skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human greed is the problem. How much of promising tech, starts out so innocent till big money becomes aware of it or those who want to make a quick dime, tarnish principled thinking and action.
Did archaeologists find the Trojan Horse?
Green house gases ->
global warming ->
more extreme heat ->
more air conditioning —>
more energy used ->
more green house gas emissions.
You would have to consider Paris to be one of OP's "best cities in the world", though.
Interesting, for me his long videos have ASMR effect. I also enjoy following his thought process, which is absent on TikTok.
Yup. I've seen pictures of what's left behind after logging in some of the fire-affected areas in Australia. Not only did they do exactly what you said they left mounds of flammable waste in stacks to "rot" (or burn, as it did).
Skimming through the linked action plan [1], it largely resembles Australia's bushfire management strategy.

Unfortunately, what we've seen the past few years here in Australia, is that even prescribed burns and defensible properties aren't enough to stop massively damaging bushfires.

[1] https://fmtf.fire.ca.gov/media/cjwfpckz/californiawildfirean...
Searching for the Next War: What Happens When Contractors Leave Afghanistan
Apart from all the other issues (societal, etc) with that the climate of Yakutsk[1] can give an indication of how hospitable that region is. Spoiler: It’s temperature span is over 100C (nearly 200F). Brutal winters, brutal summers.

Not saying you’re wrong, though..

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk
Generally, in my experience, an individual who says, "DevOps is a culture, not a title", does not know what DevOps is. It can be both, and exclusive, at the same time.

https://link.medium.com/tC5p4nfYCib
One of the reasons why people go with a bad name, is because it at least stands out - that purple cow. This narrative is analyzed and dismissed in her book. People don't cringe on the name google anymore because they got used too it, but in the beginning for sure it raised some eyebrows right?

ps. google is not that bad actually as I look at it now, but what counts is the first impression. Of course if you have a breakthrough technology you can give it the name "underware" and it will adopt.
Any advice on how I could present this data without it becoming a dogwhistle? The edit window is over, but I'll gladly make those changes next time.
0.9^4 = 0.66

34% better, in aviation, may easily make the difference between practical and not. In the case of Ingenuity, it appears to have made the difference between a need for custom SotA vs. COTS kit.

What computing could usefully be offloaded to the rover is very limited. Compressing video, maybe, and that just for power budget. I think Ingenuity has >10x MIPS than Perseverence.
I work for fiat and this happens already ! You dont need crypto to have a working economy based on consumption and trade.

In fact, crypto is perceived it seems to be an absolute value stashing system where you collect your reward and store it for free until you want others to produce effort for you.

But I refuse to produce effort for a guy who spent his energy 50 years ago and just throw at me a few gold coins to do his bidding. He wants me to work, he needs to pretend to be doing something too.
You're correct in the financial sense, but not socially.

I can't entirely opt out of crypto because people around me are making or losing (mostly losing) money it.

Mining also pollutes air that I breathe and accelerates climate change.

Regardless of whether you think these external effects are worthwhile, they exist and are unavoidable.
I’m not sure if it’s an issue specifically around Shanghai, but electric power has been unsteady in China at large. An energy crisis during a heatwave could be indeed deadly, especially with the ambient temperatures of city life. I’m bullish on Chinese acumen for major infrastructure projects and I’m sure they will adapt, but that seems like a crazy costly set of projects. At this point ultrawhite paints look promising.
Can't find it now, but this is probably based on a study/studies that I've seen that showed that lack of vitamin D is correlated with bad things, but supplementation doesn't fix the bad things nearly as much as you would expect. So, the idea some people have is that vitamin D is merely a correlate of something else that sun exposure does. I call it "sun magic" :)

...sometimes I secretly wonder if sunscreen (over-)use in America would one day be found to be the cause of rise in depression and other things like that over the last few decades, kinda like lead pipes of old. I don't think it's likely but it would be kinda funny.
10 years ago I didn't think bitcoin would be here today. Yet, here we are.

If we waited for everything to be mature, then we wouldn't have used web browsers in the early days. I remember when people were afraid to put a credit card into a website.

Bitcoin and ETH won't get replaced for the same reasons we ended up with Hacker News, Facebook, Google, Apple, Ebay, Amazon... network effects are amazingly strong.

Bitcoiners use the phrase: "The next bitcoin is bitcoin."
"The Triguboffs were refused visas for Canada and the United States, which had strict quotas on Jewish immigrants. But they had obtained landing permits for Australia back in 1946 when the country had an open-door policy to Jewish refugees.

By early 1948, however, Australian policy had changed and a family of rich Jews ... were not the migrants Australia was looking for.

In postwar Australia, Jews were tarred with a mix of old-fashioned anti-Semitism and suspicion they were either communists or Zionists attacking British forces in Palestine. Things came to a crisis in January 1947 when an old ferry called the Hwa Lien docked in Sydney carrying 300 stateless Jews from Shanghai. Sydney's The Sun newspaper claimed that criminal syndicates run by communists had backed the Jewish immigrants and hinted that Jewish refugees had collaborated with the Japanese. The Sun editorialised: "The danger of infiltration by professional trouble makers, whether Jewish terrorists or Communist agents, will arouse the natural suspicion of all who wish to see Australia kept Australian."

Arthur Calwell, Australia's immigration minister following World War II, was a champion of mass migration (although famously within the confines of the White Australia Policy) and had initially been sympathetic to the plight of Jewish refugees. He let the Hwa Lien unload its passengers. But in the heated aftermath he quietly imposed a secret quota on the number of Jews who would be given entry on any future migrant ships."

https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/harry-triguboffs-dark-se...
There're compact cameras with decent quality and not overly big or heavy. I use Canon G9X Mark II. It produces photos of much better quality than the best smartphone camera I had (without software tricks that could be applied to Canon photos afterwards anyway), and it is small enough to carry it with me all the time in the pocket.
There are good points here, but I think analogizing the situation into a class struggle within a society is both confusing and specious. Ethereum is not a civilization: it's a piece of FinTech.
Usually a bunch of wildly different teams are called "DevOps"

But I found a nice resource to reference where we have 7 "DevOps" team anti-patterns and 9 valid team patterns that people call "DevOps":

https://web.devopstopologies.com/
The Nocturnal Eye
Sure, but this is based on something kind of like “whether someone would be likely to ask for clarification here”, not based on whether GPT3 needs clarification.

Though, I’m confident that it should be possible to make something which, when unsure, asks for clarification.

In fact, I believe something at least rather similar is already done in, uh, I think it is called “delegative reinforcement learning”, where an agent takes actions, but when it is highly uncertain, it can instead choose to have an expert (who is assumed to be competent at the task, or at least has a tolerably low risk of very bad outcomes) to step in instead.

(Or, wait, maybe delegative reinforcement learning is still just used theoretically? Not sure.)
Love signal. However - couldn't make it work in the workplace's network, so unfortunately can't give up whatsapp completely. Just a matter of time hopefully.
Hacker News is notoriously reliable, I would suspect they're only down a handful of minutes per month...
it's funny that this appeared today. i've recently been musing about whether or not a technical and political migration of the bitcoin ecosystem from proof of work to a consensus model that simulates the proof of work economy in a clean way, complete with a socio-economic solution that does not leave miners and their associated/secondary economy out in the cold, could be an idealized model for migrating the global economy off of fossil fuels.
This thread feels very astroturfed by people who use terms like "neurodivergent".
Also, people are becoming richer and can finally afford air conditioning.
They were bred for pulling a load for many hours, day after day for hundreds of kilometres. So, they need a lot of exercise or they get bored and will find their own way of getting stimulation (i.e indulging in what we could consider mischief). They are also excellent diggers and can jump over surprisingly high fences/walls. So, they are excellent escape artists too.

If you are experienced with dogs, it shouldn't be an issue and it will be a lot of fun as they are clever and to a degree independent too. On the other hand, if you aren't really clear about what you are getting into, it might spell trouble.

In any case, I wish you luck and hope that you find a suitable canine companion.
Yeah, legitimate interest toggles have become a nightmare recently. Dozens of teeny tiny switches to click, it's infuriating.

Let alone the fact that "selling my data to make money" hardly qualifies ad "legitimate" in my book. Come on, that's exactly why GDPR exists in the first place!

I'm hitting the back button more and more these days.
LOL! Pretty sure those community calls did not include ALL miners. With regards to the rest, it is all political theater.

The mechanics I'm referring to are in the 50+ page document that I read, that I'm sure most people (miners) are not even aware of: https://hackmd.io/@timbeiko/1559-updates/https%3A%2F%2Fhackm...

As for profitability changes, that's almost impossible to measure right now. There is too many variables. One is that there isn't any wallet support for 1559 yet (MM came out today and is apparently, um, lacking). People are still over paying for transactions. Difficulty + price changes + pool luck + changes in hardware stability also make things nearly impossible to track accurately. I have a margin of error, but it doesn't look too bad right now actually.
I agree with the parent. Killing the AC for weeks on end really helped me acclimate to the local temperature.

I'm not saying it resulted in quality sleep (as a Canadian - I set the thermostat to 13 degrees in the winter when sleeping, and my ideal temperature in the summer is about 18 degrees) - but you get used to the outdoor climate reasonably quickly (in my case, about 4-6 months).
> everyone living under such a heat wave will likely die.

I mean ground and buildings have thermal inertia, if the heatwave is relatively short you can survive in basements or underground parking. Also water in the pipes will still be colder than the air most likely.
Yes.

Or, at the very least, support people who have a phone that is not Android or iOS by allowing them to register from a desktop application. Does not seem misaligned with Signal's aim for privacy.
Why is it wrong? Ethereum has had the plan to move to proof of stake for years, and the purpose of the network is to serve its users not to enrich miners. We pay miners for security. That's great, but if we find a cheaper way to do security, there's nothing wrong with choosing a different security solution.
I love the quote:

“My chief purpose, is not to advise atheists on what I think they should believe; I want merely to make sure that they have a clear concept of what it is they claim not to believe.”
But why did you call them for plagiarizing a private note, a confidential review? I mean... In the end they just used your wording to improve their paper, for a concept they already mastered. And you said the paper was good, otherwise. IMHO they acted ethically.
Sometimes I think of the human memory as behaving like cascading bloom filters, one bloom filter narrowing down the retrieval of a memory to a smaller set of bloom filters. Yet at the very bottom it is still just a bloom filter, and it still might be a false positive (false memory).
Shodan Search Engine for the Internet of Everything
That is very far from the sort of risk they mean. Incompetence is never the place to squander your risk budget. There is plenty of competence on the ground, and it is not slower.
My roots are similar; I have always been a product person, naively thinking that if I build it, they will come.

But if your project looks like a viable business could be created then you need to go all in. This is what developers dream of. Once you break away from the cubicle, you will never want to go back. After my 1st taste of it, I could never go back. I have charted my own course for 35 years; countless failures, 1 medium success, and 1 major success.

Marketing is the key so your 1st hire should be a marketer who understands both tech and your industry. Tall order, but the 1st hire is critical to get right. The 1st hire can break startups if done poorly.

Make sure you also spend time (or dollars) to ensure you have the necessary contracts/user-agreements/etc in-place. Contracts are key. Don't know how many times a good contract has saved my ass.

Because you are a developer, you will try to retreat into that world when things get crazy. Don't do it. Marketing and customer relations are the focus now. But of course the tech stuff is also important but there are plenty of eager, smart developers who can probably do your job and do it better (no offence).

Work on growth, which can only be done via marketing. Growth will attract the money, either venture or buyouts. When my major success started to takeoff I had 4 buyout offers within the year.

Good luck.
I came across a founders group few months ago on Discord which has several text and voice channels that are of interest to startup founders. You could try that. There are more than 820 founders there. The link to the Discord server is: https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC It is a low noise server, which is a plus I think.
(b) is why Bitcoin core development has stagnated[*]. And that's fine if people just want it to be like gold, however Ethereum doesn't aspire to not evolve.

(c) I actually disagree with. Decentralized governance is a very interesting subject, and some cryptos like Tezos are governed quite decentralized in many ways.

Right now I'm really confident in how Ethereum is governed, with the "old-fashioned" open-source development model, where everyone can participate, but core devs have the final say. However, decentralized governance may be something they implement in the future.

[*] Slightly harsh, see comments below.
In the locations this happens, does everyone : have access to a bath (one per family member), running water (in a city were everyone is running a bath at the same time), a job where the aren't forced to go out and work every day to survive?
Is there a term for that? Like vaporware but not the same, something that could possibly exist some day due to some lab work but is being hyped by the media as some breakthrough.
There is no such thing as "fossil fuels"...oil is absolutely not created by dinosaur fossils. There are no fossils deep in the earth, where oil is CONTINUALLY replenished...as has already happened in Pennsylvania, other dry oil wells will eventually replenish.
With that logic, why have any worker protections at all?

The market will always sort it out!
Apple operating systems are not intended to be replaced, and design choices make it more difficult to do so than Windows or Linux.
> The big caveat with Figma is that you don’t full own your data with it. It technically lets you export, but the file format is undocumented and subject to change at any time.

True for project files, but you can export images and SVGs.

> it’s very much geared specifically toward UI design and prototyping, whereas something like Affinity Designer or Sketch also work well for generic screen-targeted vector work.

That's where the plugin ecosystem comes in. It's quite usable for simple/modern vector work that's more component oriented graphic design than hands on illustration.
IDK but on ArchLinux, with the "nvidia" package installed, I can have multiple ttys, some with X sessions, some with Wayland sessions, some as consoles
Indeed a very interesting read, to be honest I haven't read it all of it but I might when I find some free time. The biggest issue as the author points out is the browser. But you can still have the best of both worlds: run i3 + most of the console tools mentioned by the author. i3 is a fantastic manager and when I see other desktop environments I find them so constrained... Most of the people I'm currently working with are using Windows for web development and I find that so weird, I can't imagine myself going back to pointing and clicking here and there with one hand on the mouse most of the time.
Sure, we ran it over a couple of months. Generally, people did it in their spare time outside of office hours, or in 10% time. As long as it didn't impact work delivery. Everyone installed it locally using docker, and then we had a centralised server that ran the scoreboard for everyone to share and add their capture the flag tokens. We did a couple of presentations about interesting solutions as well to drum up support.

We did a write-up on our blog if you're interested: https://purplelabs.eagleeye.com/blog/the-hackathon-capture-t...
The post I was responding to suggested that it wasn't necessary to arrange for at least one grocery store in the walkable neighborhood, and that leasing to retail establishments could be entirely up to the building owners. I was observing that if that results in no grocery stores located in the neighborhood, that would make the neighborhood much less walkable.

(Even if there's one in walking distance, hopefully it has an excess of carts and doesn't mind them going home with people...)

And unless you want to go out for groceries far too often, you're going to end up with a quantity of groceries that's incompatible with taking a bus. You'd need a car, or a bike trailer for a very dedicated cyclist, or a delivery service and the ability for them to deliver.
Combatting online racist abuse: an update following the Euros
I'm dying. Table 1 is incredible. It's machine learning jargon from a parallel universe. "counterfeit consciousness" "fog computing" "information stockroom" "profound neural organization" "credulous Bayes" "mean supreme blunder"
It’s not really about me comparing. On Twitter (and reddit) the world is crumbling, what the society has become, WW3 must be imminent, anything is futile, very organization is evil, everyone is angry, and there are some people that are stupid beyond comprehension that that makes me think I shouldn’t even bother. The same old nonsense would keep be parroted repeatedly.

Then I look at Instagram, everyone is having a perfect life. By perfect I don’t mean a life I would like to have, I too go to vacations and restaurants, what I mean is a curated perfection of what life is “supposed to be”. It’s just dull. When combined with TikTok It makes me feel like the society dried up. It’s like When people don’t do evil things and not yelling they do extremely mundane stuff out of the mill.
Heating causes more green house gas emissions than air conditioning.
What Synology products do you use? I was not aware they offered routers.
This is pretty cool.

Does anyone know any stand alone feature rich audio visualizer for Windows? I am surprised that Spotify never included any visualizer for the desktop client. I miss the old Winamp days.
So will we return to the multi-part, operatic mix-n-match pieces like in 60s and 70s pop rock? Songs like Day in the Life, Mr. Blue Sky, Good Vibrations, or pretty much every hit by Paul McCartney? I mean "Band on the Run" is like 4 or 5 songs in 3 minutes.
> some cryptos like Tezos are governed quite decentralized in many ways.

Whenever crypto enthusiasts tell me about DeFi governance, I get excited about the possibilities.

Then, I actually take a look at some of the group decisions, and literally all of them are crypto/coin-related, and don’t deal with any /real/ or human problems…
Genuine question: does old-style insulation not help? From when I was a kid I remember that a log house built using 60ies village technology (realistically probably more like 19th century technology), insulated with something stuffed in the triangles between logs and wallpaper and logs and planks (and partially eaten by mice ;)), stayed pleasantly cool on 90-degree days. And the dugout under it that we used to store potatoes and stuff like that was actually cold.

In a recent Seattle heatwave, when it was 107 outside my much poorer insulated semi-basement with direct sun shining into its large-ish windows, stayed under 85 without AC.

Couldn't people just build better / underground housing using relatively primitive technology?
Unfortunately American homes are designed with heating and cooling as an afterthought. Most of them are just designed with ducting and an HVAC to fill their needs, to keep design and building costs low. This naturally leads to terrible ventilation, a key ingredient of effective passive or low-energy heating and cooling. Without any active HVAC system, many of them hold in heat and don't cool down, or become much too cold because of how badly insulated they are. Modern code mandates better insulation and useful advancements like H/ERVs and heat pumps but American local governments do almost nothing to push their homeowners to update their homes to new code.

Tools like ceiling fans and attic fans are unheard of these days. Awnings to bring in winter sun and keep out the summer sun aren't considered. And despite a lot of the US being dry enough for evaporative cooling, they still mostly use AC. Most people have never heard of an H/ERV.

Hopefully as awareness of climate change increases, this changes. As for me, I live in a dry climate and through the summer our evaporative cooler is a mainstay. With the help of some ceiling fans, and well placed windows, we can go most of the year not using our AC at all, and having the evaporative cooler blowing cool, moist air on us feels fantastic on a dry summer day.
I only quoted the Wikipedia page saying so. The component units are SI, but the 10^-26 factor looks arbitrary.
But I didn’t say that they are all as a group incapable of travel. Of course some of them are, some enlightened souls in the maddening rat race decide they’ll exit on their own terms and travel. But most can’t. Maybe they don’t have the will and are thus deserving of their fates, but going back to the original question that began this topic, the billions of folks who can’t travel (according to you because they are too weak to decide to) have the ability to get a better idea of what else is happening with screens so their lives can be slightly more tolerable.
Easy come, easy go...