skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other group the article references, the Polar Bear Specialist Group, sadly isn't much better than the GWPF.

Look at their most recent report, they show "Data deficient" for most subpopulations. I think the other comment is likely correct, the population is going up, but for reasons unrelated to the existence of global warming.
https://www.iucn-pbsg.org/

This doesn't fit the environmentalist narrative well, so the most prominent statistics on their homepage aren't directly related to polar bear populations, but things like "The mean rate of decline in summer sea ice area across all subpopulations "
But it's fun! Nothing fun can be good for you!
I recently replaced a bit of code to look up locked files for a file share with SMB cmdlets to do the same.

The performance difference was night and day.

The biggest issue with PowerShell is that PowerShell Core is not yet default on Windows 10/11 and Windows Server.
That should be Microsofts highest priority for PowerShell.
Considering that the US, and the EU, both have top universities in the tech field, and are both attractive places for skilled people to work in, I cannot fathom how availability of expertise would be a problem.
That's a big limb considering TW military is thoroughly infiltrated by PRC spies, or that island is small and heavily monitored, full of expats, especially relocated western media/think tankers previously based in mainland, who can all attest that TW military in both aquisitions and training is still an utter shitshow. Perhaps deliberately so, because TW's best defense is fighting to the last American.

And ultimately TW doesn't have to be invaded successfully, it can be blockaded permenantly (and trivially) to deny both war material from going in or chips from going out.

@hef19898

> potential to start a shooting war

Escalating to shooting war is expected, but the point is a comprehensive blockade by PRC is feasible worst case contingency plan that can be done without any complicated hardware. Glide naval mines and MLRS can be launched from mainland in quantities that US+co simply lack capacity to circumvent to thoroughly lockdown TW ports/coasts and airstrips indefinitely.

@LAC-Tech

>yet don't hear a peep about Chinese military issues on Global Times or XinHua

Listen harder? State media like Xinhua or CCTV7 (military) shows PRC accidents all the time. CCTV7 interviews also frequently shit talks about PRC military deficiencies, but it's dressed up as we've strived hard to improved substandard X to modern standards etc, and we still need to improve on areas we're lacking.
> Dr. John Searle's objection is that software is not a mind, and goes on to explain why with his Chinese Room thought experiment.

I always found that experiment to be extremely unconvincing, to put it mildly. Using that framework I can prove that you are not conscious.

I construct a "english room". You are in the back without any contact to the outside world. A Chinese speaker in the front can pass messages to you from the outside world, in English by laborious copying. Clearly you aren't conscious because the Chinese speaker can't understand the English.

Or, alternatively, no one would dispute a single neuron is not conscious and can't understand english. I pass signals into your neurons and through some electrochemical magic you reply in english, yet the neurons involved don't understand english therefor you aren't conscious.

All Searle has done is picked out one component of a composite system, concluded that in isolation it has no clue whats going on, and from that concluded the system as a whole doesn't.

We have a hard time clearly defining consciousness, and it's not clear if some AGI would be conscious (maybe it's just an emergent phenomena)-- it's also not clear if there would be any particular advantage in it being so. But in any case, I don't think the chinese room is a useful argument for anything.
> sufficient people with sufficient knowledge

Sufficient is an important word, and sufficient expertise is not abundant in the business this thread is referring to. That is why Apple can lock up the most advanced chip supplies, that is why only one business in Taiwan makes it, why only one business in Netherlands can help the one in Taiwan make it, and why only one business in Germany can help the one in Netherlands make it.
Post-Covid, supply chains will be moved back to North America as Governments and companies adapt to the changing geopolitical climate that the demographic collapse will create. I think some of the industrial plant will locate in the US, but a lot of it will locate in Mexico, which has a location advantage, far better demographics than China, and cheap labor compared to both the US and China (Chinese average wages are actually higher than Mexican average wages).

I think TSMC knows that tech is at the top of a pyramid that relies on industrialization and military might to secure it. IMHO we are going into a very unsecure future where we will see an accelerated decline in all the factors that contributed to globalization. In particular, I worry a lot about food security and supply when global markets in fertilizer are disrupted, energy security when global markets in fossil fuels are disrupted, and manufacturing of all goods when commodity markets are disrupted. As much as I want a clean energy and EV revolution in my estimation, it cannot happen without Russian raw materials.

Furthermore, unless there are amazing leaps or breakthroughs in energy generation, energy storage, and food production without fertilizer, the rest of the world—but not the US—will be in for an uncomfortable few decades.

TSMC executives will of course try to influence US politicians, but I think US politicians know that US voters are fatigued with foreign military excursions. US active-duty numbers are already historically low, and I suspect this has to do with difficulty with recruitment. I think it is fair to ask, "Am I defending my country by fighting China in Taiwan?"
The humans have shown up many hundreds of thousands of years before the extinction of the megafauna, so these 2 events did not have the same cause.

While in the first part of the coexistence between hunting humans and big animals the extinction of various species was more gradual, in Africa and Eurasia, in more recent times the big animals have disappeared almost immediately (at geologic time scales) after the arrival of humans, e.g. in Australia, America and various big islands.

During hundreds of millions of years, there have been many extinction events, and the biggest animals have always been the most affected by them.

Nevertheless, soon after some big species became extinct, other previously smaller species have grown in size, to fill their place.

There has never been a time with a so low abundance of big animals as since the humans have spread all over the world, and it is obvious that no other big animals will emerge naturally, as the cultivated lands have left too little space for them.

The only way for some big terrestrial animals to appear again would be through genetic engineering and they could live only in reservations, like in Jurassic Park.
Taiwan is impossible to defend, plain and simple. It's too close to China and too far from the US.
California hired best expertise in the world, the French national rail builder.

They were so appauled at the political disfunction, they quit the project. They started one in morocoo instead - its already operating while the californian one is nor even 50% complete.

Your political disfunction is part of the package. Incompetent management is too. You cant just hire 1 expert software engineer into dysfunctional conoany and expect great results
Interesting article. Classical ideas from physics and dynamical systems have been inspiring a number of successful new models in AI lately. I wonder, what is coming next
Swarming bees may potentially change the weather
That's pretty rude and meaningless. Why not just say "I disagree"?

"Surface level" invites someone dig deeper. It's not a personal comment about a persons latent talent. If you think it's rude to point out a common opinion based on surface level knowledge of a complex situation, that's on you.
Oh, it's still amended, but by judicial decisions from as few as five justices, rather than by supermajorities of Congress and the states.
echo has long been unreliable. Even the built-in echo in the shells were unreliable in SunOS, because the shell would look at the binaries in your PATH and try to figure out whether to emulate the BSD vs SysV (IIRC) version of echo and then change what echo would do. So much for writing a single script (with echo) that would work for all your users on the same host.

This is why you'll see code like this: echo 'prompt: ' | tr -d '\012'

No other simple mechanism was portable at the time. Seriously portability-minded coders still use that line, because although the issue is finally dead in linux+bash (i.e. /bin/echo is enough like bash's builtin) - it's likely still broken in other Unixen out there.
Blockades themselves have the potential to start a shooting war, see the Cuban Missile crisis. A risky proposition either way. I do think so that generally the military might of China and Russia have been over estimated quite a bit so far.
Asking for a friend.
Yep, it's definitely been frustrating in the past. The number of iOS Element bugs was overwhelming at times too. It's a lot more stable now, but the bubble layout still isn't the default - I think that's what most people expect from a personal messenger. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Rust rewrite [1] brings for performance/stability.

FluffyChat also has quite nice UX and a bubble layout by default, but threads are still a while off [2]. On iOS it worked flawlessly through the iOS 16 betas while Element had some show stopping bugs, a couple of my friends moved over if they were on the beta.

I haven't had any friends ask me about the verify session buttons. I don't see any prompts on latest iOS Element but it's still too prominent on Element desktop for my liking.

SchildiChat [3] is my daily driver and feels more friendly than Element on desktop (unified DMs & group chats, no verify UX, chat bubbles), but it doesn't have any update mechanism built in, so I'm wary to recommend it to non-technical friends. It was also my goto recommendation on Android before the Element redesign.

I'm confident the ecosystem is moving in the right direction though, and so thankful for the amount of choice.

[1]: https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios
[2]: https://gitlab.com/famedly/fluffychat/-/issues/881
[3]: https://schildi.chat/
They've got a bigger screened Kindle, and included a pen with it.

They don't need to convince anyone to start taking notes on their Kindles, they just need to get people who want larger screens for reading to get them. Pen is a nice extra. And sure, there's 10% (pulled out of my behind, citation missing) of Scribe buyers who'd get it for note taking.

reMarkable is probably rightfully concerned since Amazon can easily outprice them, which they are already doing.
It depends on what you call 'nerd' I guess. I learned myself how to program at 14. Never got bullied for that, and my friends all thought that was cool.

Did kids get bullied? Sure. But it had more to do with social awkwardness than certain interests or school results.

And for the 'popular kids', I could not define who the popular kids in my school could be. Not all girls would try to hang out with certain guys. Each girl had their own interests and that could differ a lot. A concept like a "prom king or queen" for me is totally out of this world. I cannot imagine that concept in my youth, and could also have no clue who the hell would be nominated for such a thing. In my adult life now? Sure, probably the guy with the successful business driving the sports car. In my youth, no idea, nobody stood out like that.
Eh, I'm pretty good w/ both gdb and pdb (python's debugger) and whenever confronted with an IDE's debugger (or Firefox/Chrome) I instantly feel like I do when confronted with an IDE: I'm at the mercy of whatever UX this thing will grant me. Scripting will be nonexistent/unfamiliar, specific information will be hard to find, etc.

I have a (maybe overbroad) critique of GUI software which is that it mostly brought us pixel-level graphics at the cost of extremely restrictive UX. Or said a different way, GUI apps look better but they're usually harder to get work done in.

Part of that is toolkits, part of that is you're using a mouse which is like driving a space ship with a single finger, part of it is the expanding user base of computing (to people who don't necessarily want to learn say, regular expressions). But like, I script GDB. If your IDE debugger won't easily let me do that (or it will but it's a painfully convoluted UX), it doesn't really matter to me that it (subjectively) looks nicer.
Yeah I hear about Taiwan military mishaps on Taipei Times yet don't hear a peep about Chinese military issues on Global Times or XinHua. Ergo the Chinese military is in much better shape.
Moto -> I see a subscription, I rush to the exit door (c)
I'd generally agree with you on subscriptions but not sure in this case. I think the subscription actually creates an incentive for them to keep the machine updated and working well and its set at a low level. I've seen too much hardware where once they make the profit on the sale they lose interest.
1. Methane disappears very quickly

2. It's very small amounts and it can be captured (and is in some instances)

3. The US reduced emissions while growing energy output thanks to nat. gas displacing coal.

We don't have to take your word for it, we can see that nat. gas energy production is cleaner than coal, because we have actual data from our transition off of coal to nat. gas.

The methane talking point is just that. It's not an actual issue, and you can see it's not from overall numbers.

If you truly cared about emissions you'd want the current best solution that drives it down. That would mean displacing coal at all cost. The current best way to do that is nat. gas and fracking.

Nuclear isn't built up as a baseline, renewables aren't ready for peak loads, and outsourcing it to someone else only shuffles it around. So... natural gas it is...
I'm not sure why you find it funny that the complaints come from copyleft advocates? The entire point of copyleft is that code is shared only the condition that later modifications are also shared back. Copilot strips the license from the code it generates, so this condition isn't imposed on derivative code, which defeats the entire point of copyleft.

If someone was okay with the shared code being used in a different context and changes not being shared back, they'd have used a permissive license. But they did not.

The reason copyleft people are up in arms about this is because it entirely undoes the social and legal contract of copyleft licenses.
It's not about licensing TSMC technology, it's about building and operating factories. IP can be easily copied and pirated, physical factories cannot.
Much more likely plan: sea and air blockade, starve them until they make significant concessions. US will not get involved, not a direct act of war. Wait for a more amenable government to get elected, who may be just willing to discuss some special administrative status (see Musk's proposal).
69% decline in areas other than Europe and USA, EU and USA were already lost in 1970.
It works inside [[ ]], just not in [ ].

=name will expand to the entry in your PATH. e.g. =ls expands to /usr/bin/ls. So == expands to an executable named =, or rather, it tries to as you probably don't have = in your PATH.

[[ ]] disables expansions (e.g. [[ * = * ]] will work too) so it's not an issue there.
Sure, I'm on the VisionFive2 kickstarter, looking forward to it :-)
I need to use nightly because my code makes the stable compiler crash, so...
A lot of people understandably have gripes about the subscription. But it is optional, right?

The old one you could (after some trickery I suppose) ssh tp the device and sync via rsync etc. For me that fits way better into my workflow even if their cloud solution was perfect and free for life.

I will not consider an eink device of this type that I cannot ssh into.
Yes, I wish people understood this better. As someone with quite a few hobbies, the thing you buy me is usually either redundant or not particularly useful.

I really wish the tradition of grown people giving each other gifts would disappear. We don’t need more stuff to clutter our lives and it’s utterly tragic how we destroy our world just to produce stuff that just might make people marginally happier in a few fleeting moments.
China declared that it will use force in Taiwan if "possibilities for a peaceful reunification should be completely exhausted".

From Chinese Anti-Secession Law:

Article 8: In the event that the "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces should act under any name or by any means to cause the fact of Taiwan's secession from China, or that major incidents entailing Taiwan's secession from China should occur, or that possibilities for a peaceful reunification should be completely exhausted, the state shall employ non-peaceful means and other necessary measures to protect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/...
You think that the authorities are creating an internal enemy to sow division. I am saying that the visceral reaction to plague is an instinctive human universal, not something that has to be cultivated.
> Thats another problem we can throw money at until it is resolved.

The Russians also assumed that "throwing money" at problems, like maintaining a huge army, would somehow resolve them without having to actually do the nasty job of, you know, solving problems at their roots.

When push came to shove, it turned out that all the money went to some place nobody knows, but the problem stayed and got even bigger.
No, this is pretty meaningless unless sourcing in function.sh or something. If your script is short lived and doesn't have a work area (read/writing files), don't bother with cd. If it's long lived, the best default would be "cd /" or "cd /tmp" - sadly, since bash seem to mmap the script, this still doesn't free up the filesystem for unmounting. Python is different, and "cd /" is a good default for a long-lived program.
Less of that, TSMC fears that every great power wants their own Fabs (CN,US,EU) and TSMC as the de-facto monopoly of latest node will wane.
Reminder that before Covid I believe, even Intel starts outsourcing to TSMC.
Bad article.

Tl;dr

Doom is implied. Never spoken of. Generic story refactored you’ve read a million times about Morris founding TSMC. Geopolitics implied. TSMC says it’s doomed, while it helps the US make plants.

I am not worried about China invading. It’ll be over for them. Even if they take over Taiwan with no casualties on either side and everyone wanting to make chips as usual, they still fail without Dutch lithography which is like TSMC for another required process. https://thediplomat.com/2022/08/lithography-the-achilles-hee...
They don’t have the high quality silicon required either, that comes from the US.
Rust – difficult to learn, but most exciting thing in a long time (2018)
I find handwriting a lot better than keyboards. The physical act of writing helps me remember stuff better than typing it, so it's especially useful during notetaking sessions. I also like reading pdfs on my Quaderno (another eink reader, A4 size so bigger than a remarkable), and it also allows me to easily annotate them as well. It's much better than an ereader for pdf due to size, and much less harsh on the eyes than, say, an iPad. And everything can be transferred via usb with their app.

But, I just disagree with the first premise and that's why I find mine useful, though still not as useful as actual paper which is easier to flip through, etc.
What about Plausible?
Developers should watch customer care calls via Gong, but not do the actual calls.

Could you imagine if we said that customer support and success should do development?
I'd like to know that myself. He pretty much stopped posting everywhere after getting tossed out of the OSI. I won't delve into speculation, but I do suspect money was a factor given his prior requests for financial aid.
> But an object dragged across a real surface

There are many different kinds of real surfaces.

A dead moose also has more give than a sofa.
By order of impact, not chronological introduction:

0) Macro programming: I learned TCL as a kid, so that made the impact stronger; writing programs that write programs is insanely powerful. Learning macro programming via TCL incidentally let me skip learning FP at the same time, which I would've with a Lisp.

1) Functional programming: correctness and beauty. Standard ML, Haskell.

2) Erlang: extreme concurrency via message passing. Erlang is functional, too.

3) C: manual memory management: Understanding how programs allocate memory.

After that it gets more obscure. (Prolog, linear type systems, hardware DSLs, etc.)

I feel like TCL made me numb to the Lisp bug. I might go into Clojure at some point.

(Also, OOP can go suck a thumb.)
We do this too, but based on 802.1x certificates. Devices without this don't get access to the internet and are relegated to a closed VLAN.

But IME is not needed for this. The certs are issued through windows / mac management systems e.g. SCCM/Intune. They are also dependent on the current security state of the machine (e.g. no EDR installed -> only access to remediation network). Is IME really used in your case?
Certainly not because of maintenance costs since he's still running PHP 5.5
So what? China will have its own ASML-like machines in a few years. Kiss Taiwan goodbye that day. Truth is China is the new owner of the world. Outsourcing manufacturing, electronics, etc made us too dependent on China and now we are screwed.
There's Spritely Goblins, which takes a lot of inspiration from E. It's a library so it may feel bolted on to you, but in true lisp fashion it feels like it's part of the language when you're using it: https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/
I'm absolutely loving ServeBolt for high traffic client sites.

For small client and friend sites, I'm using SpinupWP with Digital Ocean.
It's clear that you care about the environment so I'm just going to say that, based on my firsthand experience as a roughneck who did fracking jobs, that it's probably the most greenwashed industry in the world and even if your opinion of it is based on direct reading of official hard numbers, those numbers are gamed at every handoff between field and office. Probably at every handoff between office and press release as well, though I was never in that loop.
I've now made it clearer why /\S/g is different from /.*/

Try on the match start screen to see the different visual feedback between the two.
Some games could become immortal just like chess or go or poker are today, if only they were open sourced...

This concept of continued developement is incredibly intriguing to me
It’s fine if you use ethical registrars like hover or namecheap.
My theory is that this same Windows experience is also how so many joined the command-with-filename-extension cargo cult. But unix and windows work differently, and the approach does NOT port.
unless there's a fundamental difference in labor costs for US vs foreign fabs (i.e. the general reason manufacturing has left the US), I don't see why its "doomed to fail".

What's the fundamental difference between building a fab in Taiwan, US, Europe, Israel or wherever else besides for the ongoing labor cost?
The climate wasn’t stable to begin with.
On the other hand xgboost tends to overfit on small dataset so tabpfn is a great complement
Trying to play it on mobile! Okay that's something I hadn't expected.
Stone Ridge Launches Wolf, a Bitcoin Lightning Network Accelerator
The last thing I need is such a stream of information in my new tab page. I would never get anything done. Thank the Lord for about:blank
Okay, I'd like to buy some expertise in building anti-gravity devices.