skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find the specific reference, but that was the upper limit set just by thermodynamics; i.e., when the waste heat from human activities becomes large enough to heat the Earth too much. Insolation on Earth is about 100,000 terawatts, or 100 kW/person; a few kW per capita would be a few % of this, arguably close to that upper limit. That 1 trillion population would live in a very artificial environment, more like a space colony than a planet. All wastes would be recycled, including exhaled CO2, and food would be manufactured artificially rather than by agriculture (because photosynthesis is so inefficient.)

(I think it's referenced in J. E. Cohen's 1996 book "How Many People Can the Earth Support?" but I don't have a copy of that in front of me.)

This is not at all to say that this would be a desirable situation, or that human population is a metric that should be maximized at the expense of any other metric.
It made sense, but it might be too late now.

The structure is rather complicated:

Afaik it works (or used to) this way:

There is Gaszprom (the Mother), Gazprom Export, Gazprom Germania and a bunch of distributors.

Gazprom sells to Gazprom Export which sells to Gazprom Germania which sells to its distributors.

This helps to evade taxes and allows for a bunch of nice management jobs to be distributed to German/Russian politicians.

The distributors pay the gas in Euro to Gazprom Germania which collects the money and sends it via Belgium to Gazprom Export.

With the Sanctions this would mean that that Gazprom Export could convert Euro to Rubles, so the Money in Belgium has been frozen.

To circumvent this Gazprom sold (or tried to) Gazprom Germania to some offshore entities out of the sanctions reach.

To hinder Gazprom to do this the German goverment tried to seize control but it might be already too late and they ended up with an empty shell.
+1 for "use search instead of organization".

I've been taking notes for 2 years, zettelkasten-style, and 90% of them are just dumped in the same directory, without links or tags. If I'm looking for something and remember that I might have that in my notes, I just search for it.

That also implies that, when writing a note, I sometimes add a line with a few related keywords and synonyms.
Glass house here, mate. Virtually every software developer reading HN is “excused from the consequences of their actions” and they’re paid far better than all but one class of medical professionals. It’s like all of the “essential workers” bs of the last two years - they do the dirty work but aren’t paid or staffed appropriately. And they’re treated like sh*t.

If these folks walk, are md’s going to follow them or get into slinging bedpans? Or, might salaries rise to reflect no-longer-pink-collar work?
FAANG workers are SHEEP. I live on a lakefront at 35, havnt gone into an office in 5years, had FAANG recruiters at my door since i was 21 . They like to get you young because they can then set your expectations of what work culture is.

And while i am at it, LOL to the conferance culture, talk about collecting stars. Every framework needs a speaking circut so you can somehow bring the familiarty of university into your working life because you have never known anything more then this. Swallowed by the system, addicted to consuming, pushed forward by the prospect of making an impact, used and abused by capitalistic entity that courted you, young, impressionable, starry eyed.
> outside of serving autoplaying ads

NRK is Norway’s equivalent to the BBC. I’m not sure about the BBC, but NRK is not allowed to run ads. More importantly, they have a number of great in-house developers that churn out quality content and a great video streaming service (tv.nrk.no).
Netflix now has competitors. I really dislike ads and I think it will worsen the experience so significantly that I'll just switch.

Even those small in-house ads for amazon prime are annoying, I can't imagine what real tv-style ads will do.
I hope they get rid of the clown.
Heads up here regarding KD. Since you're using Debian I guess you don't have the latest. At one point I think Debian will switch to KDE Systemd, and it will break your login script that launches i3. A solution is to use Systemd units[0] at one point I might write a blog post about that.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30256384
I just checked the official Thinkpad USB-C dock model 40a9 and it's using the same rtl8153b chip.
The link to adsf-vm just points to Google. Is this a broken link, or just wasting the readers time by telling them to "just google it"?
Hi! Thanks for your kind words. We have corrected it to kilometeres. All the best, Christian/NRK
...uhm, isn't TikTok practically irrelevant in Russia now that they've stopped allowing users to post new content?! I mean, this is what ppl use it for, viewing new content from ppl like them and posting new content hoping to get "famous".

With all respect for the author's work, this is not very relevant, since TikTok is in "zombie mode" now for Russia.
I don't pay for ads, I pay for streaming.
What Comparisons Between Second Life and the Metaverse Miss
I just asked Google about "atheism-plus", and within my filter bubble it helpfully responded with this:

The term Atheism Plus designates “spaces, persons, and groups dedicated to promoting social justice and countering misogyny, racism, homo/bi/transphobia, ableism and other such bigotry inside and outside of the atheist community”

Enough of that crap. Note that they don't include my main concern, ageism. That's because they are a reactionary movement. Evangelicalism ostentatously follows the Bible, including the commandment of honoring parents (i.e. the aged). Atheists equally ostentatously reject it.
I think you could sue the FOSS project if the author knowingly and intentionally gave you malware under the pretense of normally functioning good faith software.

Otherwise the license is more of a reminder that you didn't pay for it and aren't entitled to bug fixes, features, support, compatibility, etc..
There’s Nothing Wrong with Signaling
This doesn't make sense to me. Can i get an explanation?

The German state seized a local German branch of the Russian Gazprom company. In order to secure its energy supplies... which come from Russia.

Are they in essence capturing some reserves?
How is atheism not a positive belief system? And why is a positive belief system the answer?
You are right, the original says "Fra russiske Belgorod til ukrainske Kharkiv er det rundt åtte mil" which is 80 km
yes it's a rabbit hole, I know it well! When PC became fast enough to be used as DSP engines with the soundcard I spent years playing with the creation of "digital modes" as HAM radio hobbyist.
First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
the stored gas and the storage facilities, I gather.
It is entirely possible to find oneself implicated after the fact in an act one did not commit but did not speak up about, and then to feel more implicated through fear-paralysis inaction over a long period of time (through the guilt of not speaking up).

This is why for example when the British police run public cold case campaigns they often stress that people might seek to come forward because "allegiances change" -- careful code that hints at leniency while seeking help from former co-inmates who have fallen out with the offender, spouses or abused partners leaving husbands, children escaping the control of malignant parents, etc., or people who have simply survived the now dead offender and are no longer terrified to speak.

I would wager that many stolen objects are quietly destroyed by those who inherit them, rather than confront the difficulties returning them would involve.
> 1987"? The first ARPANET link was active in 01969,

ARPANET is not INTERNET

there were many network similar to ARPANET for scope (maybe not size, but Europe was politically much different back then and the wall in Berlin was still there) at the same time ARPANET was alive

Russians had their network too since the late 70s, and at one point they connected to the US directly even during the cold war years! (mid 80s).

> Perhaps you meant that 01987 was the last year it was US-only?

no, it was the year it became "a public accessible network", after NSFNET was established. The year later research centers in Europe were connected to it and were contributing to it.

ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990
Fixed menu for me, Firefox Nightly on Linux, with uBlock Origin.

Killed it instantly with the great AlwaysKillSticky add-on.

Great article, brings a lot of memories, thanks!
Playing an instrument is harder than any basic non-mathematical programming. It's almost shocking to finish a project, clock out, practice guitar a bit and realize the difficulty difference.

Buying stuff on the other hand is very easy.

Just like running is(I assume, having never seriously done any sports) way harder. Buying more crap and then not even using it is easy.

Everyone always wants their fast instant gratification hits, regardless of hobby.
Is this a Taiwan thing
How Could I miss Docker BuildKit
And that terrifying living purple beanbag creature.
Channel 4 owns Film 4, both the TV channel and the film production company of the same name.
By the way, there were bad problems with the TS3+, Intel MacBook Pro 13" 2020 and macOS 12.2 (no USB or Ethernet until reboot after unplugging and re-plugging), which were fixed in 12.3.
Did you forget one coalition partner?
https://asdf-vm.com
I'm more talking about opinions framed as "how could anyone do that" or arguments beginning with "I would never".

A good example is malicious actions by companies. You could probably follow the entire decision tree in a lot of cases and not find a single individual that was acting differently than the average person would in those same circumstances.

Systemic issues are becoming obfuscated because human nature is disregarded in favor of ideals. It's much easier to just nail someone to a cross than to empathize and find real solutions.
Angela Merkel is squarely to blame here. She was warned about he dangers for the 16 years she was chancellor of Germany, and instead of diversifying, doubled down on Russian oil and gas, and ordered the closure of the remaining nuclear plants. So be it. The people voted for her, and apparently Germans in general are rather anti-nuclear.
> The quality issue you describe is often because there's simply no higher quality available

Netflix in Germany sends audio in 64 or 96kbps for stereo and 192kbps for 5.1

Video quality is just as bad.
That company owned pipelines and storage tanks within Germany, thus controls the flow of gas after reaching Germany.
The problem is that schools and teachers are at risk from more liability than ever. If a student is groomed online whilst using a school device of login, who do you think is going to get blamed; not the parents but the school. If a child is bullied online or radicalised, then again is will fall back on the school.

You can't have privacy and expect a school to be responsible for what a child does online. Privacy doesn't create a safe environment; and when it comes to crappy adults, out of any group of people parents are the by far the most likely to abuse or neglect children. This idea of "stranger danger" is a myth, as the real danger in most cases is closer to home.
They should rename it to Amazon Project Kessler because thats what they are going to cause.
I don't find it surprising at all. It's basically a propaganda platform. Can't decide if its worse than Twitter or not.
I've used a USB-C hub for years. It's great. One cable. No wear issues. Doesn't not disconnect without a tug. It's less robust than magsafe, so don't put the cable somewhere you're likely to trip over it.
Coast on Clojure
Sounds like added value to me
Very well executed project! Congratulations
Not sure "they" refers to "McDonald's" or whether it refers to some country and the "clown" leading the government.

In case it refers to McDonald's: They already did. https://www.mashed.com/202684/the-real-reason-mcdonalds-got-...
I never heard people mocking Stallman for his warnings about surveillance and curtailing user's freedoms.

But his behavior in public and the way he communicates is a completely different topic and a can of worms...
Audi and TU Berlin develop microplastics filter for urban runoff
Tesla Semi pays a visit to Giga Texas ahead of Cyber Rodeo event
The sending of troops to Kosovo was done in accordance with UNSCR 1244.
Is there some memory loss at work here? Because when Russia marched straight into Crimea and started this war eight years ago I distinctly remember Merkel being in office. We even rewarded Putin with NS II for it.
Client side training with the usual python stack sounds like a configuration nightmare. Would it try to use the users GPU if it exists? Would it fallback to CPU? Does your user need a specific GPU card to play?
How many kilometres of replacement copper did they buy? Fucks sake. Unfortunately perfectly demonstrative of both Australian politics and the Australian public.

cough climate policy cough
Wait, do you really think residents of a city 80 km away, one that they used to commute to for groceries and stuff, get their news from Tik Tok?

How out of touch are you?

For God's sake, they can practically see Kharkiv out of their window!
You realize a lot of their staff is pretty much next door to that conflict geographically right?
do you realise how small one satellite is?
True, 'b' and 'c' are not valid octal digits.
"Taking into account the carbon intensity of electricity consumed in France (80 gCo2eq/kWh) (source: Electricity Map), this corresponds to saving 1.9 tons of Co2 per year, which is the annual amount of Co2 absorbed by 60 mature trees."

If that is true, the savings seem completely nonsubstantial to me.
I am all for saying that everyone must do its part in term of being more energy efficient, but I suspect here the elevated energy consumption due to ads are nothing compared to the energy consumed by the screen when you read an article, for example.

You can have plenty of reasons to be against ads, and energy consumption may be one of them, but I don't think this article proves that point.
Tool of the Chinese government, and secondary tool of other governments because they want to remain dominant to push their own agenda(s).
Vulcan Centaur on schedule for first launch in 2022 as New Glenn slips
> Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil.

Not only that, but perhaps the world would be a lot less.
I'm just wondering, what specific escalation policies are you talking about?
What isn't orthodox about promoting the standard prescribed positions of a political group while trying to carve out exceptions for your own case? Seeking the benefits of group acceptance while avoiding its cost on individuality is what people have always done.

Brave is taking a principled position, regardless of the crowd. Unselfish is doing so despite the personal cost. This guy is neither. He just wants to have it both ways.
"That crap" sounds like a positive belief system to me.
> That last example is such a mic drop. I can’t tell if I’m impressed beyond belief or appalled.

I am appalled, because the code is wrong: consider p=2.
Yeah, they got top minds on this. Top. Minds.

Nuclear canceled by the Green Party and pre-March went all in on Russian oil and gas.
Just because they don't immediately cancel people you have issue with doesn't make them a criminal org. You should check out about libel because this is getting close.
This is easily possible with the low-level graphql NPM package which is the base of many frameworks. Most give you an option to get through the abstraction and do it.
How many years has Merkel remained in power? This awkward situation is all her doing, but still nobody will mention her name. How can one country willingly put its entire energy sector in the hands of a terrorist state, which has been showing signs since 1999 when bombing its own citizens.
I used asdf but found it caused a 200ms hit to launching any of the binaries: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/290

Personally that's not something I can live with as these binaries are sometimes launched many times in subprocesses.
More like this:

Monitoring component:

https://github.com/Gui774ume/ebpfkit-monitor

Another rootkit:

https://github.com/Gui774ume/ebpfkit
Seriously.. That kind of attitude is insane!
Hold on.

We got lied to about Vietnam. Iraq had WMDs. Afghanistan was a budding democracy, fully equipped to stand on its own. Russia was an unstoppable modern military and we need hundreds of billions to hold them off!

Now. All those people lied - buy we're blaming the civilian population for not having skin in a game which is clearly run by liars, and not "doing more" to stop these liars?

We've watched it mangle generation after generation of our young people, and none of the liars are held responsible.

Of course we don't want skin in the game.

In a healthy democracy, these military liars wouldn't last. It's not a healthy democracy.
The BBC isn't allowed to run ads either. They are also generally can't recommend products without talking about alternatives. Always amusing on kids arts/crafts shows when they name a brand and then have to state other products that are available.

They can display adverts under certain circumstances though. Public billboards aren't censored in news reports, and adverts on the sidelines/stands of sporting events (like football) can still be seen.
Wheel successfully reinvented :)

Nothing stopping you setting up a whole AX.25 network between multiple machines using Dire Wolf [1] and the built-in AX.25 [2] (a derivation of X.25) support still in the Linux kernel. You get a proper network interface that shows up alongside eth0. Nice short instructions at [3]. Just don't hook it up to radios unless you're appropriately licensed. Speakers and mics only.

[1] https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25

[3] https://g7vrd.co.uk/ax25-direwolf-linux
It has been nationalized since 2014 in places like Crimea.

(Not sure if Americans can visit the place. There are downsides to deglobalization too...)
Since the author only shares complaints and no solutions, I figured I’d share an option.

I’ve been using an HP Thunderbolt G2 dock with my M1 Pro and I get a 95% success rate.

The 5% failure rate is, I suspect, linked to my LG monitor more than the dock itself. I get some flickering sometimes that is resolved by restarting the monitor or restarting the dock. Happens 1 in 20 connections maybe. I also use the monitor with a windows computer and there is some funky color issue going on where if I go back to windows after using the Mac everything is at 200% saturation and 1% brightness or something like that.

Other than that, Ethernet is fast, I connect to 2 monitors at different refresh rates and I have all the ports I need with just one cable connected to the laptop.
> Russian culture seems to treat everything as an excuse for skimming and corruption

You don't know actual Russians IRL, do you?
If you are looking for a language agnostic version manager, the nix package manager [0] might be worth a try. In combination with lorri [1] you will be dropped into a shell with all required development dependencies available, when you enter the project directory. This does not only include the interpreter/compiler versions but also any other dependency you can think of, like specific libraries the project links against (well almost any, it has to be available as a nix expression, best case directly in upstream nixpkgs).

For me, it has come so far that I don't have any interpreters or compilers in my main OS environment and even for one off REPL sessions, I'll use `nix shell nixpkgs#python3 -c python3`.

[0]: https://nixos.org/

[1]: https://github.com/nix-community/lorri/
This is the opposite of the culture in chemistry. Step 1 would be for the ACS to allow researchers to do ML on scifinder. Faculty and other luminaries cower though, and do nothing.
Fascinating. I'm curious whether these are always lit at night, or only automatically turn on for each landing? (Being ignorant about how approach lights work in general).
Zx884hs.com, so hot right now.
I hope we get a RustDuino IDE or something like it one day. A lot of Arduino's problems(Maybe almost all) might go away with a different language.
How much do you move the laptop when it's plugged in to the dock? Would it not usually be stationary near the dock with its own keeb and mouse?
Ah yes, the performance side of it. That's interesting. And I can see
why learned timing and articulation can be used to greatly improve the
"realism" of that.

You could even have "celebrity" performer profiles that learn Eric
Clapton guitar performances the same way that synthesised voice
style can be extracted from a speaker corpus.

A tool like that would be really fun and something I'd like to play
with. It would take my composition and _perform_ the parts:

Drums: Ringo Starr, Solo Guitar: Steve Vai, Bass: Sting

In music it's quite usual though to separate the composition,
arrangement and performance. TBH, what I found with _all_ ML/AI tools
in the composition and orchestration/arrangement stages is badly
lacking. Not because the "technology is bad" - massive leaps have been
made with gradient descent and transformation, in scale, algorithms
and hardware, but because the use paradigm doesn't appeal.

It's actually one of the biggest, painful learning experiences in my
tech career, and I have taken it to heart - for example with the RJDJ
startup we pioneered "reactive music" and had a ton of big artists on
board, Chemical Brothers, Hans Zimmer, Massive Attack, .. and we made
really credible, innovative music that pretty much defined a new genre
and market that didn't exist. But it failed [1]. Why? Because people don't
want their music that way. We made the classic mistake of thinking we
knew what people wanted because _we_ thought it was cool (and it was,
and investors poured money into it).

I used to excuse the fail by saying "it was ahead of its time". But as
I get older I see that hubris alone was the sword we fell on, by
thinking we understood how people want to relate to music.

There is such a concept as "fit" - I don't know what else to call it -
that tech entrepreneurs often seem to miss.

That's why I say that a clunky old thing like MMA is actually a
"better" tool, for me personally as a pro/am (once working) musician.

I hope that makes sense.

[1] AFAIK (I am out of the scene now) one of the people still doing
this successfully is Matt from Coldcut with their "Ninja Jam" setup.
Angela Merkel did not want to close the plants, but the public opinion forced her hand. The people wanted this.
Dirty Pipe Explained
New features is not incompatible with easier to learn.

User will have to learn at some point how to do X with the language. Without the new feature, that might be some complex pattern which is difficult for user to remember, let alone come up with by themselves. While using an additional feature it may be trivial to learn that feature to do X.
>Does anyone know how to refer these people to law enforcement for prosecution?

Your best bet is probably to contact the office of the Illinois State Attorney General.
Yes, that was my reaction too.

But what shocks me most is what this implies about the (many?) managers at Amazon who are responsible for it. They must be either:

(a) under so much pressure that they decided to go ahead with it despite being aware of the horrifying similarities their New Approved Language has with Newspeak, the centrally controlled language that prohibits the use of certain words in Orwell's classic novel, 1984; or

(b) so poorly educated that they're blissfully unaware of the parallels, and perhaps even think of themselves as really clever for having thought up this Orwellian scheme on their own.
Five years ago, Apple redefined 'Pro.' Is it time for them to do it again?
Just define "upper" class at 65k/yr household income, and boom! Lots of upper class households serve!