skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. Energy cost has been plummeting ever since the steam engine came about. I cannot stress this enough, it has plummeted several orders of magnitude (versus for example gold). I prefer to use my ruler to stretch out the line on a log plot, naively. The only serious roadblock we've seen is CO2 emissions, but there's still probably a few decades before a serious crisis emerges.
Two options:

- You really are not familiar with Sam or the topic, didn’t read the thread or watch any of the clips, in which case you shouldn’t have commented with the “yelling into the wind” comment that made it seem like you just don’t agree.

- You are familiar and just trying to find a way out of your comment which you wrote just to stir people up, a basic trolling tactic, expecting a reply such as mine so that you can pretend like you’re taking the high road with the “get better” comment. In which case I think you’re just projecting and it’s you who needs help and you know it, so please -for your own sake- do get some help.
It means many things, but perhaps one way to put it is that ideas live on their own merit, rather than the rank of the person who proposed them.

You also notice it other ways: information (especially bad news) gets distorted as it tries to travel up a steep power gradient. In a steep power gradient, blame gets assigned downward and credit is claimed upward. Under a low power gradient, people share talk time in meetings more equally.
I also highly recommend this book!

Regarding the sentence "One that he doesn’t discuss much but that is particularly pertinent to today, is the accretion of laws and regulations." which appears in the review: I think all these laws and regulations can be regarded as being part of the increasing bureaucracy that Tainter identifies as the cause of eventual collapse of complex societies.

One thing I would add, in addition to the diminishing marginal return of bureaucracy that Tainter mentions, is the tendency of contemporary administrations to create more bureaucracy even when their own stated goal is to reduce bureaucracy or increase efficiency, for example by trying to collect and compare precise numbers that show how they have become more efficient at a task that is in essence not really quantifiable. A related book I recommend particularly in that regard is Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps by René Guénon.
What sucks much more is, when one cannot extend the language properly and it needs a language commitee to change anything. Or when the way to extend it is so mistake and error prone, that one cannot get it right, needs many eyes viewing it for a few years, before it becomes probably correct.
I'm not sure why he is so mad at property taxes. Just buy land with an abandoned building on it in the US and demolish the building and watch your property tax bill drop while the value of the land goes up and you end up displacing any potential resident.

Oh, right because the biggest problem the guy writing this is facing taxes on his many properties.
Anarchism can never even exist, let alone work, because it defines itself in a fundamentally nonsensical way.

It distinguishes itself on the principle of 'non-coerciveness'. But coercion is written into the fact of physical scarcity: if someone wants that food, then someone else cannot have it. Any organisational notion that does not represent that scarcity as constraint on behaviour is useless. It simply fails to address the problem.

What anarchism then does is to confuse and obscure this, or just wish it away. The motif of 'decentralised organisation' is a contradiction in terms: there cannot be structure without some constraint. If every local grouping is always free to decide the rules, then there are no rules. If everyone is free at every transaction to invent their own money, then there is no money. Plus, everyone making up new rules will not scale. (And no, people will not just naturally, magically, happen to agree.) Organisation is essentially hierarchical in its basic one-to-many informational form: there must be some single pattern followed by multiple elements.

What anarchism could sensibly propose instead is more sophisticated democracy: ie, better forms of feedback from participants to rule generation. We cannot avoid rules/structure, but we could more responsively, iteratively, steer the the construction of them.
What a horrible article.

"Yes, let's consume everything, screw conservation. Drive more and bigger cars. Cage all the animals we need, and kill the rest. Trees? Cut them all. So what if that sort of thinking destroys the planet? We need to think bigger: there is a whole galaxy out there to consume, I mean explore. Humans are awesome. Woooo!"

Psychos.
A heat pump powered by natural gas generated electricity is still more efficient than burning the natural gas where the heat is needed.
What app so you think deserves to be an app
If this true, there is possibly a side channel one could run against object storage to determine if someone else in the content-addressable-store has the same files.

Like when it was easy to file share on dropbox by having the correct hashes. A GUID could summon a 1GB file.
Again, couple of months ago one could say the same about Ukraine and Russia. Then Rashists spectacularly lost the entire western front.
Have you even been to Europe? There is a sweetspot between 500ft highrise and infinite swaths of SFH suburbia. That sweet spot is usualy also classified as "high density", and IMHO is better in every way.
California HSR includes modernizing connecting services. Caltrain is converting to world standard 25kV overhead lines. Service starts in 2024.
This is a great article that talks about the legal changes in this area:

https://canucklaw.ca/parliaments-guidelines-on-euthanizing-t...
Where do you get the power to prevent power concentration?
NASA reveals where it wants the next Americans to land on the moon
> So you consider my day job morally wrong, but I shouldn't be shamed for that.

Yes, I do consider it morally wrong. So what? I'm aware that most humans are not free agents and are coerced into harmful or destructive behaviors because of economic pressures. We obviously don't agree on our premises. I don't think agreement is required, so what does it matter?

> relevant documentation

See the chapter on Channels in the Guix manual. It tells you how to enable third-party channels. Once that's done packages and services provided by those channels are indistinguishable from those provided with the official Guix channels, and you can use them wherever you would use packages and services provided by the Guix project.

If you want to replace packages used deep down in the package graph (e.g. glibc or something like that), see Package Transformations in the Guix manual. You can rewrite dependencies and drop in your own custom packages, no matter how deep into the guts of the graph you want to reach.
Well it’s art isn’t it? What’s the reason you believe I shouldn’t be liking it? When I watched the NYT flyover videos I got an instant positive gut reaction, a sort of resonance. I was skeptical at first but changed my mind.

In a transient world where people mindlessly swipe TikTok videos, focusing 50 years on something is just mind blowing.
And in addition to the fight against vested interests, we have to invest a lot of energy against stupidity and to jump through artificial loops set up by lawyers, administrators and managers. Which leaves so litte to actually do something!
This happened after GDPR was in force and the EU was pushing hard on privacy. I just think it’s a little silly to dismiss as “half-baked” the idea that Meta might do something they have already been caught doing before. This is not a company that is afraid to break the rules when it comes to privacy.
Progressive views tend to lean towards thing thing that sounds nice

- everyone should be equal

- everyone should have a good standard of living

- everyone should get a good education

It's easy to throw out this category of things in a vacuous way wherein everyone on every side of the spectrum agrees with these statements, but the progressive angle is to downplay the difficulties and simply assert things as rights and disparage anyone who claims it is more complicated than this whereas the stock conservative angle is to focus on the logistical issues

- how do we afford this?

- ensuring "everyone is equal" involves forcefully holding some people back

- through what process do you plan to ensure the right?

- what happens if this societal goal conflicts with my rights?

These things all sound "mean" compared to the things in the first group and are far easier to criticize than the nicer sounding but ultimately incomplete ideas in the first set.

Obviously this is a drastic oversimplification and there are all sorts of people on both sides who don't fit this mold but as a rule, more often than not, this pattern plays out.
None of the words in your quotes are from the article, so that's a nice strawman you did there.
ssh -X works much faster than RDP and VNC here, and doesn't have horrible blurry compression artifacts
By Fiaters you mean people trading goods and services and running the real economy or what?
Congrats!

From "Getting started":

build/bootstrap/make.com -j8

Lol, do I take it that make.com is built with Cosmopolitan? If so, that's a nice demo of its purpose! Just download and run.
Neither is Bitcoin? What are you talking about?
”Premature optimization is evil” is dogma, but you can’t keyhole optimize the architecture after the fact.

Just like cars, you can’t build a Kia Soul, and then just replace a few parts to reach Ferrari-like performance.
Many anarchists recognise scarcity and admit it's a difficult thing to deal with fairly. But instead of assume they have the one solution and enforce it on everyone else, they leave it to more local levels to agree on a reasonable way to ration scarce things.

You could also easy make the opposite criticism of capitalism: it doesn't recognise abundance and builds almost everything on (often artificial) scarcity.

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Free banking ("everyone making up their own money") was never the disaster currency monopolist would like you to think it was.

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You say locally made up rules that apply only locally don't scale. Does it really scale to have locally made up rules (because they always are) that are enforced globally?

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But yes, many anarchists do exactly what you propose: they experiment way different ways to collectively make decisions. They don't shun all rules.
I’ve only used the base 2000, so I can’t compare between them I’m afraid.
This is a conclusion I have intuitively come to for several years now - good to see a terminology for it. Indeed major advancements for technological civilization will come out of energy plenty. If you keep double-clicking into most of worlds economic, environmental & even some social problems, fundamentally they boil down to energy availability & cost minimizing collateral damage.

Take for instance - habitat destruction due to increasing destruction of forests for farmland. I had once calculated that in an energy unconstrained world, with a few thousand sky-scraper farms, you could literally feed the whole world and let farmland return to wilderness (boosting oxygen, green cover, increasing C02 capture etc). Of course this has security implications but then the trigger for most conflict is also typically in-equality - which again you can double-click down to energy.

Similarly, in an energy unconstrained world, most pollution can be tackled with closed-cycle recycling processes. The main reason re-cycling doesn't happen is due to the energy cost of producing complex technologies to sort waste or filter chemicals out of waste-water etc.

This is why it is critical for us to figure out ways to unlock & expand energy generation capabilities at scale that minimize or eliminate collateral damage. Efficiency will help but is not the game changer.
"everyone" is just not true, Qt apps can still send X11 draw commands
the question remains whether an anarchist society could be safe from an authoritarian neighbor.
Actually, the answer is no.

The contradiction in the ideology is found, and therefore the ideology is philosophically false.
> it led me to realize that I had no idea what a differential equation is

I remember how I realized that I had no idea what a differential equation is when reading W.L.Burke book "Applied differential geometry" (highly recommended). Modern differential geometry turned out to be the strict mathematical bedrock for a lot of undergrad math. I was even more surprised to learn that a lot of my former teachers wasn't really aware of that.

In my view, the introductory math courses are supposed to just introduce the basic vocabulary, show the big picture and demonstrate the usefulness of the subject by showing algorithms for solving typical problems. It is not supposed to make sense on deeper inspection - and, I believe, teachers should be candid about it.
The vi editor was designed for slow terminals and a particular keyboard without arrow keys (ADM-3A terminal keyboard), yet after 46 years there is no shortage of vi fans that insist that modal editing (an adaptation for slow terminals) and hjkl (an adaptation for a keyboard that used to have no arrow keys) are inherently superior for all modern editing needs. :)
> IMO we need to produce less, consume less, and stop destroying whatever remains of life other than the human species.

producing less and consuming less means less people in the end. Are you in favor of that? Because nobody wants to live with subpar level of life.
Rhythm Nation music video crashing hard disks
In general, most people hate change. We have divided life, knowledge, every aspect into little known boxes. Change requires us to work, adapt to the alteration. Perhaps reconsider our viewpoints, re-actions and even occupation.
Change happens more typically when the new idea slowly seep into main stream society and old ways recede as people retire (or die).
Modern technology has vastly increased the rate of change (ideas, lifestyles, jobs etc) by making the transmission of idea much easier and faster. But this places a high demand on anybody reading the news (drinking the firehouse of the internet) and trying to keep up.
The pledge of allegiance dating from the 19th century has no constitutional status, and "under God" is a product of the 1950s cold war.

A previous generation of the Supreme Court upheld it's complete irrelevance. Maybe that will change again, but I struggle to see it really. This current court is black letter law, if the 1770s didn't require it, then it takes heavy process to make it happen, for them.

The stats on views of abortion were fascinating! Thanks. I am unsure yet they go to my side of things or yours. The definitely legal and sometimes legal count, appears to me to be consistently pro abortion rights. They've just had flat denial from the court on a federal right and a push back to (often distorted) states rights. You think this isn't going to hurt electorally? You know what: I don't know. I think it foolish for me to even try.
I just finished writing a comment in another thread (about macOS) on how I'm tired of all the change in the software industry. There's just a constant churn and change for its own sake. UX designers, especially, seem to love continuously disrupting my workflow by rearranging the interface in ways that surprise me and offer little/no obvious benefit.

Here we have the opposite: stagnation, a lack of change. Corruption and nepotism everywhere gumming up the works. To address your point: I believe the reason we cannot devise such societies is because vested interests are more motivated and better equipped to bend the rules to their advantage. That's the whole reason to invest in anything. People want leverage to secure their positions and their possessions against external risks. A society where everyone is equal is like the beginning of a Hunger Games: a deadly rush to either grab a weapon or take cover.
It’s not. Safari is just not always blindly adopting whatever Chrome does and their priorities are very different.

Safari has consistently been the fastest, more battery and privacy concerned browser.

Safari is WebKit, which historically has given us a lot of the CSS standard niceties we take for granted.
Oil isn't running out, the ability of our atmosphere to absorb greenhouse gasses is the limiting factor, not our access to oil reserves. We need to leave oil in the ground to preserve the climate.
I don't think we're coming to an understanding.

You're (inadvertently?) twisting the phrase "not welcome", which I apply to behavior, to make it apply to people. If we can't agree on how to apply words we cannot use them to approach understanding.
If the “not” somehow got effaced, that message would suddenly have the opposite effect, so… This kind of thing is difficult. Hopefully, there would be some redundancy to the message.
Because property tax freezes means commercial propeties actually pay their taxes and homeowners don't vote against commercial construction.

If you think people actually want to be left alone in their community and want no further immigration you're falling for pretty obvious lies.
I liked the Crawick Multiverse by Charles Jencks, located south of Glasgow. Sort of like this City thing, but smaller, more varied, much more accessible, and most importantly, cool, green and inviting.

It’s like he designed it for humans, not despite them.

https://www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk/
> which almost by definition seems unsustainable.

We were told 1 billion people was unsustainable a century ago, look where technology brought us. Not only we manage almost 10x more without mass starvation, but at the same time everyone is much, much richer than their great-grand-parents
https://archive.is/ZoshV
>countries don't think! People think

“People don’t think, their neurons think”
This I agree with. I made flippant remarks some months back about the Californian state budget. My goodness it's complicated!

And that thing about the fiscal process for the federal budget meaning on many occasions, all federal workers are simply told to stop. Unreal!
Hoping for someone to implement the missing %f scanf directive.
Boggles my mind that as they rewrote preferences to match iOS not one person said “hang on, is this design even any good on iOS?”

Because honestly I find it impossible to find anything in it and the search doesn’t even work reliably.
I have taken a train through agricultural areas of Japan. It was really nice actually. Tokyo Subway to Shinkansen to a regional train to a single car train. All with painless in-station transfers.

Also the California HSR project includes modernization of connecting services. Do you consider Caltrain to be public transit?
Does it? The opening poster specifically wrote: “we need to produce less, consume less” that is not just non-geometric growth but negative growth. So in this case the opposite of live small can simply be zero growth, or further exponential growth for a limited time and then zero growth or linear growth.
I agree with you, there could be scenarios where customers supply their own keys and compress the data on their own. My original statement is still true though, the data at rest ends up being compressed and encrypted.

That said, of course, customers can upload encrypted blobs of uncompressed data. But I’d call it an exception that proves the rule. Here service simplicity should win and those blobs may end up recompressed.
It's an interesting approach to bring more expressiveness to C, this part need a bit more thought:

"If any spaces or parentheses appear in the type name, they will be substituted
by an underscore. Thus unsigned int will become unsigned_int the type BitInt(27)
becomes BitInt_27_ ."

Because "unsigned_int" (or any combination of the base types with an underscore) can already be used on user code.
Teams is a poorly-built app, a terrible experience and hardly any kind of benchmark for the quality of a Mac.
Have a very nice day
Have a look at the Crawick Multiverse land art site I mentioned in another comment. It’s actually built in a reclaimed open pit coal mine.
You could also try to make as many people gay as possible.
> 7. stay away from differentials

I always had issues with this. My undergraduate math classes were very formal and well thought, every object was defined, almost all theorems were proved in class.

In particular, we were taught differential equations theories, some general theories like systems of differential equations with constant coefficients, Cauchy's theorem, and a bunch of recipes.

In a separate class, we were also taught differential forms (e.g. a.dx + b.dy being a linear combination of base elements dx and dy - if I remember well).

But then came the physics class, why we could go from dy/dx = f(x) to dy = f(x).dx and integrate both sides remain a mystery. "dx" suddenly became an infinitely small things, when it used to be a notation for a linear form OR a notation for f'(x) === df/dx.

Generally speaking, I had a lot of issues in physics because the maths used in that context were not formally defined and seemed to obey to some unwritten set of rules that you were supposed to find out by yourself during your final exam...
Your intuition is wrong because residential property taxes are frozen and only change when people move.
Must be a legacy name, as they still have it as a unit at a Uni I've been to: https://handbook.curtin.edu.au/units/unit-ug-unix-and-c-prog...
About time, though I wonder what's the impact on performance. I realize these are not the jquery days where most people would write stupid selectors over and over again but nothing is free and I feel it's important have performance in mind even when it seems most of the web don't.
> Let’s say you want to provide an alternative to flying between some major airports.

This seems like first-order analysis: people fly between SFO and LA so let's build a railway between them.

Second-order analysis: people actually want to go from downtown SF to downtown LA, so build a railway between those places directly.
When I’m around certain artsy friends, I sometimes feel like the kid from “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
> However the reason that we didn't build them is because it was expensive,

No, because there's been a concerted move against nuclear from several actors (petroleum industry, greenpeace and related organizations) which made us not invest in Nuclear for 50 years. It's not for the lack of means to build to it. China is building hundreds of reactors in the past few years while the US enjoys power cuts.
Correct. It's Landlock Make. It does pledge() and unveil() sandboxing. See https://justine.lol/make/ and https://github.com/jart/landlock-make and https://justine.lol/pledge/
Looks like the kind of course work architecture students do...
Inherently anti-progressive and probably outing yourself. The saying is now "when in Rome do as you whim".
GCHQ head: Russia is losing the information war in Ukraine
How come they were able to trademark a segmented circle in the first place?
Terminals remain dreadfully slow compared to the speed of thought. People prefer vi because it's the best editing paradigm discovered so far which achieves one thing: reduce, as much as possible, the delay between a thought in mind and a corresponding change in the document.

Other paradigms put too many context switches between my thoughts and the changes I want to see. I do not want to take my hands off the home row to reach the cursor keys, or God forbid the mouse. I also do not want to destroy my pinkie finger with endless usage of modifier keys. So that leaves me with vi (and kakoune).
Dattorro reverb VST plugin written in Rust with egui and glicol_synth
So what you're saying is that the app store is just as good as the government in this case? If meta will do this anyways, I'd rather have the openness and democratic oversight
Canada has a 90-day assessment/waiting period for those whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. They won't euthanize you unless you seem capable of making the decision and have thought through it for an extended length of time. It's not an impulsive thing.