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Whatever we do to protect the Earth, can be turned against us to destroy it, too.

Before we develop the technology to do this earth-cooling properly, we need to establish the ethics to make sure it is done properly.

Too often we technologists invent something that changes the world for the better, only to have it weaponised to make the world worse.

I sure hope the space nerds are aware of this cold, hard fact.
Same reason some people go work in Defense.

Money.
Have you also taken into consideration the death rate in smaller planes, much higher than commercial craft. The moment you attempt that with a 'high capacity' craft you'll suddenly find yourself regulated out of existence by a book written in blood.
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For movies you are absolutely going to notice a difference. Anything that was recorded digitally like many TV series is less clear.

Just getting rid of interlacing makes any upgrade from DVDs worth it IMO.
The point is that the effects of CO2 are so dire that even a very problematic half measure could be worthwhile. OF COURSE CO2 emissions should also be addressed; these efforts are just to emphasize how serious the problem is, that one would rationally have to consider such steps.
Academics are not so hot on DSLs as one may think. Typically, they are viewed as padding material to the real research contribution. Anecdotally, I can recall papers being bashed because of the use of a DSL, but not applauded because of it.
> Public trust in credit unions stands at 60%, compared to 30% for big banks and small businesses are five times less likely to be dissatisfied with a credit union than with a big bank

All organizations seek to accrue power and revenue - even “non profits”.

I saw it from one of the local credit unions I worked at in college…

1. First it was a credit union for a few large companies

2. Then it redid its charter to become a “regional credit union”

3. Then it said “fuck it we are bank”

Meet the old boss..
Hi, I'm friends with one of the environmental economists that worked on the analysis for these damn demolitions in the PNW.

Good news, I can assure you that climate impact was in fact heavily analyzed, and removing these dams is in the net, a huge win.

So no need for the off the cuff no actual knowledge of the situation snark anymore, isn't that great?
Or a (pumped-storage) hydroelectric plant, to take the discussion back (almost) full circle.
They might if other channels aren't saturated and things are still in flux. Kanye was unbanned yesterday. Do you think he's going to behave better or worse than before? If he behaves worse then that's another headline, another news cycle about whether he should be banned or not.

Right now the trend is advertisers getting more spooked because of unpredictability and Musk being unable to reassure them in calls he has been reported to have been on. I expect this trend to continue
I have one of these devices. I'm still a bit mystified about what I want to use it for. But, after reading these threads, I've now got a few ideas that make me very excited.

I have come to despise the Google/Alexa/Siri devices. I'll explain why.

I hate that Google Home devices always give you a direct answer when you ask a question. The reason I hate this is because my kids use it to get an answer, without any work, without any thinking, without any consideration that there might be context to the answer. If they were to research and read about the question, they would learn so much more. But, they, like all people, want a simple and compact answer. And, I'm sure Google engineers have their RSUs tied to some KPI that says "make answers as simple and compact" so it will never come out any way other than this from Google.

I hate that Google permits my kids to play the same damn song over and over again. (Cue sentimental music...). In my day, we listened to the radio and it might have been bad for my dad for five minutes and he scowled the whole way as enjoyed some utterly awful pop song, but then that song ended and he didn't have to listen to it for a few hours. Modern radio is worse, but at least you can take a break for an hour before they play (and are paid to play) the same song over and over.

I hate the surveillance aspect of Google. I don't want to have profiles generated of my kids such that when Google revenues dip in a few years they are enticed by an offer from that shady insurance conglomerate that really wants to know whether any of them discussed depression or racism.

So, if I can use a Mycroft device to:

* Permit them to ask questions, but give them answers in a way they have to dig and think and explore, that would be really cool. I'm sure this isn't easy, but it will never happen with Google/Alexa/Siri because they only care about MONETIZING those interactions.
* Give me more control over how media is consumed. The people working at YouTube will never have a KPI for "make sure you can only play one song per hour" and Google Home will never have that KPI, so it will never happen. That will never be something they can MONETIZE. It seems like it will be a lot more challenging to get music onto my Mycroft, but I prefer to play Jazz radio and because there still are live streams, I think you could get off the YouTube/Spotify/Amazon music train anyway. I got rid of so much of my music, but you can play shared files: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/mark-ii/basic-commands#jukebox
* Forget the worries about surveillance. Mycroft right now uses Google for text to speech, but it can anonymize it enough for me not to worry as much.
Ask HN: Those with Parkinson's relatives what do you do to improve their lives?
My mom has Parkinson's disease, she take Sinemet and Olanzapine(for sleep). But sometime she get something similar to panic attacks when she feared something or was not able to do a chore that she used to do. ex: cooking.

When I notify about this to doctors they prescribed anti-depressant medication(Duloxetine + Mirtazapine, Venlafaxine), but given those meds, my mom complain that there is burning sensation in body after taking them, so we stopped those meds. It seems to be Dr have miss diagnosed this as depression even though those panic like attacks only occur due to some incident in the environment as I said earlier. Has anyone had similar experience with loved one with PD? If so what did you do?

I myself have OCD and recently diagnosed with ADHD, due to undiagnosed ADHD I I am struggling financially, but when I am hearing mom's pain I have hard time working.

I am aware this is not the place to ask for medical advice. but any advice regarding this matter is highly appreciated!
> Every API is itself a "little language"

I came to this conclusion early in my career. It went something like this:

A - "To do this, just create this object, fill in these properties, and call these methods."

B - "Okay, I did that, but it crashed."

A - "Yeah, it's because you set the properties in the wrong order. This property relies on this other property under the hood. Set them in this order."

B - "Still crashes."

A - "Yeah, you called the methods in the wrong order. This method relies on that method. Call them in this order and it works."

My conclusion was that the lisp philosophy of building a lot of little sub language was equivalent to what people were doing with OO in C#/Java. Either way you have to learn the "right" way to put things together which is dictated by unseen forces behind the scene.

Of course, I also concluded that most people work differently than I do. For most people, if the code "looks right" (ie recognizable syntax) then they're able to tell themselves a story that it's familiar and their intuition is able to pick up the slack for finding the right enough way to use most arbitrary APIs (just as long as they don't exceed some level of incomprehensibility). On the other hand, I have to understand the underlying logic or I use the API the wrong way pretty much every time.

So for most people lots of APIs is actually a much better cognitive way for them to work whereas for me API soup and lisp macros are the same conundrum.
I don't mean to say the devs have any ill intent. Just pointing out the reality it has trouble with feminine voices. Like veidr points out in response to my comments, implicit bias is a big issue. Probably they originally trained the wakeword model entirely on American cis men, so naturally it has trouble recognizing any voice outside of that norm. It's not an accusation, this is a very well documented pitfall of machine learning.

I'm very grateful to the Mycroft team because I love smart speakers but am not willing to sacrifice my privacy to such a degree as I would have to to use a google home or Alexa or anything like that. That does not mean I won't point out its flaws.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_limiting

A particularly simple algorithm is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_bucket
Did you stay up all night or are you posting from Russia?
Which is why we're expecting it to suddenly go up in flames, rather than just swerve off into a ditch.
Dealing with modification on daily work that kind of tool help you understand and extract information needed for all kinds of purposes.
No joke, a few weeks ago a colleague from university shared a few anecdotes about his mentor-coworker-boss at work with me, and it's similar. Every time they broke the production branch and the boss had to change the code or pull out some AWS magic to restore a database, he would give the fixed commits names like "Cgada de [Employee Name]" which roughly translates to "[Employee Name] F*ed Up", since he knew they wouldn't forget it that way.

It's specially cool given that he would always see his employees' f*k-ups as learning opportunities. He would always teach them what went wrong and how to fix it before shaming them in the git history. He always told them he did it to assure they wouldn't forget both the shameful f*k-up + the bit of learning that came along with it. They always laugh it off and understand the boss' intentions. It isn't harsh or anything.
So where's the money coming from then?

Insurance? Government subsidy?

Remind me again, who pays for insurance and government? Or are these entities just expected to absorb the difference out of the goodness of their hearts?
A billion dollars a year of stock sales is a huge amount of guaranteed supply to the market. And it's non-optional: it has to be a billion dollars a year. But Tesla isn't worth anywhere near it's current market capitalization either.
They're a great alternative to having to go down the datacentre mines and replug a few thousand cables, though.
To be fair, it is a little slow and boring to start :) I still liked it, but it’s not representative of where the show goes later on
The commercial programs have seen significant expansion in scope and spending as their benefits have become clear. The lunar landing contract to SpaceX is a great example of such.

Astra, Rocket Lab, etc. have to demonstrate capability to move up the ladder.
Web Component extending IFrame to bypass X-Frame-Options: deny/sameorigin
In the Eastern US there are a lot of brick homes with drywall interiors. In my home there some walls with only a few centimeters between the brick and the drywall and in other places there is a full stud between the brick and the drywall. Even though this is not required (i.e. many offices are all sinter block or brick), this allows for easy finish electrical and the rest of the US building industry to be easily integrated into the building.

For another contrasting example, I have a friend that moved to Germany and found out, like many Americans that have moved there, that you need a totally different skillset to install things into the wall. It's very common in Berlin to live in apartments where the walls are made of concrete. I helped her install a few light fixtures on a visit and boy did I wish I was dealing with mudded brick or drywall.
100% agree. As long as the trade off between performance and new failure states is tractable to analyze. My worry is with enough layering, that analysis becomes intractable. Not that you need to account for every imaginable failure (what happens if magic is real and a wizard casts a spell on DIMM 3?). But when things go south, and as a stint as an SRE I have come to realize we are all on a giant South-bound train, you have to perform that analysis.
In theory could ERD be quite easily extended to use D2 as another renderer? It looks very simple with one render.hs file which uses Graphviz but that could be parametrized.
Unfair advantage == it isn’t a usability nightmare caused by ignorant lawmakers
I probably shouldn't but I dislike using libraries for the main part of your project and then not even mentioning that you are using them.

Seems dishonest to me, but maybe I'm just too strict.
I really liked the idea from an earlier post with continuous recording + Whisper for transcription + keyword based actions. The drawback is asynchronous execution of your actions, but that setup seems very flexible!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608437
Sure, that'll bring us to 1/100.
Yeah force push on master is a huge no no - I can't even remember the number of times I've force pushed wrong shit in a hurry - I can't imagine entire team dealing with this.
> What is the value in anonymizing your voluntary engagement within a single corporate entity?

Because up to a certain point it isn't voluntary

> Why for example would I want to make it any more difficult for my doctor at a hospital and the hospital pharmacy to share my confidential health information to ensure I get the right treatment?

Because principle of least privilege. This is one example, another could be the doctor sharing health data with an internal hospital logging service, which is utilizing some cloud service, which is utilizing some other cloud service, etc
Does one need to be up to date on the recent Star Wars movies?
Sometimes even scalability may be vastly inferior. I've implemented geocoding/geodecoding on OSM data, which for our use was 10-50x faster and our usage would chew through first tier plan in about an hour. Instead, our single server is about as expensive as that first tier.
OpenBSD devs supporting game piracy in the ports tree
SpaceX and Tesla made affordable, reusable rockets, and affordable, high performance electric cars with a long range. Those things have obvious value, but required solving big engineering challenges to make them a reality. Musk doesn't seem to have any clear goal with twitter. There are vague ideas about making it subscription-funded rather than advertising-funded, and about having less censorship, but neither are things the majority of people want.

I imagine the site will mostly continue to more-or-less work, despite all the layoffs. They still have thousands of staff. The network effect of Twitter is so big that people will continue to use it even if fail whales become more common. Others suggest that it will soon crash and burn, or that Musk will get bored and sell it for a few billion. Or that Musk is a genius who will make some sort of amazing Twitter 2.0 that does for social media what Tesla did for electric cars. But without any appealing long term vision, and with an owner who bought it to satisfy their ego rather than with any real plan, the reality may be more boring. I imagine it will just languish for many years, with occasional manufactured drama, and occasional downtime, but no real innovation. Maybe to be eventually supplanted by something else in 10 years or so.
Research hub considers response to life beyond Earth
"What does humanity do when we discover we are not alone in the cosmos? A new international research hub at the University of St Andrews will coordinate global expertise to prepare humanity for such an event and how we should respond."
At this stage, I have no clue whether there is or will be content moderation in three months time. By now, Musk has said many, many things, often contradictory. Some of these tweets may turn into facts but I doubt Musk himself knows which ones.

I stand by my earlier claim: if there is no (or not enough) content moderation, most advertisers will not return. If there is, they may.
There are two factors that come into play with the plaster/render vs drywall choice:

1. Labour vs material cost, increasingly it's cheaper to drywall rather than render/plaster a wall. It's quicker, therefore if Labour is expensive, it works out cheaper. When you also look at running services the gap behind the drywall is useful and saves masses of time.

2. Insulation, both thermal and sound. The small air gap behind the drywall forms an additional layer of insulation.
Yeah, when talking to humans about dates, [closed, closed] is useful.

Once you swap to a higher precision format for an actual database search, you get all the messiness from the article.
It is possible to be concerned about the viability of the ecosystem and still want to do geoengineering, mainly by being convinced that current trends point essentially an unviable ecosystem on incredibly short time scales.

For example, the wet bulb thermometer temperature forecasted for large swathes of land near the equator essentially means it's uninhabitable for mammals several weeks of the year.

Its the perceived choice between 1) Do nothing and watch everything die or 2) try something risky and if it goes wrong, watch everything die.
> I am also shocked by the granularity of information in these storefront analytics. It is relevant to Apple’s recommendation engine if I listened to an album or song and whether I finished it, but it is hard to see what value it has in knowing my track playback to the millisecond.

Not surprised. As soon as it was possible to get this kind of information about app usage (thanks, Internet!) of course management wanted everything.

Apple has its own privacy teams that work with the teams developing apps. Data collection is treated as a Big Deal and "Privacy" will grill you on every single byte that you want to collect. And any bit of data that might reveal personally-identifiable-information is a nonstarter.

As an example, we could not report back error messages from the OS, only error codes. Why? Error code might be "123" but error message could be "Error 123, You just removed hard drive 'Calhoun Data' without unmounting..."

Perhaps the downside of this gatekeeping though is that I feel it causes management to come to the table asking for everything, letting privacy whittle it down. With major app release cycles 6 or 12 months apart, I think management sometimes don't know what data they might want - would rather not have to wait perhaps up to a year for the new metric to be included.
Geez, it would've been good if we cooled it on the burning of fossil fuels, 50 years ago.

Bit late now.
Versus the bias of one judge colouring how law should be decided? Judges are supposed to interpret the law, not create it. A strong legislative framework and collaborative atmosphere between the legal and political communities should remove the need for something like case law.
I'm probably wrong, but my intuition tells me (in terms of Theory of Computation) that Forth is a programming language for Push-Down-Automata, and not a full-blown Turing Machine.
And it's almost inevitable. That's why the overwhelming "Elon is so dumb" narrative seems so odd to me.

"Major harm," to me, would be either bankruptcy or a competitor overtaking significant chunks of Twitter's users. Even if Elon literally has to re-hire half the roles he fired for, or Twitter is down for a few days or a week, or they struggle to get advertisers for a little while, that's nothing for the long-term. In six months, the chances that it'll look like these firings were a bad idea are minimal.

And likewise with the "the only realistic way to moderate an online platform is the way Twitter was doing it" narrative. In six months, all it takes is the ship to still be floating without the old moderation to prove it out, and that's by far the most likely outcome.
Sounds like you should monetize your hobby and turn it into a profitable side project, give those capitalists a little taste of their own medicine, and increase your return on investment for the energy you (have) put into this. Plenty of businesses built on privacy, including DDG.
This is a good decision to remove an unnecessary dam to give Pacific salmon and their ecosystems a chance to recover.

0) salmon populations have recently plummeted [0]

1) fish ladders don’t work [1]

2) even marginally higher river temperatures are problematic for salmon [2] and dams raise temperatures in large sections of the river

3) salmon are a keystone species [3]

[0]https://phys.org/news/2021-10-salmon-decline-impacted-combin...

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/blocked_migration_fish_ladder...

[2] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/climate/river-temp...

[3] https://wildsalmoncenter.org/salmon-a-keystone-species/
The recent comments on the Mycroft kickstarter [0], which was funded four years ago, indicate that the company is shipping preorders. However, only 10% of the units are going to their backers. Instead they are selling the units to new customers. If you are backer 2000, they might not fulfill your order for years to come, based on the production rate quoted there by their new CEO.

This is not a viable way to treat your original, most ebthusiatic customers. They will go on forums like HN and bitterly complain, warning other potential customers not to invest in a company that clearly does not respect its users.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-m...
> For example, SQL is a little language for describing database operations. Regular expressions is a little language for text matching. Dhall is a little language for configuration management, and so on.

> There are a few other names for these languages: Domain-specific languages (DSL:s), problem-oriented languages, etc. However, I like the term “little languages”, partially because the term “DSL” has become overloaded to mean anything from a library with a fluent interface to a full-blown query language like SQL, but also because “little languages” emphasizes their diminutive nature.

Ahem, so is SQL diminuitive or not? Because, SQL is NOT diminuitive. SQL is Turing complete.
> I think it remains to be seen how long a bloatless twitter can last.

It's also really hard to define 'last' though. Does 'last' mean just for up-time? Does it mean up-time without a major security incident while maintaining the same DAU? Does it mean business as usual on all fronts except number of employees? We know that Twitter already had some security issues with their God Mode admin panel.

I really wonder, for example, whether no angry ex-employees still have access to critical systems or data. This is usually pretty well regulated in large organizations like twitter, but since they've lost the majority of their staff, who knows when the people looking after that left?
Sixteen Colors – Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII [video]
In addition to all the other popculture references in this thread, there is a book about a billionaire doing this, it came out last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

Written by Stephenson (Blue Origin, Cryptonomicon, …)
You’re logged into an Apple device with your Apple ID going to an Apple online service where Apple obviously knows what you bought. Saying that Apple is keeping track of what you do on their service is like saying that you didn’t know your doctor has your medical records and took notes of your interactions with them