skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transparency is the solution to that. For some reason, you also left out one of the largest government contracting sectors in the USA, i.e. military and intelligence procurement and contracting - where the waste is more extreme, as it can be hidden behind classification on 'national security grounds'.
>I'd rather there be room for people over-reacting than risk there not being room for polite suggestion

That's the thing. Usually the snark isn't followed by suggestion or anything useful at all

People being mean often do it for its own sake
> No way I would tell my kids to take up with some a-hole online

That was my first instinct as well. But thinking about it, the second interaction seems to have solidified to him that the person didn't have any actual argument against his participation, that it was just an asshat being unpleasant.
You may find this blog helpful, she's been generally ahead of the curve on where coronavirus is going.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Look up the b/s format for specifying rules. It is a lot more flexible.

Here's my version : https://github.com/chewxy/ll/blob/main/main.go#L176

I also live coded this in a series of 3 videos:

1. https://youtu.be/5JArQO8YeRo
2. https://youtu.be/ZLUVAWb_31M
3. https://youtu.be/BIypQF7M9c8

My approach differs from yours in that mine is entirely matrix driven.
> And my code is so bad it makes people’s eyes bleed. So of course I start sobbing. Then I see these people’s follower count, and I sob harder.

Ah hell, get a grip on reality. There isn't a single programmer I know that when told "your code sucks" wouldn't almost immediately reply "I know, right?". The fact is that the world is fundamentally built on eye-bleeding terrible pieces of critical shitware.

Besides that, it's a field so arbitrary and opinionated that anyone can immediately find 10 things wrong even with the best code ever written. Welcome to the club, don't forget to grab your complimentary thick skin at the receptionist.
Void Linux is probably as close as you'll get to that. OpenZFS is supported across every packaged kernel, and it has native packages for ZFSBootMenu. You can't just click-through to a root-on-ZFS setup like you can with FreeBSD - but Voids' installer is rarely used to begin with. Boot environments aren't as deeply integrated into Void as they are into FreeBSD. That's more a lack of desire/will than a technical matter.

Edit: I forgot about Project Trident. They migrated away from FreeBSD to Void Linux with ZFSBootMenu. They did actually support root-on-ZFS through their installer. They gave up after about 18 months, they weren't able to differentiate enough after they stopped being based on FreeBSD.
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I rode original 2T internal combustion scooters half of my life, all the way from '72 Vespa and up to ~20hp tuned Italjets. And the other half I rode motorcycles.

The saying goes - you ride for a season, you fall at least once, no exceptions.

I can't understand people whooshing about at 15, well, 10 mph without any sort of protective gear on 4-inch wheels. This is dangerous as hell, it's basically guaranteed hospitalization if you hit so much as a pile of pigeon shit, not to mention a pothole.
For something very simple, this is a cool idea. Two observations related to install.sh: i) /usr/local/bin/ rather /usr/bin/ is where manually--not handled by package manager--installed software is usually put, ii) chmod & cp are replaceable by a single install command.

edit: And errriclee's gist seems very useful. For example can go around picking some files wanting to replace a string and then can do `run sed -i 's/old/new/' {}`.
Scroll down a bit and you get white text on a bright yellow background.

Seems to be the modern take on animated rainbow-color backgrounds from the geocities days...
Well back in my day they called that a blitter and used it to draw pictures, see...
How many RFI's were derailed by some regional President at a supplier ringing my CIO or CEO and explaining that I was "a problem" and had "an attitude"

I had issues with this too. The only solution is to prep your CIO whenever you play hardball, and return the favor to the vendor.
But I only enjoy 20% of the work...so there must be a way to make that the only part I have to do and still get a promotion!
get ready for "I drain my blood and replace it with synthetic every morning to increase coding efficiency" hn posts in a year or two ...
The real way to experience stick is driving cross country in a three speed VW micro bus with a really loose gearbox.
You’re definitely right. It’s only happened a few times for me and it can be a bit disheartening because you’ll definitely hear from the people who think you’re their enterprise support team or feel that clear gap on the project were suggestions for large amounts of work.
the majority of it being discus/twitter/etc. Is that his fault? At least he didn't reinvent a forum, so in that sense it is minimal.
Scientists have created an new material that can’t be explained
> Coal is also quite polluting and no one wants to live near a coal energy plant.

With modern filters and high enough smokestacks, the effect on air quality doesn't seem to be that bad. In my region, every city has its own coal plant (mostly used to provide heat for the city in the winter) and I don't notice the effects on air quality. It's definitely a small fraction of the pollution brought by people burning coal at home (in old boilers, obviously without any filters and with low chimneys).
It's far easier to achieve consistent results, for sure. We have a small one and it's the best rice we can make at home without significant effort.
It's not about the death it's about the slavery.

Yoking a human brain to perform tasks that only a human can get right, but not having to pay them, a basically get to use them like software.

About the only thing keeping this from becoming a reality is it probably costs more in labor to maintain the bodies than to just have desperate people perform the same tasks for extremely low pay.

Then again, Palmmer's current company builds automated weapons. Imagine a missile guided by an on-board human. Not remote, on-board. The Japanese did manage to employ Kamikaze's but generally it would be pretty hard to source a supply of willing and trained volunteers for that. But you could stick someone in this, run them through training games more or less perpetually, until one day it's not a game and the victim simply does their usual job unaware they are a human bullet this time.

Still probably impractical because of the life support, but maybe not. You don't need any more life support than an ordinary jet fighter for a short one-way trip, and what was impractical yesterday is no longer impractical tomorrow.

It should be thought about, because it can actually be done roght now, which means someone somewhere will do it, or already has.
> Fortran coarrays are a relatively simple mechanism to distribute work across CPUs, pin work to selected CPUs, and synchronize the computation across CPUs. Potentially thousands of them.

Add MPI to the mix, and you can distribute that work to multiple machines. Potentially to thousands of them.

MPI over InfiniBand also can do some computations on the fly (in the HBAs and switches), so it makes it even fasterer (sic).

> This makes Fortran a one trick pony. It does parallel multi-dimensional data very well, but that’s really where it ends.

That one weird trick is a very strategic and cross-cutting one so almost every scientist can benefit from using FORTRAN. So, having one trick is not a bad thing here.
Ask HN: EReader for walking outdoors with DRM-free technical ebooks?
I've been buying DRM-free dense technical ebooks (EPUB and PDF formats), and would like to read them while walking. I'm not up-to-date on the latest options, since I normally prefer reading from my laptop, so asking HN.

I'm thinking supports easily copying my EPUB and PDF files to it (and without treating them as second-class citizens), lightweight for carrying for miles, non-glare screen, e-ink, optionally some kind of lighting when starting to get dark, non-invasive (e.g., no phoning home to report on my reading, no advertising and dark patterns pushing me to a store), not so expensive I feel too bad if I drop it or it gets lost/stolen.

If it runs open source, that'd be ideal, but I don't want to make a hobby project of this. I want it to arrive at my doorstep, copy some books onto it in 5 minutes, and go for a walk and start reading.

OK if it's an older model that's still available on eBay.
I actually think that Putin's war in Ukraine is just a scapegoat. Price increases started mid year 2021. War certainly didn't help though.

Have to admit that I am even more confused now after your answer. It's another one of those that I consider too broad and philosophical for me to understand. I absolutely agree that we need to find a solution and optimise for more efficient use of finite resources. We had warm water from solar cells in 1980's and I am pro nuclear energy and optimistic about the future.

I think I grasp the fundamentals but I still can't visualise what will actually happen if we continue as is. That's the path I am searching. Some missing piece of information that will make my brain 'click'. Maybe I already know but just can't accept it yet.
AI art is completely ripping off actual artists to build their learning datasets. They're datasets are full of copyrighted work but until now no one cares much about visual artists. Take a look at the statements for AI music generation and you'll see they're very careful to state they use non-copyrighted, royalty free source tracks. No such thing for artists

Beware the industry pushing AI art forwards, it's not at all an industry built for artists. You'll see "it's a tool for artists" or "it'll happen regardless" or "it won't get that good" or "it's useful for generating references/ideas," etc. Tell me what's the business model here?

They create non-profits to source the datasets to then pass to their for-profit parent company. I hope the class actions come quickly enough.
Cripes! That is even better.
I wouldn't consider Lisp, Algol-60 and PL/I dialects minor languages.
Show HN: AI Editor - Outpainting and image editing using Stable Diffusion
The problem is that there's several layers of encoding and encapsulation, each with their own type of error correction and bits of extra information, and the system was designed to hide all the layers from the end user; in its normal mode of operation, the final output of the CD drive is audio (digital or analogue), not the contents of an “audio file” or anything like that. There's also the fact that audio CD drives aren't designed for truly random access (jumping to different tracks is approximate IIRC). So it's a problem to dump because there's many options for which layer to dump, and it depends on the drive which layer you can get to, and whether you can get it without error correction already applied.

For data discs (or more accurately, the data portion of a disc, because some discs have other types of content on them too), the drive essentially functions as a standard random-access block device, just like a hard drive or floppy disk. The error correction etc is still hidden from you, but as long as your entire disc is just data, there's an easy, obvious thing to dump: the bytes of that block device.
Let's say the USA builds out rail infrastructure at the same scale as found in Europe, Japan, and China.

What's that going to do to domestic fossil fuel sales? How about domestic vehicle sales? Airplane traffic and airplane fuel sales?

It's very notable that the countries with the most sophisticated train networks - Japan, China, Europe - are also importers of fossil fuels. Since the USA is an exporter of fossil fuels, a collapse in domestic demand due to an efficient nationwide train system is not something the ruling oligarchs are interested in financing, it's as simple as that.
People seem to expect the free market to adapt immediately, for consumers immediate benefit. The market will regulate itself, but it may not happen in timeframes that people are comfortable with.
Volcano seeds? sounds like an ACME product.
> If you don't spend it, it's not a currency

> You didn't, others did though, therefore it's a currency

From the first statement you can only conclude that if it’s a currency, then you spend it (by modus tollens). You can’t conclude that if you spend it, then it is a currency.
While I agree with your comments with regard to the forums that exist for this purpose, this does not appear to have been one of them.

It is not clear to me why your concerns for the three people who were called out here should not also apply, and with more justification, to the person they ridiculed in the first place.

If calling them out gave encouragement to other people who have been discouraged by similar responses, it did some objective good. I prefer happy endings across the board.
My favourite solution to this is to use some of the pyrolysis products as fuel - if you burn and release 20% of the carbon captured by the plants to power the process of burying the remaining 80% the process is still carbon negative overall, and you have a nice to use hydrocarbon fuel that can more-or-less slot into existing machinery.

The biggest problem is the scale of it - to make a significant dent in global co2 you need to be pyrolysing a lot of wood - getting towards entire-earth scale managed forests.
Oh, there was no shortage of troll those days…
A breakthrough method to generate hydrogen gas in a one-step process
If you run your own server, aren't you risking being banned from some instances if you don't ban instances they don't like? So there is no real upside compared to joining existing instances (other than having a better identity).
I was thinking the same, probably much more than the CO2 saved with the whole passive cooking thing...

Not to mention some fine marketing bs like how it runs on 2 "environmentally friendly AAA batteries"!
We won't know the results of this experiment for at least 10 years, though.
The reasonable price comes from not paying any artists to source the learning datasets. Shady use of 'non-profits' to do that but and hope to avoid legal trouble.
This is partly because massive energy storage (on the order of weeks) isn't really needed until you hit around 75% intermittent renewables (wind and solar), which is not yet the case anywhere in the world.

But the technology does exist, and it's gonna be deployed eventually.
He probably picked the biggest instances and mastodon is huge in the japanese loli community.
Thing is, it just works.
Facetime just works, iMessage just works.
That means that you can let non tech people easily audio/video call, group chats, share photos, albums and what not with good quality.

Android isn't bad, it is just that the ecosystem around iOS is that good.
Physics. If you do any computational physics, sooner or later you’ll have to read and write Fortran.
I think PL/I has more of a claim to have been used for writing operating systems before C than Lisp.
When I saw the subscription, what I thought was that some portion of that fee was going to the verification process (because it takes resources to verify whether a person is actually who they say they are).

I see now that it’s only become a verification of the fact that you’ve paid.
There already is an electric Cub called EV Cub.

This however has pedals which is all about classifying as a moped.
Thanks for your response friend :)

I'll consider what you've said, there is a lot to digest.
Several Republican friends are dead now due to Covid because they believed the anti-truth ideas being spread by GOP media about the vaccines. Darwin awards are indeed one of the ultimate fact checkers.
Hah, well, I do gripe quite a lot. But I try not to be too negative and be very mindful about that. Because, you know, being a CTO and a negative example and all that. First person shooters help tremendously as well, after work.
"caught up to modernity" = history has some predetermined direction AND the writer knows what that direction is (AND because of this the writer is good, while people who hold opposite views and/or values are bad)

Am I mistaken somehow ?

And notably, this was a fairly common view during the height of the modern age (19th century), so much that its incompatibility with societal liberalism was widely ignored, probably because it allowed for paternalistic colonialism, which made the people practicing it very rich...
It is the poorest who will suffer the most from the unmitigated effects of climate change. It is also the poorest who cannot afford to pay for adequate heating at current prices. If we take the route of "Save the future poor by letting the living poor suffer" we will always be able to justify policies which unfairly impact the poorest in society.
> So you're arguing that lots of people use Mastodon?

It has 1 million active users so... yeah, lots of people use Mastodon.
No-one is talking about multiple round trips to the asteroid. Moving the whole asteroid at once to a more mine-able location (the bottom of a gravity well, where people can actually use the material) is what I expect to be easier near term. Mass-driving from the asteroid to a target location is interesting too, but seems even more sci-fi. Frankly I don't expect to see either happen in my lifetime.
Different methods of brewing give you different results. If you like (or just want) a stronger flavour, use a pressurised method (espresso, moka pot, etc.), more flavour but the caffeine content is going to be lower than a longer brewing method.

I drink coffee in different ways in different days. If I want a large amount in the morning I go for a drip coffee or french press, the taste is smoother and caffeine content higher. If I want to taste the fullness of the beans I use a moka at home.

I don't see other methods of brewing as objectively better or worse, it depends on the result you expect or want, some days I want an espresso in the morning, some days I want a lot more caffeine, etc.

Also, I just drink coffee, I don't make drinks or turned coffee into a hobby.
IQ is about passing IQ tests.
I don't want to be too confrontational / personal but your comment contains hubris at levels I've rarely seen & it's something I think may be worth reflecting on. The worst offender:

> probably a large fraction of the people building it are introverted engineers who have difficulty even comprehending how someone can want to interact

At least this starts with "probably", admitting some level of uncertainty, but the overall tone shows a derision & contempt for a group of people you've almost certainly (ironically) never interacted with. I guarantee the developers behind Mastodon understand how people want to interact much better than you do; they're highly intelligent & have actively engaged on the problems around human interaction for years. This is not a system that's been created in a vacuum.

> the most high profile Twitter users explicitly want

> They are going there literally to get

> They will not understand

> they will see

You've made a lot of very confident statements here about what these high profile people want and will do: I'm not seeing a lot of data to back that up.

Regardless, even if there are a subset of people who do want that: what makes them high profile? Mostly it's the platform they're on. If they don't gain a high profile on Mastodon, it's not Mastodon's loss, it's theirs. All Mastodon needs to do is serve the needs of a critical quorum in aggregate, not the needs of a specific supposedly-influential few users.

All-in-all, the main reason people favour centralisation is habit. In reality, even on e.g. Facebook you see communities developing within its "groups" feature, as a parallel to what Mastodon is fundamentally designed around.
> reports of abuse are being handled by bots or people who don't care.

> I guess I don't see anything hyperbolic about saying that

Great, that's what I said to you. Glad you agree. :)

But that is not where we started, here is the aforementioned hyperbole you opened with:

> it seems the priorities for the (presumably substantially gutted) moderation team aren't hate speech, but rather protecting Musk's feelings

This sounds word for word exactly like the far right people just in the other direction. Stop making stuff up. At least you snuck an 'it seems' in there but goodness gracious. I get it, you really don't like Musk who is literally Voldermot and in your view capable of all manner of things - maybe he sits around twirling an imaginary mustache obsessing over people like Kathy Griffin and Ethan Kline looking for ways to mess with them.

The disturbing part is you hallucinate these scenarios and then write of them as if it is indisputable reality. Reminds me of an ex-gf who got mad at me for something I did to her in one of her dreams.
1) Yes, there does seem like something might be happening here. I also can't find your posting (or the others) on hckrnews.com. I wouldn't assume that "censoring" is the most likely answer, though. If it's indeed missing and supposed to be there, a simple "bug" is probably a more likely answer.

2) hckrnews.com doesn't actually try to show all postings, only those that "have made it onto the Hacker News homepage". I wonder if despite getting quite a few upvotes, it either didn't make the Homepage or was on for such a short time that it wasn't registered. It's trajectory is shown here: https://hnrankings.info/33498916/. Note that "Front" is at the very top of the page, implying it didn't actually reach there.

3) Your title is kind of confusing, and most people don't use hckrnews.com, so I wouldn't be surprised if you don't get a much engagement here. If you can't find a sufficient answer here, you might try contacting the hckrnews.com author and asking. He gives his email address at the bottom of the About page.
Maybe patents is a bad idea and should be removed.
Well the Systemd developers got sent death threats.

Heck the cryptocurrency community has repeatedly sent death threats to the very people working on their root of trust.

People just plain suck
I wonder how Joe Rogan will react to this the next time Musk goes on his podcast. Joe has been a deep fanboy of Elon's for a while, but he also doesn't like it much when people get banned/canceled for telling jokes, especially when they are professional comedians.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/comedian-kathy-griffin-...
> Cheap here matter more than perfect, since the problem of emitting CO2 from fossil fuel plants is better (but more slowly) solved by phasing out fossil fuel.

The goal is to stop emitting CO2, not phasing out fossil fuels. If you can use fossil fuel without emitting CO2 (and other greenhouse gasses), then the goal is achieved.

But we also know that fossil fuels are finite and it might be worthwhile to stop using them and learn to use alternatives before we get forced to do it when the sources run dry.

For me the most tragic part of the current situation is that if we somehow destroyed our current civilisation, there would be no raw resources to support a new industrial age.