on, that's cat(1) in 8 lines of code.

edit: I need to learn hacker markup. My code looks like crap.
I wonder how many of the old names GitHub will redirect for. Link for 788 redirected me to the (at the moment) current repo with 795 stars. Tried going back to 1 stars and still works. Will be interesting to see when it starts removing the older redirects.
i like that they keep such a positive tone of voice. I get the impression they delight in sharing "bad" news since it invariably can be blamed on whichever party their outlet opposes.
I used them judiciously when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. Use is one thing, abuse is another.

Your comment about how "we don't understand how they (psychedelics) affect brains" holds true for pretty much anything we put in our bodies, so there's no real reason to draw the line at psychedelics. That said, it's not entirely true to say we don't understand _any_ of the action, because we do. If you want to know the answer to deeper questions like the effect on long-term development and so on, lower the barrier to studying the effects, and go from there.

I can't think of any good reason why psychedelics cannot be prescribed, but Oxycontin or Adderall or whatever can, and you can go buy alcohol and cigarettes at the store.
You're assuming smaller plastic is better.

You should probably stop assuming that.
Biological models are going to have specific in built heuristics to learn specific things like language more easily.

Seems to me we should be training DL networks to adjust models to resemble models trained via backprop, but without access to backprop, and see what kinds of heuristics it provides.
Well, they did everything on purpose… with the purpose of satisfying business constraints – shipping a shiny end product within the deadline, and nothing else.

So they quickly repurposed all the iDevice stuff, minimally expanding the boot process to be more open and general-purpose-computer-like.

They could've built the SoC differently (with standard Arm components – GIC, SMMU, PL011… – instead of custom ones), could've used UEFI+ACPI, storing the firmware on a typical SPI flash chip, and so on. But that was not done because that stuff doesn't do much for the business objectives of the company, since what's being marketed is the full experience with macOS, not an interoperable standard platform for your favorite Unix. And so they went the easy, lazy, proprietary way.
Yes, for you and me, but not for ordinary folks..
Sure there are people with higher callings, geniuses like Einstein or Newton. But that’s not what we’re talking about here. We are talking about moderately intelligent people who will never contribute anything meaningful to humanity. For them work is not an excuse not to have friends or do “frivolous” things. Those frivolous things are what life are made of, so you better have a damn good reason if you avoid them. Being 10% of a team that is building some accounting software is not comparable to inventing calculus.
that's my first reaction to this list too - is a debian-specific package really providing more value than the effort of maintaining it for a lot of this software? even libgpod and xmms are relatively high-profile examples.

i do appreciate being able to apt-get install some obscure package and have often wondered how it's a sustainable system that maintainers are putting in effort to package these things up into a distro for me. but maybe it isn't?
Sci-fi author Charlie Stross had a wonderful take-down of He3[1] a decade ago. It's alas not very technical. The short of it is that there are no reactors, if we do make them they are going to be insanely fantastically hot (a billion degrees), there's only ~10 parts per billion (according to your wikipedia link) on the moon & mining that will be hard, and then we'd have to transport the stuff too.

I'd read something else about the challenges of reactor design, but not sure what it was. I haven't been enthused about He3 since. I feel like the one interesting use would be a Project Orion / Nuclear Pulse Propulsion system, but wow, boy does that seem like an expensive way to do propulsion: what's the use case?

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/moonshin...
The smaller the black hole, the faster it evaporates. But having a planet around would instantly make it larger.
Etna is erupting
I had/have the same problem. I now invest in companies that are big in sustainability. Saying to myself that even if the earnings fall flat, at least I can look in the mirror and live with it.
For benchmarks for example.
The government, spending taxpayer money, to police the opinions and discussions of the people... seems pretty un-American to me.

And I sent my money to Bernie!