skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geoengineering projects should be getting far more attention in the public eye. There are serious alternatives to letting society crumble due to climate change. People are choosing not to have children and citing climate anxiety as the reason. Just today, two teenagers in London ruined a Van Gogh for a climate protest. It's absurd. If you apply any amount of rational thinking to the problem, you'll realize that it's incredibly likely that we'll solve climate change.

The paper cited here is from a U of Arizona professor who previously won a MacArthur "genius" grant, and develops the optics for some of the largest telescopes in the world. Not a quack. Harvard has a Geoenigineering department. Smart and credible people are working this problem out. We should give them our attention, money, and talents. The paper in this post lays out a plan to reduce climate change for under 0.5% of world GDP in 2006. The price of launching weight into space has plummeted in the 15 years since this paper was written.

If you're worried about unintended consequences of geoengineering, then contribute to reducing risk by helping to develop AI. Then we'll be better able to model its effects and mitigate risk through increasingly accurate simulation. We need to tell people to study materials science or something that will actually help if they're concerned about the climate.

Climate Fatalism is so mid.
For me it was a 1 hour chat over coffee. For the staff I hired it was similar.

From the moment the decision was made (an hour or so after the coffee), it is usually
a month until they are working with me.

We do reference checks after picking a candidate.

The month delay is due to the notice period people are usually required to give their old employer. It could be more or less but is 4 weeks usually.

The process probably varies by industry a lot. If a profession requires a practicing certification you have a minimum standard already. If a profession is tiny, you have a fair idea about candidates before you interview.
Delhi is quite dry though.
Clearly, the framers of the constitution could not have imagined the smart devices of today, but based on how they wrote the constitution on what they could imagine, I believe that data/privacy protection would have been it's own amendment. We try to lump everything into the 4th amendment, but their biggest concerns were invasion of one's domicile.

We should come together as a group to write a new amendment that protects one's digital life to propose to congress via a lobby group.
They're almost certainly using 3DES in some products, since it's still a standard choice for PCI encryption.
> I've done something similar

Any links to share? I think your feedback is very spot on so curious what you've built.
My strawman is that the backdoor is added by one or more engineers, and stored somewhere that is accessible by one or more DBAs, transmitted to the cops via infrastructure administered by one or more BOFHs, and maintained on the law enforcement end, by one or more personnel.

One day, one of these people suddenly quits, moves to Dubai, and buys a Bugatti.

The backdoor is now a front door.
‘It still prevented cancers’: Experts discuss furor over colonoscopy study
i mean if you listen to some of them that's the voice: woman's tone and inflection but pitched down closer to a man due to the effects of heavy androgen exposure. how's that "yikes"? the point is the modulated woman still sounded like a woman because there's more than pitch that sets mens/womens voices apart.
I'm not sure that's a good idea, but it does remind me...

One thing I remember about a solar eclipse I saw was once it began, and a tiny corner of the sun was covered, all the heat from the sunshine seemed gone. We were in the middle of a hot field under some trailer awnings. It was miserable in the sun until just 1% of the sun was covered, and then the sunshine was barely different than the shade. There was no visual difference in the sun, but you could feel the change in radiant heat.
The atmospheric steam engines which were first put to practical use did not require precise manufacturing. The cylinder and pistons were finished by hand and eyeballed for correctness (far from precise.) The gap was made up using leather seals and a layer of water sitting on top of the piston.
Not in Firefox on Ubuntu, there is no option under settings to disable it, that's the problem.
How do you turn a local-first file system based database into a cloud software product with vendor lock in?
An Apology
I feel like you're taking my words in bad faith.

Vim works perfectly fine with multiple files out of the box, it just wants a tag file for jumping between multiple files and letting autocomplete work with those tags.

This is hardly unique to vim (and emacs) - you can't work on a project in IntelliJ without first setting up a workspace and letting IntelliJ index all those files. The only difference is how the index is generated.

Oh, and `:help cscope` (again, thanks aidenn0). In vim >=9.0 a tagging tool is now incorporated into the base vim install.
It is more than just the equipment that makes them paramilitary, many dept mirror their organization structure after that of a military, down to the ranks, and uniforms including Service ribbons...
Its my own post from a different site which I reposted on my own blog with an intro.
Optics absolutely had shims in this era. Talking 1930-1950 era Leica lenses for example. 50mm lenses that you can’t just swap in a replacement element without adjusting shims because they would match them and shim at factory.

I recall some lenses from the era having their actual exact focal length inscribed inside since they weren’t exactly 50mm and the variance was 0.2mm or so.

Don’t even get me started on Soviet cameras.
> [...] the camera needed frequent enough service [...]

Let's hope that in the future software engineering becomes mature enough that we don't need daily security updates.
This is within reach due to the flexibility of features like setweight[0], but I don't know enough about TF/IDF or BM25.

Seems like an excellent weekend project.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-features....
> I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing.

Why? Are you considering forking Firefox?
Why put all that time and energy to get naked photos of women just to extort them not for money or sex, but for more photos? Is the Internet running out of porn? This seems like a high risk low reward crime.
I suspect they are interested in doing graph ML, computation chemists are good at that.
My point is rather abstract: if you are not pleased with the behavior of the agents in your simulation, it may be worth actually teaching them skills that are known to be beneficial, rather than just talking about it (and we often don't/can't even get this far).

As one example (and I genuinely don't mean it as an insult):

> One big problem is that half the country has also been taught climate change is a hoax concocted for partisan political gain.

This is not actually known, and is unknowable (to any substantial degree of accuracy). And yet: consider how often one encounters such claims, including in genuinely intelligent communities like HN.

If I could make a list of just three "stop doing this" rules, "premature formation of epistemically unsound beliefs (and seeding of those viral beliefs into the memeplex)" would definitely be one of them.

> I doubt that most of them even believe this, but it's illustrative of... some deeper issue, for sure.

This, on the other hand, is not only excellent, but it is also highly anomalous (I propose).
Yep, it is a rebuttal. Climate cranks and their misuse of questionable data should not be taken seriously. Relying on them in your arguments, quoting and defending them is likewise an instant credibility fail.
Unless you have an antiquated internet connection, you should be seeing 4k HDR video. A movie in 4k is anywhere from 10-30 gigs and often you can’t find all content at this quality level. So, in theory using the service directly should give you better video quality unless you’re waiting to download 5-15 gigs per hour of content you want the option to watch.
Show me a rule of law that enforces being wholesome and having integrity.
So the how is roughly:
-Work remotely
-Take unlimited PTO (how many days is that for you?)

Do you find that working on trips impacts your itinerary or choice of accommodations?
After a year or so it will end up in the Google graveyard if it ever comes out.
This doesn't work. The only way to disable autoupdates on Firefox is to install a policy file:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mozilla_Firefox_Stop_Nag...
Recommended LYT:
Intro - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3NaIVgSlAVLHty1-NuvPa9V0...

Advance - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3NaIVgSlAVIDaYB0yeH3lnB9...
> Consider the question then of "at what point in the history of the world could you take three rifles made by the same maker and swap parts and still have it be perfectly serviceable?"

It depends on the weapon.

To this day, there are many designs that require "fitting" for some parts. The M1911, a .45 ACP semi-automatic handgun that entered US service in 1911 and is still a relatively popular, doesn't have truly interchangeable parts. The interface between the sear and hammer, or the trigger bar and sear, must be manually carefully shaped for feel, safety, and reliability. The "ramp" that guides the cartridge into the chamber is similar, and it's common to get new guns that won't reliably work with common brands or designs of ammunition.
Web3 Is Headed Our Way. Are Cultural Institutions on Board?
I appreciate the criticism. I suppose I was hoping that Hacker News would in general be more on the side against the end of civilization, but I might be over-estimating. It seems like people are all too happy to view repeating oil lobby talking points as "challenging authority". This website is a mess.
sure, not disputing that, i was using it as a synonym for "typical" or "common". that's a pretty common use of the word btw, google says it means "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected"

i also wasn't talking about gay people in general, only gay people who use the stereotypical voice which is a pretty small fraction of them. i think you're reading too much into nitpicking that word instead of the other three paragraphs.
>>The private sector job market shifted to low skill, low pay service jobs. The government mostly outsources those roles.

The private sector has massively automated as well. The better explanation is that the growing gap between private and public sector wages is due to public sector labor unions and the proliferation of collective bargaining agreements that they've secured for themselves, and the fact that the government (unlike private industry), does not easily go bankrupt under the weight of union demands.

>>Unions strengthened civil service and reduced patronage. Do you want your kids taught by uneducated hacks?

Teachers unions have reduced spending efficiency in education:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/111/3/671/1839...
eye roll...of course they "know" what they are looking for. they just can't tell you until they find it.

/s
Check out Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock. In fiction you can consider things that are too taboo to discuss seriously.
Yeah. Which is why things like this (limiting sunlight so greenhouse effects are mitigated) mixed with a push to 100% clean energy and carbon capture (both via trees and technology) are probably the way forward. You might get away with pushing to limit non reusable resources if companies were the targeted party though (so instead of asking people to recycle or reuse, governments outright demaded corporations stop providing as much disposable packaging).
The main supporting graph: "percent change on previous month, annualized". So this is like, a relative rate-of-change measure? (of what exactly?) Can we have absolute rate-of-change or absolute values of this thing? (it's not as if some decent range of the economic output is unknown) Also this graph is far too short in timescale especially since it's dealing with the recent past: we know these indicators are very noisy around the now point. wtf this is garbage
He wasn't fined, he was held civilly liable for damages.

Perhaps the problem is that the fine accrues only to him and his production company; really there were a lot of people involved in spreading lies about Sandy Hook, and their production and distribution. Or that US lawsuits can produce spectacular punitive damages numbers on flimsy justification.

But winning libel suits is really unusual in the US! Here's Sarah Palin losing a lawsuit this year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60396231
NO, I am not recommending a lawsuit. There may well be laws, regulatory authorities, etc. which can work in your favor, without you ever needing to hire a lawyer. I've seen a number of situations where a company gave up & paid up after being contacted by their State gov't.
Further, it’s important to compare the outcomes here to the counter factual, which must involve lots of individuals making decisions that are not based on explicitly coded up rules… ie rules that can be reviewed for bias and improved on collectively.
Technically I imagine a language implemented in C should be portable on any platform that has a C compiler? It may lack some functionality if the platform is missing it, but the basics should be there.
A guide to building a Minimum Viable Community
Ever seen the movie Snowpiercer? It was based on a comic called Le Transperceneige and they also more recently made a TV series about it, but I've only seen the movie and highly recommend it. It takes place on an Earth stuck in a planet-wide heavy winter due to an anti-global-warming scheme gone wrong. It's the first thing I think of whenever I hear of space umbrellas or these sorts of anti-warming ideas.

EDIT: Ah, someone sniped me.
If the stakes weren't so important, this tidbit from the abstract would be really funny:

> The concept builds on existing technologies. It seems feasible that it could be developed and deployed in ≈25 years at a cost of a few trillion dollars, <0.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) over that time.
Yes the whole point of VR is to command your entire attention the same way as if you were physically in a room. The pro-VR crowd (basically limited to anyone getting paid to work on it for Meta) thinks this will replicate the benefits of in-person work. Everyone else sees it as replicating the drawbacks of in-person work.
I’ve played kerbal space program for over 500 hours and I can confirm LEO looks like this in my game.
The sense of space in a room is directly related to its shortest dimension.

Round and triangular rooms are not practical for obvious reasons.

Square or close to square is thus optimal.
Well good luck on that, how will you get to a solution withouth getting money/people on board.
Nvidia says it’s ‘unlaunching’ the 12GB RTX 4080 after backlash
Neat. I wonder if this is solely generated from their array of distrbuted sensors, or if this is just another visualization tool using space-track.org's data.
Couple this with a Chaos Monkey [1], which is "responsible for randomly terminating instances in production", on their first day of vacation.

[1] https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
If you're looking to meet a group of people to go to foreign pubs with, especially (but not strictly) if you happen to be in your 20s and 30s, just stay in social hostels.

You can occasionally find sites that highlight the most social "party" hostels in each town, or you can get a feel for it based on if their pictures feature extensive communal areas, an on-premises bar, pool tables, etc.

Basically go to any destination that seems appealing, stay at one of those hostels in the dorms, and you'll make friends quickly.

It's not all about just getting trashed together, oftentimes the people around you will tip you off to what's worth seeing and doing in the area, and will even want to join you or have you join their group and go do these things together.

It can be a lot of fun, not to mention typically the cheapest option for housing while traveling.

Edit: More to the point of "go to x" - I'd highly recommend Southeast Asia as a great entry point to travel. It's beautiful, very different from Europe/North America so it really feels like you're traveling, it's got the gorgeous tropical beaches, rainforests, beautiful architecture, unique street food scene, etc that all feel very foreign to anyone who's lived in the West for most of their lives, it's overwhelmingly safe, probably the cheapest place in the world to travel ($3-$10/night for a hostel, $1-2 for a meal from a street vendor), and it's a very popular destination with plenty of hostels and fellow travelers to meet at those hostels and befriend.

In terms of a couple specific destinations to start out with, take a look at Thailand, especially Koh Phangan and Koh Phi Phi, and Bali (Canggu and Ubud areas).
I'm thinking pancakes.
What if it's not even the US but some private company with launch capabilities that also may or may not be US based?
These people are at a different point in their career path than you are. They don't have the same decades of experience that you do, to immediately see the problem. Perhaps they will now, having solved it once, as you have many times before. And it may well be that they do not have the same level of passion and dedication that you had at that point in your career. The field is much larger now than it was then, meaning fewer places for people to drop out.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy your retirement when it comes. You have earned it.
>> is unlikely to make them sympathetic to the view that their personal sacrifice should be higher as we fight a global challenge.

I doubt they are willingly making sacrifices. They are just forced to do that...the poor people consume less because they cannot grab more.
Worth noting that 1,600 years ago was around 400 AD, towards the end of the Roman empire. By that time the Trojan War existed as a myth in the distant past (1500-1600 years earlier than 400 AD). A mosaic illustrating a popular story from the distant past doesn’t really prove anything — it’s not a contemporary record of events.
This is very very good. Only thing I can think that it's missing (and maybe you have support for this and I misread your readme) is ordered maps (there's a better name for this but I'm blanking).

For example, imagine I have a compact append only map format and I want to represent it like this (where last tuple wins when you have a duplicate key, but earlier history is preserved)

{
score: 0,
score: 1
}
Ok "run your own race" sounds very different all of a sudden
For the other 99.87% of us on this board, this is good info.
Now will Nvidia have the courage to re-release it as the 4070?
Better than the old lemonparty.com link (now a porn site, I think). We used to send that to scammers.

It was pretty gross. Not quite as bad as goat.se.
> ruined a Van Gogh

Ok, I'll bite. Let's read up on this claim. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/14/1129098184/van-gogh-sunflower...

> Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting
I don't see how the setweight function could be used to give you something like a traditional TF/IDF algorithm, but perhaps I'm missing it. I would be interested in reading more about that if I am.
This one I can kind of understand. Moreso than the Yoda one.

There’s a good chance at least one piece of copy will be missed when replacing the placeholder text, and for a vegan company, that can easily cause outrage for their customers since it’s just full of meat products. There are a lot of reasons for people being vegan and some hold incredibly strong beliefs on meat products.
> What if our lead engineer takes a bus out of town

HA! I've never heard this version of it. I've only ever heard the dark version. I like this better.
Firefox on Ubuntu (on most distros, in fact) doesn't update itself automatically at all, which is why there's no option to disable it. It's apt (or snap?) that updates it.
Levi's that sold for $76K reflect anti-Chinese sentiment of 19th century
Despite Nvidia's past actions, I think this was the right move.
Wow. So there is a limit to how much abuse the market will accept.
> This is wrong. That is a very meaningful transformation. It is the standard way (https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/240338) to turn a uniform distribution into a Bernoulli distribution.

The OP didn't do what was described in the SO post. They did something else -- they calculated the ratio of two binomial random variables, and presented that as a percentage.

Also, no, the SO comment you've cited doesn't describe how to generate a "Bernoulli distribution" (not a thing, btw; it's called a binomial distribution) from a uniform distribution. It tells how to make a single Bernoulli trial...but even that isn't what OP did.

This is how you actually do what you're discussing (draw from the Binomial CDF given a uniform RNG, via a table):

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1427288/how-to-samp...
Well, that's literally what US colleges have been doing for decades. Basically outsourced IQ tests (since IQ tests during the hiring process are illegal).

High time someone else got in on the action.
What a strange post - the name is not right, so it's unlaunched. No indication of a new name? Am I supposed to conclude that the whole product is canceled for now? If that's the case it seems unlikely that the naming error is the whole reason.
It seems like the Nvidia marketing team should have thought of this before launching the product.
I want to use D for a new company idea I have. The library situation just isn't there though, which is always the problem.
They wouldn't make it that obvious. They'd weaken specs a little, like 5% less Cuda cores or something.
But for this to explain the prior absence of precision engineering, and for that absence to explain the timing of the development of the steam engine, this would have to change around 1700. As far as I know, it didn't.
Is your position basically that I should be able to post "CodeSgt is a sex offender and murderer" signs around your neighbourhood, and to your employer and social circle, and this is completely fine because it only has the effect of making you "upset"?
Just spotting an open window allows a cop to immediately enter a house? To do what?

Sometimes the US has strange laws, but if you are right (I somehow doubt it or maybe just hope it) then I would find it particulary strange.
It's the abstract art of posts
Curated by whom exactly?
Aren't the chips already made, so they have to do something with them?
I didn't expect to see this much of a mea culpa after the 1060 3GB and 6GB being the same situation.
The problem is that everyone plays this game.

The voters blame the politicians. The politicians blame the voters for voting wrong. The communists blame capitalism. Capitalism blames capitalism. The consumers blame the producers for producing the wrong thing. The producers blame the consumers for wanting the wrong thing. The east blames the west. The west blames the east. Cats blame dogs. Dogs blame cats.

In a sense yeah. They are all right, they are all right because we are all to blame. Each and every one of us bear this guilt. We all could have done differently. And if we keep sitting in a circle pointing fingers at each other, if we don't all own up to this responsibility, who is to blame won't matter, because there will hardly be anyone left to point fingers in a few hundred years.

We either fix this together or we all lose alone (although comforted by the thought that surely someone else was more at fault).
I not sure this is going to resonate much with people about climate change. If you are getting publicity you actually need a message. This will help sell Van Gough prints and super glue, not change the world.