skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That will work great for students in schools with grade inflation. I wonder if private schools would cater to that?
Thanks, Brian. I sent a message to the address but it bounced because the group address is configured to only receive messages from inside the org.
I think it's worth remembering that Maher is primarily writing with and only incidentally "reviews" anything. For that reason, I don't really think it's fair to expect him to go the extra mile to try to find a silver lining to games that he didn't think were successful. But treating the respective articles as reviews, the Loom audio drama was included in the box, directly supervised by the game's creator, while the Dig novelization was a separate product.

(It's also not exactly a surprise that Maher's coverage of The Dig is a little bit skewed toward the parts of it that an ex-Infocom Imp worked on.)
That sounds fascinating. Do you happen to have some details, sources, videos, lectures about this?
I don't advocate complacency or fatalism, instead I've come to hold the opinion that rapidly shifting to low/zero carbon technology is our best shot. Just look at how quickly natural gas felled king coal - a matter of years - once it became significantly cheaper. (We can't stop at natural gas, but it does produce half the CO2 as coal)

Similarly, there is a huge market-driven surge in renewables: https://coloradosun.com/2021/01/25/solar-energy-colorado-uni...

A key part of this viewpoint is that strong demand in the market can actually be an accelerator.

Turning back to austerity - even if a 50% drop in demand could save us, it's just never going to happen. Even the global COVID lockdowns made less than a 10% cut in energy consumption. You'd be stunningly successful if you cut even 1% through austerity campaign.
I can't even imagine the amount of exposure to minors this has caused. But that's nothing new for the porn industry.
I know there are groups making good progress on CO2 scrubbers. Last I read about them, they were saying $100 / ton is within reach.
I dont think the essay can bring down the score that much.
it is far too late for individual action. it is major manufacturers and producers that need to act, because there are only tens of thousands of them (which can be regulated, with enough will) and not billions of individuals, who cannot.

holding individuals accountable for ignored environmental externaities of producers is a dead end. people will buy/consume the cheapest thing made available to them.
Just a reminder, Viasat and their partner Ligado Networks (Formerly Lightsqared, remember them?) are a clear and present danger to the continued operability and reliability of the GPS constellation. https://www.gps.gov/spectrum/lightsquared/
> while China has 28% and is growing in both per person and absolute.

I'm personally completely in favor of import tariffs on goods manufactured abroad with dirty energy and immigration quotas on nationals from countries that have decided not to control their emissions.
Those stats are not fair because China is the world's factory. If China decides to stop exporting manufactured products to reduce it's emissions, the US would need to manufacture itself, increasing it's emissions.
Well that assertion leaves a lot to imagination. So if you're running a 1080ti GPU it uses a max power of 250w, worse case you can cut power to its onboard processors in a way that does not require re-initialization after power is resumed in 100ms. Even a 5% improvement would translate to a reduction of 12w just on the GPU front.
LMAO this is fucking brilliant.
To be fair You could say 2020 was due to lack of car emmissions?
I'm pretty sure they both just wanted to go to space.
Any time two people are secretly obnoxious on purpose it's a conspiracy. So sure, it might be that. I hope you're not invoking the word 'conspiracy' to make such a mundane thing sound ridiculous.
> if people live in insufficiently dense manners

Dense living is associated with poorer mental health and a variety of diseases, and that not taking into account people with autism, introversion etc, some of whom find urban density neurologically intolerable.

Humans didn’t evolve to live densely.
True, we are fortunate we can avoid hard choices on power source up here (lots of hydro). But what I meant to highlight was that our focus tends to be on solving our local short-term climate problems, just like everybody else.
Hope is what we share when we don't know what to do because someone else might just have the solution. Never give up hope :)
next it'll be sandra bullock and george clooney aren't astronauts
Right, but I mean you wouldn't gain FPS or anything, since you can't "store" processing power to use later.
This is one of those items where all there really is to say is refer to an xkcd.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

People can define space any way they like, but I think "going to" space should require going at least 90% of the way around the world.

Which has the side effect of implying you've spent over an hour "in" space.
One easy way is not to offer a license at all. Just like when you visit a news website, for example. No license is being given to you. You're just a consumer of the website. If you're selling a SaaS, all your work is copyright unless you license it to someone, so just don't.

If you're selling something that can be built or downloaded on someone else's computer, there are lots of proprietary licenses you can use and even some open source ones. I hate AGPL, for example, but it is a license that would prevent AWS from selling your software as a service without disclosing a lot of stuff they won't disclose (their other software that makes AWS run).
Being modern for its own sake? I suppose it would be preferable, since Rust is newer and evolving rapidly. But if you're concerned with being employed and a wide variety of powerful tooling at your fingertips then C++ is probably a better bet. (Note: I am neither a C++ nor Rust developer, so I don't have a dog in this fight.)
This seems very pretty to me. They obviously were not NASA astronauts anyway, I don't understand the point of adding extra clarification like this. Unless one of them had been trying to push for some kind of recognition, which I've seen no indication of, it just feels like some small and petty bureaucracy.
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This sounds pretty petty to stop them being classed as astronauts because of demo'ing safety techniques or what not. It would be better if the qualification was to orbit the Earth (this planet) at least once.
AGPL all the way. The best way to keep things opensource and have large corporations pay you to use your sofwtare.
The translation into english is pretty decent but a bit rough in places, which is understandable. Russian and english are quite different.

"I am ashamed to even remember how the well-known “Warrior with privileges” at the Supreme Council of the USSR mocked this old man, a participant in the Patriotic War,[WW2] Hero of the Soviet Union. Was it only she, mocked only him?"

and this:

"All these notorious activities with trying on gas masks and regarding the poorly drawn posters turned out to be unnecessary."

... stand out to me for various reasons.

This is history told by a participant first hand from a particular place and point in time with a local point of view but with some of the original shackles removed. It is a bit retrospective though.
Ah, it’s refreshing to see some comedy in this politically enraged atmosphere. Thanks for the laugh on a rather dim Friday for me.
> Our basic expectancies for what makes a comfortable life are higher than ever.

Not with regard to density, which has been going up, not down.
Well he did both as far as I know. He had a history of posting racist messages including threats of violence. Ultimately he posted a manifesto and then took action on his words. The video itself was a warning because it started before the shooting. A timely enough warning based on that alone could have prevented this tragedy.
Incredible read.

I find this paragraph in particular to be very powerful:

"The time had come to reward the heroes. There were many of them in Chernobyl, as in every war. Helicopter pilots, chemists, firefighters, nuclear scientists, workers, scientists. I do not know what will become of our orders and medals, whether it will be honorable or shameful to bear the title of Hero of Socialist Labor tomorrow and whether the authorities will replace it with the title of Hero of Capitalist Labor. And with the Order of the October Revolution, everything is clear: It will become the Order of the August or December Counter-Revolution, or even the Devil’s October. I am sure that someday such awards will not be a sign of honor and heroism, but a symbol of betrayal and shame."
During the 1970s High Fructose corn syrup seems to have kicked off the issue. Low fat was the rage then, and companies needed something to add 'taste' to their various process foods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
You could contrast them with Richard Garriott, who actually did undergo astronaut (or rather cosmonaut) training, and participated actively as a crew member on his ISS trip.

I tend to agree that just strapping yourself in and hanging on for a few minutes shouldn't earn astronaut wings. But that's not really what their efforts were all about, and it seems disingenuous of the press to focus on it.

I'm also not going to walk up to Wally Funk and tell her she's not a Real Astronaut. Bezos is getting zero credit for reversing a genuine historical injustice here.
We need to essentially be net negative. Note that 3/4th of the area under that graph... is literally not visible because it doesn't start from zero.
Perhaps there is a better name for what these projects are: "experimental" or "exploratory" access. Something that doesn't so strongly imply their will be a later or finished state.
This new definition has nothing to do with being orbital.
The point OP is making is it relieves pressure on the healthcare system, but the pressure was only there because of old people. Now that old people are vaccinated there’s no reason to mandate or require vaccines. Just look at UK or Israel and the case rates there for how effective vaccines are against transmission. This study just drives home the point.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
California has a significant Asian population. In my experience, many older Chinese Americans are completely apolitical, but one thing they do care about is that their children get into a good college. They exerted significant pressure the last time repealing Prop 209 was proposed by calling and writing their elected officials.
Depends: do I check the "Set as default app to open Excel files?" check box during the install, or not?[1]

But, anyway, I'm not quite sure how that disproves my point that in general, "applications own file(type)s" on Windows. Actually, I'd say the fact that you can set another app to take over ownership of some type only reinforces it.

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[1]: OK, I'm actually not sure that's there any more. But many apps that are capable of taking over each other's file formats at least used to have those.
Study finds surprising source of social influence
> if all 8 billion people follow your example that would lead to a massive increase in pollution

Most people don't follow GP's example because they can't, not because "they're getting the right message". And you bet that as soon as they can, they will. Why? Because most people don't care about the "message", whatever you believe it is. The ones who actually do something about it are the ones who would regardless of any mass-targeted "message". Going one step further, I'd say that it would be better if everyone realized that they can't do anything on their own because that might actually get people to work together, and that's the very reason why the common message is that "everyone should do their part": because that's how you keep people from working together.
We actually do take photos with the screen on, but we use super bright studio lighting photography, which makes it hard to get enough dynamic range to show both the product and the display well. In the future, we'll take the time to build a flow to do stacking with multiple exposures for product photography, but for now for some of the images we just used a screenshot and composited. You can go onto our blog to find some of the display-on photos, like in this post: https://frame.work/blog/1080p-webcam
And yet , Bezos and Branson are the object of this article, while the nameless beurocrat who decided to put out a press release to specify that the 2 men are not astronauts....well he's just a nameless beurocrat, who is not mentioned and in fact, the subject is a generic "US" instead.

Relevant : http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
Doesn't this mean that, other than the pilots, everyone who got a ride on a shuttle wouldn't get their wings?
Well at least the ones hired by a state-controlled media organization.
>https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060...

The headline does not seem to be supported by the article, which mainly consists of various pollution figures for the US military but lacks comparison to other entities. The closest it gets to that is saying the US military produces "more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined". Overall it makes a convincing case that the US military is a large polluter, but not that it's "World’s Biggest Polluter".

>https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w...

It's a blog for a coop chain. A skim of the article reveals the same problem as the previous: lots of facts and figures about how much the US military pollutes, but not many comparisons required to make the claim that they're the largest.

>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h...

>https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...

Both seem to focus on the US military producing more co2 than many countries. I'm not sure how this is supposed to support the claim that they're the biggest polluter. The bay area probably produces more co2 than "many countries" (eg. Liechtenstein and Tonga), but that doesn't mean they're the biggest polluter in the world.
I would say his take on nuclear power is more obviously bad than his climate take. We just haven't been bothered enough/had the political will to try and intervene at the scale he imagined with regards to the weather. Whereas with nuclear the economics never worked out.
I can’t predict what my 4-year old will want to eat for dinner tonight or how much, but I can easily predict that he’ll be substantially bigger and heavier a year from now, and predict the change in height and weight within reasonable tolerance.

If some laypeople have not received a basic high school education and have trouble understanding variance, uncertainty, and the difference between short-term fluctuations and long-term trends, that really isn’t the fault of climate scientists.
> I can eat less meat

It's something I keep quiet about in day-to-day life since it seems to invite reprisal, but if we're soul-searching for what we as individuals can do, I beg you to try eating no meat at all. There seems to be an increasing awareness that animal farming as currently practised is an environmental catastrophe on many levels, including emissions[1]—I dimly recall the IPCC report being quite clear that it's incompatible with a world that isn't ever-worsening, and suspect the obvious conclusion of "stop entirely" has been watered down to "try to eat less" because they fear people will just assume the former is too onerous and not bother.

I have found it to be the opposite—simple steps, fun, healthy—and sort of want to launch into a full tale, but it has been a long week and I was just heading to bed. Still, I'm more than happy later to suggest recommendations and recipes and/or generally chat if you (or anyone) would like.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-cha...
Not sure why he’s been downvoted. It does sound quite reasonable. Writing code from scratch is easier than reading other people’s code. Explaining (in a correct and understandable way) what a snippet of code does is, imho, way more valuable than writing code. We all know how to write code that works (whether the code is good or not is another topic), but to read code and understand it? That’s rare to find. Just take a look at all the bootcamps, “cracking the code interview” books, YouTube tutorials: they all focus on the easy part (to write code from scratch); almost none of them focus on the hard part (to be able to understand other people’s code without giving up and say “to the hell with it, I’ll rewrite it from scratch and this will be done in no time”)
I understand but personally I would at least expect feature parity with the CI features of Github. I mean, I don't understand why inline code quality, approval checks API, or the ability to combine multiple code quality reports of a job needs to fall under Ultimate but things like Terraform State is for all tiers.
No, we cannot say that with any certainty. The most probable explanation is they had to investigate a threat and did not want evidence to be destroyed in the meantime. There is no reason to believe there was an intent to interfere with a business and it sounds like there would have been no interference with the business if they maintained logs for 90 days.
That'd be great if they didn't BUY politicians to write laws that subsidize their extraction and hamper legislation to actually combat the externalities THEY produced.

Consumers do care, but their choices are between bad and awful because the economics (structured by the extraction companies) stacks the deck against solutions.
Nuclear weapons cause more stability, not less. Nuclear armed countries will never fight each other directly (MAD). So I presume that no nuclear war will ensue. Non-nuclear armed countries might get subsumed
Did you actually watch the raw footage? The Branson stream was absurdly self-congratulatory and circlejerky, he even had a clip about his upbringing.

Bezos, on the other hand, congratulated warehouse workers for the sacrifice they made in paying for his trip (implicitly instead of having better working conditions/higher wages).

It's pretty clear they both did it for entirely selfish reasons.
> If you model a back-of-the-envelope sustainable civilisation, you'll find we're nowhere near any sort of fundamental population limit.

How did you model it? I'm curious about the assumptions you made and how you came up with your conclusion.
interesting, will try next week :)
Digital Ocean: 0.01/GB

Netcup: basically free (40TB is baked into the VPS price)

I think it’s safe to say that all of the major providers egregiously overcharge for bandwidth.
this is true, they were in space for just as long.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china

Take a look at "China: Consumption-based accounting: how do emissions compare when we adjust for trade?"

> Annual consumption-based emissions are domestic emissions adjusted for trade. If a country imports goods the CO₂
emissions needed to produce such goods are added to its domestic emissions; if it exports goods then this is
subtracted.

2018 had 8.96 bn carbon tons in consumption out of a totla of 9.96 bn total tons (~90% consumption)
Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19 [pdf]
That’s not quite true. Your body can decide to do different things with the calories it gets, including storing them. There appear to be a number of things that influence if and how calories are stored, including the source/type of the calories in question. There’s also evidence that gut micro biome affects our ability to absorb calories and what happens to those calories once absorbed.

Furthermore, there’s a large question as to why people eat so many calories. After all, we don’t typically see people drink water until they die. What biological process makes food different, that people are willing to overeat?

Saying “people are fat because they eat too many calories” is like saying “that building collapsed because of gravity” - true, but not particularly useful when trying to get to the root of things.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lab-rats-are-...
Spiritually sometime in the 70s, I would say. Just one example:

auto lim = atoi(argv[1]);

Use of atoi. And what if there is nothing at argv[1]?
"Scientists are dumb, and their dumb scientific, totally rational consensus, backed up by tons of data, is dumb"
256 bits is only 32 bytes, and most file formats have standard stuff right at the start. Collisions would be very common.
I'm inclined to agree. While I agree that that sight of these two billionaires patting themselves on the back is rather distasteful (with their own self-made astronaut wings to boot), this feels like someone at the FAA just wanted to slight them on a technicality. They want to exclude these two while also not wanting to have hard definitions like "need to orbit the planet" to not discredit Shephard.
> I just, i cannot believe this is happening.

This isn't hard to understand. The Sierra Club is made up of legitimate environmentalists, but they also care about their organization and their livelihoods, and many of the major donors to the Sierra Club are property owners in San Francisco (or Marin, or LA).

Property values are obviously negatively impacted by development / densification, and so to avoid alienating donors, for whom opposing development is the single most important economic issue, the Sierra Club is dutifully NIMBYist.

I can assure you the Sierra Club would be fine with densification in Africa or whatever.
Bytedance spent a billion dollars acquiring Musically’s user base and burnt a couple more billion on marketing for TikTok to take off.

Social media startups are still DOA in my book.
The "possibility of recovery", as you put it, is a moving target depending on the specific situation and the technology involved. For some examples: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/revive-the-dead/

The point being that as technology continues to develop in this area, our understanding of when someone is "dead" may also continue to shift.

There's also the classic example of comatose people.
Alan Shepard's first flight wasn't orbital, yet everybody agrees it made him an astronaut.
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Just look at Covid response. The rich countries are thinking "Us first" and are just doing symbolic gestures to help the poorer ones.

Just like humans would try to save themselves first, even countries in unions like the EU shut down borders between each other when the virus first came there.

On the topic of waste, I had a realization that even as developers we're contributing to a lot of waste. We want conveniences, like inefficient frameworks so you can just write HTML and CSS instead of native UI, and we get to have these conveniences because processors are getting faster, but on the consumer side, it means top of the line hardware from 10 years ago might now be too slow to render a webpage, and is ending up as e-waste...
I believe it is his 10th _attempt_ at a game but 1st finished/published game. The author at least has no other games published on steam.
Try living in a rural area where some kid took all 5 AP classes offered, and all 8 Honors classes. They've been #1 throughout high school. Then somebody moves in from a school that offered more than 5 AP classes. Suddenly the kid who did everything possible didn't do enough.

Or the student who was tied for #1 when the school decided they wouldn't accept ties. So they did pole vault scoring and reached back to kindergarten to see who got the first B.

In academics as in sports and all other pursuits, sometimes you just have to be satisfied with excellence regardless of trophies.