skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends .. if you don't release the carbon in the tree you cut down, and you plant another tree then it's all good.
All of that can be applied to every single decision we make in life. Pretty much every human "want to quit" sugars, junk food, exercise more, eat healthy etc. It's definitely more than the % which wants to quit smoking. That doesn't mean we should government come in and ban sugars, junk food, force exercise and force people to eat salads. That's straight out of a Black Mirror episode where people are forced to do these things.

> The current market doesn't reflect honest and fully informed consumer choice

I don't think you are correct here at all. The tobacco industry and sales is very heavily regulated. They can't even have ads broadcast plus are hidden behind counter at stores. And as I presented in the CDC stats, vast majority of the blacks pick up smoking when they become adults and not kids. So they are already making "fully informed consumer choice". And a significantly small population actually smokes anyway. Junk food on the other hand which takes more lives, has more addiction and is consumed by kids doesn't have much regulation.

There can be better steps which can be taken such as "those who don't smoke" get a tax rebate for example.
Your childhood can be key. Your username makes me think you like to play with mind bending drugs that directly interfere with prefrontal cortical motivation.
But why? Introducing once extinct species would disrupt the existing ecological balance and the conditions that made them extinct to begin with would continue to persist and they would simply go extinct again.
>The people (i.e. voters) overwhelmingly support action to limit climate change. That's the reason those laws are politically viable in the first place.

In the abstract, sure, but if (hypothetically) 13 years from now people are staring down a 5 figure price increase will they still support it?
Thanks for sharing

One thing I'm worried about is file and folder organisation via renaming and moving (I've had a bad experience), so right now it's a flat structure.
so if github is using open source code to predict code hints, is that violating any copyrights implied by anything
This is a nice option to have of course.

What kid hasn’t imagined mammoths or saber toothed tigers, or Tasmanian tigers and dodo birds (I’m putting dinosaurs aside because they are tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years older)

But, while good for the imagination, where would we put them?

Their ecosystems don’t exist. If they did, people are encroaching on them...

So that leaves curiosities at the zoo (or special once extinct species travel destination).

Is that what we want?

And what about Neanderthals, do we bring them back? Being near human what are the ethics of that?

That leaves a safety valve for species going extinct. This would be a good use. But it can have the effect of people caring less (don’t worry, we can bring them back if we have to)

On the other hand... this and space travel....
I saw this movie when I was younger. It was entertaining as a viewer but I doubt the participants enjoyed it as thoroughly.

This is a really interesting field that often gets overlooked. I’m very excited about the future with species saving technology.
Source? I would actually expect there to be around the same amount of drummers, but more people making music.
I was a mover and then I ran a moving company. I love movers and the culture of people who work with their hands. They tend to be much funnier than office workers.

I realize yours is a common reality, but it's not been my experience. I always felt surrounded by underdogs, and our privilege mostly came from former underdogs choosing to bet on me.

My parents are middle class New Yorkers. I went to a public high school, ran track, skateboarded and played with computers and programming for fun.

I went to Wash U in St Louis on financial scholarship. A great school but not the ones that tech companies recruit aggressively from. My freshman year I bootstrapped a moving company and a custom apparel company, and I worked constantly at both on top of a full course load for a double major and social obligations. I probably couldn't do that today, but it didn't feel like work then. It was fun. Both of those companies did well enough that I got introduced to Joe Lonsdale as he was starting Addepar, and I made enough money from them to pay off all debts and enter adult life with over 150k in savings.

I joined Addepar my sophomore summer. It was me, Joe, a CMU dropout, a Berkeley grad who was working at Yahoo, a snowboard apparel designer, and a santa clara grad. We hacked it out, and now that company is worth over a billion dollars. Joe was a Stanford graduate, the rest of us made it with equity.

While at Addepar in SF I met Keith Rabois, who tried to recruit me to Square. I turned him down because I wanted to graduate school, but we became close friends and eventually started Opendoor together with Eric Wu, the child of immigrants who went to University of Arizona. We recruited a great team, and now Opendoor is a 10 billion dollar public company.

There are a million and one privileges I've enjoyed, but they were mostly people being willing to bet on me. And most of the money I made was in equity. I never had a six figure salary until my last 6 months at Opendoor, and I didn't take any money off the table until year 5.
The problem with these kind of essays is that - like the whole 10,000 hours thing - people take away the "Work" part but miss that the "work" has to be intentional. There's no point putting in 14 hour days on busywork that gets you nowhere. Unfortunately that's where a lot of people end up.
NYC? San Francisco? Boston? DC? Not every city is Houston, bro.
Global battery production remains in the low hundreds of gigawatt hours annually. And only a small fraction of that is going to grid storage, in the single-digit gigawatt hours. Global electricity consumption is 60 TWh per day and continuing to rise. Alternatives like compressed air, hydrogen, thermal batteries, etc. still remain in the prototyping phase. Whether or not they prove to be viable is totally unknown.

We are going to be in this markedly temporary situation until we experience a miraculous breakthrough in energy storage that yields several orders-of-magnitude improvement. Breakthrough technology that's 10-20 years away often stays 10-20 years away for a lot longer than that.
Yeah - the closest he comes to providing one is "My best guess is that pretty soon the supply of greater fools runs out." But that's not very scientific.

I suspect the catalyst will be some kind of regulatory action against Tether. But yeah it's really anyone's guess at this stage and as you point out it's knowing the timeframe that is the problem with shorting.
The ones they’re trying it on aren’t fully extinct yet. Only the male line is, two females are alive. It can also lead to science that could possibly help bee’s, fish, bugs, and countless other life forms that we’re about to wipe out.
My next car will be a PHEV.

Most my city driving is within the electric only range, so I basically never need to fill it up, but with a full charge and tank of gas it’s over 1,000km of range.

While I’ll be able to charge it at grocery store or wherever if a charging spot is available to basically get free range, and charge it at home whenever I want, I won’t be reliant on charging and can get the best of both worlds when I choose.

I intend to drive it over the next few years which gets close to the 2035 goalpost many countries have of deprecating ICE cars, and as electric and charging becomes cheaper and fewer people use gas at all I can pick what type of fuel to use (petrol or electric) based on what’s cheapest that week/month.

PHEV are also up to half the cost of comparable full electric.

I think if I never had to consider longer trips (2-4 hours of driving into the country) and I had access to a reliable at home charging I’d go electric tomorrow.

I feel like for the next 1-5 years PHEV makes more sense for my situation.
I believe you can do this with beets. I have many fields for labeling songs by characteristics or personal preferences like `rating` then there is a plugin for smart playlists that let you define library queries and turn them into a playlist.

Others are right though the initial set up can be daunting though.
So You Want to Learn to Code
Yes, it's public source code.
Risk aversion given that I have a good job that I worked for 10 years to get.
> Everyone gets to go to school for free, your taxes should be thought of as paying off your own education.

What makes you think this is the correct perspective? Many Americans had parents who were educated abroad or not at all (if I'm paying for my education, what did my parents pay for?). Further, my education was less expensive than my education-focused-taxes are now - if I really were paying just for myself, shouldn't it be an inflation adjusted amount? Instead, I pay what it costs to educate a kid today.
If you want to hack it and don't want to pay for consumer grade quality for neither hardware nor software, then the device you linked is a good choice.
> Hmm, not quite. My point was that if they aren't a good enough programmer to understand why the code is wrong, then chances are they would've written bad code or copy pasted bad code anyways. It just makes the cycle faster.

No, not quite. It also makes the cycle more permanent and its results deeply ingrained, which is what is actually relevant.
I think it's good technology to have just in case.

For example, if humanity does something dumb that accidentally makes bees or whales go extinct, having an undo to bring back keystone species that entire ecosystems depend on is pretty nice.
The issue is that you can't know if you meet the other requirements, so it's easy to think "I'll get lucky by just being persistent" and you never go anywhere.
Wouldn’t say solid as it was a bit laymanish
If only somebody at Microsoft had willpower to ad this in Notepad Lisp would quickly become much more popular. IMHO.
so its not open source anymore then say confluence, who lets you download the source if you have a license to it?

false claims like this will ensure I never use or recommend this product
And all that electric power comes from....where?

Just look at California if you want to see how all of this getting rid of fossil fuels and relying solely on "green" energy works.
Defaults are powerful things. The default is now that new fuel powered cars cannot be sold in 2035.
The obvious question raised here is "How does ground temp compare to normal temp?" From Googling, it looks like it generally is more extreme (think parking lot vs air above parking lot), perhaps up to 12 degrees warmer.
But is it practical and prudent?
If you were literally unable to give a talk, I suspect accommodations would be made for qualifying exams and thesis defenses; indeed, I would bet this is legally required under the ADA or something similar.

However, giving presentation is an important part of an academic career. As a grad student and postdoc, conferences expand your network beyond people in your lab and department. You might hope that your published work "speaks for itself", but people are people, and putting a face to a name seems to have value above and beyond the intellectual content. Later on, seminars and campus visits are important not only for disseminating your own work and building up a case for tenure, but also establishing collaborations and recruiting future grad students and postdocs to your group.

People certainly make do without giving many talks, but it usually makes things slightly harder and you might need to "hustle" in some other way to compensate: write exceptionally well, lean on colleagues to refer strong students, etc.
Anyone who claims that their success is due entirely to hard work doesn't understand probability.
> The security argument also makes less sense for browsers because most web app exploits are unrelated to memory safety.

Is demonstrably untrue:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Shameless self-promotion: I've built an app - thinktype[1] - that I think fulfills three of these four principles:

> Captured ideas are better than missed ones.

> Ideas that can’t be recalled are worse than useless – effective search and recall form the soul of great notes.

In thinktype, you write and search notes at the same time. You can start both writing and searching (which are the same) right when you open the app.

> Time is essential to how we remember, and should be a first-class concept in a good note-taking system.

In thinktype, you see a relative time for every note ("two weeks").

When you open the app you see all notes sorted by recency. You can also easily sort search results by recency, for example to see how your thinking on a topic developed.

[1]: https://thinktype.app
How to write an article best displayed at 640x480
Right, but approximately 0 people are going to buy a new computer just to get Windows 11.

That is: If I've got to have 11, I'll buy a new computer to get it, but my goal isn't a new computer, it's Windows 11. Selling a new computer vs selling me Windows 11 for an old computer doesn't put a lot of extra money in Microsoft's pocket, so why do they care?

But if they did it the other way, they'd get all the people who buy new machines, and they'd be able to sell upgrades to people who wanted 11, but didn't want it bad enough to buy a new machine.
How does this compare with signald? I wrote a signald xmpp bridge, but signald can be a bit wonky. One time it just stopped responding, and it doesn't pull in as much peer data as the official client.
I can only speak for myself. I do and I know lots of friends who do as well. I made 42k when I finished undergrad and have always maxed out my available tax beneficial savings (401k/403b/IRAs). Doing anything else would be negligent on my ability to prepare for my future where I would like to retire and not rely on social security, children or other programs.
Would you say the main risk here is ultimately financial in your eyes? Namely that you won't be able to raise money to pay yourself a salary and then won't be able to find a new job or return to your old one?
Regarding climbing anchors: Anybody expecting to use steel near the ocean and having it last, is in for a really bad time. Ti glue-ins are really the best way to go near water. Plus, I'm sure you're aware of how many variables there are.

Even 316 rusts and corrodes, and that should be fairly obvious to most users if they actually look at the bolts before trusting them.
That explains the guano at the local MRI clinic.
My understanding is that Open Source means just that - The source is open for inspection. It doesn't immediately imply that the source is open for free usage by all.
I was a comp sci major.

Do you know what a Pointer is?

Do you know what passing by reference means?

Do you know what a heap allocation is vs pushing something into the stack?

Do you know what code and bss segments are and what they are for?

This is not about being right or wrong, I just can’t stand to watch total nonsense go unchallenged.

No, you cannot write a hardware device driver in a dynamic language, which is not to preclude code generation approaches, but to point out what low level hardware programming actually consists of: manipulating memory, registers included
> Are there any open source licenses that explicitly forbid use when training an AI?

No, though plenty don’t license for that purpose and/or would require any work thereby created requiring w license to use the same license (e.g., all copyleft licenses).

But since Copilot and others use publicly available (independent or license, not specifically open-source) code on the basis that such use does not require a license, the license isn't going to stop them. Are you prepared to sue Microsoft to prevent them from using your code? If not, given their position on “Fair Use”, you aren't going to stop them.
Except it's likely the cause of the extinction will still be present and make reintroduction nearly impossible.
The author clearly states immediately after that image:

Note in the above, I’m not saying that is -6V and +6V, which would be 12 volts total, I’m just labeling the positive and negative sides of the 6 volts of power available.

Context matters! See image: https://i.imgur.com/3fIZFFe.png
> Ideas are always shared creations, by definition. If you have an “original idea”, all you really have is noise! If your idea means anything to anyone, then by definition it is built on other ideas, it is a shared creation.

Copyright doesn't protect "ideas" it protects "works". If an artist spends a decade of his life painting a masterpiece, and then some asshole sells it on printed T-shirts, then copyright law protects the artist.

Likewise, an engineer who writes code should not have to worry about some asshole (or some for-profit AI) copy and pasting it into other peoples' projects. No copyright protections for code will just disincentivize open source.

Software patents are completely bullshit though, because they monopolize ideas which 99.999% of the time are derived from the ideas other people freely contributed to society (aka "standing on the shoulders of giants"). Those have to go, and I do not feel bad at all about labeling all patent-holders greedy assholes.

But copyright is fine and very important. Nothing is perfect, but it does work very well.
We are paying the price regardless. The trick is to get to the point where we can’t get out of paying what is due, because we’d try to weasel out of it even if climate change accelerated from doing so.

The only analogy I can think fitting is the condo building collapse in Miami where the condo board and residents were wringing their hands over $15 millions of dollars of work that needed to be done right up until catastrophic failure. While arguably unaffordable, it would’ve been cheaper than the deaths of 150+ people.
In regards to Neanderthals, I think until such a time people can stop being bigoted towards each other we shouldn’t be reviving an actual different species (as close they are to us.)
It's just my (underinformed) opinion, but I don't think there is a trade that Democrats could make to get full UHC passed. More than being anti-socialism, Republicans have defined themselves as being the opposite of Democrats.

Democrats could give up everything they hold dear, and I still don't think Mitch would make that deal.
When did mdellavo anything about floating point? You can, and should, use plain old fixed-point arithmetic for currency. That’s what he means by “microdollar”.
At the federal level rural states are over-weighted (because Senate) but at the state level the cities run the state.

It always amuses me when urban and inner suburb dwellers want big federal government. They'd have a lot more latitude to run things their way if the commerce clause got reigned in and the 10A got some respect.
You are correct... cannot encrypt anything voice or data on any Amateur Radio frequencies.
I’m interested as well. But having built out a complete e-commerce stack in elixir, I can say I found it particularly well suited to this use case.
Fools! Don't you realize you're training your replacement!?
Probably don't talk about your plans to leave the team or company.
Is this the ponzi of the week?
You're assuming there is ecological balance

In my country, idiotic victorians introduced several predator species (stoats, weasels etc.) back around the turn of the last century - a mere blink of the eye ago in ecological time.

Since then, these species are steadily killing off our native birds species. Balance has not yet been reached, if by that we mean the extinction of those remaining species.

Many very committed people work very hard on removing the introduced predators, and restoring the conditions that allowed the native species to thrive. I think we'll win, because technology.
I'm not proclaiming that I'm an authority on whatever field has value. We're actually saying pretty much the same thing: don't judge other people too quickly. I replied to someone that talked about "STEM arrogance" and implied that we can't understand that things can have a value without being marketable or profitable. This idea is wrong, and the action of the STEM field prove it.

> By the way, not sure if this was intentional on your part, but "maybe you should take some time to analyze where your feelings come from" is very much an idea that came from the humanities. So there's a certain amount of irony in your comments.

There's no irony except the one I was highlighting: someone is saying that humanities are important and have lots of value, while not applying that really fundamental concept.
Not me, but I've used it in relation to work: The World Intellectual Property Office has IPCCAT which is an AI patent topic classifier that seems to work very effectively.

https://wipo.int/ipccat

Put a description in the text field, hit search and you get back IPC (International Patent Classification) terms.
Sufficient contacts or "network"

Potential customers, employees, support services, mentors, people to run stuff by...
I'm not sure what you mean by "agreed upon", but they are, blatantly, obviously, preventing (lots of) infections in lots of countries at this point.
As a society, we already pay for this and then some. Prevention and continued care is much cheaper than emergent or reactive.
No, Rust isn’t harder. I just had a wrong understanding of the “memory-safe language” term. Sorry, I thought it’s about guarantees that Rust gives, but looks like the bar (from the official term) is much lower. Sorry for misunderstanding.
Or, with a little more detail: "Open Source" is defined by the Open Source Definition (https://opensource.org/osd), and clause 6 requires no constraint of fields of endeavor.

Which means, you cannot limit the purposes for which your software is used.

If you wanted to prohibit it being used to train ML models, you could add this restriction to your license, but it would no longer be Open Source(TM).
Agree but the pharma companies are the ones taking the R&D risk not PBMs. Yet the PBMs are capturing a lot of the money in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
You do realize that their data includes half of humanities personal lives, if you count WhatsApp and tinder. It ain’t all cat pictures, I’m afraid
You clearly didn't read or intentionally ignored all my previous comments. I stated:

> I have left leaning friends there who run businesses and it's very well reported even by them.

CA has been the state which has lost population because people are fleeing the state and one of the reasons is "Filth":

https://travelmedium.com/usa/california/why-are-people-leavi...

I also stated I am very pro legalizing all drugs. I think you are being insincere on purpose because despite me presenting multiple left leaning articles which go against your narrative, you prefer to have blinders on. This discussion isn't worth going forward.
One of my biggest complaints about Lisp and Scheme are the dynamic typing aspects; in the C code, one can see what type is at least supposed to be in "oldfont" and "tm"; in the corresponding Lisp, only an IDE can tell the user what type should be in "dstat"
That's merely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
Oops! Sorry about that. For some reason, it just crossed my newsfeed. <embarrassed blush>
Technology is littered with failed experiments, not always for hard work or technical reasons. Remember Xanadu? How about Transmeta? For each Jobs or Gates, there's probably 20 of them out there who ended up having more normal careers simply due to luck.
As opposed to the annual corporate VMWare enterprise license shock and awe ritual we go through every year. Infrastructure platforms are wicked expensive.
My masters degree was a waste of time.
My bad, was excited to be on front page. Not trying to be sly.
True, but orthogonal and perhaps not as relevant in the modern era. Do you think the USG would let Boeing get into such a bad financial spot that Boeing would stop manufacturing planes? I don't.