skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit puzzled by the matter-of-factness of this comment. You're essentially talking about impinging upon a people's right of self-determination. It has a kind of colonial smell to it. Calling it more democratic seems a stretch at best.
How can they tell?

Honest question because I fear my uni will start doing this out of “security “.
yeah nearly every time they refresh you see a red box exclamation point and "Heads up.." in the top right
Yeah, I have mixed feelings about the value of O’Reilly Learning. On the one hand, basically all the books from major publishers. But on the other: lots of interesting, self-published books are excluded; price goes up but they’ve never added back the ability to view books in their original print layout (a feature taken away sometime in 2011-2013, I forget exactly when) so some books are particularly hard to read; and the iOS and Android native reading apps are also pretty terrible compared to reading experiences from Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo, Overdrive or Scribd.

They (O’Reilly) have all this excellent book content but they don’t use it to help me understand which books I should read — what if they could pull out code samples or pull quotes, or help me read books like Manning’s, which can add audible narration to their books? What if there were more links to GitHub, or a categorization system that could group books by API version and recency/relevancy?

What if O’Reilly could meta-search and actually return ACM papers and other relevant websites alongside the relevant books and conference talks they already have? What if they indexed good content sources such as YouTube recordings, or partnered with associations for content, such as USENIX or ATD instead of just including ATD books mixed in with all the others?

Is a boring list of books really the best presentation? And why mix in book chapters so often, it’s annoying to go from a book chapter to the full book on mobile, you basically have to do another search for the book title directly.

Are there alternatives, or ways for me to access this through the library? For me, yes. But at this point in my career I find more value in materials not in O’Reilly learning’s books - I’ll learn more from a self-published title, sooner, for example.

Once upon a time, it felt like the bookstore had all the books on every topic… these days, open publishing is everywhere and the bookstore’s selection often feels limited to popular titles. Are there exceptions? Absolutely. But I’m tempted to buy those when I see them, now, if I have no other way of accessing them (e.g. Skillsoft).
I think OP was saying that the price being relative to each user/session is not a bug, but a feature. The bug part is probably that it keeps raising the price on every refresh, rather than just once.
This is kind of like complaining about having too many meetings at work.

Yup, everyone feels it. …but, does complaining help? Nope. All it does is make you feel a bit better with out really putting in effort in.

We can’t have nice things because people abuse them. Not everyone. …but enough people that it’s both a PR and legal problem. specifcally a legal problem in this case.

To have adults treated like adults online, you have to figure out how to stop all adults from being dicks online.

…no one has figured that out yet.

So, complain away if you like, but it will do exactly nothing. No one, at all, is going to just “have a serious discussion” about this; the solution you propose is flat out untenable, and will probably remain so indefinitely.
Ugh, wind dropped ~11% in 2021? I heard new capacity has paused for some reason. Is this just that + old capacity being retired? Or just some temporary downtime for maintenance? Or is it just that 2020 was super-windy and 2021 was calm? Seems like a big change.
I can see how this has the potential to disrupt the games industry. If you work on a AAA title, there is a small army of artists making 19 different types of leather armor. Or 87 images of car hubcaps.

Using something like this could really help automate or at least kickstart the more mundane parts of content creation. (At least when you are using high resolution, true color imagery.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uffu5XM-s

Fungi expertly transport material around themselves. This time-lapse shows traffic through a fungal network. DNA-containing nuclei are stained green. Pulses of nuclei – ‘nuclear comets’ – travel in hordes through the mycelium (of Neurospora crassa).

The role of nuclear comets is unclear. The most plausible hypothesis is that the fungus uses comets to supply growing spores with nuclei, although how the fungus is able to shuttle the nuclei so quickly remains a puzzle. Nuclear comets travel faster than material transported by microtubule ‘motors’ (dynamic filaments that behave like a cross between scaffolding and escalators). Comets are followed closely by flocks of energy-producing mitochondria, which might play a role in their rapid transport.

Video was made using laser scanning confocal microscopy of Neurospora crassa. The field of view is approximately 0.6 mm.

Video © Patrick Hickey
Electric heating and transport both help introduce renewables faster as they are both effectively storage. EVs are literally batteries that can charge off peak and electric heat pumps can work near continously to store heat in the building fabric and pause when demand is high.

Good insulation is another super boring technology that really helps too.
It doesn’t matter who these people are. If you’ve seen patents before, you can cause from the screenshots how similar the diagrams are to the sources.
Your site is more "minimal" in that it has fewer text elements on the screen. But your site is much harder for me to read than gwern's. First, I hate dark background, white text; white background, dark text is much easier for me to read. (Note that gwern's site gives both options.) Second, your background image is a huge distraction for me, as is the weirdness of the non-image background at the top and on the right. Third, your paragraphs are right justified instead of left justified, which I find distracting. Fourth, your font is too small for me to read easily.

The upshot of all that is that I read the entire content of gwern's page. I didn't read more than a few headings of yours.
Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet
That's interesting, with the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Pro (we have about four deployed) they all originally worked at the 10 GbE speed for us, then we had some sporadic issues dropping down to 1 -- and now the ethernet does not work at all. On a mix of x86 and ARM Macbook Pros.
Don't worry, in a few years someone will have reverse engineered a dall-e porn engine so you can see whatever two celebrities you want boning on Venus in the style of Manet
His customers could just post on stackoverflow instead: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/general-r...

I went down a rabbit hole there looking into numerical methods for general relativity.
May 25, 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D

May 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64_X2

What a race! Looks like the era of 90nm processing, and Intel just beating AMD to the punch, with both of them moving to 65nm in 2006!

Anandtech preview of Pentium D in April 2005.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1657

Anandtech preview of Athlon 64 X2 in April 2005.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1665

Review of Athlon 64 X2 May 2005!

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1676

> Both AMD and Intel appear to be playing release date games with their latest dual core processors.

> Intel's affordable dual core desktop solution, the new Pentium D, officially launched in the middle of last month, but has yet to be seen in the channel.
Nothing makes me long for boilerplate as much as seeing Ruby code with heavy use of metaprogramming.
As a personal experience share:

Consider becoming a consultant, either sharing your unique skills (marketing, programming, design, strategy) or if you don't have directly marketable skills, going to work for a larger firm and learning their process.

My partner and I started our (software development) consultancy because we wanted to LEARN. We wanted to work with lots of different founders on lots of different ideas. We wanted to know what made companies succeed and fail and how to avoid the classic failures.

In the years since, we've built nutrition apps, apps that help people manage end-of-life situations, 3d printing and scanning, made-to-measure clothing businesses, dog toy and cat food companies, social networks, real estate apps, a project that combined AI/ML and gaming, and a hundred more.

Between all the different projects and all the books we've read (we've also read dozens of business and self help books together over the past 10 years), we've grown and learned a tremendous amount. We've also built a business and a reputation that is now creating a fruitful future for us and the people who work with us.

Whatever you do, harness that love for learning and find a job that compensates you for being willing to dive into anything and get up to speed quickly. It's a rare passion and skill!
The point of a nation of laws is to restrain the powerful, the powerful don't need laws to do what they want done, and the law is the only safe redress the abused have against them. Which is why unpunished abuses of the law by elites in society is so damaging in the long run, it erodes the very foundation of what it means to be a just society.
The reason I'm asking this question is because I want to make a game about learning programming and wanted to see what the market has come up with for now.

For now there doesn't seem to be a massively popular game on the topic probably because most educational games feel forced.

This is the impression that Twilio Quest gave me after looking at let's plays on YouTube.

Anyway, your idea sounds interesting however to know if people would like this you need to prototype it somehow.
The full title was too long:

Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
In the posted video he's talking about the existential threats of nuclear war and climate change. Do you have anything to say regarding the substance of those claims or are you content with textbook ad hominem?
...and dozens doing something different but actually worse.
Same, I only recently started watching twitch for the SplitGate pro series (an FPS game with portals). And I really only started watching it because I really love the game and started finding myself in ranked lobbies with pros. I'm not as good as them and don't have the time to be but I can hang. This got me into some other SplitGate streamers occasionally but I doubt I'll get into it much more than that.
The presentation was cited as prior art by Intel.
You have to be a good liar and hope no more follow ups are asked, I don't know if its worth it.
> The FDP is a German liberal party

"Liberal" in this case means economically liberal, going in a libertarian direction (though they're more moderate about it).
"Also forcing the industry not to put polutants in the water and air has it's cost"

it's the reverse -> allowing them to pollute and cause damage has it's cost, if a child with astma dies of air pollution, they aren't paying compensation. When someone got lead poisoning or died of black lung, companies wheren't paying for that either. If that person's family now needs support and welfare, if the pollution needs cleaning up, it's always the taxpayer picking up the tab
Depends what you mean by centralize / what aspects are centralized.

Consider in one case, there are 12 currencies in use which are issued according to the choices of 12 authorities, while in the other case, there is one currency in use which is issued at a fixed schedule. In the latter case, there is a single system instead of 12, but there are no central authorities who can continually choose how much to issue.

Similarly, consider 8 payment processors who are each run by companies which have authorities, who decide what rules they establish for what kinds of transactions they allow, contrasted with one payment processor which has no authorities who can forbid (as part of the payment processing) transactions.

You might call “Everyone speaking lojban” “centralized” because it is of the form “for all x, f(x)=y_0 “ , but the hypothetical of “everyone speaks lojban” doesn’t involve a central authority.
Okay, but does it have to be my eyeball?
Lots of top-level comments talking about how it's common for newspapers, blogs, basically any _other_ type of web-page to allow edits. Sites like reddit and HN also allow edits in certain contexts/timeperiods. I think these are missing how Twitter is different and how this is a Pandora's box.

You can't stop allowing edits, and it will fundamentally change how the platform operates. I think it has a high potential for mis-use and abuse. Currently tweets are, if anything screen-shotted and edited. But if you have a link to the tweet itself, it operates as a source of truth.

I can't say I like this change.
>but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction at this point in time

The folks hosting the content get to decide for now.

IMO best bet is for some folks to take their own shot at hosting / generating content better. Granted I get that is NOT a small venture / small ask.

It's possible there's not a great solution. I don't necessarily like that either, but I don't want to ignore the dynamic of whose rights are whose.
> I think designers are becoming more valuable than ever.

Are all designers becoming more valuable or is a subset of really good ones going to reap the value increase and capture more of the previously available value?
To be fair, the lead dev of graphene os has been crying wolf about stuff like this for ages. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg

Now, i really like Graphene OS. I consider my Pixel 3a with Graphene OS one of my, if not my most secure device. And the work they do is great. But man, Daniel Mackay would be well advised to reorganize how he interacts with his community and perhaps take some mental health help, i don't think he's been in good place mentally for quite some time :(
Indeed, but that sentiment is by no means limited to the US. It's a story older than I am, even real intellectuals (like Chomsky himself) are consumed by this idea that whatever happens and no matter what's the reality of the situation, America must somehow be the bad guy.
Clientgolang – Prometheus instrumentation library for Go applications
Honest question from someone who never used any product from JetBrains: what those IDEs gives you in order to learn/debug a new codebase in such easy way?
Precisely. That's one of the reasons devfs isn't optional in FreeBSD. (Note that FreeBSD devfs is very different from the one that's been there in Linux years ago, and doesn't have its deficiencies.)
Magic is of course a very arbitrary word: I'll define it more specifically as:

It represents things that happen that you don't understand how they happen. Not just you don't understand how they work when presented with the effect, but is resistant to being reverse-engineered.

In your typical programming environment there are ways to backtrack through code searches, type hierarchy management/overloads, interface implementations, type definitions, recasts, scope resolution, etc that you can deconstruct some "magic incantation" to figure out where it is calling and then what it is doing.

In dynamic languages (the article is about Ruby) this gets a lot more dicey, with duck typing, lack of strong typing or optional typing to enforce / document what types are being used where, sometimes dynamic scoping, macro expansions.

In those cases, IDEs are you friend in a BIG BIG way. They enable targetting searches, parsed/contextual navigations, type guessing even for some dynamic languages. IDE+static-ish typed languages is even better: back navigation to the type, navigate up the type hierarchies or compositions.
Yeah, I think the trick is that when you ask for "a picture of a sunset", you're really asking for "a picture of a sunset that looks like a realistic natural image and obeys the laws of reality and is consistent with all of the other tacit expectations a human has for an image". And so if you just go all in on "a picture of a sunset", you often end up with what a human would describe as "a picture of what an AI thinks a sunset is".
Scott Alexander wrote an interesting post on the topic: https://readsomethinginteresting.com/a/69a1f71a

Edit: fixed
yes everyone says so but I am not keen to change now, just out of laziness: there are too many tender points…
I'm convinced this is why so many rich folks have been buying land and citizenship in New Zealand. It's one of the nicest countries in the world that's also very hard to get to, without resources. They're preparing for the violence-tinged migration waves, by arranging to have somewhere to hide that's mostly unaffected.
Thanks for the links I'll take a look.

I found the GDP impact paper referred to in the podcast:

> While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging. In a 2018 paper published after he was awarded the prize, Nordhaus claimed that 3°C of warming would reduce global GDP by just 2.1%, compared to what it would be in the total absence of climate change. Even a 6°C increase in global temperature, he claimed, would reduce GDP by just 8.5%.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2018/MurphyNordhaus...

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-09-10/nobel-prize-wi...
Most life systems are chaotic and decentralized.

Human constructs and social endeavors are centralized because the network effect matters.
I did. Massively. I like to think it helped me in being a generalist that can specialize in software development. Also gave me a good defense system against ideological contamination and cultural pathologies and pollution. But by no means is work done. It's a permanent activity. Part of the lifestyle.
I own a slab of glass I can talk to, it talks to me, and it can recognize my face. This is absolutely magic in a figurative sense. And never mind that, I'm typing this message on a device that is thinner, lighter, and does so much more than the typewriter I wrote my high school essays upon... And I use it to exchange messages in real time with people around the world!

Thank you for reminding us of the everyday magic surrounding us.
The whole comment is basically 1 step away from: 'any structural change to address climate change is a communist plot!'
If I did it would require a bit more planning on my part.

Sticky points:

1. Your own Nginx is required, to serve premium media securely you really need X-Sendfile to proxy not just the WSGI requests but also the media files themselves.

2. The design is for the back end to not really care how you manage your Stripe account. It only cares that a user has a subscription tier, and is "active." So there's the consideration of how to handle that in terms of who touches the money bits.

All that said, in the meantime I would be happy to assist people with deployment on their own cloud / Stripe accounts. Feel free to reach out to me via git contact info, I'd be happy to do a call with anyone about it.

A lot of this is why Ansible scripts are provided in the repo to minimize the learning curve in the initial deploy. A deployment to host premium media is a bit more complex than a simple website Django app.
The author is 100% correct here, but it's not going to change anything, and I'll tell you why.

Companies LOVE requiring all of these sexy over-engineered tools in the requirements for the jobs they post.

I've definitely used these overkill solutions in my own work, sometimes because they were the right tool for the job, but many times simply because I knew that one day in the future, I'd be applying for another job, and that job would likely require that I have experience in these technologies. It sucks, but it's the way the world works for now.

This has a couple of downstream effects too. If I'm trying to hire, I need to include at least some of those sexy tech stacks in my posting if I want to get good applicants. Why? for the same reason I need to use those things myself even when they're not the best tool for the job.

The folks applying to my role know that they're not going to work for me for the rest of their lives and want to been able to check the right boxes when it comes time apply for their next job. Then of course when they get hired in we have to use at least some of these technologies even when we don't totally need them, because after all, it said right on the job posting that we use those technologies.

I saw the inverse of this too. There was a team managing a series of small-ish but incredibly important databases. They had these thing running on Microsoft sql server and were doing a beautiful job. There was exactly zero reason to migrate them to something else. But....when the folks in this department went to apply for other jobs inside the company or out, they were greeted with: "You're not using Snowflake??!!", "you're not doing Cloud?!!", "you don't even have an EMR cluster??!!".

Not surprisingly, after a while this group had a hard time hiring because folks saw it as a career dead end.

TL;DR
people do what they're incentivized to do. Stop incentivizing dumb behaviors.
German Automobile Industry Adjusts Growth Forecast
Picasso’s Photographers
I meant energy use. We are just using too much energy.
Everything is the way it is, until it isn't anymore.
Note that these variables are specific to the Mac Port (https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/). They use an `ns` prefix instead of `mac` in a build based on the GNU mainline. And presumably something else entirely on another OS.
how exactly are you confirming this? Please provide the benchmark.
It's an interesting post-mortem and a reminder of the pitfalls of the "bootstrap" model if you don't have other income.

But I take exception to the "200K EUR" part. Money you didn't make is not the same as money you spent. For starters, the former is infinite!

That the author is so concerned with this opportunity cost -- a cost that is radically different for different people, dependent largely on circumstances that have nothing to do with their value to the startup -- is, I guess, part of the self-doubt he describes.

I can relate, I did a failed startup when I was younger and many times I thought about whether I should just suck it up and get a job instead. Probably everybody does. But half the point of it was to not be doing the thing that would have given you the 200K.
Not to say your problems aren't valid, but counter data point: I have three CalDigit TS3 Plus, youngest is 8 months, oldest is 2+ years, and never had a problem. I have one intel and two M1 Macs.

I did used to have kernel panics on my Intel, but these were T2 chip related and I've had no problems since moving to BigSur. (Could have been T2+TS3 I suppose).
Keeping the resume up to date is a huge factor.

Me and a good friend of mine are principal engineers at our company. I tend to think we are well respected and have done a good job over the years. A few years ago we read our company’s job ads and realized that neither of us should even bother applying for our own jobs because our resumes didn’t have all the latest stuff that was asked for. Since then I constantly add new stuff to new projects even if it’s not strictly necessary’. One factor is to keep the resume up to date. Another factor is that you learn something and the new stuff may actually be better. You just have to be willing to back out. Microservices would be an example where a lot of people wanted to do it but it showed that in our case this architecture only added overhead without benefits so we scaled it back.

Resume driven development is a completely rational choice for employees. And companies have brought it on themselves with stupid job requirements and hiring policies.