skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really worth bothering trying to convince any one country to reduce their oil production. The Saudis, Russians or Venezuelans could easily fill the supply gap, and the point is moot. Arguing for a worldwide reduction in supply is equally moot, not to mention politically hopeless.

The best way is demand reduction, which won't happen overnight. Technology exchange and helping developing countries to build renewable energy and nuclear power plants seems to be, outside of geoengineering, the only viable way forward.
It is a brilliant insight to reinterpret faulty oxygen measurements to extract a valid signal.

I wonder if anoxic regions could be made useful somehow.
Another data point: I tend to receive far more recruiter cold calls in an old email address that I no longer use than in my newer more active email address.
14 Days Uptime, and already at 2.7TB write, 2.5TB from kernel_task. That is around 180GB write per day. SafariBookmarkSyncAgent is currently at 60GB. Considering most if not all of my kernel_task write are memory pressure from Safari Tabs that makes Safari repenting 97% of my write usage including Cloudd and SafariNetworking.

At 180GB / day, even with so called "300TBW", that is 1666 days, that is less than 5 years. Although I believe my last report over a three month period was closer to 100GB/ day. And I remember my first SSD install on a Windows PC average out at less than 5GB / day.
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full body tracking for vr without a suit or base stations.
With most laptops usually .5 to a few hours. Framework is 5-15 minutes for most things. That's important for a few reasons.

The thing is, when you buy a laptop, you don't buy a new laptop as much as the death of that laptop. I haven't had a single Macbook Pro that hasn't failed on me. Not a scratch on them, just use them consistently enough.

After the 5th or 15th laptop, you realize it's more about transitioning your setup and minimizing that pain.

Framework provides both ease of blind use, and should something go awry, you could literally replace a part in a few minutes. I could see myself having a spare one for parts and actually being able to use the parts.

There's really no reason in 2021 that any laptop repair, service or adjustment shouldn't take 5-15 minutes, except to separate a person from their money more consistently.

Laptop innovation has been slow at best, and Framework seems to have delivered a device that is nothing like a first generation device.

It's ridiculous you can't just upgrade or downgrade your ram and CPU to your liking, that's how laptops originally were and could extend the lifetime a laptop from 3 to 6 years.

Instead, using 30 kinds of different screws in a laptop because it's where do we get the cheapest/minimum spec components every month is a way to create disposable computers that only get you to spend $ when it's needed.

I tend to like a new laptop every 3-4 years but only because the macbook seems to have thermal failures from using it so much weekly.
I am currently looking at the dell or Lenovo 40 inch 5k2k displays... Want to pair it with 2020 Macbook air. Any thoughts?
Because Meta has decided that it would be fun to piss off EU antitrust regulators, I guess?
Except that's what it is. You don't really think they sell these things for the cool tech aspect do you? They don't sell it to better peoples lives, that's just a side effect. Same can be said for just about anything.
Regulatory and market capture
The MiG-25 was constructed from 80% nickel-steel alloy, 11% aluminium, and 9% titanium according to source cited on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#cite_n...
Moreover it is quite disappointing to see that Africa is one of the most expensive region even though the purchasing power of the population is much lower than the rest of the world.

Not sure how to build competitive services for that region based on that pricing.
No, we did nothing. He caught up all on his own.
It should exist, but it really shouldn't cost $80K a year.

(For comparison, tuition/fees were $33.6K in 2001, about $53K in 2021 dollars.)
Perhaps don't read out random UGC from the internet unless explicitly asked to search the internet for something.
The missing “principled distinction” is tied up in the user interface design choices that intersect with child safety concerns, even if equal content is presented to both means. Voice search and response has a very different intersection with child safety concerns than keyboard-browser search and response.

A voice assistant can be reasonably expected to be operated by a very young child, who would be responsive and trusting to verbal commands in an adult-like voice from it.

A keyboard computer with a search engine in a browser cannot reasonably be expected to be operated by a very young child, and would not be reasonably expected to issue spoken-verbal commands in response to queries.

The information content is a relevant factor in the former case but not the latter; keyboard use of search engines is not in-scope for evaluating the child safety risk of voice assistants, though it is certainly an interesting topic as well.
Checkout https://web3grants.org/
You can define good as you want, no need to have a religion define it for you.

I believe the main characteristic that takes apart atheist from other belief systems is that ultimately without a god that objectively defines what is good, one must define by himself what is good. This one one side is liberating because there is no more pressure between what one thinks is right and what the religion tell them, but at the same time extremely difficult because one exposes themself to all their psychological weaknesses (and to whom can manipulate them).
This is awesome, takes me back to my childhood. Thanks for making this!
We are still waiting for an AI to write all these reports and essays in place of us.
Nah this is a genuine question from me.

My friend (a Java programmer) brought up the idea, and I was curious.

Also I read something on HN about it being the most wide spread and critical exploit of the decade.
You didn't misunderstand at all.

You're unnecessarily paying for a second-hand 10 year-old Energy Star fridge many times over in electricity costs.

Actually, my fridge is probably the oldest appliance --- it's a '38 Frigidaire I restored (reinsulated and rewired - it still has its original compressor and refrigerant) that consumes <300kWh/year. With fridges, 70s-80s were probably the most inefficient (very thin insulation to allow for extra interior space).

You're right that the energy consumption of a stove doesn't matter much, since all the energy goes into heat anyway. I just like the styling of that era, and they are definitely more solidly built and simpler to service.
And risk your entire business getting blocked?
Session Messenger Review – Best Secure Messaging App?
From Waymo PR videos on YouTube, I see many of the first riders were visually impaired / blind or physically disabled. While is a bunch of corpo PR, I'm still very happy to see these people have greater mobility!
I thought this was true until I visited an old friend in a trailer park, of which their family would borrow DVDs written with pirated movies. There were many reasons why. No internet, too expensive, no blu-ray player, etc. It was amazing how they could just put in a DVD, and instantly movie for their children. These kids had rarely ever seen an ad on TV in their life. The people who made the disks got paid, too. Market incentives are a universal concept. Digital content by it's nature is infinitely copiable. So who has the better market offer? Guy in trailer park for $1 for a movie or $50/month Hulu live subscription + 70/month internet?

This is how it goes in other countries, too, where you cannot even legitimately get disks or downloads, much less be able to afford them.

It is true it's simpler to just stream content for those that have the money and tech, but if you've seen how the media giants have split the market it's not affordable to most people to have Hulu live tv, Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc - all to watch a few specific movies. Piracy is a natural result.

Don't underestimate the amount of tech knowledge people have nowadays, especially if it will save money. They themselves may not know, but they know someone that does. The internet has become a beautiful resource to learn absolutely anything. VPN's are advertised everywhere on YouTube. Necessity is the mother of invention after all.
You're right, that wasn't a very insightful or novel comment I made. My apologies for further fanning the flames on this topic.

Thanks for calling me out, and thanks for your efforts in keeping this place interesting..!
C is a 3-rd level of abstraction language. Currently, there is no 4-th level of abstraction, so C is a high-level language by definition of «level of abstraction».

Language levels of abstraction:

1. Machine code

2. Assembler

3. A high-level language

C does allow low level things, e.g. access of machine registers or embedding of assembler or machine code, but it is also capable of quite high level of abstraction.

Some of 3-rd level languages allows higher level of abstraction, or hide low level abstractions, e.g. memory management, stack, byte order, bits per number, etc., hover none of them improves programmer productivity by an order of magnitude.
The end point of the argument is that there is no such thing as individual privacy. Privacy is defined by the ability to distinguish people, even if it’s just process of elimination (you know that all but one of the houses on the block has a smart oven, and you can figure out that somebody in the block turned an oven on based on the minute changes in natural gas pressure, therefore you can spy on that last person almost as effectively as if they had installed a smart oven themselves).

Either everybody is private, or nobody is. There is no such thing as “f u, got mine” here. Privacy is inherently a collective problem, so it must be solved by political means, not by individual choices.
"Have fun staying poor"... the most used argument to do something with NFTs.

Coming back to the main topic, I would suggest looking into Lateral thinking with withered technology. Nobody cares what technology is used for consumer facing products. Nobody cares if its web1 or web25. What people care about is usefulness and purpose.

Cutting-edge tech has always been here, but the break-throughs are mostly coming from cross-pollinating existing tech and remixing something into a better, cheaper, faster version.
Totally agree. But it DID happen in Java. So, I was thinking some might be turned off from bad PR.
This is from 2017. Looks somewhat interesting, somewhat bogus, from the abstract.
You don't have to reconstruct the genome in order to prove relationships or find a person.
I'm not sure if Apple has good build quality. It has the nicest design quality perhaps.

From a design quality perspective PC laptops have come a long way and caught up in some cases. Microsoft's Surface is one. The Framework is MacBook Pro (intel) power in a MacBook Air footprint. 64 GB of ram is no issue, and it runs cool.

Every single one of my MacBook pros, especially the 15"+ have met an untimely demise.

I have not had a Macbook pro since 2007 that has not needed to go in multiple times for AppleCare, be it for faulty GPUs (Oh, Santa Rosa), or thermal issues where the laptop can't cool itself long term.

The exceptions to this rule has been the 2013 Macbook Air, and the 2014-15 Macbook Pro. Quite possibly peak Apple.

The latest M1 laptops look interesting but until the software catches up compatibility wise it will be too early.

Apple's latest might appear the greatest until pushed to use in a daily driver mode. In that part it's often worth sitting out the first revision of much of their equipment until they figure out things like cooling, or antennas.
Which layer is Forth? xD
Someone at board level in there has made some nefarious decision around pricing to screw some particular business segment, while in parallel polishing some "truth-speak" around making the world wonderful with this pricing model.

I trust them less than most politicians, including some of those obviously nutjob politicians.
Lets hope so, can't wait for the expensive fun
This article discusses an interesting topic and is written in an engaging style. Nice find!
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Note that this is very likely due to everchanging CDN domain names. If they spawn servers on demand, they're probably as messed up as googlevideo.com (which also uses hashed subdomain names).
Let's say you do not practice any religion but believe in a higher power.

What is the goal of spirituality? Self knowledge. And self knowledge is also the knowledge about how you are related to said higher power and the people around you.

If you believe in spirituality but not religion it can be almost impossible to know what your relationship with the higher power is and how you stand in the community. Yes you can have your assumptions but they are unverified.

Religion gives you a framework where spirituality exists. Without that framework the idea of spirituality enters a domain where it has an extremely vague definition which, from a utilitarian perspective, is not useful.

So if the idea of spirituality loses its specificity to the point where it doesn't signify any particular idea which is grounded in some manner it creates a dissonance. You end up believing, say, the idea of crops without roots.

It's okay to revise particular beliefs with the times, but the central philosophies and practices of any religion (Eg. Fasting for a set number of days/abstaining from certain foods or activities for a set number of days) are essential.
Go check out www.levels.fyi, it has a pretty accurate representation of tech company compensation. Keep in mind that salary is just one component of compensation, and at senior+ levels, not even the most significant one.
This was a great read and goes to show how broken email has become… I often wonder if we will ever migrate to something better collectively, or we end up on a variety of different communication platforms.
You don't necessarily know they sat on it. You only just got a notification of the failed login now.

That doesn't mean they didn't try stuffing it elsewhere previously, or have login attempts you weren't notified of.

Nor do you know if the entity responsible for the failed login is the one who originally captured the credentials.

If you'll forgive the wild speculation, your credentials could have been sold recently and the new owners are less picky about alerting victims to the breach.

It could be that a bunch of credentials were captured for a specific purpose. Perhaps it was a targetted attack aiming for a specific victim, you and others here were collateral damage, and now the attacker is selling the assets.
The controls are very similar to the original, however there's somethings you can't do like step then crouch.
Why not just save up enough cash and move somewhere cheap and bootstrap manually? I don’t think doing this is any harder (than inventing a way to cryptoify any startup?).

This is just slowly giving away control of your company in some kind of monthly auction, it sounds initially great but as time goes on very depressing watching your company be owned by someone else and for a lot of people defeats the point of bootstrapping completely.
Thanks for the answer.

> We may not be at the top, and sorting that kind of thing out is very highly debatable anyway, but we are up there.

OK, so it was just hyperbole.

I would have had hoped for a comparison to eg Soviet Russia or PR China; or perhaps Berlusconi's Italy?

See also eg https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/dictator-book-club-orb... or https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-new-su...

On the face of it, those countries seem quite a bit more 'propagandized' than the US with its relatively free access to information and competitive news landscape. American public institutions are still well working compared to eg many poor countries. (And we have to make that comparison here, since you made a universal claim.)

Wikipedia suggests that the abolish of the so called fairness doctrine might have been a good idea _against_ propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine#Use_as_a...
How is drm responsible for the absence of such apps? If anything it’s the dmca systems and an army of lawyers
Schools and colleges need to teach this: https://www.criticalthinking.org/ instead of how to feel emotions and think with emotions.
Yeah, I find that looking for a conspiracy here absolutely hilarious. Why can't it just be as simple as copyright holders really, really, really hate piracy, and are definitely willing to make a technical mess to do it?

They hate piracy because it does cost them. How complicated does it need to be?
What does the pricing look like after the first 24 hours?
Nice reference. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
Yeah, Full agreement on the arbitrary fragility index. One of the main issues with the more squishy sciences is the cargo-culting around specific breakpoints, which happens due to a lack of statistical chops to begin with.

At least at the labs I've been at, the vast majority have no clue what those p-values they get mean, nor do they realize that the 0.05 cutoff that they so often target is entirely arbitrary.
anyone knows what's the consensus now regarding omikron lethality ?
From the weight of 2B monthly active users perhaps
As hinted by the article LLVM IR [1] is a lower level language and yet it's only intermediate as per the i in IR.

And it's true that the actor model makes writing parallel programs easier. I tend to use queues and message passing when I write multi threaded programs in sequential languages like Python or Ruby. That's easier to do in a language like Elixir. Unfortunately when I work with Elixir I'm a little discouraged by all the boilerplate needed to make supervisors and GenServers work. I think there is a lot of room for improvement for a higher level language that makes most of that disappear.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#instruction-reference
> The fda won’t allow anyone to get these if they aren’t already diabetic.

1. You need to get a doctor to write you a prescription for it. Any doctor will do, even your Primary Care Physician (PCP).

2. Medicare will only pay for it if you are diabetic (HbA1c > 7.5%).

3. You can reduce your out-of-pocket payment for it by using Pharmacy Discount Coupons from GoodRx and the type.

You are "free", you just need to get the facts right.
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Do you still need to go through a "partner" instead of just DIY SaaS model?
No wonder people rather use Telegram. Anyone can make a bot without needing to go through some ridiculous approval process just for access.

This walled garden needs to die or I am hoping for some law changes requiring all messenger apps to open up their protocols. It is my data.
Wow! this is too good except for the sound though which seems a bit modern to me.
He did, but he retired a few months ago.
Regular people are terrified of being left behind technologically (or perceived as such), so jump on every bandwagon that comes along. Technology people are able to distinguish between useless and useful tech, so they are comfortable ignoring most of the cruft the industry pumps out.
C is the lowest-level language in common use, short of assembly language.

C lacks any high level abstractions. All the abstractions it does offer are hiding register and stack slot assignments (as local variables), code entry point addresses (as function names), ALU instructions (as operators), branching (as control-flow statements), and address arithmetic (as pointer operations). All of these are low, machine-level abstractions.

C was never a high-level language, even from its first day. It was specifically intended as a portable assembly language, by someone used to coding assembly language, to use porting an OS coded in assembly language to a new target host.
> Granted it was the olden times, so there were more things to be discovered, but it seemed like China back in the day was on a roll (off the top of my head, movable type, paper, matcha, bonsai, porcelain, celadon, silk, gunpowder)

You seem to be throwing together all of pre-PRC China into one big blender?

There have been lots of different dynasties and long stretches when China was not unified. Many of these dynasties were more different from each other, than some dynasties might be from the PRC 'dynasty'.

Tossing all the achievements of thousands of years into one bin, and comparing them to what has been produced in the last few decades also seems a bit off.

Most (or all?) of the examples of inventions you describe predate the Qing dynasty.

The last emperors before the republic and later the communists were off the Qing dynasty.

China was perhaps at its biggest sophistication compared to the rest of the world during the precocious Song dynasty. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty#Economy

Song China was arguably the first 'modern' country in the world. Where 'modern' is used in the historian's sense of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history#Modern_history
How usable is Java's support for decimal arithmetic?

IIRC IBM processor architectures like Power have decent BCD support as well.
So tonight I watched a 1080p pirated copy of Spiderman: Far From Home. And I gotta say, it was kinda crap. The sound would randomly cut out, and the compression was absolute ass (it was the perfect artifact to show people when explaining “not all 1080p’s are created equal”, especially when they’re fighting the water elemental)

I really do think that DRM has won folks. We have seen the 4K HDR future, and what we find on torrent sites is the same aXXo “encoded to be burned to a CD-R” bullshit I used to download as a college student. We aren’t getting 4K, we’re not even really getting 1080p. Whatever the DRM people are doing, they have succeeded in creating a gulf in quality between what you get on a streaming service, and what you get via torrents.