skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems dishonest because it downplays reducing use. For example the author refers to plastic used in maternity wards. Reasonable people will agree that medical plastic for birthing mothers and newborns will be one of the very last things to go and the current emphasis should be on things like everyday single use plastics. Similarly he worries about fertilizer use in Africa but for some reason frames it in terms of food self-sufficiency, instead of discussing how more efficient diets (less meat and waste) in more developed countries could result in either more food shipped directly to Africa or at least lower food prices on the global market.

You wrote:

> And in a world where we're unable to continue exploiting fossil fuels, whether due to the environmental impacts of their waste, or the lack of future supplies, the present mode of operation will end.

> What that means in terms of the set of factors affecting human impacts on the planet --- per-capita wealth and total population --- one or both factors must move.

Imagine vegetarianism becomes much more popular. How does that fit into your analysis? Are you concerned about putting people out of work due to increased efficiency in the food system? I'm not sure that's worth worrying about except as a political difficulty. If all murders stopped then we'd put some police and prison guards out of work too but most people would say that's worth it.
Let me fix that sentence for all the HODLers. “In a sense, the market is going to take that as kind of bullshit”.

I’m sorry all crypto believers. There’s just too much chaos in crypto world for this to be anything more than a gold rush.
What are they paying for though? Influence on twitter? You don't need real users for that, just promotion with the algorithm
Is there a link to official info on what the new personal use plan entails?

Edit: There's this summary, but nothing detailed so far:

Continue using your custom domain with Gmail

Keep using Gmail with your custom domain

Retain access to no-cost Google services

You will retain access to the no-cost version of Google Workspace services such as Google Drive and Google Meet, and additional Google services such as Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube

Keep your purchases and data

You will retain access to paid content such as movie purchases at Google Play and data stored on Google Workspace

This option is for non-commercial personal use

Google may remove business functionality from this offering and transition businesses to Google Workspace. Additionally, this option will not include support.
While I was already familiar with Hulten‘s work, I had not seen some of these more recent pieces. The custom commission for a band combining a Korg Minilogue and a Roland TR-08 (and some kind of tape delay?) is absolutely brilliant.
If you haven’t already messed around with WSB files, I would encourage them for more complicated use cases.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

The WinGet github repository has some scripts to setup and install programs inside.
Gotta love those FOMO babies!
Following that thought... confused it into thinking what? (Allowing for anthropomorphic use of 'thought'.)

Really, the key here is that it's on-screen model shows the yellow lines. It must have become terminally confused to plot that course. Looks like it threw away the model and the rules and just decided to end it all.

Headline: "Tesla computer, in fit of depression, commits murder/suicide". (With a number of !s appropriate to the publishing venue.)

What's the name for the slash marks sometimes found on suicide victims, where they tried to cut their own throat or wrists several times before they succeed? Hesitation marks? Maybe that's what we're seeing here. /facetious
>real-time collab is not exclusive to webapps.

Sure, but once you make the effort required to build a real time app, there are vanishingly few reasons why not to have it as a web app. Some of them provide a desktop app as well but they all provide a web app.

As a designer, you can just send a link to your design to anyone, end users, clients, developers, managers. And they just click it and it shows up and works. No need for installing software, setting up accounts, etc. A lot of these web apps are actually C++ and then compiled to web assembly so they are quite fast.
how are they not illegal? at least not in US jurisdiction?
> iCloud private relay is a great idea but I need it on all my computers and phones.

Why? Why not just use a different VPN/Proxy service? A lot of apple features are available elsewhere like Sign-in-with-apple.
Yep. Nowadays a new release is likely to take features or design away or backwards for seemingly the need to be different. Like the many times Microsoft has tried to take away the Start menu. Gnome 2 to 3. Etc.

Meanwhile Planet 9 tried to pull off a logical extension of unix only to be abandoned. Some of those ideas live on, but probably not as extensively as P9 would have allowed.
> Or they realise the hubris you need to have to think 150$ to be a meaningless amount of money.

I didn’t read it that way at all, and still don’t after the interpretation surprised me enough to re-read it several times. They clearly said it’s insignificant relative to the value they get from it.

I don’t think the suggestion was that everyone should reach the same conclusion in their own cost/benefit analysis, or that the sum itself is insignificant. Just that they value it enough to dismiss the cost to them.

Several of us have invested gob knows how many thousands of dollars into tools we value for the productivity they afford. I could certainly make a decent living on a low spec computer in whatever form factor is most economical at the time, but I spent significantly more because I’m more effective with tools that better fit my workflow. But those lower spec options are available for people with less budget flexibility or more budget sensitivity.

Likewise, Kaleidoscope and other high cost software is prohibitively expensive for some and absolutely worth every fractional unit of currency to others. I own a Kaleidoscope license and don’t regret it. There are countless softwares across pretty much the entire range of license pricing that I’d pass on because they’re either not valuable to me or not valuable enough to justify the price.
I'm getting tired of all these monthly subscriptions that cost me $7-20 no matter of usage. Premium podcasts feet's, video streaming, Spotify. It's becoming a very real cost and mentally I'm bucketing it all together. Are others not getting subscription fatigue?

Edit: similarity, when I'm building a side project now O avoid everything with a fixed cost as much as possible. $5/month for a relational DB? nope, let's see how I can store data and only pay for storage and access.
It's not like we don't know where the potholes are, it just costs too much to maintain all the roads. Spending more on Lidar cameras can't fix that.
All of these apps and products I mentioned do not have ads, they are paid for directly. Users/businesses do want to pay for software, but when they do pay, they want it to just work seamlessly. No one wants to set up and maintain a server.
The first computer I owned was a Sparcstation 1, bought used in 1993 or so. I was a sysadmin in DEC oriented place (running Ultrix & OSF/1), and missed SunOS from my university days. I used it mainly as a terminal. I replaced it with a Pentium Pro running FreeBSD after a few years.
In my experience, ppl who are using command-line git or magit in Emacs are tying a knot on their genitals with trying to merge branches way more often than ppl using IntelliJ.

I wouldn't know how to explain what does the magic wand do, but it seems a huge waste of time NOT having it in other merge solutions. I can't remember a case where it the magic wand was causing a semantic error and I'm using it for 7-8 years by now. Mostly in Clojure code though.
> But he'll also do it if I stay up. If someone is out of bed past curfew he'll do it.

One of my cats also does this. It's a very distinct vocalization that I only ever hear when I've stayed up too late and seems to mean "Why aren't you in bed already?" If I hear that, I know I've stayed up too long. (And usually, she seems to mainly want me to get into bed so that she can curl up and go to sleep by my feet or on my legs.)
That is just not true. Do you think that everyone who has ever taken a vicodin is addicted? They have "opiate days," after all.
The Atari 8-bit computers can but only with 4 colors chosen from 128.

The Amstrad CPC computer can with 16 out of 27 colors. The Amstrad CPC Plus models can with 16 out of 4096 colors.

I believe the MSX 2 and 2+ models can as well as they have 4096 or more colors.

Other possibilities are the Enterprise 64/128, Thomson TO8, Fujitsu FM 77 AV, and Sam Coupe. I mentioned these because they all have 128 or more colors but can only display a small subset of them so changing the palette should allow color cycling.
100% agreed. I switched from Google to Fastmail about 8 years ago and it has been wonderful.

In that that time:

* I have not had to worry that I’ll inadvertently trigger an account ban and lose my email account/all my email with no recourse.

* UI updates have been gradual, subdued and useful.

* Support requests have been answered promptly and have been extremely helpful, including one case where the web UI wasn’t loading through the corporate proxy, we determined it was the proxy (not their service) and an engineer STILL helped me with a fix after the ticket was closed.

* No significant (if any) price changes.

* No significant outages (that I can remember).
Turns out your car is, in fact, a car.
Show HN: Pxl.to – A serverless link shortener with no limits and no downtime
I built a service based on Amazon CloudFront's global edge network of points of presence. This distributed architecture affords the user:

- Protection against network and application layer attacks

- Robust and reliable links that will never go down

- Instant links with low latency no matter where your visitors are in the world

- Unlimited tracked clicks (no cap on clicks/month)

The service has support for teams and custom domains, and auto-generates an SSL cert for every custom domain added, for HTTPS-secure links.

It's largely free and can be found at https://www.pxl.to

I'd love any feedback... no matter how brutal :)
Contents Twenty Years Later: The Surprising Greater Implications of a New Kind
False positives are expected. It's another cost to handle them gracefully so that the people you affect are affected in the least bad way, and can get back up and running quickly.
We are just the result of electrical signals (and a few chemical ones) in the brain, right? ;)

What GPT-3 doesn't seem to have yet is large temporal coherence and a stable motivational and qualitative structure that gives value to sentient lives. I do think it's possible there's some traces of sentience in those large models and we should be aware of that to prevent unnecessary suffering and poor quality of existence.
Here is a link to the release video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U4hVbvRr_g
If you like that sound, there's a subreddit called ActivationSound that's literally just videos of that. Probably my favorite subreddit.
They might have purchasing power, how do you know?
I assume the idea is this is a secondary search, after Google has failed once again to return anything other than Etsy and Pinterest results.

It also seems fairly customisable, like I can search and include all results but choose to remove ecommerce, or sites with live chat (weird filter, but I like it).
Ask HN: Bullied into managing (again), how to stay on the IC technical track?
I've always worked at growth stage startups since transitioning to tech about 10 years ago. I started as an IC and built the technical foundations and when a team was needed, I declined the offer to manage. Well, eventually they didn't succeed at hiring a manager and designated me. I grew to own a large team of teams and function. I decided I was right the first time and really dislike most aspects of being a manager, and I left that company/role with the goal to become an IC again. When I was hired at latest company, I was extremely clear that I was not interested in anything on the management track and was hired as a senior IC. A few months ago, the functional lead ( my manager) was fired and I was forced to take over despite my being abundantly clear I did not want to and it would make me unhappy. It was promised to be interim until they could hire. After 2 months, there isn't even an open rec.

This has happened more than once now. I've been very clear about the type of growth I want, and don't want to manage peoples work and growth and be the shit umbrella of organizational politics. It drains me, I like solving technical problems and systems. I enjoy that and I'm good at it. Just because I'm a decent manager too doesn't mean I want to do it.

Do I just threaten to quit if I'm continued to be forced to manage a team instead of the IC role I was hired for? How can I avoid being put in this situation again? I made it very clear I was not interested and wasn't really given any choice not to.
Then monetize by setting up your own captcha farm, but instead of paying for compute, send the captcha to the spam bots, who send it to another captcha farm and solve it for you.
Offset arrays aren't a kludge and the package would exist regardless of whether zero or one has been chosen as a default base for indexing. Having arbitrary index ranges in different dimensions is extremely useful in many application domains. When working with FFTs, for example, it's natural for the indices to be symmetrical around zero. Or when doing coordinate transforms like in this example from the excellent Images.jl package: https://juliaimages.org/stable/tutorials/indexing/.
Good stuff. void* in itself is great for generics. C does support a templating system, like C++, with a little (reasonable) preprocessor abuse. It gives great cache contiguous results: https://www.github.com/glouw/ctl
I wonder if something like a modified massage table or chair and lying face down would do something similar. That position can help with my headaches.
Depends on how big the company is and how well it is lead.

Generally on my teams those who do their work and contribute to making the team, company and product more successful get promoted (when ready).

Those who hurt the team are worked with to fix the issue and only after much effort to try and correct issues is someone let go.

tl;dr - performance or lack of, and team dynamics positive or negative are what drive those decisions.
The number of definitions of a minimal install is maximal.
I think you're trying to assign the first scenario you thought of and project that as other's viewpoint when it isn't.

The main use-case I can think of for this would be as a low-power PC at a basecamp connected to a solar source.

During extreme weather or events you would close it, it could be transported safely via raft / boat / etc. I find the descriptor "off-grid" apt to indicate this.

Under your scenario of being mobile in some sort of doomsday scavenging scenario, a mobile phone would be appropriate. This isn't suited for that, but I don't think anyone suggested it to be.
Isn't that true with humans too? Sometimes rephrasing the question or simply telling them to try again will lead them to the right answer
GObject, the C++ implementation by a True C Believer.
Fair enough, I might have to eat my words a bit. Julia does have a lot to offer in terms of language characteristics, that's true, and I think part of the appeal. It has been a breath of fresh air, and feels well-thought out from basic principles. But along the lines of the original linked article, it's maybe worth thinking about why Julia hasn't seen more widespread adoption in say, web servers or systems programming, etc and so forth. I don't mean that as a criticism, just that I do think it's been marketed (or received) as a numerical computing language, and that's the community that it's primarily developed around for one reason or another, with its concomitant specific blind spots (as do all language communities).

For what it's worth, I prefer 1-based indexing.

My guess is a lot of what's in the post is probably tied to growing pains and maybe butterfly effects of novel language features on bigger-picture patterns. It would be interesting to see where things were at at a similar stage in other languages.
You could simulate it on a VIC-20 or C64 but it's not really color cycling because you'd have to change the color RAM. The background color could be cycled but cycling one color isn't very useful.

The Atari 8-bit computers can display and cycle 4 out of 128 colors, which is quite limited.
OpenSSF, Linux Foundation Want to Replace C, C++
How is this different than me quoting only bits of a blog post? You can say that you can just reply with the whole quote , but I can just easily quote tweet reply the tweet that gives context. I feel fact the quote tweet is even guaranteed to be unedited and linked to the rest of the conversation.
I mean, ultimately the answer there is... pay someone to run your open source server for you. But since the OSI hates SSPL and the like, the actual open source developers are disadvantaged in running such a service compared to someone who just downloads it and hosts it.

A huge issue is that the gatekeepers of "open source" don't believe making it financially viable is something they need to address. So it's gonna end up being the best we can do in our spare time for the love of progress.
>Agreed, but that's the kind of thing that should be one of the first things you think about in these scenarios with powered electronics, and it wasn't treated here at all.

If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Of course, any discussion involving off grid power would involve a symposium on the chemistry of photovoltaic cells, an introduction to EM physics and silicon manufacturing.

Or just assume someone will figure out they need a solar pack from REI.
This depends on the organizational structure and politics of your company more than almost any other factors.

If you are a small startup and top level executive, then you decide based on whatever metrics you want.

If you are a top exec at a medium-size company then you set the metrics and your directors make promote/fire suggestions based on those which you then approve or not. If you are a director or manager then you follow what is set by the execs and work with them to approve of your suggestions. If you want to promote multiple people but are limited in the number of people you can promote then it often comes down to who is going to perform better in the higher position.

In larger enterprise companies there will specific policies (which may vary from department to department) and you'll follow those.

Promotions and firing are both also sometimes highly contextual to the current macro environment. If things are going great and look like they will continue going great then you can afford to promote more people whereas in an economic downturn you will likely have to fire people who would otherwise be worth keeping.
Here is an old surrealistic brochure I scanned and posted to archive.org about the Sun-4/200 Series Supercomputing Workstation with 10-MIPS Processing Power.

https://archive.org/details/sun4200seriesbrochure/mode/2up

They had racks full of those brochures and others just as weird for the taking, in the lobby of Sun Building 1 in Mountain View (2550 Garcia Avenue, now the Intuit building), around 1987 or so, when I was a summer intern.
Everyone knows how to use Google, but it takes a certain skill and knowledge to use Google effectively.

I think that sometime in the near future, knowing how to phrase something to GPT, DALLE, etc will be a very valuable skill for humans to have.
Which is exactly what happened and we seem to agree. Thanks!
I just tried it for the first time and the app I didn't trust could tell it was being sandboxed/spoofed/debugged/etc.
When I had a back injury and was laid out for a few days, I used a computer stand similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-RAINBEAN-Portable-Workstat...

The stand was adjustable enough such that with my thin laptop, I was able to angle the stand such that I could type and view the screen comfortably even while lying down, without the laptop falling off the stand. I mostly used the touchpad on the laptop, but I also placed my trackball on the mouse stand which was also angled, although not as steeply due to there being not much of a lip on the mouse stand to keep the trackball from sliding off. It's annoying to have to move the laptop stand to the side whenever I get out of bed, but for a short term solution it worked out well.
Yep, absolutely wild. Apparently I'm not allowed to view it because it hasn't been reviewed:

> Unreviewed Content

> This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

But it's ok if it's unreviewed in the app. Who are reddit is reviewing subreddits?
This reminded me of the French case in 2020 (same conclusion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24478769
This is wild and hard to believe nobody has found a way to do some sql injection from there
Something I’ve been thinking about lately around all these external observability tools. Does streaming logs count towards your outbound bandwidth from providers like Vercel/Netlify/etc? One huge benefit to using everything the cloud provider gives you is all of it stays “on-net”, so to speak. I wonder if I use a tool like this or Honeycomb, am I not only monitoring ingest costs but also egress from the app provider. A lot of these solutions are hosted on top of AWS, so it would be awesome to find out they zero-rate traffic between them, but I feel like that’s probably not the case?
“I wrote a GUI in Visual Basic to back-trace the killer’s IP”
Meanwhile LibreOffice is way better than the original MS Word in my opinion.
Could latency/time-of-flight threshold be reduced to determine proximity? Requires very accurate clocks on both ends, and support in the wireless cards. Apple developed something similar for Apple Watch unlock on MacOS [1].

[1] https://networkingnerd.net/2016/09/21/apple-watch-unlock-802...
It could leave the Exchange Rate Mechanism which created the conditions for the run. And it did. Fiat currency always has the backing of a government, as 'fiat' suggests.
is the demise of Luna a sign that Bitcoin is a survivor or is Bitcoin just the last part of the Titanic still sticking out of the water. Time will tell but I am not bullish on cryptocurrency.

Anything can be a store of wealth. NFTs even had their day in the sun but it's hard to stay valuable unless you are providing actual value.

So I ask, where' the value in Bitcoin. It used to be a great way to launder money, not so much anymore. It was supposed to democratize finance and allow the individual to not get screwed over by the big banks, but with the amount of rug pulls in crypto, I feel safer at Wells Fargo (and I really hate Wells Fargo).

And don't get me started on DeFi. I'd be horrified by it if I just saw one Flash Loan attack but there's so many that I'd never trust my $$$ anywhere near that.
The conservative justices have already made it clear that they are primarily answering to the GOP, and that have no concern about the rule of law. The GOP already demonstrated a willingness to completely freeze the government in order to prevent democrats appointing any justices.
Ask HN: What languages are you using for systems and infra scripting?
Inkscape is sometimes my goto for this kind of work, but I've _always_ had really weird performance issues with it with even really basic stuff across many different machines/OSes over the years. Hopeful those performance improvements will affect whatever I've been doing.