skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be sure about this.

I mean if humans are desperate they are much less likely to take care about their environment, and might also not be able to do so properly even if they care.

Then what about bombed gas pipelines and silos or chemical plants?
It would be disastrous. While TSMC does have a few foundries outside of Taiwan, the company accounts for about a third of total global semiconductor production. Maybe more if you consider just the most advanced process nodes. It's not that we'd lose their particular capacity, since Samsung is a fairly equal competitor, but the overall loss would be catastrophic.

Everyone would be in a dire situation, but computers and smartphones would especially be hit hard because they are using the newest nodes. As an example, Apple's SoCs (at least the recent ones) all use TSMC 5nm and that production would just disappear.

It's not correct that all our eggs are in one basket. There just aren't enough baskets to accommodate the loss of an entire one. Other players include SMIC, UMC, Global Foundries, and now Intel, but their capacity isn't significant enough to make up for the loss.

This is why there is a push both to "second source" production, and to increase production capacity overall, especially in more politically stable geographies. The latter is a huge challenge because it requires a lot of capital and a lot of time.
> establishing some sort of commons framework

I very much agree, and there are some compelling projects happening in that space as well:

- https://commonsstack.org/

- https://commonsengine.org/

Getting VC firms on-board is a tough sell, though. Their model intrinsically involves getting a greater return than the up-front investment, usually through centralization, quasi-monopoly, and rent-seeking. The low hit-rate of breakthrough successes makes the perverse incentive all the stronger: VCs need unicorn cash-cows, to offset and subsidize the failures. At best, exit-to-community would be a mechanism to cut losses on investments with a small-but-loyal userbase, but without enough revenue to be truly profitable from the VC's perspective.
Yep, I know of a microwave laminate (i.e. Teflon PCBs) whose yield dropped to 10% after a certain solvent was banned. The substitute does not work worth a shit.
Quaternion might be something you like: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/quaternion
This is not the consensus among ML researchers. Transformers are showing strong generalisation[1] and their performance continues to surprise us as they scale[2].

The Socratic paper is not about “higher intelligence”, it’s about demonstrating useful behaviour purely by connecting several large models via language.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311
Ideally you'd not been able to hunt for a spot close enough by that it'd be worth not paying.

At least that's when paid parking properly works and allows one to almost always park close by (provided one is willing to pay).
Poe's law is in full effect, so I'll just leave this here.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
Great points. I would also highlight the following:

> The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true when one person says it, but x-ist, and therefore false, when another person does.

I would offer the analogy of a broken (analog) clock. If a broken clock says the time is ten o’clock, and the time actually is ten o’clock, it is more important to note that the clock is broken than that the clock is correct. Similarly, if someone says something that is technically true, but they are a person who often lies or has goals that harm others, then it is more important to note that they should not be trusted than that they are correct.

Critics of 'intolerance'/'cancel culture'/'heresy' often invoke truth in their arguments. They miss that the phenomenon has nothing to do with the truth of an out-of-context statement, rather it is about whether a person should be trusted.
And what happens when all those places you have the file opened want to write or read the file?
It goes for nearly every team/chat application nowadays the information density is just too low. Webex is the worst offender if you have a thread in a channel it's basically unusable.
> Maybe we should be asking how toxic is this coolant that such a plant was forced closed by new regulations?

The article says PFAS, but I'm going to guess it is Flourinert[1].

The whole thing about fluorinated hydrocarbons is that it can't burn through oxidation.

Probably a very hard thing to swap out without compromises on fire hazard or corrosion.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert
Terminal clients like weechat[1] might catch your attention, but I'm pretty sure what you're looking for just doesn't match up with modern UI conventions.

I can also personally vouch for weechat, it's extremely customizable and fun to use.

1. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/weechat-matrix
A lot of these spammers start with a repo’s stargazer list, so I’ve been slowly unstarring everything — if enough people do this GitHub will have to fight at least that kind of scraping. I recommend making a special email alias for git you can rotate, or at least send to a folder you don’t check often.

Does anyone here think an open source blocklist for domains associated with this developer-targeted spam would be useful?
That's a misrepresentation of my position. I do want everyone to be able to freely contact with each other without government intervention, all the time. My complaint is that right now, companies can't freely contract with unions, because the government gave unions special powers like not letting companies walk away from the negotiating table.
> Growth would have been slower sure, but we were doing fine before and we'd have done fine without them, but they would still have rotted and by now may well have been forced to reform through economic failure.

May I introduce you to... colonialism? See also: how the battle of Plassey and subsequently income from India helped fund the industrial revolution. I can't speak much about Chinese colonial history (I expect it to be roughly about as brutal and violent as Indian colonial history) but boy does your comment ignore several centuries of history.
Also notable that the article itself was authored by one person, who works here: https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/matthew-robertson/
Yes I have quite a personalised face
I'm using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.niedermann.... on my phone. It's not super fancy, but it works well. I might try out Joplin sometime, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
I strongly suspect predators need to be smarter so they can be more effective.

Either that, or I just had an extremely weird fish.
We know that. China knows that.. I bet they're just trying to work on a narrative that doesn't paint the party in a bad light. I think they've kinda painted themselves in a corner.

Mind you, zero covid could have worked at the start. If it never left Wuhan it may have worked. But the whole world had to have been on board. And after the first 2 months that ship has sailed forever.
If the western world won't trade with dictatorships, where would all the raw resources that make western lifestyles possible are going to come from?

Perhaps you are ready to give up your car, fruit, coffee, electronics, plastics, your detached suburban home, the ability to heat it in winter... And are ready to go work in a clothing sweatshop.

But you'll have a hell of a time convincing your neighbours of this.
If to some people this source code change provides helpful information, is it sabotage? If seen through their eyes?

Eg about using Tor to get access to forbidden news.

(Maybe the way it was done, won't work in practice, but if you pretend it worked, as a thought experiment?)
I've been increasingly tempted to switch to one of these consumer mesh setups from my current Unifi. I just pick up two new Unifi Wifi 6 APs(A U6-Pro and a U6-Mesh) and the performance is just poor. I don't know whats going on. I'm lucky to get 300mbps with a Wifi 5(3x3) or Wifi 6 client.

I'm pretty sure there's something physically wrong with the U6-Mesh as it gets scolding hot in use and seems to throttle between 30-300mbps. I ended up reverting back to the Wifi 5 APs while I figure out what to do.
My guess is that some CC asteroids may have generous amounts of hydrogen. Any reasonable plastic has a lot of hydrogen in it, kapton is harder to make than PE and PET and requires nitrogen which is more of an unknown in terms of a availability.

I think some asteroids might be rather gassy and might require devolatilization before doing anything else and that is awkward because you are going to be at your bottom in terms of equipment inventory, particularly storage tanks.

As for ocean acidification it is a real problem but the severity of what we’re up against means we shouldn’t leave solar geoengineering off the table. The fact that one party could do something very dangerous in fact might break the ‘collective action’ problem.

I presented on this idea at a seminar on geoengineering and I was accused of trying to build a Dyson sphere, I said "no, there is not enough mass in the asteroid belt to cover the Sun but you can build something pretty big, possibly a human habitat much "bigger" than the Earth in land area."
Nice work. This isn't your fault, but it's inspiring a tangent.

It's so strange, but I hate being so spoiled for choice.

The main thing I miss about software from 20 years ago is that there were rarely more than two or three answers to the "which software should I use?" question. By today's standards, the tools we had were subpar. But it was easier to tell the best of the "worst" from the worst of the best.

I recall it being more of an issue with file size, stability, and RAM usage. The question of "does this have everything I need?" didn't often occur to us, because that seemed like a ludicrous proposition in a "hey, this thing is less than a meg to download!" environment.

These days, without a substantial amount of (sometimes dubious at best) preliminary research, you don't get to find out if something meets your needs until you have invested enough time to feel somewhat trapped in the new ecosystem.

Ultimately, I'm not saying things used to be better. The tools we have now are miraculous. It's just for those of us who got to experience web search before Google and web search after Google...we will always be searching for that next hit of finding a tool that is so dramatically and obviously better than its predecessors.
‘Firms will go bust’: Germany prepares for a future without Russian gas
Tangential ask HN: what is a good Linux desktop to do app that supports monthly recurring tasks (I have some accounting stuff that I need to remember to do every month). I’ll use for daily adhoc tasks too, but any app (or pencil and paper) can handle them.
“‎...Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value -- seigneurage. It has that value only in that people believe that it does -- it is a shared phant'sy.”

- Neal Stephenson, The Confusion

Good discussion in Wired interview: https://www.wired.com/2004/04/clearing-up-the-confusion/
Show HN: Free, offline recipe and shopping list manager for Android
Or you fix the "bus stuck in traffic" by charging a toll (possibly congestion-adaptive), high enough to prevent the bad congestion.
The crucial detail that is a little buried in the piece is that the original 'explanation' was posted in /r/ProgrammerHumor so it said right on the tin it was a joke. But the (seemingly clearly intended as a joke) details temporarily nerd-sniped a lot of people's senses of humor right out of their brains. The HN discussion discussion from back then is still fun reading with a number of commenters very invested in the notion that it wasn't really a joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566921
In my experience, very well. I only tested Google Wi-Fi for a few weeks, but I was unimpressed with it overall. eero does a good job at adjusting things behind the scene. It does an RF scan nightly, and adjusts channels and works around interference better than any other mesh kit I've tested. Most just pick a wide channel and broadcast as loud as possible.
Scarcity, ownership, and the inexorable rise of NFTs
Rare earths aren't rare, they're dirty.

But the Chinese don't care. One reason why they can offer them cheaper. No one cares how the stuff is produced there.
Expendable environment, expendable worker.

https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/rare-earth-eleme...
> Similarly, if someone says something that is technically true, but they are a person who often lies or has goals that harm others, then it is more important to note that they should not be trusted than that they are correct.

This is a great analogy, but I'd go even further than this; someone can say something which is true, but in context use it to signal harmful intent. Saying "you know, that last commit from Jane was awful" while venting about bad process over lunch with a good friend is very different than saying "the last code Jane committed was awful" in a meeting about hiring the team's second female employee - even if it's absolutely true.
Not when evaluating truth. When evaluating speech.

Humans don't communicate by simply listing context-free facts at one another. Connotation, implication, and context all play a major role. The idea isn't that the words themselves become evil when said in a different context, but that we recognize that they do different things in different contexts.

Let's consider a totally different scenario: the justice system. In criminal cases, the standard of evidence is way higher than in civil cases. This is a recognition of the fact that the state is capable of causing far greater harm and it should hold itself to a higher standard. Nothing has changed about the truth of say, OJ Simpson's actions, that meant that he was found not guilty in a criminal trial but was able to be punished in a civil trial.

Similarly, we might recognize that somebody with a powerful voice and a large following has a greater responsibility to careful communication than the person working the counter at the local Starbucks.
I learned more about coal plant than the ThorCon itself. Was this published on April 1st :)
>"don't say gay" legislation

Read the bill and quote to me which part forbids any kind of speech. You won't, because you can't. It doesn't. The bill would prevent teachers from keeping secrets about children from their parents. It enforces more speech, not less.

>refusing to allow trans children the right to healthcare needed to save their lives

First of all, there's conflicting evidence about this. Those who medically transition are more likely to self-delete than those who do not according to the National Center For Transgender Equality: https://web.archive.org/web/20150213054306/http:/transequali...

By DSM IV standards, stats for child trans desistance show anywhere from 65% to 94% of children grow out of it: https://www.statsforgender.org/desistance/

More modern data is needed but research into desistance is furiously suppressed and discredited: https://4thwavenow.com/tag/transgender-desistance/

And second of all, how is that a free speech issue?

>The right is also kicking everyone out of their party who doesn't bow before Trump

You aren't paying attention to the right and it shows. This just isn't happening, by any metric. McConnell for instance, is polling as low as Biden among the right in spite of swearing he'll support Trump in 2024. He's been labelled a globalist by the right, and his sister in law's husband has been photographed with Xi Jinping. There's no coming back from that. Kasich vetoed the Heartbeat Bill, voted to increase spending, and took on a strong anti-gun stance before losing support. Christie banned conversion therapy for minors, is wishy washy on gun control, and supported Obamacare. Republicans don't just magically lose their base for opposing Trump. It takes a multitude of sins for Republican voters to hate a Republican politician.
Again, you fail to describe any clear line. In fact, you indicate that there is no clear line by providing an example of a child whose line is different from that of another kid.

The medium isn’t the important bit, btw, so you needn’t get hung up on books instead of, say, television or school programmes. The point is that you claim a “clear line” when there is no such thing.
I just tried to login to my 10y+ account to see what I left there. On mobile. It doesn't work and I have to use the app. O my, that's so slooow, it's painful.
Take a look a the I15 corridor north of Escondido in San Diego county. There are neighborhoods there farther than 5 miles from services.
It definitely doesn't have the decorum I'd expect from a serious expert.
Taking Flight Without a Smart Phone
Locutus is more like a cache than long-term storage, so data can fall out of the network if nobody is requesting it, but information publishers can serve as a backup for data stored in the network, replacing it if it falls out.

I think making the publisher responsible for long-term retention and the decentralized network responsible for distribution is the best option here.

Other tools like FileCoin take the alternate approach of trying to do long-term storage in a decentralized way.
I've not seen any issue in monitoring.

Just in case, here is a Web Archive Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20220410093737/https://sayr.us/r...
Right - that’s a SHA1 collision, which has nothing to do with the possibility of a UUID collision.

I worry that some people might take away from this that UUID collisions are actually something to worry about (nonsensical kindergarten cubby analogies and so on).

Really, truly, UUIDs can be assumed unique. We’re not relying on luck.
You can sort of create or your own threaded channel list by using spaces.

That use case was actually mentioned in the spaces announcements.

Of course the UX for spaces isn't exactly great either atm.
What widgets do you have in mind?
True, I got covid 2 weeks after getting my booster (3rd mRNA dose). At a point where protection should have been optimal.

However it only gave me slight sniffles for 2 days. The vaccine made me more sick :) so IMO the vaccine did its job. I agree with rolling the dice on this. We can't keep locking thingals down forever and masks only delay an eventual infection anyway.

The anti covid measures do their own damage on our health and economy so I'm happy with the relaxation.
If there is a pulpit in the town square, then the 1st amendment says that a speaker *is* entitled to that pulpit. This is the essence of free speech, and always has been. The 1st amendment is very explicit about this: citizens have a right to assemble *in public* and air their opinions *publicly.* Cordoning off opinions and declaring them unfit for certain public squares is a classic form of censorship. Communists, Republicans, the KKK, NAMBLA, the NRA, GLAAD, Gay Geeks for Bernie and the ASPCA all have the right to march on the National Mall.
> I'm curious how Mr. Graham can look at a country that is in the process of reversing much of the last half-century's progress on women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and disability rights, and _not_ see a politics of heresy emerging from the right

Good point! The "problem" is often framed that society is full of adult-babies who can't be disagreed with without dire consequence. But is it at all possible that it's just the case that in recent years people have just felt more empowered to tout anti-social ideas which are worthy of scorn in the first place? There's quite a bit of evidence for the latter (January 6, Charlottesville, Flat Earthers, Anti-Vaxxers).
Xah writes some of the most readable guides and doc I've found anywhere. Specifically, readable in the sense that meaning is efficiently conveyed. In technical contexts it's clear nothing else matters to him. He also isn't reluctant to speak his mind about ... well, just about anything, for better or worse. Usually better, I think, even when it's wordvomit, seeing someone else willing to talk about or criticize something reinforces it however subtly as 'something some people do' and something you may in turn be more likely to do yourself. Which is a net good.

I refer to him regularly, especially when translating ideas to people who aren't in the computer jargon 'orbit'.

The extremes his opinions (and overall style) sit at also force or at least nudge others to think about and elucidate their own positions, if only to themselves. I think it's intentional, and eat it up. I've noticed a lot of people can't stand him for the exact same reasons which suggests it's working.
Exactly. My point here is that a lot of the Anti-China posters want to disregard and shed American’s responsibility. It’s just China that’s evil. Suddenly now that they’re rich and is/was on trajectory to surpass the United States. Where was the unified stance against China for the half century prior? The West and its consumers used China, but are now mad that the regime has always had its own agenda.

It’s really simple. There’s been decades of opportunity to hold Nike accountable, but people continued to support sweatshop labor. Sweatshop labor is not directly related here, but it supports a system that does not value human lives.

Offshoring labor, out of sight out of mind, to countries like China is a negative externality. Suddenly now China is the only one to blame when the externality is no longer external ( microplastics ).

It would not be hypocritical if countries “internalized their negative externalities”, or maybe just not create negative externalities or internalities in the first place. e.g. demote consumption, but that would not be very American. Just look at the public / self storage industry. Americans have two door garages and that’s still not enough. That part is really not China’s fault, even though they are the enabler.
Because one party is human (the individual) and the other party is corporate (the platform).

Individuals are inherently endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Corporations are explicitly allowed whatever rights we choose to afford them, in pursuit of profit and maximizing their ability to put capital to productive ends.

Saying "an individual speaks" is very different than saying "Facebook speaks."

What opinions would Facebook have? And what fundamental desires would Facebook's opinions stem from?
They’re all targets in a counter-force strike. I’m talking about a strike that’s primarily counter value.
The predictions I read cite 300 to 500 warheads if Russia will chose to specifically target Europe, which is unrealistic, as US will (hopefully) retaliate.

It's not me saying that NATO should not attack at all. Having even 300 nuclear warheads shot at you is no good news at all, and you need to preempt that at any cost, including doing a first strike/sabotage on your own.

The number one reason why USSR/Russia never attacked Europe is because it can't attack Europe, and US at the same time. And this is the easiest explanation why Putin been driving a wedge in between EU, and USA for all his 23 years in power.
That hasn't been my experience with the U6-Pro and U6-Mesh. Are you running 80 MHz channels? Do you have a lot of 5 GHz interference around you? I'm typically seeing 500-800 Mbps on the top end, from close range, with those APs. That's with a relatively clean 80 MHz channel though.