skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The catch with SSDs is they are not long-term reliable when left without power. If left as little as 12 months without energy, data degradation can occur. SSDs need power regularly to automatically refresh their memory cells. No power, no refresh, slow loss. They are almost like RAM in that regard, just with a really slow discharge.

Compared to good quality writable media which is designed for storage without power. This, and the write-once versions (no ransomware), are great for backups of faster modern media.
Modula-2 GCC compiler front end patches sent for review
It's a *very major problem* on HN and every internet forum:

*skepticism is confused for intelligence or insight.*

It's rampant in application towards ML. People don't want to seem like they're 'hyping AI' because that is associated with immaturity, so they run the other direction and claim "very little has been done, nothing to see here" - which is actually far further from truth. These people often don't have a great deal of knowledge or experience within the field their bashing; however they're well received, simply because *skepticism is incorrectly received as insight*.

There may or may not be a fix that can be engineered for this, but at least reminding our community that pointing out the things a post does correctly (perhaps using theory that isn't explicitly stated there) is a more academically challenging task than pointing out flaws can be helpful.
Do you think Russia should have respected the will of the Chechens and let Chechnya become its own state?
This game was way too hard for kid me, but I kept trying because we didn't have Steam back then with millions of games instantly available.
It may be time to reconsider recompiling from source as the preferred method over binary distribution.
I realize that this is a late comment, but what's your opinion of kefir (primarily homemade, not store bought) and its impact on gut health?
Depending on the weight, it could also be used in flight, automotive, industry, or even construction. Very cool new frontier!
If FaceBook does it, then the shady startup offering "30k + fake options" to new employees can do it too. FaceBook is setting an awful precedent.
Well said. Making accept payments easy and seamless is the most important aspect.

Regards
The reason for this change is to make wrong programs into correct programs. The examples will introduce more GC pressure, because the `append(..)` will append different values as the programmer expected. Thus, correcting the bug adds to GC pressure.

In the cases where the new value isn't appended, the compiler can easily optimize it away, and reuse the same memory location in a register or on the stack. My guess is that the optimizer portion of the compiler is at a place nowadays where this will happen, with no further change needed. When the compiler was new, it might have been a regression in efficiency.
I see your point. I think we're just using a different definition of "no-op".

The statement by itself doesn't produce any visible side effect.

However it creates a new logical variable in the abstract machine, and that can have real consequence in the real underlying machine, depending on which statements happen next.

In particular, the new variable and the old variable are independent and thus the new variable may require to allocate some storage location (e.g. on the stack, a register, ...) to keep track of further mutations to its value (I say "may" because an optimising compiler may do without that extra location)
I agree, at least for my own mental health.

For the rest of the universe, if you read patents then you are liable for willful infringement instead of accidental infringement, the penalties for willful infringement are much higher. This is why you should never read through patents without a specific purpose in mind if you have any plans of filing your own.
I think living within proximity of something that gives ample social opportunity is a big deal. I guess that's why the suburbs have always been appealing to many Americans. I grew up in an area (also upstate NY) where I could ride my bike at 1am and not see any cars for minutes at a time, but I could get to a big-enough city in 20ish minutes. I feel like that's a good mix for a lot of us.

Ithica seems like a bit more extreme version of that, but with a much larger city near by as well.
What do you drink and how much to feel fogginess??? I don’t even get dizzy after several glasses of wine (I am completely immune to beer).
>Even though I've got plenty yet to learn, it is extremely clear to me that some kind of control of the money supply is necessary...

So, you have no idea what you are talking about but you FEEL like you do? Bitcoin (now called Bitcoin Cash) has been working as cash perfectly for over 10 years with no central control necessary.
I think they mean keep references to them in an indexable array.
Licensing issues aside, would it not be easy enough to change an a.out to an elf?

I can't think of a reason why not.
My apologies, I can see I was not nearly specific enough.

In addition to needing to sell a lot of equity to get enough money, coops generally cannot sell equity to outside parties through general-purpose capital markets to raise funds. Living in a housing coop, you can buy shares as a resident-owner. I would guess your coop does not have many investor-owners who own shares while not living in the housing coop.

Does this clarify my point for you?
I live in upstate NY. Rural upstate NY.

People fly Confederate flags here all the time. There's one in the window of a house just down the street.

Just because the actual seceding states were in the South doesn't mean the racism stopped there.

The power structures the South rebuilt, they then exported ideologically. The ideals of equality the North held, they also exported ideologically.

It's very, very important to remember that there are many very right-wing people in "blue" states—just as there are many very left-wing people in "red" states. In fact, every state in the nation is some shade of "purple", with the strongest concentrations of one end of the political spectrum being around 60-70%.
I mean every big tech company of course: Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, etc. but also they're going to have backdoors into companies like Boeing or perhaps 3M, banks, etc.

"Matters" in this context was related to national security concerns.
What are you alluding to? The "Kids for Cash"[1] incident is from 2008, and isn't not being covered because of the things you mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Wow, I was sure, from listening to the first few minutes, that the script was written by a human trying to be funny. The part about the NeXT Computer and the three applications was just too funny. Edit: Not to mention the reference to the movie Ghost.
>> The problem was people as a whole didn’t care.

People dont care about the economics of free messaging apps or "tech monopolies", but plaster it enough across enough articles across many years of publication and suddenly it becomes an issue.

I'd argue that the NY Times and other media are the ones who dont care. They get to decide what people care about.
I have stopped eating breakfast and have early lunch and dinner. This made a difference on my health. Feel less bloated, better digestion etc.
Well the point is that it could have been an actual macro instead of a function that processes a syntactical-opaque control string.

I do appreciate the convenience and brevity of FORMAT as it currently exists, but I also think it would be pretty cool to have a proper S-expression macro that expands to a FORMAT control string. It would be analogous to a macro that generates SQL or HTML.
Class minorities? You mean the super rich?
I heard the same argument against smooth locomation. Never been a problem for me. People are different, so provide the option.
Literally the first citation in the Wikipedia article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/28judges.html
Tyson is overrated. He says a lot of stuff on Twitter that's not true. So much for facts and science.
Partially because it is super expensive; no doubt it could be made somewhat cheaper but the cost of even a normal "jail cell" is quite high compared to a stick-built building.

But "jails without locked doors" would be a good middle ground. Provide security like a jail, but the "inmates" are free to come and go.
That is inherent in open-source/bazaar-style development, and we can all help wherever we can. There is no entity like Apple/Microsoft mandating that we change to Y from X.
While composing this comment, did you consider that the dimension of time is implicit (and hidden from perception) in the version of "is" that you are using here?

Also hidden: sub-perceptual heuristics. And culture. And surely many other things beyond my knowledge.

The hard problem of consciousness is so poorly understood by science, I wonder if that is why it is simply ~ignored in conversations like this, where it is so fundamentally important.
I'm struggling to see what is safer about a modded exe.

I'm similarly struggling to see the value in breaking old games because new versions exist.
> Have climate change models been shown to be making poor predictions?

Yes. Even the IPCC admitted that in the AR5, though you had to look carefully at footnotes to see it.

> it appears they've predicted temperatures should warm

No, they predicted that temperatures should warm at a particular rate based on a particular rate of CO2 increase. More precisely, there are three groups of climate models, each based on a different rate of CO2 increase: basically, a "business as usual" rate of CO2 increase, a "some reduction" rate of CO2 increase, and a "drastic reduction" rate of CO2 increase. The output of each group of models is averaged to come up with a prediction of warming based on the rate of CO2 increase that the model assumes. The "business as usual" models predict the most warming, the "some reduction" models predict somewhat less warming, and the "drastic reduction" models predict less warming still.

Actual CO2 increase has been about the same as the "business as usual" scenario, but actual warming has been less than the amount predicted by the "drastic reduction" set of models. If the models made accurate predictions, actual warming should have been about what was predicted by the "business as usual" set of models. But it wasn't; it was well below the 95% confidence interval for that set of models. (Note that, whenever actual warming is compared to models, it is compared to the average of all the models--all three sets, with different assumptions for CO2 increase. That actually makes no sense, but climate scientists do it anyway to obfuscate how much the models have overpredicted warming.)

> It seems they've predicted stronger hurricanes and those have also been happening more frequently over time.

No, they haven't. Studies of frequency of storms show no change in frequency over time. The amount of damage done by storms has increased, but that's because of the huge increase in the number of people and the value of housing and other property that are in the paths of major storms.
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Many of the greenhouse Youtube channels I watch do a smaller DIY version of this. They have either dark barrels of water in the greenhouse with the windows facing south to the sun, or a thin metal wall filled with clay and pipes acting as a sun-heat-battery. They pump the water through the barrels or clay battery into pipes that are under ground to store the heat. In winter time they extract the heat from the ground keeping the greenhouse warm using a combination of solar and commercial power for the pumps. Heat is also extracted from compost bins at each end of the greenhouse. This works well in extremely cold climates in Canada and Alaska. A few of these folks do all of this without using any electricity at all and somehow manage to get water moving through the pipes using heat convection alone.

I've been thinking about doing something like this but connecting it to pipes under the foundation of my home so I can get rid of the wallboard heaters or just leave them off. Electricity is the only commercial utility near me.
All kinds of ugly incomprehensible squiggles should be banned. And reader-macros too, they facilitates this shit.
Paving the on-ramp – Day 2 – SwingUtilities.showInFrame
>Also: I recently learned that Ford, GM, and the rest of the industry all use the same plug for their EVs. The only odd one out is.. Tesla :| annoying that the industry pioneer would also be the one who bucks its standards.

You didn't know?

They use CCS Type-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_connector but Tesla's connector is 10x better. Looks at this comparison: https://teslatap.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/connector_co...

Tesla Superchargers are now equipped with CCS connectors and Tesla offers an adapter of course: https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/CCS/CCS_Combo_2_Ad...
I started following the Greek Orthodox Lenten fasting schedule[0] even though I am not Greek Orthodox. In this context, fasting means refraining from the consumption of specific things. It basically boils down to a vegan diet with no alcohol and minimum oils (e.g. olive oil) during various periods of the year. I found following this schedule really helped keep me in check even without the religious component.

After my first observance of the fast, many new habits stuck with me:

• I only drink on weekends socially with others (save for occasional exceptions such as a birthday during the week)

• I never drink alone

• When I drink, I follow each drink with a glass of water and completely stop myself if I start feeling tipsy

• I gave up meat and eventually dairy, eggs, and fish (in that order) because I felt so good during the fast

Now, elements of the fast has become a bit more permanent in my life apart from the strict periods of no alcohol and no oil. Although, I do not have to battle alcohol addiction, I found periods of fasting really helped me gain a greater control of myself and what I regularly consume. It may seem odd for a non-religious person to follow, but I think there were good reasons the Greeks have historically followed this schedule that have led to a healthy lifestyle. Regardless of possible health benefits[1], following a fasting schedule really helps keep me in check and prevent my past behaviors of over-indulging in pleasurable things (for me that was primarily an over consumption of meat without consideration of the negative side effects from that behavior).

[0] https://www.goarch.org/-/when-you-fast

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC156653/
On the rest, the "bit more", I agree. Direct quotes in the piece are the only things that seem clear, and I was narrowly focused on that.

Although I'm in the skeptic camp for self-driving readiness, all writing should be fair and clear about it. I'm surprised that power-assisted human control of stuff is so far behind, all we have is lane assist and stuff like that. You'd think we'd have haptic pothole anticipation or seats that cringe a little when someone roars up from behind by now.
Even more damning, looks like they got a SOC-2 Type II via Vanta in July of 2021. I just had to go through SOC-2 Type II at two startups in the last few years so I'm very familiar with the requirements. How the hell did they pass multiple penetration tests and a third party audit with such blatent security issues that an automated scan would detect? If anything, I think this says something much more damning about Vanta and/or about whatever penetration testing firm and/or auditor Vanta referred them to. It's on Vanta to make good referrals, it's on the auditor to validate that the pen tester is reputable and that all the requirements are met, and it's on the pen tester to actually check these things. All are at fault.

They never should have come close to passing. Details on the audit seem to be sparse so I can't call out the auditor and/or penetration tester but yeah this is a real bad look for the whole industry.

This really muddies the water for every security-minded startup that has taken the trouble to go through SOC-2 or ISO 27001. Very disappointing.

I guess billion dollar valuation really can buy you a rubber stamp.
> the extra infrastructure that needs to be built

A small landing spot on each end vs. tearing up the entire countryside, building tunnels and bridges, displacing thousands of people for an extra rail track?

Yeah, no.
Without those, the only remaining compulsory treatment is prison, or banishment. And we're out of frontiers to banish people to.
Yeah, I do mean lower risk and higher rewards. Generally pepple think it's like buying Pfizer before they release a vaccine, but it's too late by then. Something like buying Nvidia during the crypto/AI boom, or OpenAI after they released GPT-2.

Y Combinator plays on the very high risk tables, but they get in early enough to also reap very high rewards for a relatively low investment. And they've specialized enough in it to lower the risks.

Berkshire Hathaway does the exact opposite, they specialize in finding ways to get the risks so low that the lower returns don't matter so much.
Leaked memo reveals Patreon's valuation plunged 70% in the past year
If air travel pollutes too much, and the goal is to reduce air travel, how else do you want to regulate it except by price? By restricting the number of flights one may take, or have a government office where one can apply for flight permits? That has not worked too well, historically.

However, come to think of it, one might want to give everyone some carbon credit or travel points, and then develop a market in it. (That would still mean that the rich will fly as much as they want, but at least they'll pay the poor that don't travel for the privilege.)
Does NILFS do checksums and snapshotting for every single file in the system? One of my biggest complaints about file systems in general is that they are all designed to treat every file the exact same way.

We now have storage systems (even SSDs) that are big enough to hold hundreds of millions of files. Those files can be a mix of small files, big files, temp files, personal files, and public files. Yet every file system must treat your precious thesis paper the same way it treats a huge cat video you downloaded off the Internet.

We need some kind of 'object store' where each object can be given a set of attributes that govern how the file system treats it. Backup, encryption, COW, checksums, and other operations should not be wasted on a bunch of data that no one really cares about.

I have been working on a kind of object file system that addresses this problem.
While impressive, I think it is extremely bothersome. Did you get JRE's permission or the family of Steve Job's permission to do this? Considering how much news/social media/blogs like to cut and paste one-liners taken out of context, I find it unethical to put words into Joe Rogan's mouth like this.

I get that you needed someone who everyone recognized for a good demo, but I honestly think using someone who is alive was not a great choice.

To remove anyone's ability to believe this interview actually happened, some other interviewers could've been used, like Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley.
I don’t think it’s worse than how people already believe headlines and even pictures of headlines (popular on Twitter, Reddit) while reacting to it much less demanding to read the actual article, if there even was one.

You can even just make up a caption next to an image like “this is Todd from Finland who raised $100k for the war in Ukraine” and this pic might spread virally as everyone pats Todd on the back “omg faith in humanity restored”.

And these scenarios are even less work and easier to consume than your doomsday. It’s already here and you don’t even have to listen to ab audio clip.
There's no way to know if Socrates' absence would have led to a net benefit or not

Edit: to expand on this, we can say it is fortunate that his words were written down, but in a Socrates-less world or a world where his thoughts evaporated, you don't know which philosophers would have taken up the mantle instead and what the consequences would have been
Security Researcher Discloses Drone Delivered Hack
>Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles are rethinking their parking meter deals

This is over ten years old. I wonder what those cities wound up doing.
I'm not sure, but here's what might be the case:

If you have a phone made of today's ceramics and drop in on concrete, and it cannot be deformed, it will shatter.

Since this new material can be malleable, when you drop your phone, it doesn't shatter.
I did not compare it to gold.

Lack of intrinsic value applies to both cash and crypto. The main difference is that one is backed by a government and is globally recognised whereas the stability of crypto's value is beholden purely to the market. Centralisation is actually incidental here, the government makes certain guarantees that makes it's cash currency more stable.

FYI, I'm just playing devils advocate here, I think all crypto so far has utterly failed at providing an alternative to cash even though in theory it's entirely capable, and that's because the main barrier to entry is government recognition... it's a classic failure of "we can solve this with tech and sidestep regulation", but when replacing one piece of information (as you put it) with another, then it turns out that recognition by authorities and regulation is integral to it's success regardless of any technical advantages.
Congratulations on your three months! Keep it up! These are great tips.

I'll add 1. Put any friendships that revolve around drinking on hold and 2. Find healthy natural highs--taking a bad habit out of your life is an excellent opportunity to find healthy things you enjoy doing to fill that void.
You lost a zero in there, so more like 146km.
That's behind a paywall for me.
A third of US teens use Apple Watch
It's a cool demonstration. I was doing a lot of GPT-3 stuff last year, got terrified and felt hopeless in face of where AI was going.

https://semiosis.github.io/about/
https://semiosis.github.io/posts/imaginary-internet-survival...

But I put it all down to do philosophy, then some soul searching and God turned up. Spirit, astral projection, lightsoul, God, Christ, heaven -- all real.

https://semiosis.github.io/posts/the-pathway-to-gnosis/
It's really interesting to me that the BBC romanticizes the actions of a state known for using utilities and communication as a means of controlling it's citizens.