skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Markdown is lousy in significant part because its interactions with HTML are ridiculously complex and moderately difficult to learn, and almost no one tries to actively learn Markdown in a principled fashion, and even fewer try teaching it in a principled fashion, so it ends up unreliable and fairly unpredictable to almost everyone. Things like: if you start a “paragraph” (of which “what comes after a blank line” is a fair approximation) with a block HTML element (e.g. <p>, <div>), inline Markdown syntax won’t work until you start a new “paragraph”. This is related to what I find to be the real killer for just pasting HTML: if you use blank lines followed by lines that are either indented (by at least four spaces or a tab) or don’t start with a block HTML element, then Markdown will mangle your input fiercely. And that’s extremely common (it’s basically recommended formatting for various content).

<aside>
Markdown syntax is *not* interpreted here, and this is a text node inside an aside.
</aside>

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<aside>

<p>Markdown syntax is *not* interpreted here, and this is a text node inside a p inside an aside.</p>

</aside>

—⁂—

<aside>

Markdown syntax *is* interpreted here, and `aside > p > em` should match.

</aside>

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<aside>
<p>Markdown syntax is *not* interpreted here, and this is a text node inside a p inside an aside.</p>
</aside>

—⁂—

<aside>

<p>This line is a code block (pre) inside an aside.</p>

</aside>

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And all that is without taking into account variations in Markdown flavours, and what may happen with unprincipled and inconsistent extension of Markdown. All up, I say if you want sanity that will last, go HTML and avoid Markdown strenuously for anything beyond simple prose.
> RAM-only means there is no intentional or even unintentional logging to non-volatile memory or storage

Let’s say worst case, there is an unintentional leak to a another machine, pretty likely that machine has a disk. These are very obviously highly connected machines. Sorry, but it can never be anything but faith - which is fine if you have or, or chose to.
What are the main challenges when it comes to climate change?

I can come up with some challenges, but they all do not seem too hard to solve:

Produce food under the new conditions

More roofs and air condition to keep people protected from sun and heat

Move people away from the oceans as those rise

What else?
It is not pointless, it is a huge practical win. That means that you don't have to trust your VPN to have a reasonable guarantee that adding VPN won't reduce your privacy (depending on your goals).

As many VPNs are sketchy (and even the best one might get bought out or otherwise get compromised) relying on one might seriously reduce your privacy. Especially considering that in many jurisdictions your ISP has much higher legal requirements on integrity and privacy.

But if the VPN don't know who you are the absolute worst case is that you fall back to your ISP. Whether that is good enough for you is something you have to check against your threat model. But in a world where adding a VPN in many cases threatens to reduce your privacy it is massive win.
I used to joke that local politicians in Shanghai will eventually resort to geoengineering. And that they won't ask permission from anyone.

In the grand scheme of things, solar geoengineering is cheap. There are many entities in the world that could afford it on their own without coordinating with anyone else. For some of them, it would be cheaper than preparing for the consequences of climate change. And some of those may be willing to take the risk.
Trading volume on top NFT marketplace OpenSea down 99% since May
Nobody is arguing for just increasing the price of energy. The whole point is to transition to other, greener energy sources, and while that's more expensive, soften the blow through subsidies and the like.

> There is real risk of relatively affluent Europeans going cold and hungry this winter, due to misguided beliefs that solar will provide their energy needs, in cold and overcast places like Germany.

Nope. Due to the misguided belief that Russia and its gas can be trusted as a transitional energy source until there's no more need for fossil fuels. Nobody expected that German solar would power the whole of Europe, the goal was always diverse energy generation methods (hydro, solar, wind onshore and offshore, tidal, nuclear). It was stupid to rely on gas for the transition, IMHO, and it was even stupider to rely on Russian gas. If it was Russian, Algerian, Azeri, Qatari gas in equal quantities, it wouldn't have been a problem that Putin is an insane warmonger (bar the emissions associated).

> The cost of energy even affects how much fertilizer cost to produce

Yes, which is where subsidies would apply until there are alternatives like green hydrogen.
C bitfields are problematic and often aren't used in places where you'd think they'd be useful. Zig seems to be doing its best to get bitfields right.

Just one thing that Zig improves: in C if you need the bit offsets of the fields you'll still need lots of defines with the offsets/masks and such. In Zig it can be extracted from the packed struct at comptime
I think that’s a pretty apt comparison. A latent variable (or latent factor in PCA terms) is (basically) a direction in a n-dimensional space, where n is the length of the vector. The direction is correlated with some type of variance in the input data. Oftentimes this represents something that has some useful meaning (“dogness” vs “catness”, for example), but it could also just represent a correlation that has no interpretable meaning.
great game, these pixel arts are gorgeous!
I’m not familiar with GCP but those names/concepts are easy to understand and I like the separation of concepts.
What about the substantial growth in Child poverty, massive inflation, lack of housing stock growth (kiwibuild has delivered less than 5% of what was promised) etc. Labour may not be layabouts, but they are a group of busy idiots.
There's a very specific reason for this that can be illustrated quite easily:

The current Wiki page on authoritarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

The same page, but from 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authoritarianism&...

The Wiki 'definition' of authoritarianism has shifted quite radically in recent years. There's a line in the older page, completely scrubbed at some point, that's quite relevant: "Democracies rarely exhibit much authoritarian behavior except in transition to or from authoritarian states. Many (if not most) citizens of authoritarian states do not perceive their state as authoritarian until late in its development."

Recent history (that extends beyond just the past 2 years) has emphasized that the vast majority of people are perfectly fine, if not enthusiastic, about authoritarianism when they share the values of said authority. This makes it near impossible to criticize authoritarianism, in and of itself, because it trends towards immediate hypocrisy. So instead people criticize a system of values they disagree with, while using authoritarianism as a convenient slur to make the critique sound more noble and meaningful than a simple value disagreement would.

The same thing has happened to the Wiki page. The older page emphasizes quite clearly that the West has long since entered into the world of authoritarianism, but we don't want to imagine this could ever happen. So instead we've redefined the word in an effort to focus largely on the differences between the United States and "the bad guys."
Or you can spit out the important stuff from the state (or model) as JSON and chuck that in a div?
I jumped up and down about this to Slack over the course of a few emails, having some paid workspaces and a couple on the free plan that I use(d) for family. Eventually I got one of those "Hi this is such and such, stepping in for the other person" emails, with a link to this app that can export everything (including private messages):

https://export.fountstudio.com/

The export is in a proprietary JSON format and only contains links to attachments, plus it has a limit on the number of messages you can export if you don't pay for it. But after jumping through various hoops one afternoon I was able to export all the messages and attachments from a family channel that we've had going for a few years - since our kids were first active on computers. The total number of messages was about 3500, but we would have lost the vast majority of them with Slack's new approach.
Bring fatalistic is part of the problem and rarely part of any solutions. I know for sure that the people who do nothing will achieve nothing. Wait and see is not a viable strategy to get anything done.

The simple reality is that we have already demonstrated that we can drastically modify climate in a very short time span. Not for the better unfortunately and arguably unintentionally. But how did that happen? Simple: economics. Dangling a carrot in front of people gets them acting really quickly and enthusiastically. We started burning fossil fuels at a truly massive scale during the industrial revolution.

Basically, getting to zero carbon is now about economic survival. Doing so has some nice side effects like reducing emissions. But it's basically gone from wouldn't it be cute to have some solar panels on my roof to, I'd better put some solar panels on my roof because I'll be paying through my nose for gas and save buckets of money. Nothing like some economic incentives to get even the most staunch climate change deniers investing in roof top solar and other solutions. Now world + dog is installing batteries, solar, wind mills, etc. Not because they are cute but because they provide something desirable: cheap energy. Ever since the cost curves crossed, people have an insatiable demand for this stuff. To the point where once ambitious and seemingly infeasible goals for carbon reduction are being moved forward. Because reality is out pacing ambition. Even the most optimistic predictions a decade ago are now being surpassed.

That's a trick that can be repeated. Identify some solutions, make it profitable for people to implement those. Sit back and relax while they get really creative doing those things and working out better ways to do those things. It worked for energy. It's working for transport (EVs are booming nicely). It could work for agriculture, and other sectors. There's a lot that is enabled by cheap plentiful energy too and we're starting to get that. Renewable energy is pretty awesome from a cost point of view.

Actively reducing carbon in our atmosphere is the next big challenge. If you look at it from an economical point of view the simple reality is that capturing carbon is a lot of work without a lot of economic reward. There are plenty of ways to do this technically but the main challenge is incentivizing people to start doing those things at scale. Letting nature take its course is going to take too long. So, the key challenge is figuring out the economics. Once we nail that, the rest might happen rapidly.
> Or not, if you have been at a good company where people got treated well, with good bonuses, great healthcare, tons of time off and job security during recessions and times when an unscrupulous company could have fired people.

Unless you have this in ink or blood it's not guaranteed any more so than at a bad company where people get treated horribly.

Don't ever delude yourself into believing that the paradise of today will survive to see tomorrow. All the best companies even include this in their financial statements:

> Past performance is not indicative of future results.

We've been living in the very good times.
Though getting insurance for one's home in Florida is getting difficult now according to this recent news item so don't have to wait for ocean levels to rise too much.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/08/26/an-existential...
VidAngel's model was that you are purchasing the disk.
Anyone here used this?
My impression was that for interfacing with hardware, the memory layout isn’t always contiguous, leaving gaps for reserved fields, so people just use the explicit syntax shown in the article. I had been under the impression the layout of bit fields was guaranteed (much like struct fields) but if that is truly compiler specific as you say, I can see why it would not be useful for interfacing with hardware. I had always thought it was because embedded c sometimes deals with less capable compilers, so people often limit themselves to c89 or even older standards.
Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
Having built Proxies API and made it to 100 paid users for the first time in my startup life, I tried to compile a list of tips for other developers like me who might be thinking of starting something on their own.

Developers are a different beast, and the advice here may not apply to anyone who is not a developer and is a normal human being.

Pick an idea you have used. When you start a startup one of the persistent problems you face is that you don't relate to the problem. If you are not a parent, its almost impossible to relate to any conversations that parents have about their troubles. You just don’t. This lack of empathy in a startup setting adds up to a huge disadvantage and will never allow you to be fully confident in what you are doing.
2. Pick an idea you have already paid for: If you have ever paid for a service, think very carefully about that. Can you code it yourself if you give yourself a few months? It is because developers don’t pay for shit. If an app forced you to do that, then there must a real need for that app.

3. Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI: My product Proxies API is an API. I can get away with almost no UI. It is such a relief that I don’t have to work with a designer. I find that I am 4 to 5 times faster when I don’t have to deal with UI stuff.

4. Don’t pick anything that you need in-person sales for. Marketing is a developer’s friend. I realized this only later in my life. In-person sales are very weird for the developer personality. My advice. Don't do it. Learn how to market instead.

5. Pick something that is a self-serve model: People signup for a trial and decide to pay or not pay based on their trial experience. This is a beast that you can conquer. You don’t want to be going around talking to actual humans. It is not for us.

6. Try writing: If you can code and write, you will win the world. The whole success of Proxies API is based on constant improvements to code and a little bit of consistent writing over time.

7. Keep it real: Be clear on your motivations. I know that developers are not motivated by the prospect of making millions. But they are excited by the promise of financial freedom. So I was clear on my motivations when starting Proxies API — I didn’t want it to make me millions. I wanted it to give me financial freedom by earning what I earned in my day job. I didn’t need a penny more. By being clear about it, you are not living someone else’s life but your own, and it will give you the necessary fuel to keep going.

Have fun.

The author is the founder of Proxies API the rotating proxies service.

This article originally appeared here: https://www.proxiesapi.com/blog/Tips-For-Developers-Who-Want-To-Build-A-SAAS-Startup.php
> Exactly, instead of treating climate change as an apocalyptic event, the entire world need to band together and tackle this unique challenge

The same could be said about the pandemic we just went through, and it appears many are simply incapable of banding together.
The invention of recording devices gave rise to the recording artist. Only a relative handful of people can be super successful at this, but there is a greater population of working musicians and singers.

YouTube and TikTok, smartphones allow millions of people to become influencers. Some people make millions playing video games live online on sites like Twitch. Only a handful become rich through new media, but it seems to allow a fair number of people to make a living. Certainly there are far more minor celebrities than ever before. Even (really talented and/or self-promoting) chefs are celebrities now.

I’m sure people will take classes, hire instructors / tutors, buy books, watch YouTube videos on how to get better and/or more efficient with AI art and design tools. It’s not enough to teach people new technical skills. You also need to teach them how to monetize those skills.

The key takeaway is that the barrier to entry has dropped through the floor. There will be an explosion in visual content. In a world where nearly everyone is at least an amateur content creator, and probably at least internally a content creator at work, there’s going to be a skills pyramid and strong demand for legitimate talent.
Two item that always come with me in my day bag along with my laptop are a simple A5 notebook, and a pen.

In my case any design be it software, a drawing, or project or something else needs to start with a couple of rough diagrams and notes on paper. I have tried numerous times to do this electronically and it has failed every single time.

Not sure why, but there seems to be something about the fluidity of writing that allows you to get thoughts and expressions down quickly in a way that boxes and flowcharts just don't facilitate.

Most of the time I view these notes for a few days while I work or write proper documentation and after that they are left behind. I have several stacks of various notebooks lying around filled with stuff like this.
I wouldn't say National is Christian by any means.
I agree, I even know people who want to discuss something, but my role is not to respond too much, just nod or acknowledge things from time to time and primary to listen as their thought gets more clarified by the moment they said them aloud ... :-)
Forest for the trees my friend, forest for the trees.

If every water user paid market rate, including industrial and agriculture, the residential rate would likely be lower than what it is right now.

You fell into the same classism distraction trap designed to cause residential users to go at each other’s throats rather than address the whale users.
The problem with geo engineering is that we can't beta test it on a planetary scale, and if it goes wrong / has side effects, there's no planet B.
I don't think I am. Internet users are not being fairly compensated for their data and unless you block the entire Facebook and Instagram namespaces, they track you whether or not you have consented.

The platforms are acting like feudal landlords, not capitalists.
Getting to the bottom of the Arctic Sea ice decline
We should feed the first half into an AI and ask for the second half
>The "cultural role" is drummed up in order to get people to work on below-subsistence salaries.

The stereotype in NYC of publishing is of it attracting young, well-educated daughters of families who can subsidize New York living beyond the low salaries.
You don't think that moving billions of people, moving millions of acres of food production (often across borders), and replacing millions of workers' livelihoods would be "hard to solve"?
Europe and the Cloud
I wonder if they'd have some pseudo-restaurants in the habitation area, to help simulate some sense of normalcy.

If they do, and if you then saw one of your fellow travelers eating an interesting-looking sandwich, and you wanted to find out what it was, you would have the rare perk of walking up and dropping a pun that's been decades in the making:

"Can hab cheeseburger?"
I was befuddled by what's been going on there. So earlier today I watched this [0], it explains clearly (for a complex situation) what's been going on in China's real estate, the 'ghost cities' and the demolitions. Below that,[1] a recent look at a 'ghost city' by two western bikers.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5SE47Xjx2Q

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPwtUTrwKRI
Exactly.

The article suggested that the west should "compete with the two leaders in global nuclear construction: Russia and China"
to "not only decarbonize, but bring greater prosperity to the world".

So I wanted to show that even if the west emulated China by slashing regulation, outlawing the greens, and dramatically increased our skill at huge construction projects, we still would focus far more on renewables than on nuclear.

(I ignored Russia, because they produce most of their electricity with fossil fuels, and only 18% with nuclear, which is probably not something the west wants to emulate [1]).

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/russia-electricity...).
All of socal is a desert. So Bakersfield, San Bernardino, etc. pulling from the Colorado river.

Sacramento, Fresno, etc pulling from the Sierras.

Heat has little relevance here, so LA is just as bad as PHX for residential water consumption (excluding lawns).
Tor isn't the almighty all-in-one-solution one might think it to be. Other OPSec measures need to be take in addition to Tor. FBI agents tracked Harvard bomb threats despite Tor [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-track...
Unlike a vulnerability, there is no particular reason for anyone to break the tricks used here. Platform detection almost always relies on quirks like this if it hasn’t been designed in from the start.
I actually agree, but I got the sense that the company being mormon was meant to bias the reader of that comment towards thinking that the company was in the wrong. I hoped to drive the conversation past that prejudice by conceding and dismissing it rather than pushing back against it, because I felt that on this forum pushback would likely prompt a religious flamewar rather than a discussion about digital rental.

Using EDL files to edit movies for my family is something I've actually done before. I think a superfluous sex scene is okay in most contexts, but when watching a movie with parents/grandparents it's generally too cringe for me and everybody else in the room. I used mpv's EDL functionality for this: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/edl-mpv.r...
Are you saying that Muslims are automatically seen as non-humans by “most Americans”?

This is ridiculous. Why would I care in the least about the prevailing religion in a country or region?
I will add to this comment that a quick search indicates it's three women. Most of his children are from his first marriage.

Assumptions made by commenters here that he sleeps around a lot, must not spend time with the kids, etc are unfounded and don't match what comes up with a quick search.

I regret my earlier comment which implicitly agrees with such assumptions though I didn't actually say anything about the man, and that was intentional. It was a pedantic comment, a knee jerk reaction to stupid assumptions, and erred in the wrong direction.
Yeah. For something like this, you ideally would want a powerful GPU with 12-24gb VRAM. If you have something like an RTX 2070 at the bare minimum, you probably don't need this and could do a lot more steps a lot faster on a GPU, but it's great for those who don't have that option.
Whaling ships could spend years out in the ocean (although I guess they must have hit ports along the way).

The main problem of Mars is that there's nothing on it. If you have a ship that can get you to Mars, you might as well stay on it: the view is better, you don't have to live like a mole person, and you aren't at the bottom of a giant gravity well. Go checkout some asteriods or something.