skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or on, in or under the oceans.
Say every hard link to the file is a descendant of a directory that blocks traversal. No subdirectories of those are already open, and the file is not already open. That keeps it safe, right? If there's any loopholes in that, they could be closed.
You posted a .png image, not the article, just a heads up
I had a weird experience relatively recently - I looked at a (coding) problem, and came up with an approximate (albeit buggy) solution, with no conscious involvement.

I looked at my answer, and didn't know what the hell it was meant to be doing - let alone how to debug it.

I went to sleep, and when I woke up fixed the bug with ease.
He's visiting Bombay Beach, not Slab City. Still a great video, though.
Why are we penalizing objects that haven't committed any offense? That doesn't seem morally defensible.
Making sure it's not already open by someone else is definitely part of "used properly".
> Don't most employment contracts say that anything you build as a hobby belongs to the company?

I see these sorts of contracts at a decent number of jobs, but I wouldn't say the majority. Every time I've been presented with one, they've been fine adding an exemption for my hobby work - as long as it's distinct from my professional work. I believe California requires such an exemption - I've gotten a fair number of contracts where it was already specified that they only owned the right to code that was related to my professional duties.
Under that formulation, anyone can be working class just by scaling up the ambition of their housing arrangements. Bezos' penthouse in NYC has an imputed rent of about $4M/year. If we are to consider folks who make $12M/year or less working class, then it kinda ruins the usefulness of the category, considering substantially 100% of the population would be in it.
> Legally yes, with legal precedent set in court

Typically this is followed up with a misunderstanding of the DVD-CSS decision, or a misrepresentation of Marilyn Hall's decision that code is speech somehow means code is free speech, but I'll bite. What precedent do you imagine holds that code is somehow free speech?

Please understand that I'm going to look it up and I'm going to push back.
> There's no difference between a mypy-enabled codebase and a java codebase in terms of static typing (other than that mypy actually supports a generally richer type system).

that must require some advanced usage of mypy then, because my experience was that even the most simple example got the finger from mypy that would have very obviously worked in Java

mkdir alpha
echo 'beta = True' > alpha/models.py
echo 'from .models import beta' > alpha/__init__.py
echo 'import alpha; print(alpha.beta)' > doit.py
mypy --strict doit.py
# doit.py:1: error: Module has no attribute "beta"

And look, I'm with you that I wish any codebase with an `__init__.py` anywhere in it (thus, what I think of as a project versus some ad-hoc python scripting whatever) would type-hint the absolute hell out of things, but claiming mypy or any such linting system is as strict as a strongly typed language always boils my blood
Why would you ever leave a voicemail when you can leave a text message?

I think I disagree with all the advice in your comment, but this part has me particularly baffled.
Why?

"Don't do the hard thing, easier things exist" is always true. Why not do the harder thing? Marathon runners don't typically go "man, it'd be better if I just did a 5K", right?
It's clickbait I guess.

IIRC einstein had to dip into math for imaginary numbers and non-euclidean spaces for his theory on general relativity, but imaginary numbers aren't the most intuitive in the physical world and one at first conception one wouldn't think it should be in there. Yet imaginary numbers do help in many computations - for example, 3d rotations use quaternions that use imaginary numbers.
I actually +1 on linked lists since it's very cache unfriendly and is actually very niche, but recursion is very solid, specially if your language has tail call elimination
Great idea - let me install of this stuff to let you suck analytics out of my store and then compete with me in two years.

Yeah, no thanks.
KSR's books are such great tales of humanity. Again and again and again they resist great man theories of history & immerse us in such long views of how slow the tide of opinion is, how glacially humanity as a whole moves. The science fiction of KSR's books is more a backdrop, if often feels to me, to exploring social dynamics at varying scales. Rightly calling out non-terran colonization as futile without earth seems like a basic sensible lock I'd expect from this master of the genre, because while most of their books are going deep on intersocial dynamics, KSR hammers in a bunch of great sci-fi mini lessons, & this one seems fairly obvious.
It feels really satisfying to read being said clearly what you would think should really be obvious to everyone, rather than the constant FUD and waffling about EVs.
>hemp

Incidentally, before Teflon tape became affordable enough for plumbing use, most plumbers were using a type of traditional "pipe dope" instead.

Maybe this is another application where it might be a feature if "dope sells itself".
This is the best example as to why DEI for companies matters. A room full of white & asian men would likely not pick up on this prior to the launch.
Mars colonization isn't happening. SpaceX's Starship might be flying within the next year, yet there has been no substantial development of Martian habitat technology. Are they building a bridge to nowhere? I think it's obvious that Starship was never about Mars; from the start it has been intended for launching extremely large satellite constellations (particularly for Starlink and DoD contracts.) SpaceX's talk of Mars is little more than a recruiting scheme.

As far as I can tell the strongest evidence against my take is the $100M prize money Elon Musk has offered up for carbon capture that would supposedly be for making methane fuel on Mars. Making fuel that way would be pointless on Earth (except for greenwashing/PR.) But that's not even $100M spent, just $100M pledged.
The criteria for what makes a tragedy have shifted quite a bit over time. In ancient Greece, Aristotle wrote that in order to have the desired cathartic impact on the audience, a tragic figure should be a king or other elite figure afflicted by a wrathful or vengeful god. Shakespearean tragedies still feature nobles, but the basis of the tragedy is human conflict (between individuals, as well as psychologically within a single individual), not divine. Many modern tragic figures (e.g., Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman) are ordinary people, beaten down by everyday problems. The Walter White story arc is interesting because he starts at the bottom and works his way up, becoming tragic by virtue of his "success." As many have noted, tragic figures like Heisenberg and Rorshach seem to attract a lot of misplaced enthusiasm, but this isn't a new phenomenon - Hamlet, Faust and the Lucifer of Paradise Lost have always had many admirers despite their tragic nature. Maybe the next phase in tragic nareative structure will entail stories that are intended by their authors to serve as a warning, but which tragically get reinterpreted by audiences as celebrating the character flaws they were written to caution about.
I'm not sure I follow. What's the wisdom encoded in those statements? In what situations would it apply? I would love to see an example.
I think you're walking it back a bit there. You say "What is Achilles' tragic flaw?" in a paragraph about Aristotle. So you did say it.

No question about the centrality of The Iliad though.
Is it just me or are purple using a lot of goofy-ass fonts these days? What the fuck is the lowercase “f” in this post?
Quality chefs don't work for McDonald's, either. :D
Nature does that every 5000 or 20000 years, iirc or maybe they haven't fully determined the cycle times yet. But there is evidence that it has been grassland and grazed upon
What are we supposed to be seeing here? It's still a barren desert on Google Satellite imagery.

And even if it wasn't, this town's area is minuscule compared to the area of the Sahara.
'There will be blood on streets,' Google execs warn employees about layoffs
> If you're going to the restroom and will be AFK, you can join the restroom channel. You're in, but away. No one is actually wearing a headset on the toilet, it's just a fun way to feel like a real office.

Interesting, I would never have expected anyone to feel the need of recreating this particular piece of office life in a remote setting.
Yeah, I grew up in Adelaide where low 40s were regular occurrences throughout summer, and that's damn hot.

I don't think I've ever experienced 120F (~49c). I guess I wouldn't be worried about dying personally, but I definitely wouldn't want to be outside for too long. Older people though? That probably is potentially fatal.
> What are we supposed to be seeing here?

Life thriving in an inhospitable place.

> And even if it wasn't, this town's area is minuscule compared to the area of the Sahara.

As will the first couple hundred/thousand years worth of Mars bases. We'll be building oases first.
That's not what I was talking about. I was responding to the person who implied that self-driving cars need to be completely error-free, which is an unattainable standard, and far beyond what human drivers are capable of. There will still be traffic accidents with self-driving cars, but hopefully far fewer. Holding them to an unrealistic standard of 0 errors would needlessly kill thousands of people.

It's pretty clear that nobody was ever going to put a kid in front of their Tesla, and The Verge and everyone here is being deliberately obtuse to indulge their Tesla/Musk hate.
Hitler was certainly undone by his flaws. I'm not sure most dramaturges would say he was a tragic figure, though. More of a pure evil one. There was never anything hopeful about him.
> until we have solved our problems here, Mars is just a distraction for a few escapists, and so worse than useless.

The problem with this attitude is that there is no evidence that we will ever completely solve our problems on earth. There is always going to be something threatening us even if it's mainly ourselves. Also, it's the same philosophy critics of the space race espoused yet many of the tools we use to identify and track our global problems are an unintended outgrowth of that great power contest, e.g. climate sensing satellites. It's a deeply inspiring effort to colonize another planet and far from an "escapist" activity it's something which gives many people hope for the future. It's much easier to be an "escapist" by dabbling in distractions on earth than it is by building rockets or working on the science to make life possible on Mars! Sure, the endeavor shouldn't be a major global economic line item in the meantime but I'm not aware of the necessity to go that far.
We should start by colonizing the bottom of the ocean before worrying about off planet.
On Earth there are numerous second and third order effects to consider. For example, Sahara is considered a very important source of phosphorus for the Amazon rainforest [0] and making Sahara green could have a huge negative impact on it. Meanwhile on Mars impact of terraforming mistakes on population is much smaller because it would be already shielded heavily from external environment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_dust
I have biases of course, but I don’t see what my agenda would be here? What is it that I’m plotting or trying to influence? Tell me what my agenda appears to be?
One related technique that I think works well is to hold "Office Hours" at least once a week.

Just schedule a regular meeting, and attend it - then advertise widely that you are available at that time and that anyone is welcome.

It's a great way to foster skip-level interactions, give help to someone who needs it, and just chat. It's really fun when a few people come in at once. Sometimes nobody shows up, and that's fine, too.

Give it a try!
Did the media (in 2011) state that 100s or thousands died?
TornadoCash can be used to get people banned in Aave
Yea, a bit confused about that as well.

Maybe they mean providers could offer the download in chunks? But yea, there's nothing stopping someone getting the full file and just ffwding that.
This is education and habits.

And when gas is at $5.00, an economic incentive.
I tried but it was too long and started using math for things that aren't really applicable.

I do think that consciousness is not recognizable by us, when it might exist, due to the spatial and temporal interval in which we reside.

For example, a tree, or a galaxy, can be conscious, but we'd never notice with the time it takes for the tree to react to seasons or millenial-long climate changes, or the space that the galaxy changes over -- and the speed of light limiting its reactions.
The thing that remote “pop in” doesn’t do is let me assess how interruptible someone is. When I pop in on someone in an office, I do it when I’m not interrupting their deep work — it’s extremely easy to tell when this is. Remotely, it’s much harder.
I use satellites all the time to isolate specific mineral beds for mining. You can just-about 'just pick' what comes out of the ground when it comes to certain things. I look almost exclusively for agates. ASTER has spectral data exactly geared to that, LANDSAT 7 can get you semi-close if you know your terrain type. I'm 100% successful at every location.

I'm almost ready to start using them for Uranium before they get decom'd. I've trained myself on 7 years of this satellite data.
I didn’t read it as an advocation for anarchy. In my mind, they were saying we are still in feudalism and serfs type system when it comes to corporations. The rulers of these corporations can make arbitrary decisions and rule their “kingdoms,” exiling anyone who shakes the boat too hard.

They were asking what comes next and what would that look like.
That's actually a great analogy because being able to run 5km is actually a prerequisite for being able to run 42km.
Good catch. The best parts of many sci-fi shows are lifted directly from Egan, Black mirror's "cookie" concept (copying a consciousness) and Egan's "jewel", for example.
Why?

What's the compelling benefit of the bottom of the ocean that Mars lacks? A crack in your Mars dome is fixable; a crack at the bottom of the ocean means instant death beyond a couple hundred feet down.
That's a really unfortunate name considering their reputation for employees walking out on the job.
Nevermind that even if we turned Earth into a glorious green utopia, eventually a big enough rock is going to come along and boop us and kill everyone and everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yilan_crater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakul_(Tajikistan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart...

Maybe we can deflect it. Maybe we can’t.

Right now we have no offsite backups. That should terrify everyone who cares in the slightest about human culture.
Rust has a variety of checked methods -- `checked_add` etc -- that allow for fallible int operations. And there are corresponding `wrapping_` versions that indicate wrapping is the correct behavior (and shouldn't panic in debug builds).
Sure, but that doesn't mean you have to complete a 5K race before you're allowed to do a marathon. A marathon can be your first competitive race.

We can similarly go to Mars before we grow crops in Antarctica, even if the resulting tech would also have the side benefit of being useful there. They needn't even be mutually exclusive; some prospective techs for a Mars or Moon base already get tested in places like Antarctica.
Furthermore, Carmack mentions that this aversion to debuggers stems from the Linux bias.
Voicemail is the worst possible form of communication.

Consider a plot of fidelity vs latency. You want to talk to somebody - high-fidelity back-and-forth communications instantly. It's up in one corner of our plot.

Now consider voicemail. One-way, lots of "um, uh" wasted time, tedious menus to fetch and wade thru it, maybe tomorrow. It's down in the other corner of our plot.

Literally any other form of communication beats that. Text. Email. Hell, send a letter. But you try to leave me a voicemail, you're saying "Here, you type this email".

I never even set up my voicemail.
Ah, haven't heard PDA for years (besides the social;)

For me the buffer is less.. like, you can buffer lots without processing. It's interesting that processing goes so simple.

But i guess buffering is pretty essential.. like, you're implicitly creating a graph between the things buffered. Cool!
The problem with this is it doesn’t scale unless you have voice mail transcription.

If you get one call a day, it’s fine.

Getting one slack message a day is also fine.

Getting 50 a day makes it impossible, because unless the messages are transcribed, you have to listen to each one to decide if you want to return the call.

…and if they are transcribed, well… now you’re using slack.

There’s definitely something to be said for a call that you can’t do over chat (for whatever reason; some people just don’t “text” they only talk).

…but, calling arbitrarily when you want something flat out doesn’t work.

Personal experience: people call for trivial reasons, you don’t answer and they don’t leave a message.

3 missed calls from your boss, no message left.

Just leave it because they didn’t leave a message? Probably not.

…but, the reality is, most people cbf leaving a message saying what they wanted. They want to talk now, or not at all. …and, I don’t think it’s ok to just ignore your missed calls.

So then the pressure is on you to track down each of those people and see what they wanted.

It’s a nightmare. (My solution: choose a different place to work. /shrug. Can’t change the culture in some places)
The point is that Aristotle's views about Oedipus both misread Sophocles' text and fail to generalize across the literary corpus Aristotle was analyzing. Achilles is the quintessential and paradigmatic tragic figure in ancient Greek literature: if Aristotle's insight about tragic character doesn't apply to Achilles, then it certainly makes sense that Aristotle would omit discussing him because such a counterexample so discredits his idea!
> it is easier to heat up a planet, then we can both terraform Mars and not fix Earth

That's not the only challenge with terraforming Mars, e.g. you also have to remove perchlorates and install a healthy soil microbiome etc. Those are fertile ground (pun not intended) for earthly applications.
It took me a while to grok the y-combinator, but I eventually realized it's just a generic factory, as a trampoline, that ceases to return a function invocation, just the last value, when it reaches the fixed point -- so it can actually reach a stopping point and not cause infinite recursion, without needing a self-reference.
I love both the show & Egan's writing, but Egan's stuff feels a lot more optimistic to me. I do like the theory that things are not quite what they seem in Severance and there might be a Ndoli Jewel-type device involved.
Imagine someone spending 40 hours a week training to be fit. They might be 18, 30 or 40 years old.

Now another person only has 4 hours a week.

Who is going to be fitter? Who is going to find it easier to, for example, take up a new sport, like rowing for example.

Now replace fitness with learning.

And note that 18-21 year olds at university are learning 40+ hours a week.

And typically by 30 you are working and applying 40+ hours a week, but hard studying much fewer hours. (Unless actively studying, say for a leet code type interview or something).
> You have chosen a lose-lose solution.

When I go to the store, there is a listed price for an apple. I pay that price, and nothing more. I get an apple, and nothing more. That's not lose-lose.

> Turn up on time. Do your job. Do it right. Do whatever is asked of you provided it's lawful, reasonable.

This is a totally reasonable transaction. You're not slacking off. You're not failing to do your reasonable duties. You're not showing up 2 hours late, or playing hooky.

> Do not one thing more than that.

If someone is asking you to do something unreasonable, you should have the freedom to refuse that. It should not be considered a defection or a betrayal. It might not always solve things, but it should be a normal and satisfactory outcome.

Again, this is the outcome every time I go to the grocery store
I mean, absent humans messing around with the Colorado River, Lake Cahuilla[1] would've eventually refilled, and then dried up, and then refilled like it's done for millennia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla#Chronology
> You need an Apple device to watch Apple TV+

I watch on my Chromecast with Google TV fine.

There's lots of other non-Apple devices it works on too: https://www.apple.com/au/apple-tv-app/devices/

> Amazon paid to lock down Lord of the Rings and very nearly to James Bond. Apple did the same to Foundation. Next is football.

Well HBO etc have been doing this forever. Not sure what the distinction is.
I always feel that so many of the 'digital humans' narratives sci-fi are just approximations of the depth of world achieved in permutation city or diaspora.
>like if I wanted a pedometer, someone down the street would be making them ?

If I wanted to strawman marxists, yes; that is what they believe ;)

To be more real, eh... if you look at how soviets did their planning they really did attempt to have everything "within 15 minutes." While that probably doesn't apply to something as specific as a pedometer... they do tend to extend that philosophy as far as it will go... reasonably or not.
Oh, look. Another article trying to normalize racism.
I'm obviously not an automotive engineer... but...

1) electric motors are very high torque

2) electric drivetrains aren't really that complicated.

3) the hybrid battery isn't that large, so it's not the space for that

4) all the engine has to do is recharge the battery. Mazda could have probably done a rotary or honda done a miraculous small engine to do the recharging.

Sure I get that the early hybrids were complicated, they probably had both the electric drive and the engine delivering power and balancing things. But with skateboard design EV platforms (and that is over 10 years old at this point), the industry would have produced a very efficient and likely cheaper than a traditional big engine ICE platform with incentives and regulations by now.

It probably is moot now. 200 wh/kg at pack level LFP is coming into mass production, and 150 wh/kg sodium ion is coming next year. But for midwesterners, long haul truckers, RV drivers, and other long distance frequent drivers, the 50 mile PHEV with 200 wh/kg LFP should have a ten year lifespan and deliver carbon emissions savings.

But... oh well.
I am always pretty concerned about a "hot mic" situation. Not because I might say something outrageous, but because perhaps I want to sing the lyric stuck in my head, or problem solve by taking to myself out loud. Managing to disconnect is already somewhat hard when you jump in and out of meetings on multiple platforms. All it takes is forgetting a button and you're broadcasting yourself by accident. As a user, that's my initial pause when seeing these kinds of things.
I was going to convey this same message, but the words I would have chosen would have been inferior to these I am replying to -- indicating I have even further to go down the path to embarassment-avoiding wisdom.
There isn’t an explanation. It’s a pretty standard doomer trope to claim climate change can cause all sorts of ridiculous weather changes.

In “the day after tomorrow”, the air gets so cold that jet fuel freezes the moment the helicopter flies into the cold air.