skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "how many kids should we let die so that the rest can play with chemistry sets?"

I think it's an important point to note that the vocally asking of that question of course signals the end of the activity. It's basically a rhetorical tool when one side of a trade-off decision is easily measurable and photographable and the other is a lost opportunity (generations of chemists).

You can't photograph a lost opportunity.

I'd argue the school mask debate is a similar one. It's easy to interview the teacher who almost died from Covid or grandma with little ones in school who is scared. It's impossible to photograph a generation of kids' developmental gaps.

The shift in the 60s and 70s wasn't so much a shift to societal thinking, it was a shift to media-driven public opinion.
Can't even access it as someone who bought the app... That's really unfortunate.
For Elixir -

[1] - https://livebook.dev/

[2] - https://livebeats.fly.dev/ built with Phoenix Framework

[3] - Discord
Can't wait for blind to be like 'shape rotator score or GTFO'. /s

It's a fun game. The difficulty does vary quite drastically accross attempts. Occlusion in particular can be a pretty big issue.
Do recommendation algorithms not take this into account already? Perhaps privacy policies make it harder to automate this effectively.
This is fault of the US or Russia how?
Watkins is an admin and son of the creator of 8kun. He was a prominent propagator of Q content and the large amount of circumstatial evidence connecting him to Q has lead numerous researchers and journalists to suspect him for quite a while.
I feel like everyone taking a hardline stance on this is being disingenuous - consciousness as it is used in pop culture is a largely non-scientific (and in my opinion a useless) term.

If you claim 'consciousness' is just an emergent phenomena of complexity (something I happen to agree with) then sure neural nets are potentially slightly conscious, but that isn't how most people view consciousness unfortunately.

Most people view 'consciousness' as some 'pie in the sky' component of biological life that has yet to be discovered by science, but this line of inquiry is completely outside the realm of useful dialog, so it seems pointless to debate such things.

These are the two general views of consciousness, the first at least provides a useful framework for discussion, but the two camps will vehemently always disagree with each other.

> "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra
I'd recommend an own domain with a hoster that has decent email service.

If the service ever leaves you, you leave the service. Nothing they own you cant host on another service provider. In case your email gets hacked you still have another layer of ownership.
Fzf-Miru – Execute W3M Commands via Fuzzy Finder
I wonder if this is because of BIOS licensing. I haven't used Drastic in a while, but I do know that "perfect" DS emulation requires a couple files that are only available by dumping from your own machine... Nintendo has been on a copright troll-roll with the recent GilvaSunner takedowns, I almost wonder if this is part of that initiative.

In any case, this is another one for the "why sideloading is important" wall, it shouldn't be too big of a deal since the Drastic developers can continue distribution with or without Google's blessing. No Bleem! politics here, just a little bit of downtime so the devs can set up their own payment portal and dump the credentials of their paid customers for continued support. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they just open sourced the thing and threw it to the community. DS emulators are a dime a dozen these days, and the devs have probably already made their money here. Any way it breaks, it should be a win-win situation though.
Because US political structures are designed in a way that discourages competence. We spend an insane amount on social services but nobody cares if they work, spend wisely or have an impact.
What about calculating the ecological impact of the programming languages running on those 'cloud' servers?

Some of the most popular languages are the least performative (we all know which ones), but they make life easier for developers.

Thankfully, newer languages take performance seriously: Rust, Go, Nim, Crystal. A typed, compiled language gives you good performance for free and a smaller memory footprint (and the reduced computing resources that implies). When you consider the millions of servers in use, that additional language efficiency adds up to a substantial saving in electricity use.

In the computing field, we readily encourage throwing cheap hardware at a performance problem until a program runs fast. It's embarrassing that the "hardware is cheap" attitude is so widespread among developers. Imagine if a manufacturer said that they were going to make energy-guzzling fridges/washing machines or other appliances without regard to energy-efficiency.

In programming, everything is for the ease and comfort of the programmer and anything else takes a back seat - the user, energy use and ultimately the environment.

Aside - If you think programming language energy usage a ridiculous topic, consider the follow:

The creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf, calculated potential CO2 savings due to speed improvements in PHP 7: fewer servers, smaller memory use and reduced CPU activity. (And remember this is an interpreted language.) You can watch a segment from his presentation below where he talks about the calculations he made of potential CO2 savings:

Rasmus Lerdorf – "PHP in 2018" (extract from the 15 min mark): https://youtu.be/umxGUWYmiSw?t=15m16s
Wow this has finally got me interested. Can you do all that with the quest ?
I think there’s tremendous value in just offloading your thoughts from your brain to a notebook!

I rarely refer to previous notes (digital or paper) even as a researcher.
Agree E. WA is a great place for server farms.

Unfortunately, lately there is a push for lower network latency, and in response to that, there are now a lot of Edge Cloud clusters being built near urban areas where various fossil fuel power plants to meet peak loads or load leveling are often used.

Putting these edge cloud server farms in those areas will cause the carbon producing facilities to be activated more often. That low latency comes at a price to the environment more so than the centralized ones positioned in places like E. WA.
I think a rereading of my comment would show that I am, indeed, upset about the arrest of environmental protestors.

My point being that I am upset about the arrest of protestors in general; those, these, and others, and think that the arrest of people who are not hurting people should be celebrated approximately never.
I think they're talking about walking. Riding a bike is different-- for one, it's illegal in a lot of places to ride on the sidewalk in a business district. For another, the transfer of momentum is appreciably less in a same-direction collision between a car/bike compared to head-on.
A different version could be about rotating the shape to correct position. A lot of times I've just eliminated impossible matches, rather then seeing how they match.
Sockeye salomon returning from the Pacific via Columbia R. to the Stanley basin in Idaho dropped from over 25000 to a few dozen. That is not adapting, rather, approaching extinction.
https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/sockeye-salmon-return-...
Bobbele
I meant to reply to this comment since IIT is the main coherent treatment I've seen+my thoughts about why people habe this pie in the sky tendency

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409369
> Thinking about it some more, everything related to security.

wasn't it more like "nobody gave a f back in the days"? :P

>Back in the days, the whole Internet wasn't port-scanned for known vulnerable services multiple times a day, and you could get much further with less refined security practices.

what years are you talking about? seems like a lot of decades ago
If it is an open source project I will modify then it matters a great deal. (E.g. looking at static site generators I like Hugo but something Python based would let me incorporate a lot of code that already exists.)
Right, which circles back to my main point that the people who are making comments like "cars are a failure", who are usually arguing for mass transit, are not being helpful. What would help the poor in the Midwest and South is cheaper and easier to maintain cars.
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OpenSea users have their NFTs stolen and flipped for a total of $3M
10 shapes
I did, and it's almost certainly nicer than Git for commit splitting.

But even though I might use a tool specifically designed for user-friendly commit splitting, I still want: `git add -e`, `git diff --staged` (to see what I added with `git add -e`) vs `git diff` (to see what I left out), and `git commit` w/o `-a` to commit the contents of the index. This is easier for me than `$WHATEVER commit` followed by `$WHATEVER`'s commit splitting method.

That said, I have to congratulate you again on not taking the ugh-rebase-rewrites-history/history-rewrite-bad road. This is a huge step forward for DVCS.

It may well be that what rebase workflows needed was a UI that non-power users could use.

While we're at it, I wonder what you think of this: https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/ea2fa2b445c2db50d2ee650...
Not really.

Babies show sex differences in spatial skills.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209100948.h...
> Don't buy domain names

Can anyone explain this? Assuming your data isn't in the WHOIS record, why does this increase your exposure more than any other company knowing your name?

A search shows up options for anonymous domain name services.
Source please? Or are you using ‘common sense’?
I was attempting to give an example of what a 'slightly conscious' state is to show that it isn't completely incoherent. Admittedly it was far from rigorous.
> Lighter regulation around rare "small market" diseases might save a lot of lives. And money.

Orphan drugs for rare diseases are already subject to less regulation.
ah for this one you dont need multiple “consumers”, you need multiple workers, in our model. they’re kinda the same thing when u get down to it but this is the paradigm shift.

every temporal workflow goes into an assigned task queue, and Temporal handles distributing/load balancing to multiple workers polling that queue. you can have 10000 orders coming in simultaneously to 1 task queue being processed by 5 workers for example and Temporal would register heavy load but would still process through all that work in due time. the beauty is that when you write workflows you dont have to worry about acquiring locks or whatever, just write as though you had one durable long running process per order. its very freeing.

this is not to say it does everything, ie Temporal is not a replacement for a true pubsub model. we just described N workers processing 1 type of workflow initiated 10,000 times, but its not designed for 1 event type initiated 10,000 times that are reacted to by N types of processes that are supposed to be completely decoupled.
I remember seeing a copy of this Usenet post years ago! It's one of my favorite "secrets" about x86's encoding.

The "core" (non-E/VEX, non-SSE, etc.) x86 encoding is wonderfully clever and terrible by modern standards, and Volume 2 of Intel's SDM is a great reference for how x86 manages to pack remarkably complicated addressing, operand, etc. semantics into just a handful of bytes. The result is a format that's remarkably hard to decode correctly, meaning that just about every software decoder for x86 is saturated with bugs[1] (FD: my project).

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/mishegos
> As the salmon fisherman will tell you...

This is objectively false. Salmon populations are more often than not considered in decline. The fish haven't "figured it out". They marginally persist solely due to intensive management that plainly consists of atrocities for species less popular in the media [0][1], millions spent on fish ladder theatre, and hatcheries.

The dominant mechanism in support of the fisheries being hatcheries that are basically a strangely laundered welfare program for indigenous, sport and professional fishermen each to their licensed proportion.

If you live in the Dalles, and you don't know the Columbia basin damns are an ecological nightmare.. it's unconscionable.

Not to mention the displacement of indigenous peoples from important traditional regions, the complete loss of stochastic annual flows feeding nutrient cycles in the river... etc etc.

Im no eco-activist. I don't necessarily think removing the dams would improve anything for anyone at this point, but if we're going to advocate for doing things a better way in the future - let's be honest: dams are horrible. The dams on the Columbia will eventually result in no salmon, no matter how hard we try. It's inhospitable. They used to run all the way up the snake into Idaho. Into IDAHO. Never again.

It's ok to advocate for energy, and the things you believe in, but let's not be belligerent about it - be honest.

In the Astoria maritime museum (several years ago now) I remember reading a passage that was proud of "..taming the wild Columbia, and turning it into a beautiful series of lakes and streams to wonderfully facilitate shipping and recreation.."

Some hutzpah, to think we know what we're doing.

[0] https://www.audubon.org/news/the-corps-cormorants-and-cull
[1] https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/news/response-to-columbia...
The developer is also missing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Exophase

Must have been banned.

Reddit thread discussing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/sx1tzw/...
I'd consider brains and other biological neutral systems as neutral nets. So to me there's pretty convincing evidence that neutral nets can form an AGI
I have found unreal’s basic ui editor to be fine.

Unity is, in my opinion, just a poorly managed company with a good product in spite of it. They’ve failed to deliver on many things and the engine has glaring weaknesses, e.g. no networked multiplayer built in. I would bet on the engine generally getting worse over time as management tries to push non functioning new stuff.
Is a genuine question. I wanted to know what he collected that was important in 100 notebooks. He links the Wikipedia article on 'quantified self' where it says that “[…]with the goal of improving physical, mental, and emotional performance. "

I just wanted to know if there was one thing that was worth doing all this for, because my opinion is that logging your data -quantitative data- doesn't make you better. That's all.
You're the shape rotator of shape rotators.

I only managed to break 10 after about a dozen tries..
A family member that was in the USAF talks about this base* and pronounces it /'tuli/ (like "duly" in "duly noted".)

*Also that getting posted there was idiomatic for pissing off the wrong person. As in, "Don't piss them off or you'll end up in Thule Greenland". It wasn't considered a desirable posting, at least not by many. Enough so that it provided what these days is called "assignment incentive pay".
I haven't seen the FD abbreviation, is it "full disclosure" ?
> But over time we needed to customize things in ways that were difficult to do within Nginx's architecture (either in Lua or in C), leading to hackier and hackier solutions. Using a proxy library to build exactly what you need can make things much simpler.

This is the central argument for me regarding why we don't "just use nginx". We actually do use it for some corporate websites, but not for our main product.

There is a ton of power hiding here... With a well-supported first-party RP framework, how long would it take for a determined developer to replicate the most important bits of the nginx feature set? Imagine being able to throw a blazor dashboard on top of this stuff. Wiring up real-time events/metrics would be super trivial if you are even remotely interested in learning how the DI system operates. Mix in a little bit of SQLite and you could have something I may argue provides a better UX than what nginx offers today.
> ALL 80x86 OPCODES ARE CODED IN OCTAL

That's a backwards way of saying it. I'd rather say, given the hardware structure of the bit fields of the opcode register, the binary opcodes are perhaps better described by octal notation rather than hexadecimal.
I don't think anyone is using Envoy for peak performance. It is slower than haproxy and nginx but it has other advantages:

* it is super extensible
* truly open-source and open to contributions by companies
* the codebase is really modern and easy to reason about
Node.js Notebooks
Typically it is boiling water in cup with leaves. Normal office setup. You don't hotter then boiling. And when spilled and you don't remove it asap, it does that damage.

You talk about that coffee as if it was magically hotter then water. It was not.
In finance, technical analysis is an analysis methodology for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis
They should’ve called it SNAP: Somebody Needs A Promotion
Ain't it Google specific?
I have SSH on my servers for the same reason I have locks on my house. Not because I have stuff to hide, but because having stuff stolen costs me money, and SSH and locks are an inexpensive way of preventing stuff of mine from being stolen
Is this the singularity?
> So, if you've done nothing wrong but you don't want your banking details to be leaked for journalists in hostile countries to comb through looking for something they can pin on you, maybe Bitcoin would be a better alternative.

But with Bitcoin all transactions are public, journalists don't need a leak.
It depends what the overlap is of course. Something like music probably has a big age component in what people like for example.

But, yes, in general friends with at least reasonably similar preferences to myself are almost certainly a better source of recommendations for video, music, and books than a recommendation engine.
"equip hax"
Its great that these huge corporations use hydro power for greenwashing, but there is a limit to how much hydro any river can generate and it would be great to use these sources for regular people and/or when there is no solar/wind.
I personally prefer to just dive in and attempt to get something done. I don't really spend time purely "familiarizing".

It involves a lot of tracing where something happens, just following code, or using logging and debuggers. Once I have found the place I need to be it's usually pretty easy to make minor changes or add similar functionality. Along the way I pick up a lot of info on how things work and where they are located. Over time that adds up.

For new languages/frameworks/libraries docs can be good for the basics and to fill in the gaps.

I generally learn best when trying to get something done, I recognize that might be different for others. A goal helps me focus; instead of learning everything at once, I learn only what I need to achieve my goal, and achieving goals motivates me to keep going.
Did Pandora change at some point?
From the pdf, page 3 at the bottom:

"Simply put, Thule exists today in order to support the operation of the solid-state phased-array radar located at the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), Site I. The BMEWS site is located approximately 11 miles northwest of the main base.

It provides early warning detection of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches from the Russian land mass and submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launches from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans against North America. Additionally, BMEWS keeps track of polar orbiting satellites.
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> Moreover, almost all of the examples in the article seem to be cases of "ex-con nevertheless is able to open bank account". Isn't that a good thing? Do we want a criminal conviction to implicitly include a lifetime of exclusion from the financial system?

No, but extra due diligence is required when someone convicted of taking bribes or similar corruption or drug/human trafficking record opens a bank account with huge sums of money.

Or people like those:

* former head of intelligence and vice president of Egypt https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/suisse-secrets-interactive/en...

* https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/suisse-secrets-interactive/en... former wife of the current Kazakh dictator

Just to name a few. Their money is quite probably of dubious origin and the bank should have done better due diligence.
Strictly speaking, it is illegal [1], but not a crime punishable with a fine or jail term.

[1] https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/DPA1989
This article came about because Swift on Security made a joke about Windows 12 requiring 2 TPMs which was a joke. Retraction tweet:
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/14954646585091727...
Loaded in a handful of seconds, but it doesn't appear I'm able to click on anything. Super duper cool though.
Be careful about the baby/birtwater situation. I can deliver a website a lot faster if I get to write it in typescript than if I have to write it in C++, even if the latter might execute faster.
There are well designed abstractions that are helpful. It's very hard to come up with them.

Mycrotoque aims at those who quickly jump to introduce new abstractions into their workflow before they understand what they are doing. It very often results in pain. It helps in the short term, because you are up and running faster but these shiny new frameworks are often immature and, like Potemkin villages, only look good from the correct angle, and have no meat. Once you try to use them for custom scenarios, you end up having to route around the abstraction layer because it wasn't designed so well.

To take an example outside of cloud management etc, in deep learning frameworks: there were competing libraries some years ago: caffe, theano, tensorflow etc. François Chollet decided to create an abstraction layer that could unify multiple low level frameworks. Called Keras. Did it work? No. Because the different implementations were different enough that they couldn't usefully be coerced under the same abstraction layer. I mean it worked for some time, to some extent. But very soon after, they dropped support for anything but Tensorflow. Creating good abstractions is very hard especially if the underlying layer is unstable and gets big conceptual changes. With kernels it's not the case. We've had them in similar Form for like half a century.
A lot of this desert was formerly the Roman bread basket that fed the empire.Some blame goats, who crop to the ground and then dig out the roots. They also climb and denude trees. Once the green was gone, the rain from transpiration also went away.
Some blame a general climate change driven by orbital precession - if so the new trees will die out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
At some point the humid period will return - not until then will trees prosper.
That said, careful cultivation of the right species and drip irrigation with desalinated salt water powered by solar energy will be the short term path. Once built, desert solar from cells is remarkably low in maintenance cost and at the right height will allow an understory of less sun hungry plants. With an 8 foot height, and the right gaps and solar spreaders in the gaps hundreds of species are economic.
Drip irrigation has thin black plastic piping direct to roots, with a layer of black plastic under a little earth to limit loss by evaporation. Being done in arid California and Israel it works very well. Google examples.