skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this whole article is a huge strawman fallacy. Approximately zero people think we’ll be able to fully decarbonize in 20 years. Only slightly above that number of people think we’ll be able to fully decarbonize in 100 years. What serious people are saying is that we should make progress towards that goal regardless. (Hell, even the author says as much at the end of the article.)

I don’t understand the author’s need to score rhetorical points against an imagined second party here, it’s completely unnecessary.

> There are no EVs. They are battery vehicles reflecting the electricity’s origins.

Why is it necessary to split hairs in definitions like this? Electricity is used to propel the car. Yes, that electricity often comes from carbon today. But EV’s take us from cars that must use fossil fuels, to cars that may use other sources of energy. Isn’t that a positive? Yes, carbon is used to make the materials out of which the car is built, but that’s true of all vehicles, and it’s possible in principle to decarbonize that process as well. We’re trying to tackle the problem from both ends at once here, and that’s the only way to make progress, because otherwise you have chicken-and-egg problems (“it’s not worth it to make EV’s if we don’t have clean energy” vs “it’s not worth it to have clean energy because cars still use oil”, etc.)

“Rapid decarbonization is a fantasy”… yeah, if you define “rapid decarbonization” as being some impossible goal of zero carbon in 20 years, sure. No duh.
I think the issue with this is that as individuals we attach our identity to our dialog and put it out into the world to share it, express ourselves, to provide value to the world, and also to collaborate and iterate and learn ourselves… with other individuals. The problem with deconstructing human ideas and information like this is that it ignores temporality. What is true today may not be true tomorrow, what is relevant today may not be relevant tomorrow. For the preservation of scientific or historic information this works great, and even allows copywriting of works. However, the true order of the day is leading and making decisions which ends up taking place in dialogue.

Dialogue is the single-threaded brute forcing and tree traversing activity for making decisions. Within a single thread, multiple subthreads do branch off, but then they become decentralized which is not what we want. We want each subthread to be conscious of it’s uniqueness to all other threads globally and for any duplication to be catalogued or ideally merged and then hyperlinked and indexed within the grand scheme. This is difficult when the most granular we can get in terms of categorization is the factual information or simply the topic itself. Places like HN and Reddit do well in allowing you to provide an entire article or website as the context and allow that to be explored, but how would you categorize this information? The real question is how do you make this visible and accessible from a single standpoint: an individual trying to learn something or make a decision. I think search engines like Google have solved this problem well simply by using the heuristic method of merit (backlinks, page rank, keywords) and so to implement this on a miniature scale for an organization would be useful, but the problem is that it would require users within the organization to forgo going to Google and instead use the provided Intranet which initially would be less useful and again may never be as useful as Google. So the solution might be to use Google as an indexing service which currently is not possible.

I think at the end of the day we are ignoring is the incentives. If people were incentivized to construct the information in this way, get some sort of reward, then it would happen naturally. But I don’t even think it is possible for a human to do that, say, store all of HN dialogues globally for example in their head and consider THAT before writing anything otherwise hyperlinking to what is already there.

The main issue is that knowledge is a graph, not a tree, and dialogue is linear. So in order to consume knowledge through text as quickly and efficiently as possible is more of a graph or traveling salesman problem which is very hard to solve, maybe something that Quantum AI can help with. One thing would be to incentivize hyperlinking. Another might be to store information in images using something like a way more advanced DALL-E that allows the human mind to grasp concepts simply through looking at trippy images or videos. To somehow use spatial and visual understanding to up the number of dimensions of what knowledge we can store and download into our brains.
For me, the primary evidence of lab origin has always been statistical in nature. I have read that there are thousands of wet markets across Asia. So when Covid shows up at one near an institute studying similar viruses instead of one of the thousands of other wet markets, Occam’s razor says it came from there. When we can’t find source animals nearby zoonotic origin requires a much more complex chain of events.

My assumption from close to the beginning has been that most likely, some low-level employee at the institute considered it a job perk to take animals he was supposed to have euthanized and cremated and sell them to a vendor at a market he had connections to for a few yuan.

Does this prove lab origin? No. But barring compelling evidence otherwise it makes lab origin the most likely cause.
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1566826229931524096.html
Trust me it is. I worked at a bank for over 8 years and any code that dealt with accounts was written in COBOL.
A while back i left my computer overnight running with an afk macro in a game. somehow discord got focus and i woke up to amused messages as i had been "typing" for 10 hours.
Ho the sweet irony of people praising them over 1password not two weeks ago. Queue the typical HN, "I switched from Bitwarden to X" in a couple of weeks.
That's a good thing, TDD is a prompt to say you don't really understand this requirement. Requirements aren't a design.

TDD makes you define what your input is, and what your output is. What's in the middle your free to choose.
An economist studied popular finance tips. Some might be leading you astray
Go the comment and click next. Congrats you now avoided the entire discussion the comment spawned.
Now I’m curious and this comes from my job history is working at mostly small disorganized companies and then moving to one very large company where I work with other very large enterprises so I have no experience with mid size companies.

Say I work for a large company where everything is gated via an SSO - email, Slack, internal apps, ADP for payroll, my brokerage account containing my 401K information (of course I do have a separate non SSO password for this since it is my account), and Bitwarden (I see it does support SAML).

If I leave my very large organization, it’s easy enough for a manager to disable my SSO and be mostly assured that I don’t have access to anything I shouldn’t. Because “security is job 0” (How do you say where you work without saying where you work /s).

Now let’s say that BitWarden stores 10 passwords to external services and I had access to those passwords through Bitwarden. Does someone then have to go in and manually change passwords to those 10 services every time someone leaves?
I switched to Bitwarden when LastPass started using silly tactics to make customers pay. I didn't switch because of the price - the service pricing of Bitwarden was a pleasant surprise.

I switched because I lost all trust in LastPass.

Managing credentials and sensitive information is all about trust. The second I lose trust in that kind of service, I don't just stop using it, I will most likely never even consider coming back as a customer and I will warn people against them. I don't give second chances to services that are trust based.

I'm pretty happy with Bitwarden so far. But if they betray my trust I'll be out of there in a day, never to return. I switched from LastPass to Bitwarden in a day. LastPass never gets a second chance.

What the VCs have to understand is that if their greed makes them push Bitwarden to engage in silly tactics, they risk driving away their customer base.
Seems like the cultured meat options are likely to win over plant based made with basic processing. Cultured meat in theory can have almost any amino acid profile targeted which means it could potentially be made with plenty of arginine and lysine which is a limiting factor with meat from creatures.
This is frighteningly specific.
I don't think it's necessary for someone to be a master in order to make art.

"Art" is a very low thresh-hold to meet. "Interesting" or "high-effort" is a higher threshhold to meet. Art doesn't need to be good to be art.
Thank you for clarifying, I don't think I'm entirely convinced though, a language can be both easy to read and provide a way to avoid that larger code-bases turn into spaghetti.

I don't think there needs to be any tradeoff in the language itself for this. There will be tradeoffs in the complexity of programs to avoid it, but that seems to be true no matter the language.

Of course, the languages that are both easy to get started with, and at the same time, powerful enough for large systems to be written, result in a lot of very terrible programs, not because they are _bad_languages_(tm) but because they're a perfect balance between ease-of-use, flexibility and power to expand.
So, the price for 3 millions active users is around 100m usd dollars.
Or 3 dollars per a user vault. OK. Noted.
It's time to switch then.
Sure, I mean you can DCA into SPY if that's what you like. Some people do want a bit more higher-risk or sector specific approaches.

I personally have 50% going into SPY DCA then a bunch of other bets. Some of them have outperformed SPY, certainly in the bull market. We'll see how they do over 20 years though.
The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it
I did the whole layerying up thing a bit last winter - lowered temps in my apartment to 17 C (which isn't cold at all, if you're wondering about "pipes freezing" temperatures) and worm multiple layers. At 17 C, I was fairly miserable already. Of course, temperature perception varies a lot between humans, so it might be OK for you.
How the game industry is fighting its carbon footprint
I use mk for all my personal projects. It is such a useful place to store maintenance operations on files exactly where they are needed. Not just build-type operations, but also syncing with remote stuff and other maintenance things.

My webside is managed by a big mkfile which builds html from markdown using pandoc and deploys over ssh. There is even a target in there for checking for dead links using curl.

I just counted: 778 mkfiles in my personal files.
What's the (society-scale) plus side in doing useless or harmful work for good money, winning the rat race on a sinking ship?
Same, I noticed the lights on the tree but that was about it directly.
Having played with Zig I would say the tradeoff is complexity. Zig is harder to learn than C with more difficult concepts. Something like Go is much quicker. Yet I think Zig is finding an okay balance. You can still get productive much faster than in Rust.

Manual memory management gives obvious downsides which should be well known. Zig does this in the best way I have seen though.
If you’re going through the trouble of solving an audio captcha, a 30 second delay isn’t going to bother you.

Remember that the whole trick of a spammer is that you aren’t able to see that his many actions are coming from one source. Otherwise it would be trivial to block. So there’s not a lot stopping a spammer from running many 30 second delays in parallel.
That’s a hell of a disclaimer after a decently alarmist comment. You may be correct, but I’m not sure it’s appropriate for you to raise that point given the conflict of interest.
That's just humor.
Or you know, spend the extra $0.001 on the storage to let it be duplicated and move on with your life. De-duplication here has zero net benefits unless you are talking a static site generator here where you somehow have tens of billions of pages to make the storage cost prohibitive

You are also killing the environment by pissing power away on each request that could have been preprocessed and served indefinitely.
The data oriented design stuff was mostly in the new compiler implementation (which can lead to faster compilation, but is unrelated to the performance of the compiler output).

But Zig might have some features which might theoretically allow the compiler to generate slightly more performant code (compared to portable standard C code). E.g. since function arguments are read only, the compiler might be able to avoid a copy on the stack when passing structs > 16 bytes by value.

Also since Zig programs are (AFAIK) generally compiled as a unity build, the compiler has more inlining opportunities compared to a conventionally linked C program (without LTO).

Etc... etc.. so theoretically it might be possible, but I'd still take such statements with a grain of salt until demonstrated on real world code.
...likely because Spotify offered a pittance to continue licensing the music.

Bait and switch is the name of the game with Spotify and Netflix. No wonder they're shoveling money into creating their mostly garbage IP they can own.
My experience with the app's autofill using both the Android Autofill Framework and the Quick-Action Tile has been great. Can you talk more about what doesn't work well for you?
I guess it happens but, while I've lived in the same house for many years, I wouldn't remotely have any real proof of overseas travel except for passport stamps and whatever is recorded in TripIt (which I assume wouldn't constitute proof). We're taking dozens and dozens of trips. I suspect very few people save that type of information unless they know in advance they'll need it.
I think it is worth to note that there is nothing wrong with the scrum techniques.

Just like any shoe you find in a store might be fully functional and useful to somebody it might just not be good fit for you.

Now, that might not be a problem for a more traditional development process of the past. In the past we would just choose one of the prescribed processes that was deemed the most fitting.

But the agile came and basically said that any set process is by definition wrong. The goal was to pursue constant improvement, forge the process as you go along and the idea was that the company that can improve faster will, over time, prevail over competition (you can't say "win", because it is an infinite game). And that the faster you can execute the iterations of these improvements the faster you can improve overall. And that the higher management is usually ill suited to do this because it just takes too much time to get the improvement iteration and that they usually don't know the specifics anyway.

And out of all this came the idea that the team itself should be responsible for improving their own process because this is the only way to do it fast enough.

In practice when the team notices a problem I may offer a possible solution for discussion and this solution will frequently be something already known from typical "agile"/scrum/kanban literature. Again, not saying it is all wrong but it needs to be viewed as a collection of solutions to individual problems rather than collectively a solution to fixing development process.
I suspect you are mostly right in that many are more concerned about funding - and publication - at the micro (personal) level, and this might discourage many from going against the establishment armed only with speculation.

As for the scientific establishment (eg the NIH in the USA), it is very politically aware and was apparently determined to speak with a single voice. Somewhat ironically, this may have made it impossible for them to put an end to lab-origin hypotheses, even if they are false.
> vegan trend is based on some radical religious opinion

What a bold empirical claim. Could you share any evidence of this?
I don't even remotely see how hybrids factor in. Yes there are "plug in hybrids" but no one is required to plug them. Other than that they burn fossil fuels. That's it.
Web socket support was added a few days ago[0], but it's still not part of a release. I will probably push out alpha1 tomorrow including it and a few other changes.

[0]: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/submillisecond/pull/78
Tangentially related: Does anyone know of a similar tool for comparing DCA vs. lump sum investing over a given time period?
And in that case you should treat that password as if someone did save it anyway. Change it immediately.
let's see how operation that kit is when they start using it
I might even go a step farther - you shouldn't care. It's the equivalent of caring whether or not your generated HTML or compiled IL or Assembly "looks nice."

If the SQL is performant and it returns the expected data, that is good enough for 99.9% of cases.
It's also useful for things like secure temporary password delivery. I set up your account for the first time with a new service, generate a temp password you have to reset on first login, and then share it to your Password Manager space.

Also just useful for things like API keys - my team just has all of our team's allocated API keys for various services in our password manager so we don't have to go look them up in all of the various service's sites if we need them.
Conservation of energy doesn't torpedo this idea a priori. The "exhaust" mass would steal energy from the massive body/planet in the gravity assist.

If you do this a million million times you might slow the planet down to where it has no more energy to usefully donate, but a one-off maneuver is negligible.
What I don't understand about this argument is why does it matter? Even if COVID was created in a lab in Wuhan they obviously didn't release it on purpose as a weapon (if they had they wouldn't have released it in Wuhan). There are any number of other labs around the world working on similarly dangerous research that could get released on accident.
If you can’t figure out a problem, just go back to the basics.

Comment out or delete the code until the fundamentals of the system works. Then add stuff back until errors happen. Also add better logging to track down the problem. Tear down the system and build it back up. Delete nonstandard approaches you can’t figure out and use standard ones from QuickStart tutorials. It might be slow progress but progress will be made.
How is that realistic? If they expect to get 10 billion in 10 years, they need to have 100 million paying users (if they charge $10 per user per year), which is like the entire active users count of StackOverflow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...
Years ago I played live games quite often (Vegas), and I do still play a few times a year (also Vegas). I've seen players make the request maybe 20 times total, and probably had the request granted ~50% of the time. When denied, it's usually because the cards were already intermingled in the muck, but on a few occasions it was due to the requestor exhibiting some level of 'menacing/antagonizing intent' to begin with.

You will definitely get yelled at if you attempt to flip someone's cards yourself, 100% of the time. At higher limits, it may get you removed from the game or worse. You can ask/request the dealer to show the mucked hand, though. I'd still suggest that you not request to do so -- it will almost assuredly piss someone (or multiple people) off. There are some rare occasions where it may be worth it and/or warranted, but they are few and far between.

Most common is when someone shows their hand to "half" the table immediately before mucking (at showdown), which often will cause the other half of the table to want to see too. Most dealers handle it well and just move on to the next hand while the players 'disseminate' the (usually useless) information.
I have a bunch of other bets too, but its mostly play money.

I've actually outperformed SPY with my personal bets, both over the last 10 years in general, as well as over the last 2 years (including this bear market).

But this is play money, not serious money. The bulk of my money is SPY/VTI + various Bond funds. I'm holding short duration and ultra-short duration and even Money Market for the near future, giving an eye to expectations from the Fed / interest rate hikes before jumping back into long term bonds.
You're absolutely right. Of course there is no guarantee that whatever alternative you seek won't turn out the exact same way. But unfortunately all you can do to punish that kind of behaviour is to vote with your wallet and move somewhere else. And hope it'll turn out better this time... There ARE people out there who are trying to build a profitable, ethical business instead of chasing unsustainable growth. Unfortunately the only way to find out who they are is by giving them a chance...
Reminds me of this old Big Bang Theory episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8sDquNYw
how does bitwarden compared to 1password?
start with investing in devops for extremely tight feedback loops and exploratory instrumentation

get good at finding and reaching out to contractable experts for rabbit-holes, whether for the spot-work or to pair on solving with their expertise
I feel lured towards Supabase's immediacy. Is it much more opaque to debug than an equivalent assembly of suitable components ?
I really like the idea of using our own Moon for a fuel-saving gravity assist.

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003300/a003364/

Unfortunately it's not usable for a lot of targets because it closes the window of opportunity too much (a three week window for hitting Mars becomes a handful of days with a Luna assist).

Main source for all this: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4027/has-luna-been...
A wall of text having nothing to do with your initial false claim that colonialism is being widely "romanticized". Don't waste my time.
I started the article and came right back to post this: “Nothing can be more counterproductive than any certainty regarding complex affairs.”
Earth is the the pot, the atmosphere is the water, and we're the frog. The water has been gradually warming for the past 150 years. Simple physics tells us how fast the water is heating and when the water will boil. It's not a doomsday cult - it's forethought. The irony is forethought is something humans seem to be able to do pretty well on an individual basis but can't do in large populations. I defer to the anthropologists as to why that is.
De-duplication, or rather, not duplicating in the first place. Perfectionist requirement :)

I refuse to accept that a perfectionist would use Apache.
I would suggest taking a deep breath. I didn't accuse anyone of anything, I pointed out that stealthing is rape. I did so because stealthing is in fact rape. I don't know how that simple fact is misinformation, let alone dangerous - please explain.