skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust screams UB much quicker when it comes to memory semantics than any other language that I know.
Rusts lower bounds of code mangling are also much higher than in other languages.

I don't expect to have a good mental model of an optimising compiler in "gotta go fast"-mode, but a mental model of what the memory layout looks like is pretty darn relevant when designing or working with ABIs and binary data representations.
Computer: “unrecognised unit milligram, applying 400 ounces”.
Simple web application demo exposing Open Weather API
Mexico sees 13th journalist murdered so far this year
My first job had a very high quality PHP monolith codebase. I’ll always defend PHP to this day, because I’ve seen it done right. I would easily choose it over Ruby or Python for a new project.
Well it’s true, you can’t win the lottery without buying the ticket. Only that way you don’t know what prize you’re playing for.
> While this is true, it also isn’t helpful.

It isn't quite helpful. The second half of the advice should be to tell working class people to do whatever they can to get near rich/upper-middle class people, to flatter them, befriend them, attend their parties, and sleep with them.

The more rich people around you, the luckier you get. Some rich manchild somewhere is waiting for you to be "the brains" behind something.
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Privacy is a right, absolute privacy is not. The issue is finding the area on the spectrum that works in our modern interconnected world.
I might put that in the middle category - the category that might warrant a quick review with just that criticism and maybe a post-publish response, but no voting.

"Bad" here is used to mean dishonest, very poorly done methods, or conclusions way out of step with the actual empiracle results. "Good" is used to mean simply "this was well and honestly done work, with conclusions that may be reasonably drawn from the results". Nothing more. There are massive gradations with in "Good" and a large area between "Good" and "Bad". The intention is for "Good" papers to be upvoted, "Bad" papers downvoted, and everything in between to not be voted on, but to rather receive responses where warranted.

The reasoning behind this is that in a lot of ways we've gotten too into the first discovery pieces of this and forgotten that science works in the aggregate, it must be a collaborative enterprise. Any empirical experiment or theoretical work could be biased or flawed in any number of ways, and in ways which we can't necessarily catch in review. That's why replication is so important, but in so many fields it's not happening now due to ideas about what represents a "substantive contribution to the field". Hence, the Replication Crisis.

So the goal of using such a simple system and metric, in a lot of ways, is to take us back to brass tacks. This is about building humanity's collective knowledge base - together. All else is secondary. So a "Good" actor in that context is someone who does the thing that contributes to humanity's collective knowledge about the world, including but not limited to:

- replicating previous work

- getting a null result

- getting inconclusive results

- helping a peer polish their work so that it's best communicated

- helping a peer catch mistakes or spot unexplored avenues for further study

In a lot of ways, the prestige seeking is part of the problem, because it works against collaboration.

The nice thing about a reputation system where votes are granted for "Good" work in this context, is that it's not zero sum. And indeed, it does a much better job of incentivizing a lot of non-glamorous grind work, because there's a lot of that, and if it's well done, then it merits votes. It probably won't get as many votes in a single go as the ground breaking stuff, but it's a valid path to building reputation.

This system definitely does incentivize "Least Publishable Unit", but... I'm not necessarily convinced that's a bad thing. In software engineering, there are a ton of benefits to breaking up a large knowledge base or problem into its smallest digestible chunks. If all of those "Least Publishable Units" are well organized in a single database, that might actually be a benefit rather than a cost.

By the way, I'm still chewing on your other unanswered comments. You're raising a lot of good points and giving me a lot to think about and I really, truly appreciate it.
Exposure therapy?
Steam reforming of methane from natural gas to product hydrogen is in fact very efficient (up to ~85% iirc). It is not, however, carbon-neutral. At a system level, the weak point is the fuel cell and they can be about 50% efficient. So you have an overall efficiency of a little over 40%.

Batteries can be very efficient but that is not an apples-to-apples comparison. You have to get the energy somewhere. Good solar systems are about 30% efficient. Turbines are about 30% efficient.

Energy efficiency isn't the problem with hydrogen and fuel cells. They have other problems.
I personally think the solution here is to not use terraform. You're trying to bolt this onto something that wasn't well designed for this in the first place. It is going to create so many edge cases that it will be extremely hard for anyone to reason about.
My company allows us to work from anywhere, at any time, assuming we're in the continental US as that is what many of our client contracts require.

That said, hotel wifi is routinely terrible (often a total of 5mbit for all rooms or highly latent), particularly in hours when lots of people are in the hotel (Thursday and Friday, all day, and other days of the work week before check-out and after check-in).

When I'm working remote from a hotel, I often find myself on my hotspot and would suggest you have backup solutions for connectivity if you plan to do this on the regular.
My low-friction publishing workflow
I didn’t see that.

Could a Canadian continue to pay their Canadian neighbour for mowing their lawn through tornado or not?
That's standard operating procedure when the feds seize these kinds of things: run it for a bit to gather even more evidence.
On Tesla's website under the Autopilot page, there is a video that opens up with "The car is doing all the driving. The driver is just there for legal purposes"

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

That paired with the name of "Full Self Driving" really does a good job of implying that the car drivers itself...
> Progress was glacial, decisions took months, it was painful to do anything.

... but you still got invited to weekly meetings to be questioned on why you weren't meeting your quotas ...
That’s already better. :)

I was calling out the GP that the mere insight that discipline is usually necessary because you can’t rely on being consistently motivated fits the pattern of an insight that doesn’t by itself makes it easier to solve the problem. The insight can explain lack of success (inconsistent motivation combined with lack of discipline), but it doesn’t tell you how one might engender a lasting change. Also, the difference between discipline and consistent motivation is arguably small, because you somehow have to consistently motivate yourself to build up and maintain a discipline.
I’m not sure an expensive and energy wasting laundering solution is the way to solve privacy concerns. This also ignores the fact that it only really offers privacy for simple transfers, not for when you actually pay for a service/product/goods.
Funny you should say that. Let me introduce you to a little thing called civil forfeiture.
> the actual defi protocol is decentralized, how do you freeze that?

You don’t. You just keep nailing people to touch it. Sanctions make things difficult for someone. Nobody expects them to e.g. poof Pyongyang.
I've told this story here before, but a while back mine malfunctioned while it was at a body shop and started calling the SOS service repeatedly. After the police called me (and came by my house the next day) I contacted the dealership and they actually sent me instructions for unplugging it. I haven't gotten around to plugging it back in, and now if I pick "customer service" in the car's menu it just gives me a 1-800 number to call. It did complain profusely the first two or three times I started the car afterwards, but it eventually gave up.
There are three kinds of capture.

One of them is to capture CO2 from a source with is free of nitrogen from the atmosphere. You can get this from fermentation processes (byproduct of making ethanol from corn or sugarcane) or some other industrial processes. This is very low cost but not very scalable.

Another is to capture CO2 from a powerplant, which means either capturing it from the waste gas with an aimine stripper

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81103601.pdf

or maybe separating CO2 from the fuel before it is burned or burning the fuel in pure oxygen which makes the separation easier. In theory you could burn coal or natural gas this way and the technology is a bird in the hand but nobody will do it unless they get paid to do it.

Then there is direct air capture, which, I'm afraid, is a step backwards. If it worked it could be a step forwards but it's enabled the new "net zero" phrase which is a codeword for "we'll pump as much carbon into the air as much as we can now because someday somebody can take it out again".
Sure, about three years ago I picked up a Gatsby project.

The codebase was just… normal, it was fine. Really two simple for there to be anything I would object to.

It was, however, my first exposure to Gatsby. I had struggled in the past with the older approaches to React SSR, absolutely eye-opening, changed everything about the way I work.
If we're going to allow this on the basis that rich people will share it with the global poor, allowing the poor to use it in ways they choose to decrease inequality. then ok, hard to argue with that.

First though I'd like to see some more resource-sharing of this nature and scale from the rich. Let's see a pilot program or something because I don't see all that much global-scale sharing of the technologies that can most improve life.

When you say things like "deprive ourselves" it's not hard to see that you perceive yourself to be in the group that will benefit either way. Which is fine I think but my life has led me to more easily imagine myself and my descendants on the other side of it.
Which ones ended their partnerships? Burger King is expanding theirs, at least as of a month or so ago[1].

I'm not saying it isn't happening, but I'm skeptical of a macro trend away from meat substitutes here. Anecdotally, I've seen meat substitutes show up in more places around me (like Mexican-style fast food).

[1]: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/burger-king-new-impossible-...
If you attempt to launder transactions on cash ledgers, it is also illegal.
They cover some good points but I would also add:

Don't just back up your data.

- Test your backups.

- Test Disaster Recovery Failover.

- Ensure backups can not be tampered with, even by a malicious or negligent administrator or by automation.

- Strive toward some day having N+1 active-active multi-region when it is feasible and affordable to do so.
Your TOTP accounts can be moved between devices using Authy, correct? That means Authy has access to the plain text secrets at some point. So mistake #1: your "secrets" aren't secret, they are merely held in escrow. If they "were evil", or perhaps if a state actor, or if you pissed a rouge employee off at Authy, they could absolutely leak your credentials.

#2: The authy app lets you recover your account using SMS. So anyone that wants to pull off a simjack attack on you can login to your Authy as you and obtain the keys to the kingdom.

The entire point of TOTP is the "Secret" is held locally in an oracle. If you break that constraint, you've broken the security of the protocol.
It's also a relatively new part which hasn't developed the kind of demand that leads to counterfeiting yet.

Most of the counterfeiters are targeting well-established old parts like the STM32F103.
Even if it's not sold, the car's behavior may expose some user data to external services - navigation systems enriching maps with local data (restaurants, gas stations, charger occupancy, parking spaces, hotels) may connect to services that allow an external entity to identify a car or the person driving it. I don't know Tesla's software enough to make any further observations, but the possibility exists.
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Unknown. It's never been tried in an industrialized nation. I have a feeling it could easily go the other way and return China to poverty with not enough people to sustain their current economic output. That depends a lot on what's possible to do with automation. It could also have drastic effects on the knowledge sector, breaking down chains of training and knowledge transfer. A lot of expertise could be lost.
> the social measures that were the only viable approach to the disease

were already useless. Imposing those, plus others that were performative and virtue signalling rather than effective, drastically reduced the amount of fucks people had available.
It wouldn't surprise me if 90% of the crypto with any velocity is already "tainted" TBH. It would be easy to "pepper" everyone's addresses with small (in BTC vernacular satoshi sized) amounts of "tainted" currency, subverting the whole system.
Rights, including the right to privacy, must necessarily have limits.

The right to privacy doesn't mean you can facilitate money laundering with impunity. Just like my right to privacy doesn't mean I can blind everyone in a shop if I don't want them to know what I'm buying.

> Remember, the most privacy-preserving way of trade is dealing with cash, yet no one sees it as "criminal."

Try to buy a one-way airline ticket with cash and see if you don't have suspicion fall upon you.
It reminds me of that meme that says : If you're homeless... just buy a house.
> Their currency is stronger than before the war (despite internal fragility)

Stronger than before the war, but weaker than some years ago. Russia is declining for a long time now, this war is just a last struggle.

> They have the entire continent of Europe by the balls on oil/gas

No, they have not. They lost them. Everyone is switching to new suppliers, while speeding up their movement to alternatives. And this did not happen because of the war. Moving to greener technology happens for some time now, 2019 it got a new boost, and the war only gave it another boost. With more than half of their export being a dated resource, Russia had an obvious problem pending on them.

> They've made an absolute killing in the energy sector this year due to the fear and scarcity they have created.

They made a short term win by burning their long term gains. They paid very hard with all the restrictions they received, and all the trust they lost.

> They're making steady gains in their war in Ukraine

You mean, steady gains backward? They are losing the war. They lost most of the territory they gained in the early days, and have now barely more than they had before the war.

> They have the ear and economic heart of China

Having an ear without the backing is useless. They can't push nearly as much to China than they sold to Europe. And china is switching to greener energy too. Russia's other products have little value for china. Not enough to compensate for the loss. Though, maybe enough to hold the country alive.

The thing is, overall economical, Russia is an old country with a dying market. A dinosaur who failed to adept to the future. And they burned every ground with those who could help them transform into a better form. But truly, a collapse does not depend on economy alone. Russia seems to have a population accustomed to suffering, and indoctrinated with Putin's nonsense. So quite likely that the country will remain as it is for the moment. But until some significant change will happen, the country will remain in a very stressed state, with a chance for collapse always being around.
One that I inherited that's around 10 to 12 years old now, I think it was designed reasonably well. Certainly some things I would do differently, and some flaws, but I think they knew what they were doing and did a good, or at least decent, design.

Since it was written in a language and framework for which I have no particular expertise, I'm judging this purely off the things I do know -- the rough structure of an MVC, and database design. Maybe the way they used the framework is poor, but it looked decent to my untrained (in language and framework) eyes.
You are saying some things that are guaranteed to generate skepticism. First, that the great power of this teaching method only manifests under circumstances that very few people get to experience. Second, that concepts make skills "trivial" and "intuitive" but testing skills prevents teachers from teaching concepts.

Both of those statements call into question the effectiveness of what you're promoting.
In "real reality" there is no forever, but in simulated reality they could turn up the clock speed and really let things last a very long time indeed.

Another thing simulated reality offers is afterlife, in any number of forms. If it turns out there is one (or more), I'll try to remember to attribute that to being in a sim.
It's one of a few ongoing efforts along these lines -- at least the Ferrocene spec is also worthy of attention: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/the-ferrocene-language-spec...
I think you could design a device that optimizes for longevity. Build the cheapest, simplest device that can run your piece of software, and then produce lots of them.

On the simplicity side, all of the parts would be solid state, it would handle whatever power you have on hand, the inputs and outputs would allow for using whatever devices you could cobble together in a post apocalyptic world.

Then on the software side, every one of these devices could easily export a standard image that could be used to build another device.

A lot of handwaving here, but most of what we sell these days is basically disposable because that's what is incentivized. If we actually optimized for longevity, we could probably do some amazing things.

Edit: for bonus points, each device will include detailed technical documentation on how to produce the device itself from scratch. It could be a sort of rosetta computer.
Ridiculous. Money laundering leads to a loss of freedom, privacy, and control because it empowers exactly the kind of people who want to take those things away from you.
> Such a setup would likely be cheaper to manufacture as well.

This is false only because costs tend to go down with scale - if you have an entire line making ten $10k BOM (bill of materials) cars in one shift it's going to be a loss-leader compared to a line making 300 cars a shift with a $12k BOM even if both cars sell at the same MSRP.
It's a great thing that Guido has managed to do that one thing - the world would be poorer without it. It's also a great thing that Jerry has done dozens of things - the world would be poorer without them. I see those accomplishments as complementary.

I think you misunderstand my motivations for putting the two of them in the same room. If there's one thing that I've learned over my years in this world, it's that the magic happens between people, not within any one person's mind. There are three "people" in my scenario - Guido, Jerry, and the audience. Somewhere in that conversation, an idea might be sparked.
Germany dont send real paper US dollars or EUR to Russia. Instead Russia just get some more numbers on Gazprombank correspondent bank account in some EU financial institution.

There is a huge difference between what can be done with paper money vs numbers on traceable bank account.
Imagine a world where when you so much as board an airplane -

"Sir are you carrying more than .5 bitcoins in a physical wallet on your persons, 10,000$ in cash, illegal drugs or cigarettes?"
That is a clever argument and I like it. It calls out the root problem is that in our implementation of capitalism, we don't feel like we are saving the world for ourselves, or even out children, but for the corporate overlords. We have only spite left to offer, not charity or hope.
>> Not eating a burger frequently implies an idealogical motivation?

>No, but seeking out one of these plant-burgers over real meat probably does.

I'm not the person you're replying to but I don't see how that follows - wouldn't you try something new on a menu and then keep ordering it if you liked it? To refuse to try something because it doesn't contain meat seems, to use your words, ideologically motivated.

Also let's get real here - we're talking about burger patties, the majority of which will be served by fast food joints like Burger King and McDonalds. Thin, made out of flavourless meat and cooked until they're choking hazard dry.
The operation of any well-operating nation state is always going to involve limitations on the right to privacy. It's facile to think otherwise.

The police need, within certain guardrails, to be able to search private property for evidence during investigations. Civil suits are going to require some element of discovery. Tax authorities are going to need to perform audits. Your landlord is going to need to come into your apartment to fix a leaking pipe if you're away.
Honest question - if no one is going to change their life, shouldn't we then be focusing on creating a future where they don't have to change? If you gave people a choice between paying higher taxes to achieve abundant clean energy, carbon sequestration, new biodegradable packaging etc. or fundamentally changing life as we know it to slow down emissions, which is more likely to happen?
Seems like that was already addressed:

> while relentlessly deprecating and removing older standards

Stuff that’s old and broken needs to be removed.
Less than a month ago, Vitalik Buterin deposited 220 ETH into Tornado Cash.

source, 4 transactions:

100 ETH - https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd8d586ad33434be0f51c5c9d6996b1c8b208b04155683eee377849b67a0b13cd
100 ETH - https://etherscan.io/tx/0xfeb399764590a7c1ca321492b4634ceba530093d43d814aa1c5afdf3fa03b092
10 ETH - https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0f82d42f6d455f3b745be670a04d37a254d02a4b1ae35af967ed7d90de34ffdc
10 ETH - https://etherscan.io/tx/0x98c40bdde8edd84ba4c483bfca447bb3209957c1be90582d5fbf8630845df814
BMCs are horribly insecure and probably intentionally so. They should always be on a dedicated ethernet port and never shared (looking at you, Supermicro - no port should ever be able to accidentally become shared), and the network to which they're connected should be 100% disconnected from the Internet, which means you'd obviously need to be running your own NTP server.

If you weren't previously using NTP with your BMC, then that might suggest you haven't put enough time and attention in to your configurations.

If you're not already keeping your BMCs from talking to the Internet, then you really, really should, as soon as you can.
> is this something that actually happened, or something theoretical?

It doesn't matter. Even the theoretical possibility is bad. If you're going to be denied medical care because of a score generated by a third-party you should be allowed to see the score, know how it is generated, and be allowed to fix errors.

What Experian is doing — controlling your ability to get a job, buy a house or even get medical care through their opaque and non-appealable scoring system — is worse than China's purported Social Credit System [1]. We look down on China's system, but our own system is just as bad if not worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
It sounds like a big advantage to make a game in a cheap country.

Good for you :-)

But I'm curious about your 'net' because for me my net also pays health insurance and pention and insurance.

How do you handle those topics?