skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't the hard law of the universe (the universe cares little about 'clean' or 'problem'). You can't put it back the way it was, but you may be able to put it into a better position than it was before. Thermodynamics doesn't prevent carbon sequestration from working because the carbon dioxide is still carbon dioxide, not the hydrocarbons it was before (also there's a general presumption that even if you don't manage a cheaper sequestration than the original energy gained when producing it, you can still effectively 'pay back' some of the costs of fossil fuel generation with renewable generation, with interest).
Ask HN: Could there be a “tech.fyi” (like levels.fyi for tech stack maturity?)
Maybe you’re hesitant to switch jobs - you don’t want to join a tech dumpster fire! What could we do to make tech quality transparency more available before employees join?

Imagine a place you could lookup verifiable stats that indicate the company does a good job maintaining its projects and demonstrates good software craftsmanship. What stats might make sense? Stuff like tests per lines of code, how fast can a “hello world” change be made and tested? Frequency of deploys. Number of reverted PRs? How out of date dependencies are? I’m sure there’s existing stats in the software eng community.

There’s the “Joel Test” which is a bit outdated, and has a much to do with a devs quality of life.

What verified stats would you want to know before joining a company?
Honestly it seems to me like that quality of "thought" has decreased since technology arrived on the scene. People don't learn Latin anymore, and they can't write letters like the soldiers in WW1, let alone the Civil War. But we do watch a lot more porn and we do drink a lot more sugary drinks. So my advice if you want to improve your thought is to get rid of your computer and iPhone and eat only red meat.
Don't forget Dart. They tried to push that as a replacement to JavaScript for a while. Just like what Microsoft tried with VBScript years ago.

Then Flutter came out of nowhere and reintroduced everyone to Dart again.
I built one for a client. It was a rocketchat bot taking commands for making a release of a specific tag or latest master branch, a revert, showing what is currently deployed and printing a commit log vs previously deployed commit. Worked like a charm. Was a set of ansible scripts called by node. No need for anything fancy.

Oh and it always expected a confirmation.
A lot of insects are attracted to bright lights. Maybe it attracts them away from you?
What makes you think they're neglecting the Mac?

I'd argue that they have put in an enormous amount of investment into the Mac in the last few years despite the fact that the Mac only makes up 10% of their revenue. They've designed the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Ultra, M2, and will likely debut an insane Mac Pro SoC soon. These are substantial investments.

And they haven't stopped innovating with MacOS. They're still pushing big yearly updates despite, again, the Mac only making up 10% of their revenue. I think they're just getting started. We should see more MacOS take advantage of Apple Silicon soon.
I think the implication is that global warming would heat up the oceans so you don’t need to put more energy in.

However I don’t think warming the ocean is necessary for iron fertilisation to promote plankton growth and thereby remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
In C++, there are no differences between pointer and reference semantics except that the former are a) nullable and b) reseatable (can be changed to point to something else).
> Or how professors will throw a fit whenever you solve a limit problem using L'Hospital instead of their farcical show-and-dance about limits.

They are teachers, they want you to think and practice mathematical way of thinking, using minimal set of assumptions. Exercising this discipline in thought to some extent is useful. Using l'Hospital rule to solve simple problems that are easy to solve from first principles is like taking out a fly with a nuke, when you have nukes. Just because you can, does not mean you should.
I'm not super familiar with channels in Go, but one way to avoid the need to synchronize state in Elixir is to use ETS (Erlang Term Storage) which is a way to store data (terms) in memory.

If the state is in ETS than (optionally) any process on the node can read the state. Often this is paired with a single process that is allowed to update the state so that the state is always updated atomically. Often this pattern means that you don't need to distribute the same state to multiple processes, because instead they can just read the state they need from ETS (which is pretty fast/cheap).
I think as Canadians this topic is covered because the geography of our country is skewed considerably more than many other countries both due to the scale, and the land mass the lay near the poles.

If I recall correctly it was the discussion on the size of Baffin Island, which looks almost 2x larger than Madagascar on the Mercantile map, when Madagascar is in fact just over 10% larger than Baffin.

Also, that we have islands nobody gives a 2nd thought to that are the size of Spain! :)
I'm unaware of any contemporary of Creedence Clearwater Revival that had greater philosophical or virtuoso depth.
> Imagine if you could type "II" and your text editor could offer to replace it with "Ⅱ".

MS Word has had this for decades.
USA has lots of jobs that pay enough to live on that matter. You wont earn 300k as a teacher but you'll earn enough to live, and you'll earn more than if you "do a job that matters" in a poorer country.
Mosquitos too, for that matter, for orchids.

https://www.thoughtco.com/insect-pollinators-that-arent-bees...
EOW has good writings and that is a creative definition. But "units" may be a stretch. It's not like there's a health bar and enough parasites deplete it. Limited language.
Fedora has chronyd installed by default, which is supposed to do what ntpd does.

I also installed the guest agent. This is one of those have-to-use-virt-manager things. It doesn't seem to fix the time, but then I have been running it from Boxes. Maybe that's why.
Why would they be safe? What am I missing?
Almost every company above a certain size, irrespective of overall health, can/will use the opportunity to do layoffs.

Some of them may even be hiring aggressively on the side.

Probably for at least a quarter or two, they can artificially jack up 'productivity' by changing the denominator on the quotient. Then they look good to investors and shift out of that mode to whatever they think they should be doing next.

I'm not necessarily justifying anything here, just highlighting some of the general dynamics.
There's a lot of tricks out there for killing mosquitoes but the window screen on a fan one is a personal favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ
Fortunate Son is an incredible political song that feels eternal in message and yet it also feels deeply localized to the social environment of the US in the late 60s and early 70s. I think that duality is what makes it such a great song.

Plus that opening… could recognize it in an instant.
The model only predicts the next token. This is appended to the original input (i.e. prompt), then the model predicts the next token again, etc. So those previous answers are given as input.
It’s not that implausible. It’s trained on many examples of instructions followed by answers, and it’s meant to (and does) generalize to unseen instructions. After enough training, it also generalized to instructions of previously unseen length.
There are beliefs that as Bitcoin continues to accrue value and users, the fees will be enough to sustain the network. I understand many are skeptical in this regard and the only thing that will them right or wrong is time.
I think many people already know that fiat currencies depreciate and something like gold without the digging might be useful. I find people want to know more about the how than the why. If they understand a little more about how it works, they can build a bit of an intuition and can formulate their own opinions regarding whether they trust it or not (vs simply trusting another person that has an opinion on the topic one way or the other).

Of course, the hashing/nonce part is only one part of the mechanism and probably not even the most important part. However, it is where the bulk of the energy is used - most people have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of energy and would like to understand that a bit better. I have other "parables" for explaining public/private key encryption, etc., but I was primarily responding to the parent comment.

>> That's a very human centric way of putting it

Humans are the ones assigning the value to this and they may be more likely to assign a higher value if it appeals to their sense of aesthetic. Solving beautiful equations sounds better than trial and error to many. That being said, I do think there is beauty in crypto - just maybe not in the nonce guessing bit.
Yes! (well I'm assuming you mean Storyboard). There's a new project that accomplishes just that: https://github.com/phenixdigital/phx_live_storybook
I would expect the opposite, actually. To pay for electricity, miners have to constantly sell some of the coins they earn. All else being equal, when there are more coins being sold, the tendency is for their price to decrease; once there are less coins being sold, because miners no long need to sell as much, the tendency becomes for the price to increase, or at least, decrease less.
The energy part of crypto is a pretty small part of why I hate on it. More of a cherry on top. I'll stop hating on crypto when it becomes useful for anything other than committing crimes.
I’ve really found no use for it at all. It doesn’t understand the codebase it’s being used in. I can’t tell it to write a service that gets data from another internal microservice, oh and make sure you do it in the same way the other services are implemented so that this passes code review… it can cough up slightly wrong answers to leetcode problems, but who has a job where that’s useful?
The observation is slightly older than Nolan:

So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller yet to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.

Swift, “On Poetry” (1733), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Rev._Jonatha...
Except that as described, people aren't actively changing it, they're just making mistakes because they're not worldly. I don't think you can reasonably expect people to care about the same things you do like this.

It's ok to make changes to your life to better fit into a culture you want to transplant yourself into. You don't have to, but it will help smooth things over. This is a relatively simple complaint too, I recall the threads about westerners with hyphenated names having huge difficulties with banking and forms in general in china.
Musika Fast Infinite Waveform Music Generation
If you liked this article and want to read someone's Ideas.md, I journal my ideas in the open on GitHub as README.md files. There are over 450+ entries of software and startup ideas.

When I get to around 100 I start a new repository.

They range from desktop software ideas to parallelism, concurrency, futuristic ideas.

They're sectioned and a few paragraphs to a page each.

Startups
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups

Ideas
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas

Ideas2
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2

Ideas3
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3

Ideas4 (what I'm working on at this time, maybe start here if you're interested in algorithms)

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4

I want people to read them and most of all, I want to see my ideas in the wild.

The more you force ideas onto a page the more ideas you get. The author of this page experiences the same thing.
web3 dev here.
nft contracts are turing complete. you can put whatever code you want in them. usually people inherit the openzeppelen base nft contract which doesnt have royalties turned on by default (perhaps new version has the functionality already implemented. but you can (and its not that uncommon) to go in the ownership transfer function and add a fractional fee that either goes to the contract host or a creators address. its very very trivial to do. and ive seen it a zilion times.
3 lines of code.

if ur a coder go check out the openzeppelin nft contract and find the function used for transfer of ownership. and look up the "payable" and payment functionality in solidity. if not then youll never understand what im saying anyways hahahaha. base concept though is correct. royalties are contractual, settable, and enforced by the contract. no way around them when theyre there
From a legal point of view, he paid for what he did. The problem is that he was member in a committee with at least one person that was a rape victim, it is a tricky situation, and I don't think we can force a rape victim to feel safe near a rapist.

I don't agree with the doxing part in social media, this can be dangerous.
Media Censorship in Pakistan Amid Political Reforms
Trickledown Paranomics.
> I think Americans over estimate how much investment in defense is needed.

I don't think you understand the concept of risk, particularly as it pertains to things like war and armed conflict.

Defense spending always looks excessive and unnecessary until you need it. Saying a country overestimates how much defense spending they need is like saying you don't need car insurance because you've never been in an accident.

Wars are similar to car accidents. We're really bad at predicting when we're going to get into one and it can be a whole lot worse than we ever could have imagined.

Additionally for most western countries, the U.S. military acts as a fail-safe of sorts. If Belgium, for instance, underestimates their defense needs they know at some point the U.S. will jump in to help them if need be, which is largely what's happening in Ukraine right now.

By contrast, if the U.S. underestimates its defense needs and suddenly finds itself under attack, say by the Chinese, who exactly would come and save them?
I think it would be a little more accurate to say that git is kind of a weird default: it’s a revision control power-user tool with all the sharp corners we expect from such tools and is overkill for most users in most situations. It’s understandable that typical users resent the complexity and the foot cannons.

Whether it’s git or vi/emacs or C or LaTex or whatever, there are a bunch of us old-timers who went through the pain already and now notice the modest loss of capability on hg or VSCode or whatever.

But even as such an old-timer, I don’t think it’s a good idea to default everyone into this low-level shit. Mercurial and VSCode and Python are fine, you can do great work without “the bare metal”.

Edit: Clarified that it’s a “revision control” power-user tool, plenty of “power users” have more typical revision-control needs.
It's not possible to lower the energy consumption of PoW like that, it has to constantly be mined to stay secure.
…that’s one rollercoaster of a comment.

But why haven’t you gotten rid of your iPhone and computer? Or did you submit this by post?
I'll be sure to inform Chris Chan.

.......I'll see myself out.
He said he was a temp, so I very much doubt he got severance.
Okay, good luck buddy.

As an aside, I like your username and comments. Cheers.
You might like the website, half bakery.

Here's the homepage.
https://halfbakery.com

Here's my profile page of my ideas there
https://www.halfbakery.com/user/chronological
It's an American thing. Europeans don't do all that.
> How many natural gas plants do you reckon we will need?

Many fewer than we already have.

Not sure I understand your other questions. What unreliable "sustainable" sources? Why paying much more for electricity?
This is hugely architecture-dependent. In CheriBSD for example - and probably also FreeBSD in general - the compiler doesn’t assume that, and that’s one of the features that make CHERI process colocation possible.
Maybe we could use atmospheric carbon for currency, turning an expensive process into a lucrative process.
They're both the same resolution and refresh rate. Not same brand and port though.
Plus you gotta factor in Gen Z's love of all things boomer. Legendary take.
I think you may be looking for this neat library: https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop

Although to be honest it boggles my that it's possible to accomplish this on iOS.
You mean middle-management?
> except for maybe "Lookin Out My Back Door"

According to Wikipedia,

> Fogerty, however, has stated in interviews that the song was actually written for his then three-year-old son, Josh.
It's sad that Tectonic conversion to Rust[1] was never finished. For now it's just a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution.

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
there is a parallel universe out there without mosquitos, and everything is FINE
Architect of The DAO splits from Ethereum ‘circus’ after nine years
Better luck next time :-/

This is like listening to music in the next room when you're drunk or can't sleep. Some of the features are identifiable (eg the 4 on the floor techno beat) but because it's been trained on a large corpus it just ends up as a stew of spectral information.

The way to teach a computer genre music is to either train it on sections of good tunes, or iteratively train it on highly curated playlists, or (best imho) train it to generate sequences and then synthesize the results. As it is there's no clear structure, no real tune, and the mix is a mess.
I always thought it meant the predator depends on a specific host for its survival which is also its prey. Else, are humans hyperparasaites because we eat and domesticate other predators?
I haven't seen a study yet, but yes, Copilot deliberately (AFAICT) incorporates randomness. For longer code fragments, I believe this would thwart most plagiarism detectors.

I'll note that defeating plagiarism detectors is easier than many people think. I and one of my students wrote a paper on an automatic technique to defeat plagiarism detectors, and it was highly effective: "Mossad: Defeating Software Plagiarism Detection", Devore-McDonald and Berger, OOPSLA 2020 (talk and paper link here: https://2020.splashcon.org/details/splash-2020-oopsla/14/Mos...).
Lol yes of course I meant 103. Though I’m ready for an http status code that’s like that: “I can’t give you what you want, but here’s something you didn’t even ask for instead.”
But we do watch a lot more porn

Surely porn is preferable to the prostitutes of the past?
> his music hits big with conservatives

They definitely have a southern sound...despite being from the Bay Area.
If you are accepting that the network can hard fork to change the hash algorithm, then why not accept that they can do a soft fork to blacklist UTXOs or any one of who-knows-how many possible defenses? Changing the hashing algorithm is a nuclear option and probably not necessary in the astronomically unlikely event that someone managed to get 51% of hash rate for any amount of time.

edit: Blacklisting UTXOs is entirely possible as I mentioned, and as I said, it should be achievable by soft fork. This would be the proof of work equivalent of slashing. I have a hard time believing Vitalik doesn’t know this. Is he being dishonest? I don’t know.
I agree with this point for the same reason; what matters is how people interpret it. Of course if I'm talking to a CS type I can go right into the details. The analolgy I use with laymen is solving a large rubiks cube by randomly moving pieces instead of using any other sophisticated methods. Somebody please correct my if I'm wrong as I haven't been in the cryptocurrency space for a minute, but I believe most of the 'solving' is just a nonce increment that is then hashed with the previous block header, current block, and maybe a couple other things.

I've noticed that whenever I assert that a 'complex mathematical problem' is being solved people tend to think of an ever-growing algebraic equation.
There's an argument that because he lost the rights, the songs saw wider licensing than he ever would have signed off on, cementing their popularity.
Interesting results goodside.

Is it able to extract any kind of structural information? For example, you pass it the text of a movie script or children's story (where the descriptive language is simple) and it returns a structured summary of the content?
That's cool. I might use that around my homestead in some areas where mosquitoes are breeding in animal drinking water.
This! And also Mission Control ♥♥♥

Cool project anyway!
This looks really nice, it's a good showcase of the value of having an API that lets others add value to your service.

If you're looking at expanding the feature set there's something I've been thinking of for a while, but haven't gotten around to it yet, and this looks miles better than anything I would cobble together. I really miss Apple's smart playlists[0] from when I used iTunes for my iPod. It was really easy to quickly make a playlist with songs with 4+ stars that I hadn't listen to for at least a month, and stuff like that. I think something similar should be possible to do with the Spotify API, with either manual updating on my computer, or automatic via a batch job on some server. Maybe even expand it to similar artists or something, to take advantage of having access to almost all music, not just my own collection. Imagine being able to create a playlist with 100 random trance songs from 1995-2005 with at least 50 000 plays, and having it updated daily, or the 50 most listened to pop songs right now released in 1980-2020.

The similar artist thing would probably be a good addition to this new releases feature to, to help you expand your horizon...

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/create-delete-and-use...
>Bing is known in some circles as a bettet search engine for porn only.

I honestly fail to see how that is a compelling argument for why search engines should be as private as they are now.

>Utility designation is a common but vapid "solution" that doesn't define what relevant restrictions would be placed, let alone how it would help

Fundamentally it would be about giving a fair shoot to competition to actually innovate on things that matter, by opening + standardizing the search tech that has become de facto standard and it's more like we replace x86_64 with ARM64 before we see a new search engine replace Google.
Maybe John Prine, but he did come along slightly later.
Nice I will have to check this out, control center is definitely a great little overlay but I haven't reliably figured out how to add things to it. I will investigate further.
How about this - X units of gold are produced each year. Then all of a sudden it's cheaper to mine gold, but magically still only X units of gold can be mined each year. What happens to the price of gold? What if less than X units are mined?

From what I understand, ETH issuance rate is going to go down after the merge.
That is what I thought, too, although it is not that simple; for one thing, what you will define as "one unit" also is not that simple.

(I suppose, due to this, "hyperparasite" is even less going to be clearly defined than this.)

Another comment says "parasites that subsist on the food consumed by the host rather than the host itself". That is also seems to be a good point too; how to handle that consideration, too?