skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the areas where Americans see their own decrepit government infrastructure and extrapolate that all developed nations struggle with the same basic things.

I lived for 35 years in Finland, and the government there has absolutely no problems verifying who’s a person. If Finland wanted to implement UBI, it could start sending money to resident citizens’ bank accounts tomorrow. Paper checks and other American-style 19th century banking relics are simply not a thing.

Nobody needs crypto or a VC-funded eyeball scanner to get there, it just takes political will.
λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
If you can handle high prices then you might be better off with an Apple machine.
It's awesome in the US if you only have one internet provider. Not only is the internet badly overpriced[1], they bundle cable and internet together, so that you basically pay for cable whether or not you want it. We wanted to drop cable to save money, but they said "Oh that means we remove the bundle discount. Your bill only goes down $3 a month."

[1] This is not an opinion. AT&T just put in fiber and I got 6x faster download, 20x faster upload at a fraction of what I was paying before. My existing provider countered (after I cancelled) with a much faster internet plan plus cable at 40% of their previous price.
Very cool stuff. For me, the most interesting was the ability to take a piece of art and generate variations of it.

Have a favorite painter? Here's 10,000 new paintings like theirs.
Well, for one, not all 7500 of Twitter is working on this :P And this kind of thing is less “hey users which do you like?” and more “ok what would the worse trolls on Twitter do with this feature? How can we minimize misunderstandings while providing value? Should we ship an edit button or some other implementation?” These conversations take time.
I get your general point about money providing perverse incentives, but I've got to say this is a strange take.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is "is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change." [0]

Would you prefer that this type of institution "focus on the good things?" Instead of doing their job?

Perhaps a stretch, but it sounds to me like you're saying hospitals should tell you about how good your cholesterol levels are instead of mending your broken arm.

[0]: https://www.ipcc.ch/about/
> Azure already have IPv6

It's not consistently available over all Internet-facing Azure services, even including such high-profile services as Azure App Service (f.k.a. Azure Websites), which is a very surprising omission today.

It's been a highly-upvoted ask on UserVoice for over 7 years: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/676236/ip...
I’m addition to the other great ideas posted in this thread, I’ll throw out something that has helped me a lot… I have a folder called "Captain's Log" that I constantly post things into. Everytime I hear something on the radio I want to look up, I type a few of the lyrics into a file and save it and it goes into the Captain's Log for perusal later. Everytime I have something I need to remember to do I post a note into the Captain's log and add a "todo" tag to it so I can sort those out when needed. All meeting notes go in there too. When I start coding something I take notes on what I'm working on in a note so that I can go back and remember what I did when I was working on that thing I can't quite remember.
I can sort that folder by "date created" and see a log of my life going back in time and I've found it very useful.
I know it takes forever to do big projects, and diminishing returns are very much a thing, but 80% by 2035 feels like a really low bar.

Looking through various targets, it's far better than most countries[0], and Germany might not have the best geography for domestic renewable energy generation other than wind. (Not that it needs to be domestic. Being dependent on Russia for gas was a mistake. Being dependent on France for nuclear or Spain for solar feels a lot safer.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_renewable_energy_tar...
SA: "The thing most people get wrong is that if labor costs go to zero... The cost of a great life comes way down. If we get fusion to work and electricity is free, then transportation is substantially cheaper, and the cost of electricity flows through to water and food. People pay a lot for a great education now, but you can become expert level on most things by looking at your phone. So, if an American family of four now requires seventy thousand dollars to be happy, which is the number you most often hear, then in ten to twenty years it could be an order of magnitude cheaper, with an error factor of 2x. Excluding the cost of housing, thirty-five hundred to fourteen thousand dollars could be all a family needs to enjoy a really good life.”
They can only do it if it was not publicly disclosed. You cannot patent something which has been kept a trade secret.
Maybe you can link to an interview with an actual Russian then as a foil.
Ukraine: Starlink as Mobile Transport Network
> American fracked LNG exporters who hoped to simply seize that market from Russia are doubtless disappointed.

Germany has a huge industry which won't be able to switch away from gas that easily so I'm sure that the LNG suppliers will have a market for the next 20 years.
Wind and solar is all you need. Power2Gas is a viable technology for seasonal storage.
I think the OP is referring to the form factor. It seems impractical and gimmicky. Why not stick the same technology into something shaped like a DSLR or video camera - i.e. something easier to hold? Making a shiny orb betrays an obsession with the technology and not the problem they're ostensibly trying to solve.

Edit: The article includes 2 pictures of orb operators using the orb. In both cases it seems like a more traditional form factor would be better. The first picture shows an orb operator balancing the orb in his hand - seems like a handle would be useful. The second picture shows the spherical orb awkwardly strapped to a flat platform on top of a monopod or tripod. I'm guessing that the orb does not have a tripod mount, but it really should.
VPN and browser spoofing?
> Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock HD

Listed as: Intel i210

> Thunderbolt 3 Dock Pro

Listed as: Thunderbolt 3 Dock Pro

So interestingly enough, we have both of these deployed around our organization. We did extensive testing with both of them using iperf3 and I can personally confirm they *BOTH* will push sustained gigabit speeds. [Test platforms are various best-generation x86 16" MacBook Pros]

On both of these, what doesn't work on these is Dual HDMI with an (otherwise reliable) USB-C cable (the 'pro' only has a display port). We instead completely ignore the built-in HDMI/Displayport and use an additional `Plugable Thunderbolt 3 to Dual HDMI` plugged into the downstream Thunderbolt port on the dock, which works flawlessly.

> Corsair TBT100 Thunderbolt™ 3 Dock

We have two of these deployed as it worked on the bench, but it has operational issues. It will push sustained gigabit with iperf3, and we were delighted to see the built-in dual HDMI works without an external adapter. Unfortunately, once we deployed them, we found they "crash" once or twice a day. This causes the user's monitors to go blank (OSX thinks they were unplugged) and disconnects the ethernet during the process. Furthermore, we were testing writing to the sd card with rsync and you can actually get OSX to BSOD while running two monitors, iperf3, and using the SD card. I would avoid this dock like dysentery.
SwiftTermApp: SSH Client for iOS
That's why Germany is planning to do Sektorenkopplung. Don't know the english word.

Basically everything is switched over to electric. Transportation, Heating, …
> At the same time, thinking about the time and effort I will be forced to take away from the thing that keeps me sane fills me with dread. It's not like there's a way back.

YMMV and don’t let my experience be your only guide

But I had the same exact feeling. After the first year or two (infant stage is tough, no denying it) I’m actually right back to my hobbies just as before.

It takes more planning now to do the weekend hobby events that are out of town, but it’s still plenty doable.

I’ve also realized that the number of years that your kids are young and require a lot of attention is actually fairly small. I plan to live to at least 80 and the most attentive child-raising years are only a small fraction of that.
When working outdoors in middle-eastern countries and the temperature goes above certain range (like 45C/110F range), sirens/alarms are raised to halt the work and give a cool-off period for the workers. My friend worked as an instrumentation engineer in the region and he mentioned about a wide-spread malpractice of recalibrating these monitoring tools to increase the temperature threshold by few degrees. So, the sirens won't sound at 110F but instead will sound only at 115F. And there are many other instances to prove the horrible working conditions and lack of safer work environment. Qatar is relatively less worse compared to the other nearby countries though.
A friend of mine was studying graphic design, but became disillusioned and decided to switch to frontend programming after he graduated. His thesis advisor said he should be cautious, because automation/AI will soon take the jobs of programmers, implying that graphic design is a safer bet in this regard. Looks like his advisor is a few years from being proven horribly wrong.
I think we are already doing that, albeit in typical human style of waiting for a local disaster before moving people completely out of the danger zone.

The danger zones are huge, and understandably people,ant to keep using them until the last possible moment. Like all projections show Manhattan may one day be under water, but we will only slowly abandon it as it floods rather than evacuating dry land in advance.
Here’s a 1U from Gigabyte with that Ampere chip
https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Rack-Server/R152-P31-rev...

Just got a Mac Studio (M1 Max), and it’s a pretty smooth beast.
If you remember the Panama Papers we had multiple major Nordic banks being involved in money laundering with sanctioned Russian oligarchs. The result was multiple CEO's being forced resign, cash flows worth many hundred billions, several employees arrested, some employees that fled their own country to avoid prosecution. After this leak we have multiple bank leaks with similar stories fraud, tax evasion, and evading of international sanctions.

We can put some wishful thinking that Novatek is the exception here and has no shell companies, no tax schemes, no avoidance of sanctions, no unaccounted money flow hopping around between banks in order to avoid insight. How likely is it, and how much more likely is it that with the right access to bank records or secret service files, some investigative journalist will have a field day describing just how much money ended up in the hands of the Russian government?
But why would you cache price data like that?
its more like a patrimonialism vs legalism conflict. Patrimonialism is a form of coservatorism based on Confucius while Legalism is a "the end justify all means", a no morality philosophy for the state growth. The CCP took the worst aspects of these two philosophies
A much smaller market than expected if Germany manages to reduce demand for gas for electricity and heating.
> I can’t help but believe it’s to create fear.

I think cause and effect is mixed up here. I think the damage humans are causing to our planet is scary. Fear is just the emotion we feel when something scary is happening.
Authorities seize Hydra servers in bust against darknet cybercrime marketplace
Merkel is gone. We're already at 50% renewables.

Just stopping the stopping of renewables will reach the target (for electricity).
Sounds like some untapped real estate for you to move into on Twitter ;)
Is this on NVIDIA hardware perchance? I've never seen nor heard of issues like that otherwise.
It is a great book. It gave me permission to pursue different fields & hobbies without feeling guilt about abandoning them later. It suggested also various ways to pursue your interests. Some people are serial scanners, they get into one thing at a time. Ben franklin was like that.

Then there are some who are able to manage their schedules and pursue multiple interests at the same time.

There might be more types of scanners that I cannot recall but another type was scanners with one core interest and then various interests around it. This is what works for me, programming is my core interest and luckily pays well to let me pursue my other hobbies. Over years, I have had various hobbies and learned so many things. I feel I can find a common hobby/interest with almost anyone now.
Perhaps it would be better if you stopped implying and started to make your point explicitly. Because if your point is that there is some security boundary in Windows that allows an application installer to write to %PROGRAMFILES% but not to \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32, then you are sorely mistaken.
The HP Palmtop was amazingly powerful for its time - because it came with 123.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX

It's arguably still better to this day at being a portable spreadsheet computer than phones.
Politicians are not going to go out of their way to hurt industry unless the public are rabidly screaming for it. These reports are for the public to generate that push.
> But the children are certainly not the reason for my lurking depression: it was there before I had kids, and being a parent hasn’t magically transformed my life with meaning.

Sorry to hear about your struggles. I do fully agree that having kids won’t alleviate things like major depression and hope I didn’t give that impression.
Is it possible to use it with multiple users calendars? Have 1 calendar for each?
It does feel, unfortunately, that in the question of "Now or never?", that as a species we've decided on "never". Or at least "Not until something acute and surprising happens to a western country."
Your competitor wrote the RFP you're bidding on
There's a ton of social aspects and impacts that have to be considered and tested, and I think you've only scratched the surface. An edit function would add a substantial amount of new UI/UX and interface elements. There are still Twitter features (Spaces, bookmarks, many of Twitter Blue's additions) that have been on the smartphone app for year(s) that are still inconsistent or half-baked on the web app (and sometimes vice versa). And there would have to be substantial additions/reworking to the API.

On a more technical issue, no doubt much of Twitter's architecture (e.g. caching) has been built with the assumption that a tweet's content is immutable. I imagine that breaking that assumption impacts a lot of underlying systems.
I'm switching to X and will be happy until either,

a) X gets large enough to matter and also has scale issues.

b) X gets acquired by Y and sends a "what a great journey we're so excited that X will have Y's resources" email and then inevitably becomes just another forgotten tool under Y

/s sorta
It is, but you seek out the less traffic'd roads when on a motorcycle. (I ride too.)
It sounds like you're saying creating fear is a bad thing. Is it?

Sure, people don't need or want to live their lives in fear. But, can you think of a time you changed your behaviour on account of something you were afraid of?

I bet you can. I bet politicians really can.
Electricity->Hydrogen->Electricity loses about 60%, not 80%.
At first glance this doesn't look like an exaggeration. It's basically a 1-to-1 rip off when you place the images side by side. Even the labels within the diagram are copied directly.
The paradoxical thing about this for me is that both the most junior and senior engineers fall victim to this line of thinking.

I have done so myself, on both ends of the experience/skill spectrum. As a junior it was because the tech was exciting, and the cool kids were doing it so obviously it was the Right Way to do things. As a senior because I'd been a part of the scramble to scale short-sighted systems in a startup that had found product/market fit and didn't want that pain again.

Turns out you can build the most scalable thing and people still won't flock to your product. And you wasted all that iteration and learning time.
Removing these areas to mitigate misuse is a good thing and worth the trade off.

Companies like OpenAI have a responsibility to society. Imagine the prompt “A photorealistic Joe Biden killing a priest”. If you asked an artist to do the same they might say no. Adding guiderails to a machine that can’t make ethical decisions is a good thing.
We don't have credible alternatives. The energy density per unit volume of gasoline is only outmatched by nuclear. Nothing else comes close.

Edit: Check out this chart. Scrub the metals, and compare the remaining sources. We've got a long way to go before batteries achieve parity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File:Ene...
Grafana Labs raises $240M Series D
That's true, but many German's reaaaaaaallly love renewable energy.

Just go to any rural area in north-west Germany in google maps and look at the solar on the roofs of all the farms.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/26655+Westerstede/@53.2438...

Took me 3 seconds.
It seems really difficult to make the economics for seasonal electricity storage work. The article mention a materials cost of 23$ per kWh for their battery. Let's say this battery lasts 23 years. Transferring 1 kWh from summer to winter would than cost 1$ per kWh. That is before the cost of constructing the battery, R&D, sales, insurance, etc. Cost for 1 kWh is now below $0.10. That would mean generating electricity in summer and transferring it to the winter would come at a 10-fold increase in cost of winter electricity. For any currently available method, it seems that it would be far cheaper to simply have overcapacity in electricity generation from renewables and discard the excess electricity generated in the summer.
So what does the future of human creativity look like when an AI can generate possibly infinite variations of an idea.
Thanks, yeah I think I've tried the first 2 methods. I'm expecting something like an eyedropper to come up where I click the fringing, but I think it's something else I need to do.
This is definitely a measure to avoid bad PR. But I don't think it's just for that; these models do have potential to do harm and companies should take some measures to prevent these. I don't think we know the best way to do that yet, so this sort of 'non-training' and basic filtering is maybe the best way to do it, for now. It would be cool if academics could have the full version, though.
Also:

* How do you show that a like, Retweet or reply was in response to an earlier version of a tweet that might be vastly different from the tweet you’re seeing now.

* Do you reset a tweet’s likes and retweets when it’s edited? If not, what’s the policy on selling the edit on a viral tweet?

* How many times can you edit?

* Are older edit versions persisted or deleted?

* What’s the policy on a tweet that violates the ToS and then is edited to not violate the ToS?

I’m sure there are more, but it does get complex at scale I’m sure.
He didn’t.
Cant be solved under capitalism, climate health just doesn't play a role in maximizing profits.
I think the last 2-3 years it has somewhat stagnated (for example [1]), driven by conservative politicians fishing for votes with NIMBY policies (while at the same time increasing dependence on Russian imports). Hopefully the new government can pick it back up, though.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-build-no-new-of...
Also importantly, solutions don't magically appear. Someone needs to do the work and before even that happens, the problems need to be identified and studying.
This might sound weird, but check your diet if your handwriting is shaky/cryptic or mentally anguishing to perform. I looked into this upon recommendation of someone else, and now I always notice when mine is worse after certain meals. Not advocating for one particular diet.
Quite the contrary. When you're rich, you start doing projects that have impact that are not necessarily tied to money, but rather power.

Bezo's owning WaPo

Elon taking board position at Twitter

Zuck/Gates giving away net worth to charity

etc. etc.
Changing your personality so you’re better at making money
I believe the correct term for this is sketchy, and that's probably being too generous to Sam.

This is some next level dystopia nonsense. There are plenty of KYC (Know Your Client) imperatives out there that don't require yet another blockchain driven platform and a scan of your fucking eyeball.

It's a no from me. This is more than sketchy it's downright awful.
Reading this from Czechia had made me chuckle. Germany is so far ahead in renewables compared to us!
Discussion from 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092
I might believe the world leaders about this if they gave up their flights on private jets to make announcements.

When the leaders start leading, instead of making life more difficult or expensive for average people, I will start listening again.

And I’m a bike riding hippie!
Disclaimer: I don't know C++ (well)/CMake(at all). I'm guessing the tooling for creating static binaries is only marginally better.

At least for rust (I'm not as familiar with Go), it brings super easy project setup and library inclusion.

E.g. for creating a project and running it:

> cargo new my-cli
> cd my-cli
> cargo run

And then all I need to do is add structopt to the cargo.toml file to bring in a command line parser with hygienic macros.

Edit: they also do static linking by default :EndEdit

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But what it really makes easier is not needing to worry about memory safety. C++ is good at making static binaries, even if it might be slightly more fiddly.

So it's more like the static binary is the advantage over scripted languages, and memory safety is the advantage over c++.

I would never attempt a tool in c++ now that I know Rust.
Jenkins is the most flexible system I've worked with, but Buildkite has been great and just gets the job done reliably. Big fan.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'inner work', that would need defining to answer the question. When I think of 'inner work', it means something (nearly) completely devoid of anything happening in 'the world outside of me'. Whatever I am doing for a profession or for hobbies is (nearly) completely divorced from what is my 'inner work', which is work done for the purpose of increasing consciousness. My particular flavor of inner work (there are many) is done in order to transmit the work to others, for the benefit of those who seek to do the work.

I have been at this for many years and I can say that doing the work requires effort and the expenditure of energy. The benefits to personal creativity have begun to become immense in recent years, as creativity comes naturally as a result of being less attached to ones' personality and being able to more freely allow energy to 'flow through your being' (that's the best I can describe it). These benefits are side effects, though, and not really the purpose of the work. If this is why you seek to do the work, it is misguided and you are probably setting yourself up to simply fuck yourself up. Seek a guide for this kind of work (I am not a guide), and be wary of those who charge money. My guide has been with me for > 10 years, has never charged a cent, and has been instrumental in my efforts. If you do the work with genuine integrity, you will find a guide.
That's the way it should work, at least. But I have a nagging feeling that Intel wouldn't have done this so brazenly if (with the correct amount of lawyers and friendly judges) it wouldn't have seen a chance of the patent being upheld. Then again, "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", so, who knows?!