skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NO

Our ability to change the earth grows every year

Technologically, we get closer to the ability to fix it.

BUT the fact that this kind of collapse keeps re-occurring means that humans are turning out to be collectively too stupid to actually fix such things until after a disaster happens.

The Tragedy Of The Commons has been known about for centuries. Yet it keeps happening again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, [ . . . ] etc., including in this very instance.

All humans need to do is adjust to the reality. Yet the fact that some of the adjustments will mean that some of the people will need to change how they make a living, causes too many humans to argue vociferously that the change will be delayed. Humans even start wars over this kind of stupidity. And then, THE EARTH SYSTEM COLLAPSES, and forces everyone to make the change.

The only question now is how big a disaster will happen and how recoverable it is. If we are lucky, the disaster will be just in the sweet spot of [bad enough to force the stupid mass of humanity to change it's ways], but not quite [bad enough that it cannot be recovered once those ways are changed].
Every few years, my wife asks me "What do you need to learn for the next five years of your career?"

I think that question is enough. I don't know enough to plan ten years out; technology moves kind of fast. But five years out I can often see the rough shape of what's coming.

The trick is remembering to ask the question every few years...
It's somewhat interesting although not surprising that iCloud is there in WebKit quirks even if both WebKit and iCloud are developed by Apple.
Well, I don't like any seafood, so, on the one hand this does not affect me at all. On the other hand... this is just one more piece of data to add to the ever growing pile of how badly we are ruining the planet for any life above the level of single cell organisms. We are screwed.
Are you planning to live in England by any chance?:)
Did anyone else read this is 18 crabs and wonder what the heck was going on?
What had me worried is that the 4080 12GB has a 192 bit wide memory interface, same width as the RTX 3060 and less than the RTX 3060 Ti.

Sure they worked on the caches to improve performance, but I always worries that some games will do poorly with the caches and have terrible performance. After all it's the lowest frame rates that are most noticeable, not the max or average.

Charging $900 for a RTX 3060 memory width is insane.
One of Detroit's many problems is that property taxes were not reduced after values declined greatly during the 2008-2009 real estate crash. As a result people are struggling under the burden and losing their homes for inability to pay their property taxes.

Savvy real estate speculators are scooping up the homes and then hiring lawyers for the appeal process. The former home owners often rent their homes and the speculator gets property taxes reduced up to two thirds in some cases. In some cases employees at the county are both leading the process as well as buying up the homes. People have been wringing their hands over this problem for over a decade.

I am so proud of my friends at ReGrid for making this tool available. It may not replace having a lawyer but it gives the city's poor a fighting chance at getting their taxes reduced and being able to keep their homes. This shows the power of software to accomplish societal good.
I would argue that Hanoi is more touristy than Ho Chi Minh so this comparison just tells me the author doesn’t know what he is talking about
According to clearsprings

>Farmed seafood, in general, is a sustainable option, requiring far less feed per pound compared to other farmed sources of protein like beef, pork, and chicken.

That is one advantage if true but that just means more sustainable than beef, pork, and chicken.

Is there a condition that would prevent their farming? Like the accessibility of the feed?
The insanity of the Steve Hoffman “Forum” (2009)
And people that think Christians are lying hypocrites are anti-Christian. I'm not sure why people want the word antisemitism to have special treatment vs disdain for any other religion.
It's a parody cover. That twitter account is hilarious: https://twitter.com/paprbckparadise/status/12512693961120931...
"plus energy storage"

Grid scale energy storage doesn't exist.
tragedy of the commons in action
This is wild to see. Especially after one of the best salmon seasons this summer in AK. Prices being high helped, but the salmon population was excellent.

Source: Family commercial fishes in AK
Can someone ELI5 what are implications of this? AFAIK GRBs are threatening if directed at Earth. And now they are detecting it?
You're right. My specific example may not be the best, but you catch my point.
You can only talk for so long: on Rose Dugdale
Earth isn't in trouble, but we are. Earth will continue on and we'll end up as a minor footnote in the history of the planet.
It remains to be seen how the new Bluetooth stack introduced in Android 11 will get exploits.

The old one has plenty of them to show off due to typical memory corruptions handling network packets.
My wife and kids having to put up with me bringing misery home from work can be real suffering, too. And the longer you live with it, the harder it is to not bring it home.
mvSQLite looks great, though I’m curious how you’d implement a schema migration given the locking properties of SQLite combined with the transaction limits of fdb.

I imagine you’d get an FDB transaction time limit error preventing any schema migrations with non trivial amounts of data.
>With your approach we might as well just act as if nothing is happening and be happy.

That's what we're already doing, only we're not happy and the panic is making us collectively fight and make worse decisions. Calm people make better decisions than panicked people staring in the face of existential evaporation.
Permitting is a huge problem for everything, including solar and wind. The transmission lines cross a bunch of jurisdictions and get NIMBY-ed to death. The generating facilities themselves also take a long time to get through the NIMBY process.
No, it's not that simple. The snow crab fishery is pretty highly regulated and considered to be sustainably harvested (by NOAA, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, others). As mentioned in an another article [1] from August on the recent disappearance, there were large numbers of juveniles in 2018 and 2019. Something else is going on. Overfishing certainly may play a role, but something else is likely the primary factor.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/21/alaska-cr...
Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?
Hack.css, new.css, Water.css, sakura themes for my static site generator (mkws)
You are ascribing an extreme personality to these people while criticizing the other extreme and I'm saying that the most reasonable thing is somewhere in the middle; just help the man with what he intends to do.
Neatly Flowing River
One Win32 emulator I don't see get much mention is HXDOS. It can run the Win32 Console version of 7-zip on a 486 with MS DOS 5.
Until few years ago I was a hard-code unixer, witch means zsh+Vim, even if on X11, on modern terminal emulators like Terminator, Tilix etc. Then I've decided to seriously do a thing I've only superficially and never really studied before, after seeing it in action: try Emacs seriously.

In a little time EXWM have replaced my WM, Emacs have integrated a big slice of my previously favorite tools. It's not perfect, it have bugs/flaws, but is so much powerful than the Unix model and the modern GUI model(s) that outshine anything else. I still use zsh, eshell it's a bit too limited/alien to me so far, unix tools lacking a LispM underneath are still serving me under the wood but that's is.

Said that, as you rightly state the actual IT model, VERY unfortunately for the humanity at a whole and no, I'm really serious, have shifted long ago to classic desktop model toward a modern limited and limiting model and now even worse to the old mainframe+dumb terminals model, where the mainframe is external, someone else computer, the cloud and dumb terminals are now "endpoint", utterly complicated pile of crap to boot up a WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons. In the actual state of things choice is limited: some "services" can be integrated more or less easily, more or less stably/reliably, others can not.

That's why I've first shared my person journey toward Emacs: even if sit on top of Unix, like a bootloader, not much differently than the aforementioned WebVMs it can wrap Unix and integrate X11/WebVMs (cr)apps a little bit. Doing so does not totally solve your issues, BUT solve partially many of them and gives you something FAR more powerful/evolved than Unix. You can't do much more than that.

To use a truce metaphor: we live in a dramatically lost war, chances to win before dying are utopia at best, but at least we can live the unique life we got a bit armed instead of being totally at the mercy of every enemy. Your car if not today, tomorrow will demand you a login on a smartphone to a cloud service just to open the door, so your WC to lift the cover, your country will demand a smartphone just to pay taxes in an integrated cloud-mobile platform no one really know who really control at a certain "zoom" level, no one can really do anything outside it but you can so far still have a small personal garden that ease your life a bit at least giving a comfortable environment with your data locally available so much powerful that can help cope with the outside world crap.

BTW Slack, a CRAPPY service no damn company should be so crazy to choose it, is supported by some Emacs packages see for instance https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Slack as usual it's not a full and bug free support, but you can use it, like you can use Jira etc.
We used to have a Scotsman as a site manager. Every single day when we were wrapping for a day, he used to say: well, fuck off now! Nice bloke.
Why real estate become even more expensive?
and we thought spam calls were bad, now instead of extended warrantys and political surveys, my dog is going to be calling and texting me every 10 minutes asking for treats and belly rubs
How to Build a Mad Libs Game Using Python
Actually, your synopsis isn't far off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Arnade Before he did it to the rest of the world, he did it to others in the United States.

FWIW, it looks like he's watching: https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1580993239670136832 So maybe he'll take your criticism.
Thanks. At first glance it looks very different from what I am doing, but nonetheless very interesting.
It's already full of plastic and mercury, so still might not be a great idea
The Seattle Times joined followed a carb boat in April of 2022.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/into-t...

The captain's take on the issue includes climate change, over crabbing areas known to be struggling and trawling. The article also includes an explanation as to how cod could be responsible due to climate change offering less ice protection for the crab.
I'm kind of in the same boat. Just yesterday I was calculating how much less money I might take if I would be allowed to just code.
Hey buddy, first off, know that you're not alone and we've all been there at some point. You're going to get through this one way or another!

Two key little insights that have helped me through many a tough time in life and my career have nothing to do with technology but have made all the difference time and again. A few short stories...

When I was 16 I had a part time after school job at a local TV station that did live broadcasts. At one point I had a huge amount of pressure placed on my (very capable) shoulders - problem is, I didn't recognize the "very capable" part. Somebody pulled me aside one day, an older, wiser fella, and told me to stick to two rules:

1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. EVERYTHING is small stuff.

---

All my life everybody always told me I wasn't confident enough. "You just need to be more confident!" they'd say. But what the hell does that mean? What IS confidence, anyway? Is it the way you act? The way you walk, talk, dress? Your tone of voice? You can't fake it of course, so what does it MEAN to "be confident"? How do you just...BE that? It's not a damn light switch, and yet nobody could really explain that to me.

After decades of banging my head against the wall in futility, somewhere along the way (I can't remember where) I heard or read...something...that finally summed it up: confidence means TRUSTING YOURSELF. Trusting not only in your intent, your "goodness" as a person, but in your COMPETENCE, your ABILITY TO ADAPT AND OVERCOME. That you can think on your feet, that no matter what comes your way, that you'll survive, you'll adapt, you'll come out on top, that above all, YOU GOT THIS.

---

Come Monday, I guarantee you something unexpected is going to happen. An error is going to pop up, authentication is going to get denied, the proverbial shit will hit the fan.

Plan for that. Expect that.

Then realize: this is not the first time you've faced adversity, and you've won before. You can do it on Monday, too.

Follow rules one and two above, because believe me, YOU'VE GOT THIS if you just TRUST IN YOUR ABILITY TO ADAPT AND OVERCOME. If you do that, it really WILL be small stuff, because you can handle it and a hell of a lot more! Be smart - have a list of contacts at Epicor and internally handy for escalating issues ahead of time, have some links to kb documents available, manuals, etc., maybe some tools/downloads on a USB stick or something - be prepared, not arrogant of course - but stay focused on solving the problem. Any time you're feeling fear, redirect your mind to finding another solution for the problems you might face - find another potential problem and a prepare another solution for it ahead of time (to the extent you can).

Above all, BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

You got this!
Nvidia tells near nothing to AIBs (even pricing!) until public release.
I wonder if this also applies if you use their in house app "intra" which is made for journalists and whistleblowers (part of the Google Jigsaw project) to avoid getting exposed?
I got my first job stacking grocery shelves while in college in 2005, and it paid $8/hr. My rent was $350/mo and college tuition was ~$3000 per semester (and this was at a top ranked public university). A Chipotle burrito (with guac) cost $5.50. Working part time 20 hours/week during the semester and extra over the summer would cover all of my living expenses and most of tuition, and my family chipped in for the rest.

Today that job pays $10/hr. Rent in a similar building is $1000-1200 and tuition is $11,000 per semester. That burrito is $15.

No shit Gen Z is unhappy.
My Initial Thoughts About Paganism
"Base load is a myth"

This is a lie repeated by anti-nuclear types. Base load is simply the year round constant electricity demand.

How are we actually going to build hundreds of billions of dollars worth of batteries? How are we going to dispose of them?
Many fish were much larger in the not so distant past. Marlin in Caribbean used to be huge compared to todays catch. Pictures from the 1950's and earlier, you see some just massive Marlin. They're big today but nothing like how they used to be. But we have a whole lot more people on the Earth today.
Of late I have been seeing people going viral for posting some incredible career trajectories. Usually involving someone in another career who made the switch to tech by doing a bootcamp, and within a year they were in FAANG. Now that I think about it, they were all people who fit into diversity quotas and were probably diversity hires
For Slack in particular, the deal is that new signins return a token that starts with "xoxc", not a token that starts with "xoxs", and that token requires corresponding cookies in order to be accepted. If you're grabbing a token out of the browser, you will also need to get cookies for slack.com and pass them in the client. Last I checked, you only strictly needed the cookie called "d", but you may as well grab all of them.

A bunch of folks who have been using Slack for a long time have saved their xoxs cookie from a couple of years ago and not invalidated their old sessions, and they'll tell you the various clients still work. For a new user who is getting an xoxc token, your client needs a way to pass cookies along with your token. Many of the terminal clients I've seen don't obviously give you a way to pass the cookie.

My company uses the enterprisiest Slack offering (Enterprise Grid, compliance archiving, proxy restrictions, the works) hooked up to Azure AD as the identity provider and previously to Okta via ADFS, and I have working programmatic auth to Slack (leveraging local Kerberos tickets from Windows AD signon). Give me some details on what your auth setup looks like and I can probably help you with it. (I can try to open-source my internal client if it helps, but it's specific in some ways to our setup so it might be easier to just talk you through it.)
Rust isn't the only game in town moving into safer lands.

> Swift adoption continues its exponential climb and surpassed C++ this year.

From https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...

> I propose that we start requiring an existing Swift compiler to build the Swift compiler. This opens the door to non-optional (mandatory) parts of the compiler to be implemented in Swift.

From https://forums.swift.org/t/implementing-parts-of-the-swift-c...
If humans don't buy them they have no value and may as well be extinct anyways.
Being a refugee is traumatic on its own. But Germany has a lot of lessons (including what not to do) that it could be providing for good.
>you should also watch "Yes Minister" i find it a bit more charming if a little dated, but also quite real.

It has aged well and is arguably more relevant than it was when they released it.
LEOlabs operates and pays for their own radars. They're a commercial company.
This seems like censorship of history disguised as entertainment and collective action.
“So long, and thanks for all the detritus”
people who refuse to understand how the greenhouse effect works despite encountering it on a regular basis

Astounding.
Przybylski’s Star I: What’s that? (2017)
This is a GREAT resource, thanks for posting.

I feel the advent of GPT-3 / Codex and the power that comes with it has been surprisingly underestimated - maybe because the folks who would benefit most from it (people who don't write code, like myself) haven't really caught up with it, while the ones using it (mostly people who do write code) maybe don't see the immediate benefits as much (and maybe are a little bit concerned about what this will mean to their economic position in all this...?)

I've played around a ton with simple GPT-3 code over the last few weeks and am in total awe of the possibilities this opens up to folks like me (who don't write code)

E.g. I had GPT-3 write me app script integrations of itself (!) and stablediffusino into a Google Sheet, allowing me to build a massive sandbox playground for various prototyping experiments.

Here's a thread on that process if you're curious: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1577416649514295297
I love that entire story
Does anyone know what the altitude scaling is on this?
I think that grants them too much agency.
By the way, this is as old as web. It's ironic to re-read https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-s-site-patching/ published in 2009, which uses 2022(!) as a stand-in year for far future when hopefully none of this will be required.
Sorry?

CLI respect of Emacs yes, is limited and limiting, but modern GUIs are FAR more limited and limiting. Can you integrate them? No. Let's say you want in a single view a set of mails, financial transactions, notes etc. You can arrange something in a CLI, you can do it in org-mode, you can't do it in the most advanced ERP monster.

Modern UIs try to go back to the original document UI concept but TOTALLY fails for the interactive part, they are mere view where you can touch some knobs someone else placed there for you, nothing more, and try to bend them is a nightmare.
Yeah, same. Likely UNIX utilities, Linux software or howtos (Red Hat, Debian), maybe usenet. Maybe an FTP repository?
What's the definition of grid scale energy storage in that statement?
That's weird, because according to the US govt's inflation numbers, until recently, inflations has been relatively benign.

You don't think they would just lie about that, do you?
I’m trying to stop him from wasting his time. If he wants to make a repository to help the world at large, that is a fantastic idea because there is someone who will read it. But if he wants to do this specifically with regards to passing on information to his juniors, he should just actually train/teach them. If they are receptive to the info they will ask questions. If they aren’t, no amount of cataloguing will change that. That was my whole point. The dude is clearly looking for a project and is barking up a tree that is gonna make him feel useless.
> so it's not any better than rented bare-metal in terms of maintenance overhead

In my experience the maintenance overhead of the cloud is much lower. My dayjob (B2B SaaS) spent about 75% of the infrastructure team’s time on things like patching switch firmware, balancing UPS loads, diagnosing flaky switch ports or transceivers, managing logging growth, etc. None of that made our products better from a customer perspective.

Since our cloud move those same infra staff support many more services and apps with much faster turnaround for product teams. And we traded upcoming multi-million capex investments in servers/switches/appliances into a monthly cloud bill that scales much more closely with revenue.

The public cloud is for businesses constrained by people; we simply could not afford to hire enough people to do the same stuff on-prem or in colo.
A Firsthand Account of Killing Osama Bin Laden [video]
Energy density is important for transport, I don't see how current limitations in that can be important for base-load.

Cost, sure, but LiIon is already on par with nuclear in that regard despite not being the cheapest storage.
The Curse of the Blue Diamond
There's also the MX150 case more recently.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-has-been-sneaking-in-sl...
I don't like how they keep blaming climate change, even though that doesn't seem to be what happened here. We just had one of the best seasons for crab fishing; does CBS expect us to think climate change in the last year ruined this season? Much more likely is disease, some new techniques in crab fishing that over harvested the sea, or random deviation.
Fantastic site!
The national debt has gone up like 20 trillion in my life. Just ten percent of that could build 133 ap1000 reactors. probably more if some parts were mass produced and the talented welders got experience on multiple projects.
What do you mean? Keeping it on the kernel but written in Rust is certainly safer than keeping it on the kernel and written in C. In particular, Rust tends to catch bugs like exactly this one being exploited here (although the kernel developers may decide to turn this check off).

But, anyway, up to now there has been no project for rewriting the network stack. So you are arguing against a strawmen, and interestingly, losing.
Fair enough, though I think it's pretty fair to assume that the truth is either the same or worse than the marketing material!
This is really well done, I will try it out tonight!