skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's... a lot of fancy words to say "These greedy rich people are trying to take the middle class's money again to make us into slaves".

And that's just inane. Like, yeah, rich people are greedy, yeah, systemic problems exist, yeah, economic inequality is bad and the influence of the super-rich is a problem.

But I don't see how you can go from any of that to "therefore, richer countries shouldn't give aid to poorer countries because that's a trick of the super-rich to make us all into slaves".

If nothing else, helping poor countries worldwide develop reduces the power of the super-rich over society, since it means they have fewer super-poor exploited populations to draw from and need to make more concessions to workers instead of just relocating to some poorer place.
Maybe this?

https://youtu.be/8455KEDitpU
I don’t know what country you are in but at least in the UK politicians are acknowledging the existence of a problem and this mirrors the scientific evidence.

This has changed over the last decade or so, previously the same party was banning onshore wind farms and removing legislation on lower energy house building.

This mirrors the public sentiment, climate change denial is a minority opinion here now.

What the politicians won’t admit though is that we can’t solve this problem without changes to our lifestyle. Even the Green Party won’t publicly acknowledge this.
Current LNG facilities are already saturated as I understand it. It's an energetically expensive process: gas from production in the USA has to be piped to an export terminal, and then has to be liquified (large energy investment), shipped across the ocean, then gasified (another large energy investment) and fed into the European pipeline system. Suddenly expanding all that would require, well, a decade of investment and planning.
Yes, you're right.

Consider this: you're up against millennia of development in writing and typography. People have tried a lot of different ways of organizing and presenting text. And I mean a lot. Different symbols, different fonts, different page layouts, different text orientations. There was even a long line of symbols spiraling on a disk, getting denser as it approaches the center. There's a good chance somebody tried different ways of aligning long text in a paragraph. And we settled on one. Maybe there was even a good reason for it. It's consistent across cultures too. Justified and centered text aside, left-to-right languages are flushed to the left; right-to-left languages are flushed to the right.

Is it objectively the best way? I don't know.

Writing, fundamentally, is used to communicate your thoughts - to yourself or to others. Publishing your writing on the web (and sharing it here) implies you want others to read it. In order to reach your readers, you want to make it easy for them to parse this text. Over the years, people developed a set of patterns that make text more readable. Some are fundamental. Some are nice to have. Some are so universal they are expected - and noted when they are missing.
Interesting. Perhaps the writer might find Vlang (https://vlang.io/, https://github.com/vlang/v) to his liking. But many of these newer languages haven't hit 1.0 yet, so are in alpha and beta stages, so it's hard to say how the finished product will be embraced or how popular they might end up becoming.

In many cases, these languages are alternatives to C++ (because of how messy it has become) and are positioned as a kind of "next step evolution" of C that also makes interop with it easier. Though much older, we could put D in that category as well.

I don't think the audience of the newer languages is so much for hardcore C or C++ programmers. The newer languages would be more attractive to newer programmers, those coming from scripting languages that want to learn a compiled language, or older casual programmers actively looking for something different that still has C-like syntax. Otherwise, much older (and battle tested) Delphi/Object Pascal (which is about as powerful and as fast as C++) would be on more radars for switch-over, if not for the excessive C-like syntax bias.
Society is going to utter dogshit and tearing itself apart merely through social media. The US almost had a coup because of organized hatred and lies spread through social media. The far right's rise is heavily linked to lies spread through social media, throughout the world.

This AI has the potential to absolutely automate the very long Photoshop work, leading to an even worse stat eof things. So, yes, "Responsibility to society" is absolutely a thing.
> That is, certainly, a recipe for catastrophic war.

Climate change itself is probably a recipe for catastrophic war and the resurgence of fascism. There are estimates as high as 1.2 billion for people that will be displaced by climate change[1]. Even a much smaller number of refugees from the middle east and South America has helped push politics in many western countries towards isolationism and increased xenophobia. What would 1.2 billion refugees do?

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/climate-refugees-the-...
I didn't expect anything from Chomsky (notorious Khmer Rogue apologist) and he didn't disappoint:

>“What about Nato expansion? There was an explicit, unambiguous promise by [US secretary of state] James Baker and president George HW Bush to Gorbachev that if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east. There’s a good deal of lying going on about this now.”

No such promise was made, ever, it was floated but it was never written down in any treaty or even publicly announced. It's putins propaganda and if Chomsky had any shame he would be ashamed for parroting it.
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Is this the same Bloomberg publication that whitewashed Hunter Biden’s egregious transgressions as a Trump’s “conspiracy theories”?
I really don't agree. When I work with a creative I'm not working with them because of their content generation skills. I'm working with them because of their taste and curation ability that results in the end product.

The nature of creative work will certainly change, creatives will adopt tools such as Dall-E 2. In certain narrow cases they might be replaced, such as if you are asking a creative to generate a very specific image, but how often is that the case? The majority of the time tools such as Dall-E 2 will act as an accelerator for creatives and help them increase their output.
Would be interesting to scrape large swaths of the web and calculate the average differences in price based on user agent string (it's well established that Apple users occasionally see higher prices, but I don't know about Windows vs Linux for example), other fingerprinting, ISP / IP geo, and so forth. Does this exist?

Taking it a step further: a browser extension that tries several scenarios (like Honey, but just for re-fingerprinting and stuff... can an extension make a request that suppresses/manipulates cookies only temporarily?) as you're shopping.
A -> B, reduction of carbon is reduction in standard of living.

B -> C, reduction in standard of living requires a powerful central authority (rather than our current one being sufficient)

C -> D, a central authority will become hostile to its neighbors.

I'm not sure any of these suppositions are something I agree with. But that last one in particular... That one in particular seems a bit much.
The FDP is not libertarian by any measure. Much like the CDU they claim the social market economy of Germany as one of their achievements, which would be called outright socialist in some American circles. From an American perspective they can be compared with the Democrats in the US. Of course the whole political spectrum of America is further right than that of Germany.
I have practiced intense reflection brought on by things that are out of my control. I have never went to a coach in this regard but have seen shrinks.
Those slides aren't the only thing they copied:
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1511718827083669508
My attitude to "being a burden on society" is: "I paid taxes all my working life, so if I get some of that money back, all the better!". Of course, not having to go to a nursing home is the even better alternative, but unfortunately nobody can rule that out.
I think we agree - I wasn't meaning to imply that I'm surely in the middle, mostly trying to be more clear about how unlikely it is to be early. Another way to put it is to say that there's only 5% chance I'm in the first 5% of people, and 50% chance I'm in the last 50% (assuming uniform distribution, which, who knows). If I'm in the last 50%, then we don't have much time left.

And yes, if everyone has these thoughts, then about 5% of people will be wrong when they think that surely they aren't in the first 5%.

(And I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that "between now and infinity" is hyperbole - percentiles of a uniform distribution like this don't make sense if there will truly be a countably infinite number of people. )
Yep, as planned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv8Zy-JwXr4&t=7m26s
You missed half of my note. An artist can say "no". A machine cannot. If you lower the barrier and allow anything, then you are responsible for the outcome. OpenAI rightfully took a responsible angle.
"former Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Igor Strelkov." interviewed by a newspaper that isn't allowed to use the phrase war is not a very impressive alterntative to the Ink interview. But thx for sharing
I would hardly call the FDP libertarian.
I've listened to a podcast recently [0] that describes climate change as a definite problem, but not the civilization killer it is described as.

Frankly, I don't know enough about this to evaluate the problem critically. Some of the points that were made, that I thought were interesting:

- climate kills very few people currently.

- way more people die in "cold waves" than "heat waves".

- we spend way more money on heating now, rather than cooling. This will have to change obviously.

- hotter climate will encourage food production.

- a economic analysis (need to find the reference) was done projecting climate change impact and apparently, it's minuscule. On the order of 5% by 2100. Global wealth is projected to increase by over 300% during this time.

- so called "developing nations" have no money to move to alternative energy sources.

Some things that were not addressed, that I'm specifically curious about, living in a coastal area, is sea level rise.

I must admit that part of the reason I found this podcast so compelling is that the interview implies that while it's a real problem that has to be addressed, it's not, like I said a civilization killer.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQSvR1jw3ME
You're right, coal has really jumped in 2021
Looks like the translation is "sector coupling" or "integrated energy", but I think the real key in translating this is that we typically use a different framing in English.

German "Sektorenkopplung": We're explicitly unifying all sectors to a single source of energy, and it's implicit that this source is electricity.

English "electrification": We're explicitly switching sectors to electricity, and it's implicit that this will ultimately tie every sector to a single source of energy.

Disclaimer: I don't speak German.
Haven't read the paper, but they are probably using something like sentencepiece with sub-word splitting and then charge by the number of resulting token.

https://github.com/google/sentencepiece
Not the OP but I’m curious what the counter example is.
An easy way to increase readability would be to use multiple columns. That's how newspapers do it. The web is of course a little different but long lines are a problem.

Note on mobile the width is typically only as wide as the screen, which is good. But mobile is really not good for reading in general.
Ask HN: Is anyone using SimH or QEMU with an old architecture/OS in production?
A few years ago a company I helped a company I used to consult for finally transition a business-critical application off of their physical Solaris 8/SPARC servers... onto emulated Solaris 8/SPARC using qemu. The ancient code (which was originally written in FORTRAN in the 1960s and was originally converted using f2c) was still being maintained on a Solaris 2.6 server using the Sun proprietary compilers, and relied on a core static library they purchased from a third-party which they only had in binary form. Luckily it was all 32-bit because qemu can't boot 64-bit Solaris yet, and it was only about 6-7 years ago that qemu finally got fixed to flawlessly emulate the sun4m architecture (we had started testing it about 12 years ago). While I don't consult for them anymore and no longer can access their systems, I highly doubt they've replaced it today as it was really a critical part of the business. They know they have to at some point, if only because the people familiar with it won't live forever, or because of the 2038 problem, but it does work, and works a lot faster than it used to on the physical servers.

My HN question is... who else is using either qemu to emulate an old architecture or OS, or even SimH, for actual _production_ work? I know IBM is very unpleased if people try to run production apps on Hercules, but that's at least still a living architecture and OS. I want to know who is keeping the dead alive to do real work!
>“Extreme steps”, whether they admit it or not, is a reduction in the standard of living of many and handicapping the efforts to improve the standard of living for most. And that requires the power of the individual to be reduced to empower the central authorities who will manage our new rationed, austere society.

Also forcing the industry not to put polutants in the water and air has it's cost, I would like to understand why the future generation needs to pay so our generation can keep spending money on shit like ctypto, apps, luxury.

I am assuming you think that if we just do nothing some billionaire would discover how to reverse this, but any facts to prove that in 50 years this will happen and the solution would be instant and cheap? And before someone would scream "think about the poor" I would say that there are solutions like fixing tax loopholes where bilionairse move to some different country or some giant company uses some shity loophole not to pay the taxes.
To operate properly at the scale of hundreds of engineers pushing changes, you absolutely need a cluster of machines and a team to operate it.

It is significantly cheaper and more efficient to pay a third party.
>What would 1.2 billion refugees do?
Stay in their countries and improve them just like Westerners do?
Archive.org works on twitter too?
Do you think there are other options? Doing nothing in the face of a climate catastrophe will ... what, keep up or improve everyone's standard of living?
> But why would you

No idea if GP is correct, but that would not even be close to the weirdest thing I've seen in production code in companies. Very plausible to me that an engineer for a large company could write code like that. Short answer, corporate codebases are messy and weird, and because they are already messy and weird they are therefore breeding ground for even more baffling decisions based on time constraints and partial understandings of already weird systems.

Especially in legacy systems, questionable, weird design choices keep producing other questionable, weird design choices until explaining why AJAX requests are getting parsed through hidden input fields or why all of the localstorage fields are Base64 encoded suddenly requires a multi-part, 5-10 minute story about the history of the codebase -- and that's if you're lucky enough to have anyone around who knows the story in the first place.

Related to the above, if you're in charge of an engineering team at a company please build more time into your team's schedule for refactoring and code cleanup.

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To jump off of OP's (at the top of the thread) point, it could also be a bug with malicious pricing. A programmer might have tried to build a dynamic pricing system based on geographic area or whatever and just accidentally read the base price from the same cache they're writing to.

And if your followup question is "but why would you read the base price from localstorage instead of from the server, or why would you even have that logic clientside in the first place?" -- then see the first point above.

But none of the explanations here would be surprising to me at all. It's not really a debate about whether AT&T alters prices based on stuff like area and customer data, I'd be surprised if someone tried to claim they don't. But like OP said, this doesn't make much sense from a conversions point of view; and it's way more likely to be a bug than it is to be an executive mistakenly believing that raising the price by $10 on every refresh makes people more likely to buy Internet.

That executive already has better methods to increase prices: adding hidden fees and service charges, and raising prices behind the backs of long-term customers who aren't checking their bills regularly enough or who are unlikely to go to the trouble and inconvenience of switching or fighting the bill.

My suspicion is bug.
Technology alone can not solve it. Our excessive consumption IS the reason we have this existential problem. We would need seven Earths worth of resources if everyone lived like North Americans.

Edit for the downvoters, it is even worse:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/d9fdb266-1231-4...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2007.216...
It's all about the money.

There is only one solution to speed things up: governments must raise huge taxes on energy use and pollution.
Still some questions persist like:

* Do you reset the likes / retweets after an edit? If not, what happens if folks start selling the ‘edit’ on viral tweets?

* What happens if the original tweet violates the TOS but then the edited version does not? Does the original tweet in violation still get persisted? Does the edit get persisted?
In my part of STEM - the S part - no one knows about LaTeX. It's MS Word or bust.
Also applies to interviews.

If you copy Google's interview process, don't be surprised when your best new hires leave for Google.
Plus, beside the moral conundrum of not wanting to be a burden for your children, there's always the possibility that your children will simply not accept the burden and send you to a nursing home anyway...
why dont you just remove the javascript so they appear as blockquotes? seems a bit dramatic. dont think i would expect twitter to show deleted tweets in the first place, id probably just use a screenshot if its something that i think might be removed.
There's a sub called r/amathenedit which is basically designed for these
Someone had to awaken and prod the sloth.
I made a YouTube series last summer on the massive potential future of DALL-E and multimodal AI models.

Imagine not just DALL-E 2 but a single model which be trained on different kinds of media and generate music, images, video and more.

The series talks about:

- essential lessons for AI creatives of the future

- shares details on how to compete creatively in the future

- talks about how to make money through Multimodal AI

- make predictions about AI’s effects on society

- at a very basic level, discusses the ethics of multimodal AI and the philosophy of creativity itself

By my understanding, it's the most comprehensive set of videos on this topic.

The series is free to watch entirely on YouTube:
GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLza3gaByGSXjUCtIuv2x9...
I mean, I see a retired ChromeOS debug cable on their website- https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/14746

But, why do you phrase this as some sort of negative? They sold a product, and probably retired it because of lack of sales? Is there more to this story?
I wasn't talking about the government. Don't distract from the topic.
I think blogging is great way to connect various hobbies and start turning them into possible careers. Even if no one reads your blog, you will something to look back at.

One thing I suggest is to never start over your blog. I did many times and wish I hadn't. Not because of SEO penalties but because those deleted posts were snapshots of my mind at those stages in my life. They could be great for you or your kids to read in the future.
What are your issues with brew? Not starting an argument here but trying to understand better.
How did you approach Emacs to make it such a valuable tool? I have tried to get started with Emacs a few times but the initial resistance has been too large
+1, being a parent hasn't made me (more) boring. Sure, I went to work for a large company instead of startups so I have a better/regular paycheck, and I may not play as many games or drink as many beers with friends or hack on as many side projects, but kids are really good at forcing you to prioritize the things in your life that are actually important and meaningful. So I still do all those things, just less so, but more mindfully.

Also, now that my kid is getting older and is starting to have actual interests (e.g. he's really into smart home stuff), I'm able to enjoy and participate in those things more.
> We would need seven Earths worth of resources if everyone lived like North Americans

How so?
My brother-in-law streams on Twitch, but I only really find it interesting when he's playing an adventure or JRPG game with a plot and story. Right now he's doing one day a week of Final Fantasy X for a couple hours and it's been really fun.
I’ve been using emacs on and off for about 20 years and I don’t really get the fanaticism. Org mode and magit and all these things are cool. I like that you can hack it. But — to me it never stops feeling like an ongoing project when you try to live your entire life in it.

I like it obviously otherwise I wouldn’t still be using it, but it will never exactly feel elegant to me. More like a good text editor and a hundred other tools all duct taped together.
It all feels like the early days of electricity. How to turn a neat party trick into something more useful, but it was those people who kept on at better and better party tricks that actually formed the foundations for what was needed to do some really useful things electricity as well as understand it at a deeper level.
> As of 2021, German primary energy consumption amounted to 12,193 Petajoule, with more than 75% coming from fossil sources, 6.2% from nuclear energy and 16.1% from renewables.

You might offset that 6% nuclear that is going away with renewables if you really put your hearts into it, but probably not. Won't be economical.
For the longest time now, I have been thinking about this fact: Mine, and the entire Humanity's survival depends upon a mere handful of men. I sometimes think about how a madman could launch a nuclear attack that could potentially cascade into the extinction of humanity. Or how another authority could cut millions of trees solely because of the fact that it lies on his/her territory and that it's none of our business, triggering irreversible climate change and once again, the potential extinction of humanity. All of this makes me terribly sad.

What use is years and years worth of scientific research and intelligence if all it does is cause our own extinction? We are just like Ouroboros eating its own tail.
No. Those figures are pretty "standard". Neither AMD or Intel have "invented" an OOO processor. Those figures mean nothing. Are the standard "big" boxes in any modern processor. The key details are inside.

E.g., https://uspto.report/patent/grant/10,282,296