skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't demanding a high discount rate itself an exercise of using fancy math to support a pet conclusion? Although future generations are different from us, so too are current potential beneficiaries of charity; and though charity aimed at future generations can certainly have unanticipated effects, so too can charity aimed at contemporaneous people.

My general ethics around philanthropy is to acknowledge uncertainty and that most people are grasping around in the dark to try to do the best thing. Despite that, it's likely that limiting consumption for personal benefit and directing that instead to things you think likely will do good is best. When people inevitably come to different conclusions about what that is, that's not a defect; that's allowing us to cover all our bases.
> If you don't have the repo locally, it'll check it out for you. If you're not on the right commit/branch it'll swap to it for you.

Does it ask to do this? Checking out a branch is not so simple, maybe I have modified files locally and don't want to stash them right now.
How does that different user experience and format affect the customer? By customer, I mean advertiser.

Why does an advertiser go to Twitter over Meta or TikTok? That’s the real question to be asking.

I’d make the argument that the content format is very nearly irrelevant to the advertisers.

I can understand why an advertiser goes to Twitter instead of more defined niche ad platforms like Yelp, Google Maps, and iOS App Store.

What customer can be reached on Twitter that can’t be reached in Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok? In my mind, if advertisers are spooked by Twitter, they’ve got plenty of equivalent alternatives.
This has been welding for me.
The amount of failures, small and big (like when I get under the car to mount the exhaust and I find that the second turn is actually 90 degrees off) and small (like when I’m using the last piece of stainless with the last c and I have and I forget to turn down the amps and blow a hole right through both).

It always takes me a few days of procrastination and thinking about going in the garage before I finally go and do it, by then the race is too close and I end up rushing. All that because I don’t want to confront the failures.

What’s funny is that when I complete whatever I do, the reward is so good that I don’t know why I can’t remember that feeling when I start the project.
Here you go: https://images.app.goo.gl/2LWjy5mon9iq8dxg7
Wearing gloves when using most power tools is so unbelievably dangerous.

If your gloves get caught by anything rotating at several thousand RPM, there's a huge chance that the material of the glove will catch on the working edge/face and continue to pull your hand/arms/whole body deeper and deeper.

You also don't have any sense of proprioception or kinesthesia with the glove itself, so it's even easier to accidentally do this, whilst thinking that you're well clear.
Is there any history of companies that can easily move internationally being nationalised? Because it's not some national physical infrastructure like railways or electrical grids. After all their operations are international and detached from their actual countries.

One interesting line would be to amend copyright laws, such that all publicly funded research (government grants or accredited universities) no longer has any copyright applicable, ex post facto. Private companies and private research institutions would still have copyright protection if they really want it (most I've read don't, I think they'd patent rather than charge for access).

Then sites like SciHub can not be blocked and even better ones can be built (UX wise) that rely on open source, donations for hosting etc without fear of extradition or anything. It could start out in one country and expand as others catch up in legislation.

I wonder how the response would be though from publishers. But realistically, if the public was informed that individual institutions are paying millions for simply prestige where journal editors are unpaid yet they make billions in net profit annually, funded by their tution fees and taxpayer money, I think people wouldn't stand for this. Especially as we've gone all digital, these publishers are selling journal names.
Quantum Particles Aren’t Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From?
Is there any way to achieve this within Microsoft's suite?

Sadly we adopted Microsoft O365, SharePoint, Teams. How can you organize the org effectively is beyond me, how does MS do it? Are they actually using their own tools they sell others?

In our org, some departments/teams/sites have just a SP, Others have a teamspace with separate SP/document store.

Worse, any meaningful file structure/hierarchy you come up with gets sabotaged when new channels are created as they automatically introduce new folders. You cannot bind a teams channel to a separate folder in a SharePoint. Also, We have private project teams springing up and large fragmentation of information. If you do not know that a certain project space was set up you cannot find or join it.

Going with a "single Teamspace" for the whole org doesn't work either without being able to have nested channels/groups. The org is too large and complex.

I'd love to have a gitlab style handbook to be used in our org to organize knowledge and information, but I do not know if and how it could be set up technically.
You're missing the merge commits. `git log` is a key feature and merges belong there, at least in my workflow.
Excellent point. This is standard practice for Pentagon stenographers. Someone just got caught too far out on a limb on this occasion.
This is really smart and cool. Instead of replacing hundreds or thousands of CPUs, you can just pay to unlock more performance.
With the advent of remote work, maybe it's already here!
Little Snitch can still block those.

The huge block is 17./8 and is easily identified.
> That's only like 300 * $100 for the panels if you buy them used. That's less than a Model 3. Installation usually costs far far more than the panels.

I brought it up more for the space requirements. That’s a physically huge system. Panels are only a fraction of the overall cost. Unless you have a massive commercial building somewhere, 300 panels are going to take up a huge amount of ground-mount space. You also need a lot of inverters, wiring, etc.

They also make claims about EMP hardening, which puts this into exotic build territory. Or maybe just a fantasy?
That isn't a counterexample.
https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2020/09/what-will-h...

I think people commonly mistake exploding novas with expanding giants. It's understandable.

In a few billion years when the sun goes red giant the habitable zone will move. And the earth will be engulfed. Those things the grandparent said were correct.

Yes, it will eventually go white dwarf. Those have habitable zones, too.

https://www.the-spaceship.com/white-dwarf-habitable-zone/

Assuming we don't escape the solar system, it will still take some serious engineering to follow the habitable zone.

There's that pesky climate crisis and the current anthropogenic extinction event we need to live through to get to those problems, though.
The issue for me is location tracking. Apple always knows what city I am in, linked constantly to unchangeable hardware identifiers, which for me is the same level of invasive.
Then the question remains what the other 5000 people were doing.
Are you joking?

Even in recent history, FBI has a record of routinely knowingly lying and spreading propaganda to deceive the American public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d4Q7YGBQns

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-de...

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/09/fbi-lied-to-judge-t...

https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/the-fbi-knew-russiagate-was-a-...
Don't you mean allow the river to be smaller (i.e. flow faster and have less width and therefore less exposed surface area)?

I wonder what sort of options there are for shading a river? Floating solar panels are used in some places, and have the advantage that it's relatively easy to rotate a whole floating structure to face the sun rather than having to mount every single panel on a heliostat.

More houseboats would be a possibility, but the number required to make any noticeable difference would effectively turn a river into a city, which could have other negative side effects.

Setting up floating barriers and growing azolla or some other water-covering crop might be an interesting option. Not sure how much that would affect temperature, though; it might even cause more heating as the dark leaves convert more light to heat than open water. Also the water might move too fast or be too turbulent to be able to grow water plants. Or if successful, it might cause more water to be lost by evaporation.

(In a lot of cases, removing dams might be the best option, but some dams like Bonneville or Hoover are producing substantial amounts of energy and it would be pretty hard to do without them.)
I mentioned in another reply, but none of the networks you enumerate have the same value proposition as Twitter.

For example today, I'm watching the World Cup.. Argentina just conceded a goal... I want to see reactions, memes, etc. Too soon for Youtube, uploading videos takes time, TikTok is too random.. Too soon for Tumblr and Pinterest.. Snap format is weird.. Reddit also might have something but I want a shorter format, reactions from known celebrities and sport commentators.. Instagram has some stuff but it is too picture centered... and then comes Twitter, exactly what I wanted, a quick fix of the now, some funny replies, I scroll a little bit, I go back to watching the match.

In the real world people are using Twitter the same as they were before Musk, and if the this trend doesn't change or even improves, advertisers will come back.

If there are eyeballs there are ads. It's a fact of nature (sadly).

Please tell me something that millions of people pay attention to daily that isn't plagued with ads.
> redistribute your resources

that means, "steal".
Matrix/Element is great. https://matrix.org/clients/
Safari doesn't let web sites used user-installed fonts in order to defeat fingerprinting like this, I'm surprised other browsers don't have the same mitigation!
Great research direction you guys!

If I may propose some other project ideas for you:

- What if we could teach gorillas to wield machetes?

- What if we could figure out how to craft a nuclear weapon out of common office supplies?

- What if we could make AIDS airborne and contageous?
I'm perfectly happy to establish my own preferences: I tend to donate to journalistic and legal aid nonprofits. That's what I prefer, but I don't operate under the belief that I prefer those things because they're better, morally speaking, than donating to famine relief or animal care nonprofits.

There are lots of ethical theories (a majority, in fact!) that don't require (but may admit) grading actions on a sliding scale from "morally worst" to "morally best." Moral systems all boil down to a Theory of Right, and it's possible to have a Theory of Right rooted in virtue or autonomy rather than Good (i.e., greatest consequence).
they fired soem overhead and hired nerds, should be good right?
Or an American Stinger missile shoots down an American Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-ta...
UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses
I think it wont stop at ad-reliant tech companies. Twitter 2.0 succeeding will show that you can force Engineers to work in much harsher conditions for less pay and that will become the norm. They become the same as other blue collar roles. Just surviving and not thriving. I've often felt that was a motivating push behind "Learn to Code", bootcamps and other initiatives. Engineers have been blessed to have this unique power over the capital class. Its a once in a generation (or two) opportunity and that class is trying to find any way it can to wrestle back that power.
I think the examples here (India, Puerto Rico, Ukraine) are pretty different than the US. People in those cultures are used to much more hardship than people in the US.

In my community, there are lots of hills and water is pumped uphill by pumps powered by electricity. If the power grid failed for an extended period of time, I'm pretty sure it would be total chaos. Long lines to get water just to drink. Ferried by car, but when the gas runs out, that walk up the hills would be a killer.

Once water is an issue, I think social niceties would be out the window.
Checkout Nim! I've used it to great effect for embedded programming. It has memory management system based on non-atomic reference counting (arc) so its fast and deterministic. It has optional cycle collection too (orc). Its easy to mixin manual memory as well.

I used F# a bit and learned a lot from it, and the same with Elixir and Nerves. Nim is procedural but it has an "enlightened procedural" take that feels like functional programming in some ways. Partly thats due to the very powerful type system - for example Nim lets you define custom distinct (not aliased) number types just like F#. Nim also inherits a fair bit from Pascal and so shares points with Ada like ints with custom ranges. Theres some rough points, but largely its made me enjoy programming again.

The esp32 is a good intro route since they're easy to setup. I wrote a wrapper for esp-idf which is used in production in at least two embedded shops: https://github.com/elcritch/nesper (its stable but I haven't had time to update docs for a ehile)

You can run it on Arduinos as well. Theres a pure Nim setup called Ratel and a rp2040 wrapper too. :)
Ah yes, "catsplosion". Better make sure to keep only one sex of cat.
> The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired, that they were somehow imperative to the site staying up.

Again, what does this even look like? Twitter.com returns 404 and everyone gives up?

At least make straw man arguments that are reasonable.
FTX is part owner of Twitter – Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text
Sure, I was being euphemistic.

On the other hand, what are you going to do, call the cops? They are the cops.
Yeah, I did a quick check in LLVM at some point to see what it does (query I relied on: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/search?q=getPredictable...) and all the results seemed to be exclusively code motion or deciding how to lower a branch. Similarly cold path outlining seemed to just want to split the function in a fairly simple manner rather than doing anything beyond that. Perhaps I missed something, but I think the current hints are just to help the branch predictor or instruction cache rather than significantly alter codegen.

Unfortunately, I don't have much to share at the moment besides my thoughts; I've done a few small tests but haven't been able to really do a full implementation yet. The primary consumer of this work would be iSH (https://github.com/ish-app/ish), which has a need for a fast interpreter, so you can at least take a look at the current implementation to see what we'd like to replace. The nature of the project means that most of my time has been tied up in things like making sure that keyboard avoidance is set up correctly and that users can customize the background color of their terminal :/

With that said, I'd be happy to chat more if you'd like–feel free to send me an email or whatever. Not sure I can say I'm at the state of the art yet, but perhaps we can get there :)
When this actually becomes a real possibility, it doesn't turn out that way.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
The densely populated cities are going to be the hardest to transition - but in rural and suburban areas it may already be cheaper to generate and store your own power than to get it from the grid, most of the year
Web pages are Turing complete and can do whatever they want. Web browsers are VMs in a world where nobody wants to help them do their job efficiently.
Holy cow, when you go to his channel and look at his video catalog, it just keeps scrolling! That in and of itself is super impressive - I don't think I've ever seen a quality personal channel with this many videos.
But those were sold with the expectation to be used by Saudi Arabia for that purpose.
There is a counter argument out there that individuals/small groups that self isolate during extreme events/collapse of social stability tend to do much more poorly than groups that prioritize mutual aid.
Plan 9: Setting up 9front on a Raspberry Pi
Heres the rp2040 wrapper someone else did: https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/picostdlib
Best advice I can think of, avoid more than three indentations in the outline.
That's not a great argument.

There are limited resources. If we spend on X, it means we don't spend on Y.

If it turns out Y is the bigger problem? Well, we missed a massive opportunity to make the world even better.
But Elon has also stated multiple times that Twitter is the best and most accurate place for news. This is directly contradicted by the fact that the "twitter is burning down" rumor was spread on twitter and lots of uninformed people believed it because they saw it everywhere on twitter lol.
I am not not using one. On iOS Safari, with both firefox focus and wipr blocking content, the “promoted tweets” are not blocked. But the ads on every other site are.
The main beneficiary of cheap at-home disease tests is not the patient, but the patient's friends, family and coworkers.

They're the people who might avoid getting infected, and, for those vulnerable or unlucky it might save their lives.

From that point of view, these at home tests should not only be legal - they should be paid for by government and either strongly recommend or mandatory.
> thousands of content-moderation contractors

Tech workers, really?
the answer is - not much.

the power law applies to any big organization. 20% of the people do 80% of the work, whilst 80% of the people are just there for "support".

whatsapp was run by a team of like 20 people or something when they got acquired for $20 billion. for a simple software product, you don't really need that many people. in fact, more people often means bad software. you just need a small group of very talented engineers to run the product and add new features when necessary.

big (and especially public) companies often times need to hire a lot, just to look like a real company.

now that twitter is private, elon has no responsibility to public investors and can focus less on looking like a real company and more on doing what needs to be done to cut bloat/costs and improve product
Search for Vi. Google: Did you mean Emacs?
Turning off swap will lead to running out of memory earlier than you’d think because different tasks can allocate a lot instantaneously - you just need a few of them to line up and try allocating a lot at once.

I don’t see how you can realistically operate a computer this way unless you control all the software on it, or you enjoy buying way more RAM than you need.

(Also swap isn’t the only alternative to allocating memory - there’s also purgeable allocations and memory compression.)
Some companies do value technical writers and pay them as much as engineers, but they are still pretty rare.

There are three things that I think are preventing technical writing from being more widely valued:

1. Software companies tend not to distinguish between technical writers who are good at English vs. technical writers who are good at engineering, understand their audience, and can articulate complex ideas to that audience effectively.

2. Technical writers who are good at English make about half as much as technical writers with engineering skills, but they also muddy the hiring waters and drag salaries down for everyone else.

3. Most corporate-people think because they can type up a decent email they can write technical documentation themselves. They're usually wrong on both counts.
They don't actually deny they were not a party in such a deal.

Also curious you would trust them after the language in that tweet.
Having used exceptions, like in java and python, checking error return values like in go and to some extent c, and using ADTs to represent error conditions like in rust, haskell, and scala (scala has exceptions too, but it's arguably more idiomatic to use Option, Try, etc.), primarily in application code, I by far prefer using ADTs. IMO it is a good balance between explicitness and verbosity. And ensuring you handle errors is built in to the type system.
Long digression away from energy here: My wife is Ukrainian, and we have two бабусі (grandmas) living with us now due to rockets making their Ukrainian home uninhabitable. So Ukrainian is actually the dominant language in my house, though I only know a tiny bit, since I grew up in the US. The lessons are speech therapy, not merely learning the language as itself. But the therapy immediately transfers from Ukrainian to English. When he figured out pronouns in Ukrainian from the lessons, he immediately started using I/me/you correctly in English. His particular speech pathology allows for acquisition of many languages very quickly once he is taught the concepts (he's roughly equally strong in English, Ukrainian, and Russian now, and is quickly picking up the very small amount of Spanish I know).
The source needs to be outed!
>they were sharing credentials, which is against every IT security policy ever

You’d like to think so, but...
The EPA screwed up and basically instead of the acidic water slowly leaking out they caused it burst open and dump all of it in the span of days. There is no disputing that fact.

But interesting, the mine wasn't polluted in the sense of the company dumped chemicals. The mining process simply exposed rock that when it reacts with water, turns acidic. It's a natural process that is simply amplified by the mining process.
But I like drawings of women showing their vag.
Many of the more recent of these scam-baiting videos show them using AnyDesk instead. I watch these channels and haven't seen Teamviewer in a while. Perhaps Teamviewer's tactics have successfully scared them away? They've added quite strong and clear warnings to the software.
From Iraq, we went from zero power cuts in decades to no power at all within two weeks in the gulf war in 90, as NATO countries attacked all our civilian power stations. Life became horrible but we adapted. In some cases there were fights between people no different than the fights you saw in western countries over toilet rolls during covid, but I wouldn’t say it was a total society collapse. People will always find a way to adapt.
The ammo makers have already increased production. There are many sources for 155mm shells.
Nammo [1] BAE Systems.[2] Dezamet [3] General Dynamics [4]. Those are somewhat generic. The real shortages are in the fancier guided stuff. Most of which is decades-old technology and could be built today from common smartphone parts.

[1] https://www.nammo.com/product/our-products/ammunition/large-...

[2] https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/shell-155mm-how-he-l15

[3] https://dezamet.com.pl/155mm,26,en.html

[4] https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/artillery/
We can live with Elsevier's "intellectual property" as of today being on sci-hub and such. Going forward however, the academia needs to rethink the concept of publications entirely.
The situation where the author pays to be published, for the publisher to arrange unpaid peer review (by people the author specified) is ridiculous, stopped scaling a while ago and benefits nobody.

The publisher could almost be replaced by a torrent tracker with some PKI for peer review. Then a researcher could create his own slice of knowledge by choosing works endorsed by keys he trusts/considers relevant to his area of research.
This is an absurd interpretation.
And here we have the early side-plot describing the end of the internet in the book Fall by Neal Stephenson.
Tree-sitter merged into Emacs master