skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because he's eliminated all that from his life. He is King of Facebook, engineered it that way and listened to dark people's advice to make it so.

I'll feel a little tiny bit of sympathy for that robot when he acts like he means it and turns his fiefdom into a center of positivity instead of profit.

If Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel are people you'll take advice from, and you don't see that as a problem, stop whining that you feel punched in the gut every morning. You are way past morality and giving a shit about your soul.

Data knew the difference, so did Lore. Why do we think Mark is different?
I’m pretty optimistic a bout a lot of other things. I think political issues can be overcome, and we can achieve pretty incredible things on case by case basis, as long as it’s not expected to be a permanent state.

Flying rockets requires a lot, and we can manage it. But also the earth won’t be a burning hell if tomorrow some new guy comes in and decides to scrap all human flight plans.
I don't know which university in Edinburgh the author is talking about, but the University of Edinburgh is a value-extraction machine:

https://edistaffstudentsolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2020/0...
https://edistaffstudentsolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2020/0...
(2) seems like the key one to me. We seem to actually be quite "lucky" (in the short term) that it took a epochal hot minute for something to evolve to consume dead life so it could just accumulate to such a degree that we now burn like, trillions of ancient dead microorganisms to drive around the block.
Braxia (a canadian company) recently acquired KetaMD to expand their US footprint with their ketamine clinics. I believe something between shrooms and K is the future for depression.
experience an extremely honest perception of your own mind.

Is it though? Does walking into the fun-house mirror room really produce an accurate reflection of who you are?

An altered perspective accompanied by an intense emotional experience doesn't necessarily indicate any real truth was uncovered.

You can have some quite profound experiences on 3-5 day water/electrolyte fasts as well. When the body is stripped of the energy necessary to maintain psychological defense mechanisms and cognitive habits, they peel away quite well there too. Highly recommended for the time-sensitive and impatient spiritual journeyman.
Secretaries. The corporation of the mid-20th Century was run by an army of secretaries. They allowed for an important kind of flexibility. They've been replaced by software, which is more rigid, and which does harm because of its lack of flexibility.

Software engineers tend to over-estimate the productivity gains that come from software, while underestimating how much we lose to the rigidness of software (which is often the reflection of the underlying data schema). It costs money to change software. By contrast, older systems of organization depended on armies of secretaries, who knew when to bend the rules. The flexibility of having a human enforce rules, but also be able to bend them as needed, allowed an important kind of productivity benefit. We've lost that benefit as we have mostly purged secretaries out of corporations and replaced them with software.

On the theme of "software sucks," if you don't mind a comical, personal story, I shared this event from last month, when my mom was in the hospital (my conclusion is that the rigidity of software systems in hospitals is making hospitals worse):

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/software-is-making-ho...
> I'm terrified of making a post on the wrong server by accident

I suspect this is one reason why forums died. Forums are places of muliti-paragraph well-structured posts. How many are uncomfortable with that? How many are even uncomfortable making a one sentence Slack or Discord post?

Forums could serve an important role in business documentation. Got a legacy project that nobody has touched for a decade? Imagine if years ago the developers had discussed things in forums instead of meetings.
Growing up in a catholic household, what I mostly felt as a kid was cognitive dissonance and guilt... but to each their own.
And yet, had you not learned to program, a programming job right out of college would have been out of reach.

So it’s possible to learn something at college that makes you 10 times more valuable for a particular job.
You could also become some kind of “hate researcher” if you wanted to. Pick a group of people you don’t like(ethnic, socio, political, whatever), and start hammering out publications on their IQ, epidemiology, sociopolitical beliefs, etc. Maybe do a bit of P-hacking to make the deleterious stuff really pop out. Eventually you’ll have a nice corpus of literature out there framing your target group as stupid, disease ridden and ignorant.
He was referencing https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
If you haven’t heard it yet, turn the lights down low, pour out a libation, don a pair of headphones, and listen to the 1966 recording "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Timothy Leary Ph.D. speaks on L.S.D." It’s widely available online. It’s not what you might expect. It’s a great time capsule of Leary’s thoughts and ideas from a unique moment in time, and it really does feel like he’s speaking to people in the far future.
> the very fact that not a single nuclear power plant in the world hasn't been built without significant government help

I'm curious. Which grid-scale renewable energy project was built without massive government subsidy? Any? I don't know of any.
The more fragile presence of the information is actually a feature to some. If messages are more permanent and accessible, people can be more likely to stop and think before replying for more substantive discussion, instead of having a free-flowing conversation.

I generally also prefer forums that are searchable and public, but it's nice to have a real-time communication with someone over Discord (e.g. a couple sentences per message that gets responses, with some jokes sprinkled in). I think it's a lot easier to develop a one-to-one interaction or relationship with someone over Discord, versus forums structured like HN or Reddit.
That’s really cool. Nice work
Yeap! I've worked with analog and digital chip designers, along with some digital designers that now work on fundamental IP for an FPGA company. One thing they all had in common was "we avoid all abstractions". It's all as direct as possible. You don't use extra silicon to appease some tidy block diagram that makes the problem easier to reason about, because the silicon isn't made for humans to reason about, it's made for holes and electrons to do their thing!
> You need oceans and geologic activity for life

For life like our life that is. There's so many assumptions here.
What are the tools and concepts to achieve real-time recommendations?
I am trying to build a real-time recommender system for my side project. Ideally I am looking for a relatively easy to build and cost effective solution. I am not looking for a state-of-the-art implementation. Nonetheless the solution should be real-time, so if new content comes in, the system should be able to recommend it to people right away. Please give me some tips/resources. Currently Neo4j seems like a good option because it's a graph database and capable to do real-time recommendations, but their product is not free for commercial use.
You use two external dependencies that I've never heard of: Abstra and hackerforms. I guess you want to simplify getting to a REPL, and thus the Abstra, but I think it would be better to explain something about the options one has for accessing a python interpreter.

As far as the hackerforms library, I'm assuming that's something inside Abstra. Unless it's actually some part or standard python I've just never heard of, there is no excuse for teaching using something nonstandard like that. It adds nothing, it shows a wrong/nonstandard way of doing stuff, and it requirs people to use that library. That has to go for it to have any credibility.
Developers can’t use broken hardware. The packaging doesn’t have to be fancy, but it does have to be secure enough that the phone arrives undamaged. Otherwise no development can be done. The OP is not unreasonable for wanting a physically unbroken product, sold at cost or not.
Software engineers aren't actually engineers because they have degrees in computer science. Especially the kids who don't go to college and start their own companies giving themselves software engineering titles. Giving yourself the title automatically disqualifies you from being an engineer no matter all the things you accomplish.

Given there is no official definition and the definition is subjective, you pretty much can't win this argument.
The fandoms for indie games (e.g. Papers, Please [0] and several others for less popular games) remain active, though not particularly curated. It's still nice to find some for particularly niche games, as some information (even if too opinionated or incomplete) is better than nothing for smaller games.

[0] https://papersplease.fandom.com/wiki/Papers_Please_Wiki
Went through this. Gave up and remade it in Word. Practical beats pure sometimes. Tough for us HN types.
My personal test for whether an open source company encourages self-hosting is whether any plans/pricing page advertises "Self hosting" in a parallel/equal way to how they advertise commercial offerings.
Banned Tornado Cash code reuploaded to GitHub in free speech test
sequela

1. (Pathology) any abnormal bodily condition or disease related to or arising from a pre-existing disease

2. (Pathology) any complication of a disease
As someone with more than a passing interest in Societal Collapse, but without time to watch the video right now, how does Blow's talk stack up against say The Great Simplification series by Nate Hagens [1], Joseph Tainter [2] or any of the many authors contributing to this field as referenced in this Nodes of Persisting Complexity paper [3]?

[1] https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episodes

[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sbEDS84AAAAJ

[3] https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/15/8161/htm
You’re just negotiating who pays for searching and communication. You want to pay someone (a magazine or review site) to gather the data for you from the companies. Other people want the companies to pay so they get the information for free.

There’s a qualitative argument there as well, and whether to value not having to pay for ad-supported publications and services, but that’s essentially the question in the preference for or against advertising: who pays and who gets paid to make the right buyers and sellers aware of each other.
Awesome, thank you! Any plans to allow you to put a little note about why you want to listen to an album/where you heard about it/etc? Also maybe if you click "want to listen" from someone else's post, show that somewhere? I'm starting to get a pretty long queue to listen to, it would be nice to see a little info to help me decide what to try next.
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> There is not and never will be enough uranium on this planet to completely power humanity for more than a few decades.

This source says up to 4 billion years. Nuclear power is sustainable.

https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-...
Back in summer 1988 in Champaign, Illinois, I was a guest in a new house for dinner, and it used geothermal heat capacitance (or some similar term...basically i think water tubes buried a bit lower than the house) to essentially provide access to average year round temperature.

Since the climate there swings between extremes, this significantly lessened their electric/gas bills to the point of being laughably small...essentially a heat pump connected to the water tubes, if I remember.
That model works because there is no question of scale or mass production, no external client, not enough civilians involved to put a strong political aspect on it, so virtually no external pressure to do anything about it.

Basically we’d need volunteer based self-sustained communities living in the middle of nowhere to replicate that in a non military setting.
1. Then that should provide credence to their stances in your book. And yet they still supported SeaWorld?

2. That’s a statement that would hold true for any species and for conservation as a whole. In essence, denying the need for conservation in the first place. Ignorant of the daily catastrophe that’s happening in the wild.
Google’s search mechanisms and rankings have changed a lot over my lifetime. I don’t usually trust it to find the right answers to problems in my field unless it’s a very well supported technology. I don’t agree that “knowing how to Google” is a skill in its own right for this reason. Hell they even claimed not long ago they would fix quote searches but they seem worse than ever.
Matrix is pretty popular so now it doesn’t make sense not to use that over XMPP. My Q would be why XMPP over Matrix when Matrix is working great in recent times.
I used to do TONs of tweaks on unattended custom installs i use to make for Windows XP. Nowdays, esp Win10, not many are really need anymore, just a few open source things from ninite and Classic Start was the best, you didn't really need to see the Win10 "Apps." I haven't used Win11 too much at work, just at home on my gaming system and its mostly the same but you have to use a decent $5 pay app for the start customization and tweaking of Explorer to how you like it.

You can't feel too much of the bloat anymore in a clean MS windows install and i never use the modern apps anyways (though a lot of drivers are starting to convert to that system) so uninstalling them all should not really be an issue. I've also been using StopUpdates10 to control my updates for the last few years.
Do you have a case on it? I find mine unlocks much easier without the raised case.
AMC and Regal have similar programs now. The price point isn't as nice (especially it you want to use it areas with higher priced theaters), and you're limited to that chain, and maybe there's other restrictions. My local preferred theater doesn't have a program though, and such a program isn't enough to convince me to drive much farther to get to a theater I don't like as much.
While this is a slimy tactic from Slack, I doubt that organisations significantly under the 10k message limit over 90 days are actually benefitting from it.

That’s 110 messages a day. Fewer than ~5 users and regular personal IM applications are probably easier to use than Slack. Fewer than 20 messages a day and the messages are probably long enough form that email or documents would be a better option.

Slack is a lot of overhead to read just a few messages, and is definitely best when multiple channels become necessary, and when not using it for email-length messages.
Japan manages to run on LNG imports. If Germany had the import infrastructure and started waving it's chequebook around, the ships would come.
Oldest case of a rare genetic condition discovered
> there's no reason to believe they're universal

Unfortunately you are mistaken about that. The PD is a fundamental feature of evolution. It is ubiquitous in biology. See:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
This sort of "mana from heaven" success that Zulip has been seeing reminds me of the time Google Reader announced that it was closing and Feedly was just sitting there with a product that was exactly like Google Reader and could import your subscriptions from Google Reader with one click.

I wonder how often people succeed with these sorts of business models, which seem to be summarizable as "copy something extremely successful exactly, wait for them to fuck up sufficiently badly, and make sure migrating is really easy."
And I was expecting something new. But none of what they are showing are new or "Next".

This is slightly worrying if this is the direction Github are heading.
> It would be nice if there were something that would make out-of-order problems light up, the way that code editors can highlight errors while you're editing.

Check out https://github.com/nbsafety-project/nbsafety
This is a fascinating point and it really makes me think of the mechanical analogy: different mechanical engineers can provide different levels of tolerance (i.e. precision), depending on their training and experience. You wouldn't hire an F1 engineer to design retail automobile machining, because both the hire and the machining process would be overkill.

The software industry is stuck in this rut where everyone acts as if they're designing F1 cars, but few teams outside of FAANG actually are. In other words, for the majority of software jobs, a bootcamp and CRUD experience is likely enough.
if I was CIA or equivalent, I would create a password manager for the masses
I really am missing forums. One area of interest of mine has a good one and it has a solid population. I value it increasingly highly.
Google already controls the most important browser and the biggest search engine. AMP let them also run javascript on every AMP site, ability to de facto become for host for most AMP users and a justification for dictating what your site did + excuse for manipulating search results. The web would have begun to turn into a closed system like Facebook. Fortunately Google did not have the strength to complete their design.
People have been writing like this for like 25 years. You see it on subcultures all over the internet. HN is a bastion of formal pedantry, so it’s a bit more uncommon here, but it’s been a thing for a long time.
I am not familiar with the winder conditions in Southern Europe. Is there enough sunlight during winter that it would be feasible to provide a lot of solar energy during wintertime - not just for local use, but to northern Europe as well? It might be that even there is too little sunlight and the solar power would have to come from different continent.
The issue is that it's not possible to create wakeup timers without root or CAP_WAKE_ALARM, hence why you need a more privileged daemon of some sort that your regular alarm clock app binary. Eg with systemd it doesn't let timer units in the user session that can wake the system, which is what is blocking gnome-clocks upstream from using systemd timer units.

But yes, I don't know why waked uses the dev node directly instead of using CLOCK_ALARM, and it's definitely possible it interferes with anything else going through the kernel using CLOCK_ALARM.
> Was it really hard to head to nuclear and renewables 15 years ago? Not at all.

It was, when as a politician your pockets were lined by the oil and gas industries to do exactly the opposite.
Not, the woman. Check your priorities.
I see. The main goal of this tutorial (and the tool itself) is to allow people to have quick results more than showing best practices

Abstra is just a quick way to allow people building interfaces without having to understand HTML or more advanced programming concepts
7 day weeks is up there, too. I'm sure we could get used to 5 day weeks.
I've also heard anecdotal accounts that military reactors are still maintenance nightmares, and their lack of public nuclear accidents is less due to doctrine and more to the fact that these reactors spend their life in a classified military environment floating in international water; AKA easy to cover up
You're mistaking simplicity and lack of capabilities.

If a grammar is too limited that it leaves things unsaid and thus ambiguous (well, I can't say that's not a thing in Japanese - it is, sometimes) then yes, it can make things harder because one gotta very carefully watch out for the context to be able to comprehend what's going on.

But if grammar is just simple - e.g. if there are no or almost no irregular verbs (Japanese has only two), or no concept of grammatical gender (so you simply don't have to care about anything related to your nouns and can indicate gender using an extra word if that starts to matter), it's probably just fine. I mean you're not losing anything in that case.

Considering your example (even though I don't think it's a good idea to compare machine and human languages in general) - many assembly languages do NOT exactly map to the actual machine code. Say, many assembly languages remove the concept of argument size which can be compared to a grammatical gender (your operands are your nouns and instruction is a verb). Let's say we're talking classic x86. In Intel syntax you can write "MOV AX, 0" and "MOV EAX, 0" but bytecode would be different - 66B80000 vs B800000000, the assembly had lost the 0x66 operand-size override prefix. There is AT&T syntax that has distinct "MOVW" and "MOVL", but the point is that it's a potentially unnecessary complication that proves to be not needed as everything is pretty much obvious without it.
It's a normal, universal human response to protest when something you're used to is no longer there. Even though I don't share the outrage, there's nothing 'current year'/particularly contemporary about it.
I much prefer the rusty old phpBB UI over Discourse. It was clunky but usually it is an indicator of high quality community that's been run for many years and a bunch of gray beards hanging out having a good time. UI was just fine.

PhpBB is still alive and kicking: https://www.phpbb.com/
I hate slack and chat in general being temporary at basically everywhere I have worked. So often a colleague will give you instructions on some process then the next time you need it, it's gone.
Memory safety issues are not always an issue. What I mean is that having memory safety is not everything, since a system that is memory safe can still contain bugs, and vice versa a system with memory related issue can function perfectly for years, because they are corner cases that are difficult to get into.

Of course there are cases where memory safety issue cause security problems, but not in all cases. If for example by a very uncommon sequence of keypress on my washing machine I cause a buffer overflow, worse case scenario the microcontroller hangs and I have to unplug it and plug it back in again (but hopefully there is a watchdog that resets the processor automatically). A lot of C programs don't even have an user interface, because for example are embedded in device that has no external input (for example a microcontroller that manages the operation of a power supply).
While a completely valid theory (and thank you for sharing it here), that is super dark.

There just seems to be so much we know we don't know, that to theorize we're the pinnacle of what civilization can be is...gauche? Insanely short sighted and Sol-centric?

I dunno, I'm obviously not a theoretical physicist or conducting well thought out experiments testing those theories - but it just seems defeatist and lame.

We have a visible Universe that has rules and guardrails - that's bonkers and needs to be hacked more.
Well, I"m a little late to the party, but yep, I may have some ideas...

Best wishes,
-Cliff
> The wiki situation is really not helped by how wikia turned into fandom turned into a garbage fire.

Yeah, what's up with that? I mean, it's the perfect solution for wikipedia deletionism: one wiki for each niche.

How could they screw it up so badly? Every time I go there it's a mess of autoplaying videos, annoying banners, even ads...
You can’t download private messages, however.
See what I mean