skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to follow up: Today your IOPS will automatically scale with storage, and you can set storage to autoscale with your usage. Under the covers, we continually look for ways we can optimize that for our users, without them having to think of this.

So for most users, they can "set it and forget it" (easy, scalable): Launch a default cloud database, which starts out small, autoscaling on by default. As they start inserting data, the system automatically detects when it starts to approach current capacity and automatically increases (without any downtime) to more capacity & IOPS.

But for the power user, they have greater control. What that means is that you can manually resize, and as mentioned above, we'll likely also give you independent control over IOPS (independent of capacity). That's the flexibility and control we think developers also want...or at least know is there is they need it.

(Timescaler & post author)
If they're under water they'll probably decay to methane instead of CO2 which is even worse. If you can put them somewhere dry, though, that might work. Bury them in the dessert maybe?
I used PopOS on my Lemur Pro work machine for about a year until the motherboard died. System76 quickly replaced the board with the newer model that has a Thunderbolt port (blessed).

Overall, PopOS feels a lot like Ubuntu with Pop Shell and System76 drivers. Once I got the machine back from them, I installed Fedora w/ Pop Shell and those drivers -- the system feels snappier with less jank.

However, I am biased as I've ran Fedora for a while now on my Thinkpad.
> It is still a walled garden that limits hardware access, preventing the user from getting full performance out of the device.

That's not been my experience, but I guess in such circumstances your mileage may vary.
It's not about what's easier, and it's not an either/or proposal. Atmospheric CO2 is currently around 419ppm. Even if we cut our CO2 emissions to zero tomorrow, we still have 419ppm. The temperature might stop going up, but it's not going to go back down unless we get greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere.

Most importantly, it's not certain that runaway warming can't happen even at our current temperature. Methane is being released from permafrost at our current levels of warming and is 20x as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2. Also, our natural carbon sinks (the ocean, macroalgae, forests, soil) are in decline whether or not we stop emitting CO2 - so CO2 may keep going up anyway as we lose biomass.

And let's be honest with ourselves here, we're not cutting emissions to 0 tomorrow. Or next year. Or by 2030. Or by 2050 most likely.

We have to reduce emissions, at a level that seems inconceivable. We ALSO have to pull CO2 back out, again, at a level that seems inconceivable. The ability to scale up CO2 removal to a planetary scale requires that we accelerate development right now.
Right. In the case of phone-operated sex trafficking I don't think amplification is even an option. It's not like phone companies are deciding what phone calls you should be receiving today and are lining them up for you to take part in. So they don't involve algorithmic manipulation (or optimization for engagement), unlike Facebook or other social media.

In my parent post I was giving an example of an absurd imaginary situation with phone companies attempting to amplify sex trafficking by directly deciding who will participate in the conversation for the purpose of increasing engagement.
I’m curious if this is actually a low ball offer, or something like not-a-FAANG-or-SV-Startup-offer. Outside of The Valley salaries can be much lower, and outside the industry they are even lower. So, assuming US, are we talking 100k-ish or 50k-ish

That said, definitely push back. I wouldn’t be surprised if you can get 20% more on a first offer, or you might negotiate other parts of compensation.

How interested are you in the role? If it’s something that makes your days better then a pay cut might be worth it.
This is why most if not all trades have apprenticeships. You have to know what to do and all see what to do...otherwise you could screw something up because you misinterpreted the instructions or design.
The Earth's historical, and natural state of CO2 is much higher than today, and we are still recovering from a little ice age.

The greenest the earth has ever been was when CO2 levels were high, and the earth was incredibly fertile.

https://holoceneclimate.com/temperature-versus-co2-the-big-p...
ha, I did exactly the same thing!
Remedial question about zero-knowledge proof. Isn't "proof" a misnomer since the concept is about just making it incredibly likely to be true?
0. Everything inbound is invested or immediately paid toward debt servicing.
In my opinion, most office jobs are redundant. When the world went WFH, these jobs were exposed.
> Knowing just slightly more about the value of your car than a potential buyer can make it impossible to sell it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

From that Wikipedia page:

> This means that the owner of a carefully maintained, never-abused, good used car will be unable to get a high enough price to make selling that car worthwhile.

This is bullshit-- the word "enough" was sneaked in there without any rationale provided. The most we can say is that a seller-- if they decide to sell-- won't get as high a price as they would if the information assymmetry didn't exist. But that's just a truism.

I'd be willing to agree for the sake of argument that we are representing humans here as some commonly known set of JSON values. But before we go anywhere else from that argument, I'd need to know that the speaker will at some point halt the simulation and come back to Earth with insights into the real world.

Does that happen in this paper? If not, then how does the paper have relevance for the economic transactions among the set of bona fide human beings?
Jony Ive is the reason Apple has a fetish for thinness at the expense of functionality, is he not?

He's a chump.
Slack is still trash.

I segregate browsers by using different Linux users for different tasks (slack, Facebook, general, etc) which works well with my similarly bespoke workflow. The problem with this arrangement is that When Firefox has pending system upgrades it requires all browsers be closed and reopened.

I’m curious about your productivity hack though, I use a grid keyboard layout with ~20 workspaces grouped to four windows for each task/project and one set to emails/fb/slack
Mobile is the only one there that feels like it has been a real difference in kind. Crypto obviously makes big promises, but in my view it hasn't really made an impact on average people the way ubiquitous smartphones has. Likewise for AI/ML, for the average person the impact has just been solid but not revolutionary improvements in software for voice recognition, search, translation (maybe some others I'm forgetting).

The other thing that stands out to me as making a noticeable impact in average people's lives is "Internet of things," although that's a pretty broad category that basically lumps together mobile/embedded compute hardware with some AI/ML touches (namely home voice assistants).

The thing that stands out to me as being a potential difference in kind in the near future is affordable high-speed low-latency satellite internet constellations. One could argue that mobile already gave us the biggest jump towards constant personal connectivity, but I suspect that truly global high-speed connectivity has a chance of unlocking some possibilities that could end up feeling like a difference in kind.

I suppose the big ones that many tech people would list for the near future are self-driving cars and VR/AR.
10 years. Still I remember his speech at Stanford 2005 [1]

"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
FYI, it takes 7-8 trees just to offset a single person's breathing if this math is right.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-many-trees-doe...
Yes, thank you. I wasn't aware of Telegram's shady models. I'll read about it. But its UI is far better than Signal. I don't use FB and their other products, except for WhatsApp. I've disabled all tracking features on IOS just to be safe! :)
You can’t even boot the Ubuntu cli installer.
Why Doesn’t the US Have a Super App?
Super apps are simply convenient. Within one app, mostly Asian countries have all the apps needed for social interaction and financial needs. The reason why developing countries have super apps is mostly because of timing, the foundation of the internet, cultural personality, and governmental regulations. So, can the US and the other developed countries adapt what the developing and emerging countries copied and created intelligently in time?
If Russian ransomware operators want to even attempt to chop off my hand I would need to start making much more interesting life choices that I have been.
Internet Renaissance, after the dark age characterized by its decay into a feudal-like state of several non interoperating data silos ends.
That's an interesting perspective. Are you saying that humanity as a whole would be better, if we built societal structures that acknowledge how much less control we have than we perceive?

My comment was mostly about my own orientation towards the world. Maybe I do have control, maybe I don't - but I feel better (and hopefully have better outcomes) with the illusion of control/actual control, instead of letting go. OTOH, I also get a lot of stress relief from letting go and not trying to control things during meditation.

Living is hard.
Governments exist to prevent/fix market failure. The only problem is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure
AI can "almost" do everything but doesn't seem to be able to fully do very many things - the self-driving car failure epitomizes things. Health care is another "promising" field where failure has been universal.

Maybe some of suggestion type applications will work out but they don't quite seem like a revolutionization. Plus playing go, better astronomy image filtering and tweaking whatever server algorithms.
A friend of mine had a kidney transplant this past summer. She was required to be vaccinated against covid (already had it). She also had to lose a significant amount of weight and pass several tests for blood pressure and other medical risks. They told her that they needed to ensure that whoever received a donor kidney would survive long enough to make it worth “spending” the kidney on, since they are in such short supply. That makes sense to me.

If she had been a smoker who refused to stop, could not lose the weight, or not taken measures like getting the vaccine, she would have been considered unqualified.
> There is no need for late fees when libraries can use much simpler and more effective incentives like not allowing you to check out more books until you return the ones you have.

Late fees do have one benefit – what if someone has a strong interest in one particular book (or a handful of books, which fits within their borrowing limit). Maybe it is a textbook or reference book for a course they are doing. Maybe they are just an obsessive person. They want to borrow a book for far longer than the standard borrowing term, or even indefinitely. They don't care if doing so blocks them from borrowing any further books, because they are more interested in the book(s) they have currently borrowed than in any of those.

Before, if they didn't return it, they would start getting late fees. Some people may be so intent on possessing that book, they may consider the late fees worth it – viewing it as a rental fee rather than a fine. But others, the late fee may be enough to convince them to return it, whereas merely suspending their borrowing privileges would not.

And this can make a difference to other library users. Ever wanted to read a book, or even borrow it, but you can't because it is out on loan? Abolishing late fees runs the risk of making that negative experience much more common than it was before.
Mine crypto and donate the money. Minimally you reduce the incentive for others to use electricity to mine more.
Agreed. It was striking to see so many people in this thread praising _Rainbows End_, which I personally found unreadable.

Context: personal SF collection of a few thousand volumes, can devour a good book in a day even it's 1000-pager.

But RE defeated me.
Fair point. However, 70 million in a single day is almost unheard of.
I haven't used any of the other modes on my Yubikey 4 than the OpenPGP Smartcard. I would hope that other modes also support PINs/passwords, so the fingerprint is just an additional factor. If that's the case, it's not necessarily about replacing passwords with fingerprints.
Just tried it out, really interesting to read post game:
https://lichess.org/dKbbqymG/

I don't think this comment was accurate:

> 23. c4: "White tries to get his pawns moving. I am still thinking that I have to move my bishop, but that is too slow. I think white should have moved his king back to c3 to prevent my pawn from becoming a passer."

The idea behind moving the pawn was because black playing c4 would have instantly lost both pawns since the bishop has nowhere safe to go where it still defends c2 (Bh7 leading to g6 losing the piece.) I don't think the king could have made it to the c file in time to stop that.

> 34... Rxg4: "Now I can't stop him from advancing his pawn."

Is this meant to be speaking from whites perspective (since black just got the unopposed h file pawn.)

Interestingly only 10. O-O links with a move, I think it would be really helpful if they all linked to moves. Also i'm really excited for this kind of analysis! It would be really cool if request a computer analysis eventually generated such analyses trying to figure out each sides ideas.
Yes, but that's neither geological scale times, nor something nature does. I can make a forest sequester carbon if I dig big holes and bury trees in them, but that's not a particularly natural process either.

Left alone, nature's cycles are mostly carbon neutral.
It doesn’t:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/chromium-...

“Building the Chromium-based WebView in AOSP is no longer supported or required. WebView can now be built entirely from the Chromium source code.

Docs on how to build WebView from Chromium for use in AOSP are available here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/androi...

For questions about building WebView, please contact our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/andro...

The prebuilt APKs provided here are built from Chromium upstream sources; you should check the commit message to see the version number for a particular prebuilt. The version number is formatted like “12.0.3456.789” and matches the tag in the Chromium repository it was built from.

If you want to build your own WebView, you should generally build the latest stable version, not the version published here: newer versions have important security and stability improvements.”

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow...

“Browser2 is a copy of the WebViewShell, a minimal test browser using WebView.
The old Browser is no longer supported.

This is *not* a production quality browser and does not implement suitable
security UI to be used for anything other than testing WebView. This should not
be shipped in production devices, or used as the basis for implementing a real
browser.

To build a full-fledged browser for AOSP, one option is to build a standalone
(non-WebView-based) Chromium browser by following the instructions at:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-in... ”

If you’re going to build the WebView from an external repository, you might as well build the browser from there too.
Recently switched to chrome as a many tab used, it’s less stable than Firefox for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook_Superconductor_Projec...
If Congress invites you to speak without fear of arrest and the main stream media hold you up as a darling then you are NOT a whistleblower. You are doing the bidding of power... If you are exiled to Russia (Snowden) or locked up without trial like Assange THEN you are whistlw blower and dangerous to power. This chick is a shill
I would hope you wouldn't be designing cs curricula around javascript, because even javascript frameworks are moving to typescript.

This seems like not teaching calculus because you can do it on a calculator. I didn't do a degree that focused on C development, but I still had to know how to do it. God forbid any of your graduates end up working on an operating system at some point.
Yet another instance of SPAs pointlessly reinventing problems we solved decades ago.
You have no idea what the real situation is. A family is allowed to have a family photo with their kid even if they are going through shit. It's not unusual for two separated parents to hang out with their kid and act kind for their sake.

This thread was ridiculous. Nothing but the GP gossiping about sensitive information and many of you trying to figure out whether it's fantasy or not.

This is why people act happy, because vultures like you guys trying to sniff out drama. God forbid anyone post a happy photo, the nerve!

It's simple. Know that only happy moments are posted. Don't nose into people's lives but know everyone goes through shit just like you.
Peregrine – A Python-like language that's as fast as C
I'm sure it won't be as efficient as a large operation, but neither can I get my surplus power to an industrial operation. And I'd happily follow the power supplies - run equipment during the day, when it's clear, not run it at night, etc. I'm already used to using energy based on what's available, this would just be something additional to add into the blend.

I've got an awful lot of basalt laying around, though...
There are ISPs that will happily inject ads and tracking codes into pages you visit. This obviously doesn't work over HTTPS.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157828/my-isp-b...

https://superuser.com/questions/902635/isp-is-inserting-ads-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/8ry1k4/does_your_isp...
Mate, even cannabis is illegal where I live. It's rarely enforced but still quite ridiculous. I'm not even a consumer but I know a few people who've benefitted greatly from it.
So then you'd default to always pick the educated person since to you they are by definition a doer?
I think you're stuck between the anti-plastic and anti-GHG ideologies. This reminds me of when anti-nuclear collided with anti-GHG. Not everything has a single obvious right answer. There are always tradeoffs. In this particular case, the environmental problems are easily solved by using landfills that don't release anything into the environment.

Having said that, plastic production itself is a far bigger GHG emitter than burning it. Plastic product production emits 1.5 Gt of CO2e per year while global CO2 emissions are 35 Gt [1]. That's 4% of global emissions coming from plastic production. Incineration is hardly anything in comparison.

[1] https://sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1038/s41558-019-0459-z
The cookie preference on the website is impressive. By default only necessary cookies are enabled if you just click "Accept". You also have to explicitly enable the "functional cookies" to view the embedded video.
The List Monad is the same, if a function called with the same input can return one of many results, each time it is called it could return a different output. That means this function isn't pure, because a pure function maps the same input to the same output even when called repeatedly.

The difference here is instead of returning a description of the impure things that should be done, you can make the function pure by returning the list of all possible options.

That means instead of getting a different output non-deterministically for the same input each time the function is called, you now get the same output everytime, which is the list of all possible outputs for that input.

So the context is the same, you want to constrain yourself to pure functions for some reason, so how do you make this pure?

func favorite-color(person-name)
if(person-name.startsWith("A")
return randOf("blue", "green")
else
return randOf("yellow", "black")

The trick is to have randOf return a list of all options such as

randOf("blue", "green")
=> ["blue", "green"]

Now you have the same composition problem as before:

func generate-favorite-color-string(favorite-color)
return "My favorite color is: " + favorite-color("Abel")

generate-favorite-color-string(favorite-color("Abel"))

But this won't work again, so you need a Monad once more to help you with composing these pure versions of your impure functions so that:

bind(favorite-color("Abel"),
generate-favorite-color-string)

Which says: compose generate-favorite-color-string with favorite-color using Monads

And now what the Monad composition will do is it will automatically run generate-favorite-color-string for each element in the list returned by favorite-color and itself will return a list of all those possible results:

["My favorite color is: blue",
"My favorite color is: green"]

So the composition is also pure now.
How does this compare with, say, Matrix with P2P support?
Would be nice if it spoofed the fonts API. It's a stupidly easy way to fingerprint a browser but it seems like no one has yet been interested in thwarting that.
A response to Stephen Pinker (2019) [video]
Robert Miles, a researcher into AI safety, and self-avowed fan of Pinker, notes issues with a rather flawed rejection of concerns over AI safety by Pinker.

No captions, but a very-well articulated argument.
42 days isn't that tight of a deadline, but it'd be nice if the window to bring the book back and not get a call from a debt collector was a bit longer.
Considering the claim that FB committed securities fraud based on the evidence we've seen so far is pretty laughable, it appears her testimony is designed to encourage new laws and regulations for (social in particular) media companies. As such a conversation about the industry at large and its practices makes sense.
I'm not sure if that holds - wouldn't additional work on the network encourage others to then add more capacity to recapture their share?

I've looked into it briefly, and came to the conclusion that the BOINC stuff (it used to be F@H but I gave that GPU to a friend for some CAD work) was more useful than crypto mining, because I simply couldn't mine enough to matter out here - a dollar or less a day sort of thing, with my annual power profile.
'Customer Service' - no hear me out. Many a times a month I 'struggle' with customer service levels from my ISP call centre to the service levels of my local restaurant or my local DMV dept. I should also mention that many times a month i also receive stellar service from some service companies (so Im not a total ogre).

But really who as a child dreams:'I cant wait till i grow up and get to work in a call centre, sorting out frustrated/rude/angry customers'

I honestly dont know whats the solution ?

Is it a new customer-metric ? a New training-product ?

I different management style ?? An AGI-level bot ? Or maybe its an accounting-budget-allowance that allows the company to hire 'stellar university graduates' to staff their first line of customer service ??

I honestly dont know the answer. But i do know staffing your company with (what seems to me) the minimum-wage-candidates can do more harm than good. We need a altavisa-to-Google leap or a BBS-to-Internet type of leap in everyday customer-service levels.

Ps. Maybe the answer isn't 'better service', but for us(ok me) to be more ok, less frustrated and at peace with getting what I perceive as low quality customer service at times.

Sorta like instead of inventing a better non-stickpan for eggs, the answer might be to develop a better egg-cleaning method