skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to imagine how climate change would lead to human extinction, since humans have inhabited such a wide range of environments across the globe for thousands of years, have technology to help cope with extreme climates, and are vary adaptable. What would make every single environment unlivable for humans? I don't believe there is a single climate model that does that.

And how many climate scientists actually believe extinction is on the table? I've seen some say collapse of global civilization and mass death is a possibility under the worst case scenarios, but not really anyone claiming all humans would die. Anyway, the latest IPCC report puts the upper range of warming at 3.7°C. Which is bad, but not the apocalyptic hot house Earth scenario. But even with that, some environments will still be livable. People live on mountains, near likes, far inland, way up north and all over the place. Earth isn't going to turn into Venus, and it was a lot hotter when the dinosaurs evolved. Plants and animals still survived after the Permian die off.
Looks like it's still going
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conectar_Igualdad
Man, forget about code. You're good on that. What you need is a wife.
This comment is extra amusing for Australians given our recent election.
Anybody in EE or other engineering fields ? Is imposter a thing there too ? It's so strange to see so many programmers recently (including myself) feeling like shit on a daily basis (even taking psychology or emotional context into account). I wonder if it's the never ending lib/framework dance (as opposed to stabler physical laws) or something else ..
Oldie but Goodie: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

See also the book The Art of Multiprocessor Programming.
Terawatt-scale photovoltaics: Transform global energy
Oh yeah, I remember installing these things for COVAD - they were replacing the netopia terminals at the time. I think they did both T1 and SDSL - the neat part is, for the T-Span models, you can wire two of them back to back, and have about a 5kft range on wire.
Links and tweets, 2022-05-30
Have you heard of pixel art? It's a form of art that appreciates the retro aesthetic. I don't think it's your thing. Your brain is to big for such simple minded behavior.
The kernel has its own LTS releases, and running Linux in the cloud is a well tested use case. Any library not available in your distro of choice can be built from source and tracked manually, which usually works well enough.
The main reasons for me ditching UBNT has been

• lies about supporting older versions of APs, telling me I need to upgrade to get x-such-feature, and then they support it later on the older hardware.
• Various features sold as _coming_soon_, that really take several years to come about.
• making more and more of their setup require a total buy-in of the whole infrastructure when I only wanted one piece of it.
• It just wan't very reliable. I'd have to reboot all the APs every now and then to get them communicating well again (this seems to be limited to myself and not my friends, but happened on two generations of the UBNT hardware)

But what did them in on the end for me was some version upgrade totally blew up my network, that does depends on different SSIDs mapping to different VLANs, but after the upgrade, they bridged everything together.
Found that unacceptable, so I gave up fighting them, dropped in another enterprise vendor, and now things are truely rock solid.

Yes, they give out many enterprise features for a very low cost, and the feature set does far surpass any of the consumer price range gear that they hover their price points around.

OOTH, since I do work with lots of Enterprise gear, I know when used gear is falling off in price to affordable for home levels, and how much more life I can reasonably get from it. Sure, I don't have 802.11ax, but I don't think my last round of UBNT AP buys can upgrade to 802.11ax either, would have had to buy another round of UBNT gear.
I think sveltekit will gain a lot of momentum
I was in a similar situation around your age too. I've always suspected I had adhd (suffered in school, never finished a story, etc). I've been on vyvanse+adderall for the past 10 yrs and all I can say is I wish I knew about them before. Going to a doctor and getting checked/tested was the best decision I've made. It gives me focus, motivation, and my output has always been consistent ever since.

I am not saying you have adhd, just sharing my experience and recommending to visit the doctor and get yourself checked. Everyone is different.

P.S I've always maintained a healthy lifestyle, and workout 3 times a week, sleep early(pre/post meds). I've tried everything under the sun but adhd is adhd and the only way to find out is to visit the doctor.
Call for a Public Open Database of All Chemical Reactions
Wow, its beyond my knowledge:)
I use my software skills to write a performant software but rarely i go to the assembly level. And i have zero knowledge about specifics if each command on every architecture. The rare exception is a code in dashtable. the authors of the paper designed it to allow vectorizing of the find() operation.
> Russia's neighbours are BEGGING the US to install advanced weapons systems on their borders to keep Russia at bay. That's issue number one.

The US / NATO is a US weapons sales grift.
The French (or rather, the Parisian) zealotry with language purity was always absolutely incomprehensible to me. All languages are bastardized versions of another one. Most are the byproduct of nationalistic fervor, an imposition mandated by the state on the populace in order to create a "single nation".

France's attitude to her language is IMHO marred by deep hypocrisy and a backward, reactionary worldview of "preservation" of something that for most is just a tool.

Languages live, evolve, and die. We should cherish and try to save as many as we can while giving people the tools to communicate with as many other humans as possible. It's crucial to stop languages from getting extinct, but that cannot mean that nationalistic chauvinism should be tolerated. Languages, especially smaller ones, are incredibly powerful echo chambers.

To conclude, it's ironic that France tries so hard to keep French "pure" (from what, I ask myself) when France is one of the worst offenders regarding the utter hostility it has shown multiple times against the linguistic rights of minorites and regional languages.

France lost any moral justification to "preserve her national language" when she failed to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Losing the Plot: One of the most notorious conspiracies in British history
Oh yeah, I remember installing these things for COVAD - they were replacing the netopia terminals at the time. I think they did both T1 and SDSL - the neat part is, for the T-Span models, you can wire two of them back to back, and have about a 5kft range on wire.

For what its worth, I skipped over the T1 route and went with business class cable very early on, it'll perform better than the home cable (business class usually gets their own nodes, so they're more lightly loaded with an SLA) - and the cost is minimal, I have a 400/20 circuit from Spectrum for about 200 a month, including 16 routed IP's.
What part of "its fundamental premise is flawed" is unclear? I don't propose an alternative because I don't believe the stated goals of the system are achievable or desirable. Also, if one believes something does more harm than good, an argument to stop doing it does not require an alternative.
MA passed a right to repair bill requiring tools be made available to third party mechanics. So car companies shifted all the functionality of those tools into "telematics" (so for example, instead of a Subaru tech plugging in a scan tool, now he logs into a Subaru website which talks to the car over its cellular based telematics link) and said "neener neener, you didn't say telematics in your law, HAW HAW!"

So MA passed a second right to repair bill specifying telematics is included, and slapped back harder by speccing that they had to establish various systems to grant third parties access, etc.

A couple of automakers responded by petulantly disabling telematics functions for any vehicles sold in MA.

Of note: both bills were general ballot measures, because the Right To Repair folks knew that they'd never get a bill like it through the MA legislature due to lobbyists and legislative corruption (aided by much of the MA legislature's activities not being public record; the executive branch has also declared itself exempt from public record/meeting laws, as has the judiciary.)

The other thing of note: automakers ran a massive advertising campaign including videos strongly implying that women would get stalked and sexually assaulted/murdered, presumably by third parties given access to their vehicle's telematics. They basically called independent mechanics rapists and murderers.

Worse, they claimed that a sexual assault victim's NPO (RAINN I think? I forget) was against the bill. Turns out it was a bald-faced lie and the org wasted no time reaching out to press to inform them of that.

It really tells you how much was at stake here profits-wise, and how important right to repair is, that automakers were willing to shout "YOU'LL BE RAPED BY YOUR MECHANIC!" and lie so blatantly about NPOs supporting them
The Nomadic Chemist: Alfred Sercombe Griffin (1878-1943) and Burma
I think is good if they can make up words in the language (whether it is French, English, Latin, Japanese, or something else) that they do not already have it, but only if they do not force everyone to use it. It should be by your choice only.

(Even many words in English is French. You can also write in English without French words, but that also should be only if you choose to do; they shouldn't make everyone to do so even if they do not want to do. And in French, if you want to write only French words, or also English and others, it is only if you choose to do so and they shouldn't make you to do so if you do not want to do.)

If the government wants to use French words even if they are not that common, then they can use the words that they want to use. They even look to see if there are already French words, so that is good, compared with not doing so. But, they should not force everyone else to do even against their choice.
NixOS 22.05 Released with New Graphical Installer
I love using iCloud's Hide My Email feature to create a unique email for every signup form or random person you contact. You can also use a Custom Email Domain with iCloud so I can imagine this feature might be usable outside the Apple ecosystem.

Overall I find this system very easy to use. If you are outside the Apple system you can use the web interface for managing your email addresses, but it's missing some small features: for example, you can't see when's the last time an email address has been used.
The innovation should take place within the FOSS space, though.
Archive.md Appears to Be Down
It looks like https://archive.md/ is down. What happened? Was this open source?
Agree with #1.

HN is the social network for software engineers. Instead of teenage girls staring at a perfect looking tiktok influencer and feeling fat shamed, we are a bunch of typing idiots thinking we aren't good enough to be employed. Imposter syndrome is everywhere here.

Look. 99% people here are just pounding out CRUD apps too -- don't be so hard on yourself. There is a maddening amount of over engineering going on (AKA I am soo hot - look at me in Miami!).
We won't lose all insects. They didn't all die off when a massive rock took out the non-avian dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and that was far more catastrophic (worse than any human nuclear winter scenario).
AFAIK it wasn't taxes, but they wanted to expand but weren't able to build the expansion in their Bad Godesberg location, so they moved to the Grafschaft.
meta has the head start, but never bet against apple for revenue. VR is still new for casuals. if apple releases new hardware people will buy it and you'll see an explosion of devs creating apps for it.
> The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession.

Sounds like a good idea, right?

> Poul-Henning Kamp spent more than a decade as one of the primary developers of the FreeBSD operating system

How does professional liability work when FreeBSD security flaws result in power plants shutting down or gas lines exploding?
Nice, thanks for the suggestion and explanation. I'll be careful!
Yeah this is probably an unpopular opinion here. But weekends and 40 hour work weeks are for employees. If you want to spend your life as an employee, more power to you. I don't.
Strange how those votes take so long to tabulate and get online, so complex. Totally not to let things get out of the news cycle /s
You can capture some of the profit flows now, which I think is key.

Open source is open source and will always have a place. You should be able to set up a website on your own server whenever you want, but that's different than being able to directly take part in ownership of capital.
That would have been my preference, but the cable company was useless and wasted my time for weeks.
The world is not running out of people. More than 7 billion people are alive every year. Given a number of years, all those alive now will be dead.
Well, the simple way to put is that "A" isn't fixed. The "expected value" argument in steps 6-7 is acting like "A" is a single value when "A" will be larger or smaller depending on what envelope you picked.
Personally I don't think you are given any new information in the Monty Hall problem that's worth anything. You always knew there was a 100% chance that one of the doors in that set has a goat behind it, which door that is is pretty much irrelevant.

Or to put it another way how many people would stick with their chosen door if instead of opening a door and showing a goat they were simply asked "would you like to stick with your current choice of door, or switch and take the best result from the other doors?"
I believe it can do that, but there's two periods where it can "think".

1. During training time, which is very expensive in terms of input text and money - plus, model training often completely fails which is why you have to do checkpoints, hyper parameter searches, etc.

2. During inference, but it doesn't have arbitrary thinking and memory abilities like a human does, it only has however much space is in the input tokens + its weights. There are thoughts that can't fit even in an optimal model.

GPT isn't just a model, it also has that sampling system which is a regular computer program (as opposed to a learned one), which does give it extra abilities.
Yeah, it's the same thing with the engineers I know, only for less money, and an order of magnitude more responsibility.
> you are given two identical envelopes [...] containing money. One contains twice as much as the other

> having chosen an envelope at will, but before inspecting it, you are given the chance to switch envelopes. Should you switch?

> because the person stands to gain twice as much money if they switch, while the only risk is halving what they currently have, a case can be made for switching the envelope

I dig this, but it seems like an unavoidable nonsense pattern that congeals in pools of otherwise practically useful logic / language systems.

Like Neo in the Matrix. Remember the Architect? That guy was cool.
Probably the Sony DPT-S1 (13") or its successors, the DPT-RP1 (13") and DPT-CP1 (10"), if you can find one. Dedicated document reader for PDFs only, responds very crisply to page turns even for textbooks with diagrams, documents can be copied onto the device over USB so no online account is required.

You can get imported units off eBay or find one of the few remaining North American units on Goodreads' store.
Yeah, some call it stupidity... Honestly, it's really irrational thing to do. My last company were good to me but i got the itch...
exactly. 'Shipping' is a very valuable skill not everybody has (and people who do have it undervalue it).
It used to be standard for signup forms to include only the email address. It was thought to decrease friction. At some point, someone decided it was better to ask for a password upfront, then it became the new standard.
Simply not correct.

If nobody cares, why is an 800 number more expensive? A vanity 800 close to impossible? Why is demand so high that they keep releasing new toll-free area codes (888, 877, 855, 844, 833, with 822 and 880 coming soon)? Why do desirable 800 numbers become available so infrequently?

800 is like .com Sure there are alternatives, but none are nearly as valuable as .com, or an (800) number, because they signal solid, trust-able, well-established businesses. And because they are easy to remember.
Thanks again, John!
Dancing Bears/Tanzbären is a super sad and kinda offensive name. Just look up photos of some actual dancing bears and read how they used to be treated.
Also checkout recurse centre.
https://www.recurse.com/about
It's interesting how a map design can have an influence on social behaviour and city development.

> Beck’s design may have helped persuade city dwellers to make the leap to suburbs serviced by the Underground “by making them look closer to the center, and showing how easy it was to commute.”

Somewhat related, it reminded me some new residential buildings were intentionally incorrectly named with a hint of the nearby district. e.g. A building is located in district A, but was named as "B garden". It is because district B is an over-all better living area, so the flats can be priced higher.
Someone wrote a C compiler that generates code using only x86 MOV instructs.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
lol is this intentional parody or unintentional parody, I just can't tell.
Yes, because we see for DECADES how harmful is relaying on proprietary software.

It's time, at least for public services, to came back to the old classic model: hw have to be paid, sw is free code. And that's not different for services: any public service must relay only on public services. So, for instance, no AWS etc.

It's DEFINITIVELY not a long shot, is a thing that should already be there and now is hard just because too many was too lazy in the past.
oh yeah, authenticator apps and hardware keys are way better than sms, but I worry a little about demonizing sms 2fa too much since plenty of (especially older) people don't have smart phones, and are never going to use a hardware key. since any 2fa is a huge step up, I think sms based 2fa is likely good to promote in tandem with the better methods. (that said, it drives me insane that most banks only offer sms based 2fa. that should be illegal)
Startups and Japan
If it's doing useful work it's a machine, if not it's a robot
Late Night Linux – Episode 179: FOSS Alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex
A Japanese astronaut will land on the Moon with NASA’s help
https://archive.ph/ seems to be up
Sure, equites were an established social class but didn't that devolve to just a class without the training on horseback by the late republic and certainly by imperial rome. It seems like it made more sense for the imperial army to have auxilia handle cavalry, missile troops, and other functions.
What's the situation with power and internet...?
Well, my 1st assembler was IBM mumble... goto Computer History Museum to see a 1401 running; it had BCD representation (before ASCII), and variable-length fields for data, with the length being noted with a 'word mark' -- so you could add two 6,000 digit numbers with a single instruction.

Arm v8 seems to have fixed some of the arm v7 cruft -- what do YOU not like about arm?

My 2nd favorite is Z80 -- that also had 'automatic' move-a-string instruction (LDIR / LDDR). 8051 is OK. Z8 is OK. And MSP-430 is pdp-11esque.
That's just not true. Poor people have less speech than rich folks, especially in 'right to work' states, where you can get fired for basically any reason. Children have no right to free speech in the US, including self-expression (If you cannot say 'no' to religion and be heard and not punished, you do not have free speech).

Viewing housing and food as basic human rights just dismisses other folks: We need those to live and to work. This isn't really the same as speech.
> GPT can never be an intelligent agent because it’s not an agent.

It's already almost there.

GPT-3 has the ability to generate short or long. If you ask it "let's think step by step" it generates a chain of thought, dividing the task into steps and doing them one by one, almost like an agent.

On the other hand, if you strap GPT-3 on an agent in a 3D Home Environment it gains the ability to perform multi-step tasks zero shot. So it's quite ready for it.

If you train a reward model based on supervised data, you can finetune GPT-3 with it. This is how Instruct GPT-3 was created, through text-based RL.

I'd say GPT-3 is very close to being an agent, it just needs to be put in a body in an environment and trained a bit longer.
besides the transitory periods of recession

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Ah. Right wing. Even if you don't consider yourself as such - as you are repeating the rhetoric. I very much doubt we'd agree on much.
I personally knew one of the reasons for that :(
Thanks for mentioning. This was just a temporary thing, will replace it in a few days.
Only in proximity to fault zones, mostly near the coast.
> COVID stimulus showed how the lubricant for a globalized socialism was the monetary printing press.

Economic stimulus comes from taxes and bonds, not from printing money. This is a grave error that casts a pall over the entire article. I stopped reading.
> Yes but you no longer have the burden of control and responsibility.

Sounds like slavery with extra marketing.
One of the most painful, obvious, and annoying lessons I learned in my software career is that if you're team needs to grind hard - it's unlikely to be successful.

Software is a great business when its working, high margin, low maintenance, and great growth economics. When companies are successful at it, they often are so successful that there is very little internal pressure to produce. No successful company survives as a country club, so there is a high pressure for high quality delivery of some number of projects per year, or at least appreciable progress. There simply isn't any need for the company to push people beyond a 40 hour work week.
Hard to believe something can be this dramatic and also this boring. It takes a real commitment to pointlessness that really speaks to where we are, so I see why it's making a comeback. Truly gross.
The other property I've found notable is that friendships decay but some people refuse to accept it.

For example, I have had some coworkers who have complained about how difficult it is to find new friends and meanwhile they're constantly traveling. Every time I invited them to something, they were never able to make it. Well, good coworker, it's not that it's hard to find friends, it's just that you traded it off for travels. Of course, I ended up becoming better friends with those who showed up.
I think at this point of time and the state of this 14 years old project the status quo can be changed only from the outside.

If chrome was not born you would still use microsoft explorer with aspx sites.
I'm glad youre an honest person, but I've seen the procurement process of my government happen in real time. It's not a diligent process. The requirements are often written based off previous winning project agreements, in a way that nearly guarantees certain companies always win. Sometimes this is due to the incompetence of the gov, but usually it's because the people writing the specs have to work with the people that win so they choose the ones that they like the best. What's a good way to make someone like you without a bribe? Invite them out.

It's a job you can get. Sometimes it's called Relationship Manager.
Exactly correct, legal, and done by every trader I know.