skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kolaja is pretty much the last one standing that is still interested in digital rights. Unfortunately the MEPs aren't that important in the party (any party): spending a lot of time in Brussels means being far away from the local headquarters, where the real decisions are being made.

For an impression of how the party is ticking now, just register in their phpBB run forum: forum.pirati.cz and run the discussions through the automatic translator.

I cannot recommend any truly neutral sources about people like mayor of Prague. There is an election coming soon, he will likely lose his seat. One of the reasons is that cost of living has gone through the roof. Many people move to Prague, but almost no new housing is being built. The prices are 2,5x as high as ten years ago. People draw unfavorable comparisons to Warsaw, which is very dynamic and at the time still affordable to the middle class.
the shutdown at end of day is a good idea - i keep trying to get there but all the other rubbish tends to get in the way
Where would one learn about that?
Parent misspoke and instead should have said 'you should be able to communicate effectively without words'.

Obviously the fact that we're communicating 100% of our information currently using text shows that the 90% figure is extremely misleading. 90% of our understanding of a person's character or something maybe comes from their physicality.
https://1feed.app/

9/10 very good.
Because you have to start somewhere, if these technologists took these armchair physicist internet comments to heart, then what progress would they make?

Having worked for defense technology contractors in the area, these people want ideas. They want brand-new, sci-fi level ideas. These militaries and defense companies will literally hire sci-fi writers for inspiration.

It's not like SV where the primary focus is profit. It's less limited than that, these researches are on the cutting edge, it's where we received the internet itself. Remember, researchers in this league led the use and development of radio in its early stages for military reasons.

The truth is, in order to attract defense funds, you have to oversell an idea way, way down the line. Imaginative people with bold ideas of the future. It's beyond market trends, publicly-funded technological development is pure and machine-like. Blows any selfish, boyhood fantasies of the world's richest men out of the water.
Solar May Generate Half of World’s Power by 2050, Trina CEO Says
For the same reason the macbook pro, mac mini, ... have a fan.

> Is it impossible to passively cool i5, i7 (integrated graphics)?

Obviously not, but same as with the M1 in the air and in the pro: fan=more power and heat available. Add the fact that in many devices you have to try really, really hard to be even able to hear the fans adding them is a no brainer.
Frankly, I don't see why both me and my neighbor can't have low-latency, high-speed connectiosn without packet loss. We manage to have such things outside the US so I assume you lot should manage on the other side pf the pond too.
I think that's a different Spirit. The NZ one was originally the Sealord Contender, which kinda sounds like she was built to fight the Greyjoys for control of the Iron Isles, but also, launched in 1968, earlier than the Herald et al.

https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/sealord-contender.28614...
Neovim 0.7: What's new? [video]
Hi,

Here's a quick video about the new features of Neovim 0.7.

Best regards,
David
Have problems with poetry all the time. Upgrade minor version of python, suddenly there is no wheel available for some combination of platform+architecture. Forces you to build the stuff yourself, thus having to install a complete cpp build chain.
You're right, but up to a point. If you concentrate on power for power's sake and stop upholding your original political ideas, you will lose support.

There is a fine balance between Realpolitik and idealism. Ideally, you do not want to go full tilt in either direction.
Thanks for the details, to be honest I thought it wouldn't be an issue using their Fluent UI. Do you think I can't use anything from the UI, not even the icons for the features ?
From our experience Apple is decimating Facebook ads ability to track conversions in markets with a high iPhone usage (such as where we operate). I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook have a few more quarters of bad results and share price hits.

Now, to some extent I suspect the initial changes last year were probably the worst and further changes will have a smaller effect. However the wider impact of the whole thing is enormous, particularly for smaller advertisers. Like much of the industry Facebook is taking control away from advertisers and increasing the use of ML (they shot themselves in the foot with privacy invasive initiatives and the legislative backfire resulting in having to hide data from advertisers), that’s how they now claim to “attribute” conversions on iOS. However this means that increasingly you need a larger daily budget in order to have enough data to train their algorithms.

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Copy past of my comment on this a few months ago, it is worth reading the whole thread:

As a rough datapoint, I run a consumer targeted e-commerce site. We ran a campaign before Christmas were we were selling a new product that was only marketed on Facebook, we are certain that (almost) all customers found it though that Facebook campaign. Facebook was only able to attribute about 50% of the sales to the ads, it should have been close to 100%. This then meant that Facebooks estimated CPA was effectively double what it actually was.
Important to note about 60% of our customers are on an iOS device, which is a little higher than the global average but matches the market segment we are in in the UK.
The situation improved after about 4 weeks, I believe Facebook now uses some "AI" to help with attribution on iOS, but it's somewhat difficult to be sure as by then we had other campaigns running.
So, this will definitely be effecting marketers decision making process of where to allocate spend. It certainly made us more courteous about spending on Facebook.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30205196
I worked on the Front End Engineering Design for a blue hydrogen power station with carbon capture, and I can assure you it generated net electricity export after subtracting the power and heat requirements for the CO2 compression and amine units respectively. So the phrase "It still appears that the energy cost of collecting, piping and injecting all the CO2 from a fossil fuel combustion or hydrogen reformation process exceeds the total amoung of energy that the process generates" is definitely not true. And contrary to common opinion, there is no "unproven technology" in CO2 capture and storage, every unit operation has been around for decades.

However your other phrase was 100% correct I think: "Underground storage of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion has been over-hyped for decades and never convincingly demonstrated." I'm not 100% sure why that is, but I think it is probably to do with the lack of economic incentive combined with relatively little industry experience. If every Operator knew without a shadow of a doubt their Scope 3 emissions would get taxed at $100US per tonne CO2 then a whole industry would spring up and CO2 capture would become commonplace. But you don't get there with a smattering of plants across the world, with various incentives.
Damn my typical day (and those of my friends aged 22-24) is slack off, work 2 hours, make your meetings and then play video games! Can you tell none of us want to RTO?
I think that's the void PowerShell TIRED to fill, but I loath even trying to read such a script because everything is so obtuse. Unix style shells only blindly pass around octet streams, implicitly delimited by \n characters, but really a blind pipe of bytes is the true interface. As it _can_ be anything, to get anything other than human text each program needs an extra flag that alters it's output and thus documents the new format. There's also nothing that stops a program from accepting arguments that arrange for a nest of files and/or fifos (which can also be seen as a type of named pipe) for their interface instead.

Unix style shells start simple and get as complex as desired, rather than a set of typed objects which must all be kept in memory at the same time.

I think what PowerShell showed me is the next step above something the complexity of a Unix shell is a "real programming language", no matter if it's interpreted live (scripting) or compiled. There might be reason to revisit the exact syntax, but I'll wait to hold my breath until we've replaced keyboard layouts designed to slow down typing to a point which doesn't break a mechanical typewriter.
Thanks, do you think I can't use anything from the Fluent UI ? I just wanted to build a useful App to connect license supplier with users and optimize the used licenses
This has also happened to me with three games I have worked on (published 2010, 2012, and 2015)

I updated the most popular one to keep it on the store, and made it much better in the process. It didn't support modern iPads with rounded corners, and I updated some of the menus and fixed a few small but long-standing bugs

In all it was a good thing that something got me to make an effort on keeping my stuff polished. It took about two days, but I ended up with a much cleaner git repo, fixed build issues, and better media and copy for the store presence

As for the other two games? I was happy to let them go. They were beyond my ability to update for modern hardware. I'd rather not have them publicly available than running in some half-assed compatibility mode for modern hardware

I suspect I'm in the minority, but I like being forced to keep my active software actually actively maintained
Yes there won't be any ammonia use in domestic heating. Ammonia travels well by shipping because you can easily refrigerate it to a liquid, but I doubt it's going to become a widely-distributed fuel.
The issue is not technical per se: the issue is the bad evolution of IT toward a net separation of users:

- programmers on one side

- users, powerless, and hopefully ignorant

that can't work. Any net separation can't work in practice. Specialization is needed for commerce, a bit of specialization is needed in practice because we profit from division of labor since some are more skilled in something while others in something else but not without all parties knowing a bit the so called big picture.

That was in IT history the original desktop vision from Xerox to Symbolics passing through Bell Labs. Some, more skilled design desktops, their operating systems, others are users-programmers so not skilled enough nor interested in system-level development but soft-skilled enough to profit from proper end-user programming systems they got from the more skilled ones.

That's the real "no code of the future", witch is actually from the past, witch have live today with Emacs for instance, playing with Lego-bricks "visual" tools, graphs, various modern UIs is just the proof that the elogium of ignorance and division into watertight compartments wanted by modern economic-driven management do not work properly and make bigger costs for bad outcomes while stating the contrary. No ML tool can solve that. We just need to ADMIT that for 30+years we have followed bad ideas and that originals one was the real solution, time to go back in time starting from now.
this can’t feel good to you as a person or engineer. if it does, you might want to look for a job that interests you a bit more, or of it’s not affecting your pay and future ride it out
I'm curious what was used to make the avatar in that presentation.
> what are you using now?

I switched to Debian.

The core of my system is now Debian Stable. For the handful of packages that I want to be newer, I either pull from Debian backports or backport the Debian Unstable package myself (just a simple rebuild in most cases).

Flatpak is my last resort for one or two apps that aren't yet available in Debian. Since I don't trust the flathub/pypi/npm "accept software from anyone" model, I try to mitigate the additional risk with a few extra steps: I'm choosy about which flatpaks I'm willing to use, I scrutinize the permissions they try to grant themselves, and I install them only after rebuilding them myself with any unwanted components or overreaching permissions stripped out. (Flatpak's permissions model is broken in my view, but I think it could be fixed, and it is at least a starting place for working toward decent app isolation.)

I'll miss some of Ubuntu's Launchpad services (free multi-architecture build farm, free package hosting, user-friendly bug tracker) but I don't value those conveniences as much as I value the benefits of traditional packaging for my core tools. Overall, I'm happy with the switch.
What do you think is the reason for that "orders of magnitude" in growth? Can one experience similar without working for a big tech? Is it a mental thing or rather the working environment with many highly qualified people around?
bruh I spent the past two years living throughout the Americas, visiting national parks, living in new cities and countries, all while slacking off and making 200k+ a year. It felt fucking amazing.
I uninstalled it. Even my spouse uninstalled it. I still have the account since it's tied to pages etc. My spouse still uses it a bit for work, but overall a lot less.

Some of that moved to Instagram but not for us. No Facebook makes me much happier.

I think we're still outliers but I do think this is becoming more common. Smarter people understand what's underlying these networks and try to avoid them.
I kind of like to think code itself could use this analogy.

If a piece of code combines data from three systems, then maybe first fetch it from each one (maybe in parallel), then "wash" it (check preconditions, normalize, etc.)

Then you hopefully have data which is ready for doing the core work without the code being muddled with fetching missing stuff and cleaning it.

I can obviously find counterexamples when it is not so easy but I think I can also find functions which unnecessarily mix fetching stuff, checking it and the core logic.
Some would say there is actually TOO much being done with green hydrogen.

Hydrogen is very difficult to transport and almost all of the world's 90 million tons annual consumption is generated locally.

Hydrogen is a very sexy attracting a great deal of interest and investment and unfortunately distracting away from more straightforward decarbonisation pathways like electrification, smart grids and Closed-Loop Pumped Hydro Energy storage.
We see "brutal" in that sense in English too, e.g. "brutal honesty" which is not meant to imply that the honesty is savagely violent, but that it's raw and unadorned.
Show me evidence. Gas tax doesn’t cause market decisions.
> Complexity never really goes away

This is only true if the complexity comes from the underlying problem that must be solved or goal that must be achieved.

Complexity that exists for historical reasons, derived from technology or platform choices, solves a problem you don’t really have or don’t need to have, relates to the structure of the organisation, etc. etc. can of course all be made to go away completely.

In my experience a small fraction of the complexity in most organisations and software is truly, fundamentally unavoidable.
(Sorry for the delay.)

> Any significant sentence GPT-3 spits out will have more meaning, structure of meanings, and concretion of structure of meanings

In the naturally intelligent reader or in the machine?

> narrow definition

/Ostensive/ definition. "Narrowing" because it is a (piece of a) definition. (It excludes shallowness.)

> your definition is faulty

If the reading (interpretation) is.

> I don't think you can claim all those thousands/millions of people are wrong

Well...

> when someone points out problems with it

Apart from that "something in the air" of historic duration and consequences, but curiously unusually present here in the latest few days, of heightened communicational struggles, yesterday I thought of other recent exchanges here showing that approach: «Is this place still attended to by people who build things, or is this the turn of consultants who think their job is to shake their heads and present an invoice?». Also with reference with those - present in this club - that use e.g. logic or science to "close paths" instead of furthering them.

> Maybe you're thinking of replying claiming all the images I linked above have meaning in them

No. I am still thinking of replying that either the creator intended to represent a found structure of proper meanings - concepts refined in a path towards maturity - or the product is phony.

If I could kindly ask you to take a brief look to my reply to krapp yesterday: surely a critic may find meaning in a random composition - a critic-in-act would because "we" do, we recognize those structures of meaning we were "internally" developing into all that could represent them (aaand look, that's the Arts - normally, when we reproduce that intentionally) - but then, the art is in the subject, not in the object.

So: before you can have an "artist" AI, you have to have a "philosopher" AI. (Sophistication matters little; "modules" do.) Otherwise, you may have a "mockerer" AI, a "trickster", a "deceiver", if there is no substance, no depth under the surface.
"I'm now a coding monkey but I'm close to becoming a manager".

I really wish managers and aspiring managers would be snapped out of existence. They should be sent to the mines. If a developer does a job interview and they say they actually WANT to become a manager some day, that's the biggest red flag currently known to me. I'd rather hire a drug addict than an aspiring manager.
I have worked on the black hole info paradox too, and this to me looks more a rant than anything.
The solution to the information paradox is expected to improve our understanding of the horizon structure, if any, and this should give us predictions detectable as gravitational waves. And we just detected the first gravitational waves! What a time to be alive :)
Storage isn't the only reason to invest in green H2. It is e.g. the most plausible path for decarbonization of many industry sectors, including steel and chemicals. And these are often technologies that are in early stages.

I don't think this "first you need to do X, only then can you do Y" approach fits for the current situation. These technologies need to be developed now.
They gave direct feedback on aspects of the programming assessment, with both positive feedback and ultimately the reasons why they didn't take the process further (which essentially boiled down to lack of deep knowledge of how concurrency worked in a certain language). I guess my worry is that, like this one, I only apply to places I REALLY want to work at. Therefore if I don't get it, I feel like I've blown my shot and realistically can't apply again for another couple of years (whether thats true or not)
This. Plus RF emitters are widely used in direct vicinity of brain for 30 years max, while their frequencies changed during that time from 400MHz to 5GHz.
The thing with that is you need to know what takes longer, and how long that longer is, beforehand. That comes from experience mostly. You will certainly screw it up several times before you get a feel for it.
Instagram is ranked at 10. WhatsApp is at 12, while Facebook is at 18.
Sorry for the rude tone, but is useful to get to the point: non-verbal communication works they well in person, we understand others from it. With a webcam it's just a visual overload that distract and disturb.

We have gone through the very same error for the entire IT history: after the Xerox era all tried to mimic the real life in a virtual one, like many GNU/Linux newcomers try to mimic Windows paradigm and some criminals with a keyboard improperly named developers sometimes even try that path. All such moves were big failure. The virtual world have it's rules, not the same of the physical one. We do NEVER try to mimic one in the other but to elicit the maximum profit from any tools.

Working distributed is not "a way to be together but with physical distance", oh we see many consider that, we see even infra designed for that with crappy VDIs hosted somewhere to have "the virtual managed office" around the world, even some in the metaverse to try mimicking real life conferences rooms. See in the past General Magick UIs and you'll understand why that can't work.

WFH is not work in a virtual office, we need a paradigm for it, witch is totally different than the in-person one.
Interesting this is almost the opposite for me... I do have a two phase work day but I usually respond to emails, notifications, and code reviews in the morning. I mean, I have a cup of coffee and they're just there and it feels productive to get that stuff done. Then I take a break and have lunch, and the afternoon/evening is when the stretch of productive work happens. I can put headphones on and although there are occasional interruptions, I can generally get into a flow state.
> Right. The vast majority of people rejecting global warming are doing it for irrational reasons.

No they are doing it for rational reasons from the perspective of an individual but presenting irrational arguments for their position. For any given individual the impact of climate change is going to be irrelevant in western countries. Worst case, you just move somewhere else. However, on a societal scale, having a mass of people migrate from one place to another is a recipe for chaos.
I haven’t come across this but I use only whatever versions of Python are provided by the python@3.10 and/or python@3.9 Homebrew packages and Debian testing or stable so am very likely not at the bleeding edge.

That or I don’t have interesting enough dependencies :)
Great points, thank you. I don't inflate my resume, as I've interviewed a fair few people who've done that and have seen where it gets them. Unfortunately due to working in defense, I cant tell future employers the software I've worked on beyond technology stack and very vague implementation.
Thank you for those short video snippets. Loved the ones on vim-dap.

May I ask how you enable the dynamic syntax highlighting as seen in the video? Is this based on treesitter?
I share the concerns about snaps. Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I actually started using as my daily driver in 2005, and I've been using it ever since. At first I used to upgrade all the minor releases, these days I'm just on whichever LTS release. It's funny how over the years I know less and less about Linux. It just works.

Why have you chosen OpenSUSE and how has your experience been? I've been eyeing Debian, as it's pretty similar and I already have it on a server. My main concern with switching to a completely different distro would be that the packages are sometimes named differently.

Or I could switch to NixOS if I wanted things to be actually better, but the idea that I'd have to spend time nurturing my system just doesn't sound that appealing in 2022.
The Shape of Things to Come: GraphQL and the Web of APIs
I tend to prefer the approach of

fetch A
wash A
fetch B
wash B

in terms of being easier to read. Of course sometimes there are performance benefits to firing off all the requests right at the start.

Anyway I definitely agree that not separating the core logic out from the data fetching/cleaning is a bad idea.
The people groking things instantly and inhaling ideas are actually the ones who learned to learn, and everyone else just thinks they have because they put a lot of effort into broken practises of learning.
Guix seems to be a better bet.
It was you that claimed blockchain could improve the state, now you've switched to only blockchain can destroy it? And replace it with "an organisational unit" which is apparently, not a state/government/democracy?

None of this sounds like a good idea, even in theory.