skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science is models of reality. As we gain more understanding we increase the precision of our models. When we do the previous models don't become invalid, like Newton's laws of motions are not invalid because of quantum physics, indeed they are considered an approximation to it.

The same goes for climate science, our models are increasing in precision. The social pressure is however in the opposite direction than you think. Nobody wants to be seen as crazy, and there is a pressure from the institutions to tone it down. Often the most conservative models are presented as plausible, selected by how actionable they are. Even the plausible models are unpleasant, not because scientists are crazy, but because the situation is that bad, and potentially much worst. Whether it's fixable, or can only be mitigated, or we can only try to adapt, it doesn't matter because we are not doing any of it. We are banking in everything turning out just fine, even if we continue pumping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere indiscriminately. This behavior is a suicidal one.

What social pressure would exist to deal with the problem head-on anyway, we don't work like that.

The real power is not being dogmatically sceptical, it's evaluation. Thinking about things and their relationships. There is a difference between poking holes, and throwing the whole tapestry away for the sake of being sceptical.
Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting that a Central Bank (using fiat currency) should punish bad actors; I was suggesting that if the Central Bank used Gold, the bad actors may not have existed, or if they did exist, would have been decimated to the point they are essentially replaced by better actors.

I'm not saying that the GFC and huge Government debt are the fault of the Central Banks, but they are much more likely to occur because the Central Bank uses a fiat currency. If we had a gold-standard and the Government issued huge amounts of debt, eventually they would run out of creditors who trusted them, and they would be forced to change spending habits.
This comment is absolutely drenched in ideology, the kind of Protestantism that will grind the whole planet into dust if we let it. Sheer, absolute drivel.

"As we all know" aside - what's wrong with slacking off? Does painting, writing poetry, playing sports with kids, learning an instrument count as slacking off? Why does spending 8 hours a day at a job where you perform some rote, pointless, abstract task - like sending emails and having meetings about advertising - count as _not_ slacking off?

Obesity, suicide and depression have not been rising under conditions of an excess of leisure, they have been rising under a regimen of constant, precarious toil for less return, more alienated from the benefit of the work itself.

Human beings thrive when the boot of your smug ideology is taken off of their throats.
No he's not. You do realize free healthcare, education and social security is the DEFAULT in Europe. Even in conservative countries. That's far from 'far left'.
https://pijul.org/thrussh

But isn't linked from elsewhere on the site, had to find it using google. It also appears stalled
Catapulting China’s Carrier Capabilities
That was a good essay, thanks
Thanks for your detailed assessment of the languages. This has given me a good idea which direction to go towards.
50% of the energy density of a setup using compressed hydrogen. Large passenger aircraft are more likely to use liquid hydrogen if hydrogen does indeed become the fuel of choice. LH2 aircraft could actually exceed the performance of fossil fuelled aircraft, let alone battery electric.

Batteries also leak energy, and no, hydrogen isn't a potent greenhouse gas.
I've bought them to rent VPS many times. They have their value, since they are effectively the ability to teleport cash (with similar ramifications as physical cash) from point A to point B.
You shouldn't have your wealth stored in a medium of exchange, while expecting capital appreciation exceeding or even comparable to the equity market. That kind of volatility is a sign of there being something seriously wrong with that medium of exchange.
As expected, same problem as all the other UI toolkits. Tried several of their apps, was able to use none of them with a screen reader or other accessibility tools. It's nice if you draw the UI directly to the screen, but you skip a lot of steps that OS vendors took to make sure your app can be used by as many people as possible. So always keep that in mind if you're going to use any of these GUI toolkits for your own project!
Scala and spark ?
I'm not aware of such services, but here is a thread regarding side project demand validation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691811
> It's not something you can really short though?

It's the easiest financial instrument in the world to short? Far easier than going short on stocks.

You can go long and short on 6 month futures for a tiny fee.
What we would find out: the cops killed at least one kid in their attempt to shoot the attacker without getting too close.
Preferably you need some energy left, not just the time. I.e. 3h of leisure after 4h or 8h of work is very different quality wise.
"delayed-choice quantum eraser" is so mind-boggling that I don't see any comprehensible explanations to me, a beautiful enigma that locks one of deepest secrets of our universe. And my brain simply refuses to accept any violation of causality - I consider causality possibly the most fundamental rules of physics, if it conflicts with others, I can only consider other rules to not hold.
Base64 images and URLs are possible with extensions, but simple files are better IMO. Getting URLs asynchronously doesn’t work well, and base64 embedding seriously bloats the text file and makes it more difficult to plain text tools on it. (E.g., you’ll get false positive grep results.)
There's also the crowed that worries about self-driving cars doing stupid shit like misreading a 20 km/h sign as an 120 km/h.
Those comparisons have been done and they always end up with an energy mix between hydro, nuclear, solar and wind - not 100% wind/solar.

It isn't enough to build solar and wind, you also have to build backup. This is currently done by coal and gas but in the future it has to switch to climate friendly sources of energy. A hydrogen economy is very very expensive.

Here's an example:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
I know this is a little bit banal, but I feel like:
(1) the author is thinking about "origami"
(2) the model is only able to create "pictures of origami"

The model can only ever be trained on pictures of origami. Thus, the model can generate images that are getting close to "pictures of origami", but (as pictures necessarily are abstracted 2d projections) this might still be way way way off from "origami". Not knowing about actual origami, only ever having seen pictures, I thought most of the generated images were quite good. The actual experienced origami-folding person doesn't see it that way.

I hope my thought is phrased clearly enough, I am having trouble finding the right words here.
Conflict of interest between internal structures happen all the time.
When you say "just let people trade with each other", do you mean a Government policy where payment can be made in any form of value?

Also, I don't understand why a gold standard would produce an obligation that outlasts a human life? A gold standard is seen as a source of liberty because the alternative, fiat money, gives huge amounts of power to the Government / Fed in ways that may not be good for society overall.
I’ve been using Cornell’s BirdNET in Portugal and it’s proven very accurate, even when it’s a euphonic riot of overlapping song - I use inaturalist for photo identification of everything and anything. I’d love it if inaturalist brought in BirdNET or similar - afaik their sound identification is currently driven by humans.
And there are so many tools for helping ingesting webhooks that are free (including the one that my company makes[1]). A new one pops on HN every week...

1: www.svix.com/play/
You don't have access to the forefront of AI. You have the ability to give money to those that do so you can use what they've made.

To have access to the forefront of AI means being able to make, own and profit from things like GPT-3, and it requires access to vast computational and data resources.
Aztecs weren't charming in this regard and by that probably sowed the seeds of their own defeat by pushing other tribes to support the invading spaniards, but the conquistadors went in for full on genocide, totally deliberately.
So I assume you are heavily shorted on BTC? Put your money where your mouth is?
I assume you have used credit cards.
The only thing I agree with is people got the leasure time and loved it.

Most people don't enjoy their job, or jobs.

Most people don't like commuting rediculious distances just to make rent, and eat.

Most people realalized during Covid they might have been happier.

The virtual/physical infrastructure wouldn't have been built with work from home. This is our first experiment with working from home, and it went pretty well. Many jobs, with the help of technology, could be done at home.

We still don't know why so many lousy jobs are going unfilled. My take is adult kids moved home--a home they will never afford, and lived with their parents, and it was better than paying 80% of your paycheck for a lousy apartment.

I've always felt the world has two types of people. Those that built their lives around work. They come home, and even like to talk about it. You take their job away, and yes, they loose their identity.

Then there's the slacker, like myself. Work is unpleasant, unfulfilling, mind numbing, thing I just have to do. I don't enjoy really any of it be it the early show up times, or my superiors, and especially the long commute. I could care less about the company. I would be robbing the joint blind if the penalties weren't so severe.

I do know this, but most people don't have a say in the matter:

I have known way to many males wait to long to retire, and because all their personality was geared towards working don't last long. And we men just die so dam early to begin with.

I once got a peak at some union delagates debating retirement ages. It was Local 6 electrical. Guys could retire at 55, or 65. At 65 they got more money. You stll had to put 25 years in both plans. The union liked the 65 year old plan. Why? Because the retirees would only collect a handful of retirement checks before dying. They told retirees they would cover 100% of health care costs at 65 knowing these guys wern't going to see 65. Local 6 union is one of the better unions in the USA too.
Why is Samsung employing people in Russia?
There you go. In the last 6 - 7 months the SNP 500 is down from its ATH, taking all the other stocks with it and especially even those at Netflix or holding NFLX stock. They have been awfully quiet ever since.

The market needs a wipe out of the speculators, VCs, scammers and retail investors to drain out the billions of dumb money to cause these prices to go down again to around November 2020. This is why once Tether collapses, we will see Bitcoin at $10K again, lower than we have seen since March 2020.

As for the stock market, It isn't done and can still drop further as soon as the Fed increases rates again in July and the layoffs will accelerate when the VCs continue to deny more funding for the vast majority of useless unprofitable startups that will also be wiped out.

Either way, Just like 90% of startups fail. 90% of these cryptocurrency / blockchain projects won't survive this bear market or even the first foot of regulations. The remaining 10% will continue to survive once again.
News services, like the NYT, is doing themselves a HUGE disservice by making cancelling so hard. I’ve subscribed to NYT twice, and in general I’ve been very impressed by the quality of their content. But the second time I had to go through all their BS to cancel, i swore I would never subscribe again.
It either suggests that mining is still profitable relative to energy prices, or that miners believe that the price is likely to rise and so are mining at a loss regardless.
Ethereum is down about 80% from their all-time-high and 74% from the start of 2022. It's a massacre for the whole scene.
The example in the article is something that, for the past decade or so, has been discouraged more and more strongly and is almost entirely unnecessary: Manually allocating and freeing memory (plus letting a variable outlive its use and be used for something else).

See:

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...

and specifically, guidelines R.10, R.1 and R.3.

See also this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48046118/1593077

to the question of why C++ doesn't have a garbage collector.

To be more concrete, the example would be written today as:

{
auto foo = std::make_unique<Foo>();
}
foo->Process();

the last line won't compile - foo is gone already; and if you moved it inside the block scope, then foo would be valid.

Now, the guidelines I mentioned can also be partially statically-checked, and some IDEs have begun to do so, so that the original snippet would give you at least 3 or 4 warnings. Interestingly, this will be true in a larger codebase as well, despite the claim in the article that

> UAFs are often hard to spot in larger codebases where ownership of objects is transferred between various components.

and that's because if you adhere to the coding guidelines _locally_, but throughout your application, including also I.11 about ownership transfer, then you can never free a pointer you don't own (unless you explicitly decide to do so), and you can even avoid dereferencing null pointers. Yes, I meant what I said: You can simply avoid ever dereferencing a null pointer.

All of this is supported by static analysis, so you absolutely don't need to be a virtuous and skilled coder to avoid such conundrums.

---

There's a caveat though: If some of the code is not under your control, but is rather some 3rd-party library or header, then what I said only applies if you properly "sanitize" at the boundaries of your well-checked.
GP that you're replying to is talking about Vala, not Vale
I think some of that is not 'free' but 'recharge' time. If you're so exhausted that all you can do is stare at a screen then you're not doing what you really want.
Sorry for the horrible link, but this one seems to be an older generation of a similar device.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255302112122?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DI...
Batteries are not a feasable seasonal storage. They can store for a couple of hours, no more.

For seasonal storage you need a hydrogen economy. H2 is very very expensive and has never been rolled out at scale. Not a single large gas turbine to burn pure H2 has ever been build.

In the middle of a crisis it's better to go for proven and economic technologies than trying to invent something completely new and untestet.
> Self-reproducing machines are capable of covering the surface of the planet, yes. There's one right now (covid). But there's lots of energy and oxygen up here and they rarely displace other such machines (species) or even displace much of any earth and water. And because they're self-contained and self-reproducing, [...]

Your analogy is weak and also false: viruses can't self-reproduce, but need to bind to a host's protein synthesis pathways.
Most people with full-time jobs I know don't have much energy left after their workday, and thus the only "leisure" they are still capable of and thus know is low-effort "comfortable" things like watching TV/YT/netflix.

This is definitely a factor. It isn't just work: Maybe you 'only' work 40 hours a week. So does your spouse, though, and the children still need things as well. Housework still needs done, and someone has to produce food daily. It doesn't leave much time at all.

The other factor is money: If you have little to no money leftover to do anything, you aren't going to do it. Netflix and youtube are fairly low cost entertainment and can get you through a month, not to mention that they provide some sort of entertainment while you are doing other things much like radios used to. Housework is better when you are entertained.
i wouldn't be surprised if eth survives but btc don't.
Ethereum has actually built something on top of its coin, thanks to smart contract. To my knowledge, BTC is pure speculation.
Oh my god the Patterson bullshit. Please mate, stop the cap. Bernie Sanders is the furthest 'left' in the US and man wants free education and healthcare which are the status quo in every other developed country.

Cultural Marxism is not a thing, please educate yourself beyond the videos of the lobster psychologist. You claim the left is 'radicalized' in a right-wing country where the right-wing party literally tried to undermine democracy through an insurrection less then a year ago...
> *Putin thinks the collapse of the Soviet Union was the single biggest disaster of the 20th century..."

This is usually quoted in relation to one of Putin's speeches, and is generally interpreted out of context. What Putin was referring to in that speech was the humanitarian problem of millions of Russians finding themselves residing outside "their country" when the USSR dissolved. That said, I think most people would consider certain holocausts to be greater disasters.

Neil MacFarlane had an article on the Ukraine situation in 2014.[1] He seems to agree with John Mearsheimer about bungled diplomacy.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00396338.2014.92...
To add to this, we’re in a bear market and possibly recession. But not a financial crisis. (We’re also not in a currency crisis. The dollar is gaining against pretty much every currency. It’s also gaining against practically every crypto.)
Cargo ships will go with methanol or ammonia, both of which are easy to synthesise from green hydrogen. I'm more partial to methanol since it can be carbon negative and provides a market for the tremendous amount of waste we generate, but ultimately the most effective solution will win.
So you are saying there is no value to be extracted? Shocking
Might not be entirely related to the article, but I remember the feel of pushing the buttons on a SEGA joypad.

You could actually feel the moment the strike connects or if your character has jumped. It felt different. Over time, you would know how to react based on that feeling.

It was a genious design.
You’re right about Bitcoin mining, but high-end gaming cards are still favored for Ethereum mining, which is why any card capable of handling it (more than 4-6 GB RAM) has been ridiculously expensive, even old cards.
I don't think it's possible to say anything definitive like this about human nature. Are people happier taking orders, or is it easier due to conditioning? Is that happiness?
As these locks automatically expire, it seems scary to me that losing network connectivity for >TTL can break mutual exclusion guarantees.
> a paperclip factory isn't self-reproducing (that would be a paperclip factory factory)

This seems an odd refutation for several reasons.

First, the paperclip AI might determine that self-reproducing factories would be an optimisation, and aim to achieve that by any means necessary.

Second, a single paperclip factory that doesn't reproduce might still develop the means of bringing raw materials to it.

Either way, an all-consuming paperclip AI emerges.

In general, I find the equating of the paperclip problem with a religious cult to be naive.
alias calc='noglob calc-actual-implementation'

Disables globs for that particular command in Zsh.
> This is a misleading and dangerous service.

How is it dangerous? What danger would the user be in?
Val, a new programing language inspired by Swift and Rust
Dave Abrahams and Dimitri Racordon from Swift and C++ fame, announced during their quite interesting keynote for language geeks at C++Now 2022, a new programming language based on a mix of Swift and Rust ideas, with main focus on being value based and generics

The somehow lenghty keynote (3h), that introduces the background ideas leading up to the language, and the language itself,

"A Future of Value Semantics and Generic Programming"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ri8bly-dJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsxYnEAZoNI&

If you want to skip it and go straight to the source, it is located at,

https://github.com/val-lang/val
I doubt GPT-3 is profitable as of now.
Yes that’s what I meant! Thanks
Wayland has been around for 13 years now. That’s an eternity in software years. It still hasn’t caught up with X11 for many use-cases. There’s clearly some sort of problem (I suspect that it’s not a technical one).
> "Most of these AGI doom-scenarios require no self-awareness at all. AGI is just an insanely powerful tool that we currently wouldn't know how to direct, control or stop if we actually had access to it."

You're talking about "doomsday scenarios". Can you actually provide a few concrete examples?
Are orcs racist? D&D, ethnocentrism, anxiety, & the depiction of “evil” monsters
"Can't explain that"
> Creditworthy demand for loans doesn't magically increase when rates change or the Fed buys bonds

This is fundamentally untrue. Projects that don’t make economic sense at a high discount rate do at a lower one. This is measurable with mortgages [1], alongside side a host of other cases.

[1] https://app.oarklibrary.com/file/2/f047273e-32ba-40f7-9b83-5...
So your source is businessinsider? Elon himself says the story is bogus and when he came to the US, he came with nothing and ended up with 100k in student loan debt. And from where he lived and what he did, Elon was certainly not living some "rich man" lifestyle before the Zip2 and PayPal days, and no one who knew him in those days has shown any proof that Elon arrived in the US with any sort of wealth.
Storing wealth in an -inflationary- asset like fiat currency is a stupid move, I grant. I store value in a mix of fixed quantity or -deflationary- assets that are useful or interesting to me like art, vehicles, real estate, and yes... crypto-assets. The latter is perhaps the most volatile but also has the highest liquidity, is fireproof, can be traded for other assets anonymously, etc. Tradeoffs.
Babel Finance is freezing withdrawals as Crypto downward spiral continues
Sadly, philosophy can and (whether they should or not) certain philosophical positions do apparently make it acceptable to hurt others. It doesn't make it legal, but it can make it ethically inconsequential and render relevant laws as nonsensical in the eye of the holder of such views. See A Glitch in the Matrix, for example.
> many of us actually regularly use Bitcoin for things like payroll

Please define "many" when it comes to settling payroll to employees.
in most multi party systems parties cater to the interests and issues of the majority. minority (issue) parties don't have much chance to even get enough votes.
Crypto fund Three Arrows Capital faces potential insolvency
There are goods you can only buy online with cryptocurrencies
if they really only used it for tabular record keeping, why are scholars convinced that there exists a (written) grammar to be deciphered? maybe they only used writing for record keeping and not for anything else.. the article mentions some "cultic" texts but says they are mostly just repetitive word combinations, doesn't sound like there are much in the way of "sentences" at all.
Disclaimer, I’m the founder of Avo and it’s a paid product.
I work a lot on keeping the product up to date and bring new features on.
I feel certain you understood that is not at all what I was saying.
Anecdotally from a number of relatives who work in the construction trades, the majority of accidents are due to alcohol and drug use — which I suppose often go hand-in-hand with lax standards. It seems to me that keeping people from getting high and drinking during the workday improves safety by an order of magnitude, however that’s easier said than done.