skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like Freeman Dyson's take on carbon dioxide:

"The most important fact in the history of the 21st century is that China and India, with about half of the world's population, are getting rich. To get rich in the next 50 years, they must burn prodigious quantities of coal and add big quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. China and India have a simple choice to make. Either they get rich and cause a major increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Or they stay poor. I hope they choose to get rich. The choice is theirs and not ours. Whatever we may choose to do will not make much difference. The discussions in Paris will not make much difference. The good news is that the main effect of carbon dioxide on the ecology of the planet has nothing to do with climate. The main effect of carbon dioxide is to make the planet greener, feeding the growth of green plants of all kinds, increasing the fertility of farms and fields and forests."

Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/12/03/freeman-dyson...

Also, I really recommend this Web of Stories interview (actually all of them in the playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848X64FXGp0&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
Will it ever decrease by 3%?

The amount of increase is irrelevant if it continues in the same direction.
I suspect it that this is like the usual situation at MS, most employees think this strategy is dumb, but there's that one guy who's still living like it's 1991 and he's got good connections with management, so they let them run unchecked. That's the person who's coming up with such idiotic strategies.
> And scrolling social media on their tablets does NOT build any worthwhile technological competency. Yes, in the era of desktop computers having early access to technology was very beneficial but smart phones and tablets are way too dumped down to offer much benefits.

This is a great point. In the ~2000-2007 era computers were easy and widepsread enough to be open to a large demographic, but not dumbed down enough that they were no longer general-purpose computing platforms, transformed into corporate walled gardens like today's smartphones.
As others said, TY doesn’t seem aligned with the model of technical content. Obviously there’s exceptions like conferences and a handful of individuals.

Paid is really the way to go. O’Reilly has a lot of great technical content in video form. They also have live learning sessions.

https://www.oreilly.com
Your comments may be true some places but are broadly generalized. The states I’ve lived in have had great public school systems. They pay their teachers well and have great pensions and benefits. Where I grew up the administration did a terrible job managing funds but our teachers were great and eventually the state stepped in and got things running better. Problem is there are just some places that don’t give a shit about public education and places that have a big push to privatize it, and that sure as shit doesn’t always mean better. Just means our tax dollars are going to some company instead of straight to schools.
I expect that Microsoft won't like this and they will patch it.

Even if Firefox does this with good intentions, malware creators can follow Firefox's example to do the same. Since Firefox is open source they only need to copy the code from the repo.
I can imagine Charlie Brooke frantically taking notes for the next season of Black Mirror.
Allowing nullification by demonstrated lack of effort to utilize the patent, relative to the means of the patent holder is my personal belief.
I'm not sure if the Ruby market has ever been better from the pov of devs looking to get hired. There's now a ton of companies with established revenue streams based on Ruby/Rails apps looking to hire, while simultaneously it seems like all the new grads have bought the "Rails is dying!" hype and are looking to invest their time in other techs. Also it seems like all the bootcamp types have moved on from Rails to JS which has only further dried up the incoming developer pipeline.

It doesn't help that despite the impressiveness of the 15 minute blog demo, Rails has always been somewhat difficult to get up and running, particularly on Windows, and it seems like that has only grown worse over time.
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Definitely, and that's not surprising - many set phrases have their etymology in the Bible, due to its historical role not only in religion but also in how language and literacy was being taught over the last two millenia; and the phenomenon of set phrases being shared among many European languages (especially those which are not directly related, e.g. romance and germanic and slavic) is very common specifically for biblical expressions.
Hm this article is very light on details. I remember hearing about the RepRap ~15 years ago:

https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

It's an open source project to make a 3D printer that prints itself. I thought it was a very cool idea, but I haven't heard anything about it in 10 years.

The home page has a video from 2010, which makes me think the project is dormant. I'd be interested in updates from people who have followed more closely.

It looks like the article didn't mention any recent progress on ANY self-replicating machine project? It does feel like people get overexcited about downsides before anything actually works.
Older versions were worse but the current versions still have a lot of cultural baggage around the idea that ignoring errors is great and that's it's helpful to automagically convert data types. Changing that would break a huge amount of code and habit so the community is kind of slow-walking in that direction by deprecating features, adding opt-in config, and using linters to identify likely sources of problems.

I don't disagree that it was useful — especially for having such a simple “upload a file, hit refresh” workflow — but popularity can work against you when it encourages optimizing for easy starts over long-term maintainability and a huge number of people learned dubious habits and aren't quick to switch.
I guess I don't fit in, here.

I write native Apple software (Swift/UI/App/WatchKit), and my server stuff is PHP (and works great).

I like to spend as little time as possible on the backend. I totally admit its not my strong suit, so having a robust, highly-supported, standardized, performative, language like PHP, with a gazillion assistive resources and examples around, is nice. I've been writing stuff in PHP for over 20 years, so I sort of know my way around it.

I'll be expanding my Apple native stuff into the new "pseudo-reactive" realm of SwiftUI, but I don't really plan to keep growing my backend chops. PHP is doing fine for me. If I need anything else, I'll hire the talent.
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It's designed first and foremost to be a language to help compilers turn large matrix math operations into automagically vectorized and parallelized operations. If Rust is the language for close-to-metal memory-safe systems programming instead of C, modern (F90 and later) Fortran is the language for close-to-metal high-performance computational programming instead of C.

Thinking about it, I'd say the comparison to Rust for mastery of its particular domain is actually quite apt.
The issue is WTC-7, which went into free fall collapse despite not having been hit by an aircraft or burning jet fuel.
I think that if the actual debate was done in public, it might work. Two scientists actually arguing with each other in public hasn't been a thing, and maybe it should?

The instinct has always been to hush up any disagreements and present a united front on all matters that the public are interested in, even if this means that the "front" then has to change later as better evidence emerges. But that instinct doesn't actually help - the change in position is seen as "not knowing what they're doing", or "can't get it right". The question is asked "why should we believe you now when this is different from what you said last time?".

Actually having the fight in public would at least show that science is an ongoing discussion and exploration, rather than a fixed set of answers. Of course people will pick sides and favour one argument over another, but they do that anyway. I think the age of allowing scientists to quietly conduct research in academic journals or conferences is over.
When the city of Austin, TX added some minor regulations around ride share companies, Uber and Lyft left the city. About 24 hours later, ten new services started up. Shortly after that, Uber and Lyft came back.
There are ways to keep an AI in sealed hardware and making sure it can't affect the world, for instance by using an objective function that only deals with mathematics, and doesn't deal with the real world at all.

E.g. the AI is given a fixed amount of hardware and told to produce an algorithm that solves some NP-complete problem (say integer programming) in expected time as close to polytime as possible, as well as a mathematical proof that the algorithm satisfies the claimed close-to-polytime complexity bound. Then humanity can just solve the NP-complete problems separately once they have the algorithm.

This objective function doesn't care about the physical world -- it doesn't even know that a physical world exist -- and so it's about as likely to directly affect the physical world as MCTS or AlphaGo.

The "AI is going to run out of control" is a very compelling narrative (as everybody who has read the Sorcerer's Apprentice understands). But that doesn't make it true. Beware the availability heuristic.

(Incidentally, I think AI destroying mankind because it's too smart is an unlikely outcome. It's much easier for the AI to subvert the human-designed sensors linked to its objective function; and if the AI is sufficiently smart and the sensors aren't perfect, then it can always do so.)
IANAL, but I understood Meeting Of Minds to refer to the need for both parties to a contract to actually agree that a contract exists.

From the wiki page you reference for example:

> The reasoning is that a party should not be held to a contract that they were not even aware existed.

And later on, something directly relevant to this discussion perhaps:

> Mutual assent is vitiated by actions such as fraud, undue influence, duress, mutual mistake, or misrepresentation.

I think that this discussion is more closely related to the legal concept of a Mistake [0], which absolutely can be something that a court might address. Though even that doesn't seem like quite a perfect fit here.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_(contract_law)#Mutua...
Yes! Too bad people rarely bother, nobody seems to have the time.
Grothendieck worked in algebra, this is analysis.
When facing new technology, fiction is our only guide. We would be fools to disregard the thinking of great minds about the potential, even likely, consequences of new capabilities. Such is the power of modern technology that we must set guidelines on things that do not yet exist, to prevent them from existing. We don't forbid research into genetic weapons because we have experience with them. We ban such things because, in our imagination, we see their potential.
Probably true. Another thing I’ve missed are all those admin and status pages for iot and networking equipment
If the change is extremely trivial then so is reviewing that change. Not much time is lost
Most people survived them though so there wasn't a huge reason to do anything particularly drastic, using planes as a suicide missile was basically entirely new. Even on the day of there was speculation about why the planes 'messed up' and flew into the WTC buildings which shows just how unusual it was. Most hijackings were essentially mass kidnappings for ransom to get money, release prisoners or get promises of policy changes and ended with a negotiation or storming the plane.
You can, but "fractal of bad design" isn't really playing that game. The naming schemes for example. It's not that PHP made a choice and any choice can be criticised, the criticism is that PHP declines to make any choice whatsoever on naming. str-foo strFoo str_foo and FooStr are all defensible choices but having all four in your language is not.
> Which requirement?

The requirement to provide vaccination status to go to school or be employed.

I think you have some basic confusion here. HIPPA covers your Name, but that’s not in any way inherently protected information. It becomes so in a medical setting because having your name associated with for example an AIDS clinic lets people infer things. As such it’s the association that’s protected not your name.
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It’s all good until it isn’t.
Symfony is very healthy plus there are a load of packages around Laravel and Symfony that can be used independently
Human Driving will be outlawed by 2050
I know right. Its not like in real life a virus nerds experiment would go horribly wrong escape the labe and kill millions worldwide just like in a movie.
> For anything? Would you ban all advertising?

Yes, 100%. Advertising is nothing but an unproductive arms race for who can deliver the biggest assault on your mind and your attention. Your life would be better, and all your products cheaper too.
I think their absolutist statement was more to do with responding in kind to the comment they were replying to, which said “The overall number of activists or the growth thereof has absolutely nothing to do with that.”
I think the OP is overdramatising a little. Torrenting content that you're allowed to redistribute is of course perfectly fine – what is happening is the usual procedure of rightsholders attempting to log IPs that are illegally uploading copyrighted content, obtaining the contact data of the person behind the IP from the ISP and then sending out a cease-and-desist order.
There's in excess of 100,000 public off-street parking spaces in Manhattan below 60th St (as of 2009 - Manhattan Core Parking Study). Plus street parking.
Your edit is indeed enlightening and I want to focus on one part of the article from March 2020 written by the author of the OP

> Some worry that the 68 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. as of March 16 will increase exponentially to 680, 6,800, 68,000, 680,000 … along with similar catastrophic patterns around the globe. Is that a realistic scenario, or bad science fiction? How can we tell at what point such a curve might stop?

So much for "science fiction". In my view, Ioannidis is a person who can't function without data. However, there are many situations in life where one doesn't have data to make a decision. In many cases, there are more than one options for decision making to achieve similar goals. Ioannidis doesn't get it.
The parents put the kids on the internet the minute they are born (or before). When the kids later use the internet themselves for many there are already dozens or hundreds of stories and pictures floating on the internet. I personally think this is irresponsible.
Well it's not technically a restriction, though it'd be a lot easier if you wrote contracts in a language that left no room for doubt certainly.

In fact you can't really get away from the need for a clear formal description of what the contract does anyway. If you write it in a more flexible language but only accept it with a proof of some formal properties then those formal properties are in effect the contract.

At which point we reach something I still don't quite understand. If people accept code satisfying those formal properties as 'proven correct', then why aren't the contracts written as those formal properties in the first place?
Don't need math when you can't pay for fuel.

The people not making enough quit, as I said.

There seems to be this weird thinking that gig workers are all exploited.

Meanwhile many Deliveroo workers make 2000+/mo in the UK and immigrants in factories get wages withheld for PPE and "damage to equipment" in Germany. Not even speaking about the farm workers.

I don't even care about all this, I was wondering if Uber can make it work legally.
I thought this was going to be the cost of producing/spending USD, not a historical tour of the petrodollar's economics. It was the latter
This petrodollar thesis is a stretch. If anything bitcoin increases demand for oil especially due to illicit mining using stolen oil.

We park military in the Middle East mostly due to religious extremist and terrorism risk. Bitcoin does not change that. But even if we park military in the US mostly due to oil, bitcoin doesn't change that either! Bitcoin increases our need for energy.
Since your predicating information is false then whatever conspiracy theory you’re implying probably isn’t true.

Halocarbons are heavier than air, they cannot travel up to stratosphere which is 10 to 50 km up in the air. Which is predicating information about why CFCs were bad.

If a few companies made money from it that’s fine. It would be great if we could tie a profit motive to fixing climate change.

Exactly. Both ozone depletion theory and current climate change theory are making rich countries richer and poor countries poorer. Which brings the question: maybe it's actually the point of these theories?
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They can still offer flexibility. No one was really, really autonomous, autonomous, though.

Are the drivers you talk to actually friends of yours? Are they driving to make a living? Are they stuck driving due to poor child care choices? Are they on the clock and hesitant to dismiss the company they work for?

Have you asked them if they'd rather the company process the taxes? Do they have difficulty doing so? Have any of them found themselves in a hole because of the 'contractor' system?

I'll add that this isn't like a normal contract job: Uber needs drivers. Without drivers, they wouldn't have a business. And they need them constantly - not in the way that a firm needs temporary help to upgrade things.
> What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?

People have already listed a lot of true answers and a number of speculative answers (also likely mostly true, imo), but I'll toss in that we use two-stroke engine leaf blowers and lawn mowers everywhere—mostly right outside our homes—and it's absolutely bonkers. Massive amounts of NOx, PM2.5, etc.

We spent all this time and money cleaning up our cars (which are still pretty bad), but then run these tiny things that are far worse, right where we live.

I'm willing to bet the noise pollution of them + traffic has a significant negative effect on our health too, but in terms of localized air pollution, the emissions from leaf blowers running a few times week across the street from me easily trump that from all the cars driving past my house.

Hoping electric leaf blowers get good and gain popularity.
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While Microsoft offers a method to switch default browsers on Windows 10, it’s more cumbersome than the simple one-click process to switch to Edge.

Where the hell are the regulators who handed out billion dollar fines just for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?
ELVM (https://github.com/shinh/elvm) is a C compiler with a Turing machine backend.
> It wouldn't be the first time.

Examples?

I contest this notion because the development of doctrine is toward greater clarity. It may be the case that there is a more complex meaning to be considered that resists easy understanding. A movement toward clarity may lead to more and not less to consider. Consider John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." What is "Word"? You really only begin to appreciate the meaning in the original Greek, "Logos". And that by itself can be contemplated inexhaustibly.

So this suspicion that it was an exercise in obscurantism is unsubstantiated.[0]

If this is a neologism, then it suggests that no existing Greek word was able to fully articulate the intended meaning. It may have tried to capture a meaning available in Aramaic [1]

[0] Not a fan of Karl Rahner, but I think his characterization of "mystery" as "inexhaustible intelligibility" is much more accurate that the modern implication that mystery is impenetrable obscurity. On the contrary, it is penetrable, but inexhaustible. And that would agree, I think, with the notion of the Beautific Vision.

[1] https://catholicexchange.com/our-supersubstantial-bread
What's interesting is that PHP and Ruby are not just popular, they're increasing.

I am curious about that Scala number though. 2% of 10 million is quite a lot: 200,000 Scala websites? I would have never guessed!
I doubt MS wants that kind of segmentation if they themselves rely strongly on the Chromium project.
Formal methods seems to be perfect for verifying protocols, specially finding design flaws, here an example of an ongoing effort to verify TLS

https://www.mitls.org/

https://github.com/project-everest/mitls-fstar
These two pages provides some more information on the subject.

https://w3techs.com/technologies

https://w3techs.com/disclaimer
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I despair of these dark, addictive patterns . I vet games for my children and I long for the days of simply buying a game and that was it. Now there's a confusing barrage of points, coins, gems, crates, etc... that not only make the game "pay to win" but also create addiction and gambling patterns in young brians. My children think I'm mean for not letting them play the games their friends are playing but I think they're better off for it.
That's not related to app store though, just the CA protection racket.
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> sure that's a bit outdated in the time of online maps

As a passenger I feel it's a significant qualitative difference if I have a driver who knows his way around town compared to one who obviously and fixatedly relies on the GPS.
What's so bad about using reflection and attributes in this context?
Now I'd like to see one with all x86_64, including all the extensions over the years. Gotta love `AESENC`.

Maybe I'd need the entire coffee carafe to fit this though...
Yes - I wrote a messageboard in PHP 18 years ago whilst clutching an OReilly book in my hand.
It's definitely not well coded, but it works.
It's moved servers many times, changed OS, Webserver - and it's now running on my NAS.
I've maybe twice had to spend an afternoon tightening it up due to some PHP change - but broadly been maintenance/issue free.

For at least the last decade I've been pondering re-implementing it in some fancy new language - but as it just keeps working, it slides down the priority list.