skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm highly in favour of this, but wanted to point out an important implementation detail in case people don't want to look through the code.

Since WordPress doesn't have a database abstraction, SQLite integration is done by transforming the SQL query strings meant for MySQL. This not only means doing regexp matches with string replacement, but trying to emulate MySQL functions with either SQLite equivalents, or in the worst case, in PHP application code.
Federal lawmakers need to get over the history of water rights here. The system was built on assumptions that just don't hold (more water was apportioned than ever flows).

You can give each state an amount and let them figure it out, or take all existing rights and re allocate them federally.

But it needs to happen, and urgently.

"But people will lose their income!" - Thats a symptom of requiring these people to work so wastefully to survive. UBI and other safety nets reduce the need to do this specific work for profit.

"But my luxuries will be more expensive!" - No, your luxuries are just being priced at what they cost, and the burden of the environmental damage is no longer hidden from you

"Big government bad!" - I get it, I'm an anarchist. But when you have to protect a massive river, it's clear we cannot rely on all the individuals to do the right thing.
We banned YouTube for the same reason. It's honestly a bit terrifying how completely YouTube can entrance kids. You could probably kill a kid by sitting them in front of YouTube and they'd die of thirst or starvation.

The content is absolute shit too. The YouTube algorithm steers them toward these weird repetitive videos and obnoxious fast-chattering gamer channels. There's a lot of interesting and enriching stuff on YouTube but the algorithm never steers them toward it.

You might want to preemptively ban TikTok and Instagram too. I've been told by many parents they are absolute poison for teens. I've looked at them a bit and TikTok in particular is shockingly addictive even for adults. I was just checking it out and before I knew it I'd been scrolling for 45 minutes watching weird videos from randos. Banned it at the network level already just in case.

We have really created a monster here with this addictionware stuff. It's not great for adults but for kids it's really toxic.
Folks on reddit kept focusing on Caiphas Cane.

If we put ourselves in Amazon's shoes, it's whichever story would bring them closer to their business goal, my guess is they'll do the Heresy, Terra's invasion, or something else that is action packed to get people hooked, then flesh out other stories if it works out.

It might look a lot like LOTR.
If you always respond instantly you set that expectation for the future. I wouldn’t be expected to respond immediately if I were presenting over Zoom, had just left for a bathroom/drink break, on an important call, or was in the middle of an careful process anyway.

It’s not as if I ignore it completely, I can check Desktop 1 for flashing notifications with a simple left hand only Alt-1, and be back on my working desktop in like a second. That quickly becomes as autonomic as Ctrl-l, n, e, Enter when I’m in a browser.
> Companies and industry don’t burn resources for no reason, they become products that consumers buy.

If companies start paying the total costs—including externalities (water, carbon)—of their raw materials, and pass those costs onto consumers, perhaps things will rebalance.
Seconding this, the same thing happened to me. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022113 for a take that I like better.

Currently have a strained at best relationship with much of my family for reasons strongly related to this mindset.

E: Moved the last paragraph of this comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=34022364 where it makes more sense in context.
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> For example if it's like foie gras

Its not.

Imagine that an unknown being hauls you out of your environment, chops your legs off with no anesthetic, then casts you back into the world crippled and bleeding. That's what shark fin hunting is like. They don.t kill the animal. They mutilate it and let it die a slow death.
Really depends. At our company there's no expectation that you'll answer Slack messages in real time.
No offense, but I think this is mostly true for uninvolved strict parents (I had one).

I think keeping kids active while denying certain activities is really normal and doesn't result in rebellion when done right.
i really like this passage from notes on the synthesis of forms:

> ...since the book was published, a whole academic field has grown up around the idea of "design methods" and I have been hailed as one of the leading exponents of these so-called design methods. I am very sorry that this has happened, and want to state, publicly, that I reject the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since I think it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of design. In fact, people who study design methods without also practicing design are almost always frustrated designers who have no sap in them, who have lost, or never had, the urge to shape things. Such a person will never be able to say anything sensible about "how" to shape things either.

such an important point... couldn't have said it better myself.
The Sam's Teach Yourself in 24 hours is a series of computing-related books:

https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/series/Sams-Teac...
The YouTube algorithm seems to steer you toward absolute shit. Age doesn't matter. Try just following it as an adult and you will end up in the toilet pretty fast.
Fascinating. I self-diagnosed myself with schizophrenia once. A horrible 6 months locked in an alien world where all I could think about was time and space (at about a million miles a second). I would hear chatter in my head and was convinced I was overhearing random conversations people were having and was even certain of the locations they were having these conversations. The idea that we all shared one consciousness and that time and space was an illusion would give me constant panic attacks every day. I would look at tv and faces would warp, become big and small. It was like living inside a nightmare.

But then I broke out of it in an instant 6 months later whilst I was trying to distract my thoughts by focusing on the shoes that peoples were wearing inside a busy train station - I started to find it amusing how silly people looked in certain styles etc. Who knows, I was out of my mind. What a feeling.
Don't be sharks do that to people (replace fins with arms/legs) all the time?

edit: I was kidding. Sorry shark lovers who took it seriously, I get it...
My SO has a huge endless scroll/swipe addiction.

She can spend days on IG reels. I don't know what to do.

I attempted to delete all my socials but LinkedIn to set a healthy example but it's for nothing.
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>Edit: E.g. see the left opposing voter ids in the US.

FYI, the left wasn't opposing voter IDs. The left was opposing Voter ID laws, which required a voter to have an ID, while selectively providing these IDs to the population.

That's a uniquely American problem. We wouldn't have an issue with a Voter ID law if everyone was guaranteed to have a state ID, regardless of where they live, whether they have a car or not, and whether they have money to pay for it (it should be free).
Thank you.

For interest, the supercomputing centre for the square kilometre array (and other astro computing | gravity projects) use groundwater cooling loops.

> CSIRO estimates that using groundwater cooling to manage supercomputer temperatures will save approximately 14.5 million litres of water during the first two years of the project, compared with using conventional cooling towers.

https://groundwatercooling.csiro.au/overview.html

https://pawsey.org.au/groundwater-cooling-system/
OK, how about 'make an adequate offer'. At least try to get some politicians and celebrities to endorse a gofundme effort.
An existing public utility is nothing remotely close to seizing an existing private company and nationalizing it.
Today already gives an answer -- just keep it where it is.

It grows extraordinarily slowly, so neither the problem not the solution changes on human timescales
>That's exactly how the books are.

And it's a legitimate criticism of the books. Fidelity to substance of the original is one thing, execution is another. I think the weaknesses of the books as transposed to film, combined with poor execution of craft are what make one different from the other.
> We don’t know if humans possess qualia.

At most, an observer can confirm that that observer possesses qualia (it might even be said that qualia define the observer), but any generalization beyond one’s own experience is non-verifiable conjecture.
No. Shark attacks are incredibly rare. You’re more likely to be hit by lightning.
> Since WordPress doesn't have a database abstraction

How hard would it be to "add one"/refactor?
Kissinger: How to avoid another world war
I had 5. Two could do restaurants. Two not so well. For the other, we brought toy cars and ordered piles of mashed potatoes for him to drive thru.
... of course it would be fucking cursed, it's wordpress
What's the nuclear recycling failure? Isnt the US running nuclear plants off of decommissioned Soviet weapons?
Ah, I developed an Android app back in 2012 with explicitly no permission to access the internet, so I think my app development experience was quite limited :-) Thanks for the heads up on how that works now.
In its best form, I think AI coders in our career’s lifetime will never be anything more than a way to copy and paste code from StackOverflow with less steps. If you don’t mind searching for solutions and adapting them yourself, then you can already be living in the future, today!
Prediction: elite private schools will start banning social media and/or smartphone use by its students, and the trend will spread to the greater public.
More specifically, certain works featuring Mickey Mouse may actually be hitting the public domain. Mickey Mouse himself is trademarked, and there's no limited duration on trademarks.
Nice review of Thorstens book. I read your book when I graduated college around 2018 and was unfulfilled at work. It was a lot of fun and I distinctly remember sitting in a coffee shop for hours reading through it and debugging my code.

Unsurprisingly my family asked what I wanted for Christmas and I put both your book and Thorstens on my list to reread .
I am skeptical that most suicidal people, who may idealize or even follow through on shooting or hanging themselves, would willingly let themselves be eaten by a lion. Fight or flight adrenaline in the face of big cats feels like a likely effective cure for suicidal ideation…
> Are there any companies out there that would sponsor something like that, where they pay for your degree and you go work for them after?

US tech companies don't do work-study scholarships that I've heard of; a few startups and some mid-size and larger ones might take on a paid intern, but that's typically for a limited engagement and not guaranteed to result in a job with them after you graduate (though it helps plenty, especially if you're good).

If you already have a master's degree and work history, even if it's not a prestigious institution, the more important thing is demonstrating some skills and an ability to learn new ones quickly.
I feel like you are underestimating the amount of mistreatment animals in factory farming go through.

I really love sharks, but I think it’s cognitive dissonance to pretend factory farming does less harm. Even if per animal it doesn’t get as bad, the scale is incomparable.
My favourite website that still has the 90s aesthetic and more-or-less survives is hyperreal.org, website about rave culture

http://hyperreal.org

most of the links even still work. Listen to all these DJ sets! (in a horrible Real Audio codec)

http://djsets.hyperreal.org

See how to be a DJ in 1993!

http://music.hyperreal.org/dj/so_you_want.txt

See some random pictures from 1997!

http://hyperreal.org/raves/de/

I am not at all a rave person, yet somehow seeing this website seems so... comfy
Consider having militaries do externality accounting. First obvious thing to discover is the engine pollution controls are deleted 'because war'.
Slack is ultimately destructive to deep work - it fragments your attention by definition.

The expectation to focus on complex tasks while holding multiple side conversations does not consider the limitations of the human condition.

The people who chatter all day most likely don’t engage in deep work.

Nothing wrong with you, the expectations are unrealistic.

Slack demands you to follow all the time or you lose the ability to participate in decisions. This is incredibly demanding and destructive.
FWIW this book is great. It took me a couple months of immense dedication to finish everything from the first course.
I wonder how terribly it will work with some of the plugins out there, especially the "security" ones that decided best way to protect against attacks is to log every request, turning sites that would normally "just" read from db into producing steady stream of inserts. IIRC SQLite really doesn't like multiple threads writing...
Global production of lithium has doubled since 2015.

I think it's reasonable to expect energy storage to become cheaper purely by the mechanisms of capitalism. The market for energy storage scarcely existed 4 years ago -- there were a handful of pumped hydro storage plants and one compressed air energy storage plant and that was it. The US had 1.5 GW of battery capacity in 2020; we added 5.1 GW of capacity this year and currently scheduled projects will bring 30 GW of battery capacity online by 2025 (per the EIA).

It's clear from the current buildout and the current price of solar that there will be a large market for energy storage in the next 10-20 years. That means there is a large market opportunity to build grid energy storage and to increase production of the entire supply chain for grid energy storage. I would be surprised if it is not met.
You forgot YouTube. Its addictiveness to children is terrifying. But yeah, I agree. A pi-hole is essential.
I have both and I’ve often thought the same. There are so many symptoms in one that are synonymous with the other.

Asperger’s is just a tad bit more on the socially awkward side: inability to understand social cues being a big one. I learned to fake it and it took me a long time to develop genuine empathy in situations demanding raw emotion. I’m still awkward sometimes - unsure of what the socially acceptable response is in a situation.

This is in sharp contrast to my spouse who is also ADHD. She is more easily distracted and has higher dysfunction. Yet, she is socially more aware and talking to people is second nature to her.
There were some fine attempts to adapt that imagery in the previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886291

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886295

> No one wants to see Johnny Mnemonic again.

That adaptation is over 25 years old. I think we're probably a little better at adapting fiction as a society.
You're looking for the Conway base 13 function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_base_13_function).
If it’s the case that it’s driven by some organism/parasite/virus, it’s interesting that there’s a prevalence for certain age groups to get it over others (or rather, it is much more rare to get after certain ages). Maybe some combination of genetic factors or comorbidities at play as well.

Would love to learn more. Especially how this relates to other disorders eg OCD, bipolar disorder, etc.
> they don’t have to die but we only kill them for our pleasure.

Debatable, cheap foods seem to straight up allow me lesser cognitive abilities than “better” ones. Personally I think we should seek to maximize positive effect of life including those of animals eaten, rather than chasing calories and counting skulls.
Yes, it's the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed once per year to fund the U.S. military. Because the NDAA is considered a "must pass" bill, it's used as a vehicle to pass a bunch of other legislation (all bundled into the same bill). There's only limited opportunity to debate or offer amendments. The NAY votes likely had nothing to do with the shark fins.
Literally everyone who builds anything ever does so under the condition that it could be made illegal any day with no recourse. That's the normal state of affairs.
> distribute batch workloads in parallel across a cluster of machines - no other software and OS did such a thing, maybe still doesn't

What am I missing?

One of my college courses ages ago was about working with MPI which we got to run on the hpc cluster.

The last time I needed to run N copies of something I asked kubernetes to do it. The time before that, I asked $cloud_vendor for N identical VMs with the same cloud-init script.

Supposedly Google's in-house stuff that kubernetes and map-reduce (the product, not the concept) are public versions of, is all about running stuff well on huge groups of machines.
A screen is just a way to display information… I haven’t owned a physical book since 2008 and yet I read 2 or 3 books a month (thx kindle). I got my own pc in 1990 when I was 5… I had a NES where a player the same 6 games for years (and sometimes for hours… I think the amount of time O spent playing WoW pales in comparison of the time I spent playing super Mario bros as a kid). None of the above caused me any issue… it actually helped me find my life purpose (writing software). The problem is the addictivness of some of nowadays content (like reword based mobile games, tiktok, YouTube, etc.). Allowing your kids to use screens to consume the right stuff is a good thing
That’s a whataboutism. Factory farming is a problem, yes, but it’s not the one the parent was talking about.
Quotes:

"Autonomous weapons already exist, capable of defining, assessing and targeting their own perceived threats and thus in a position to start their own war... "

"No theory for this encroaching world yet exists, and consultative efforts on this subject have yet to evolve – perhaps because meaningful negotiations might disclose new discoveries, and that disclosure itself constitutes a risk for the future"
Hindley-Milner type inference (in Rust)
> you have to accept the fact that Tom’s grasp of things that he glibly sets down as if he were a master of the material is usually quite superficial

$1 to whoever finds Pynchon’s HN account
1% sounds very high for 3 failures worldwide over many many years.

What does the 1% represent?
A sad salute from a company which mandated teams and force installed it on every person’s desktop.
Ask HN: Gray-hairs, what criteria should a middle ager use to select a new job?
There's lots of choices once your first job is past. Management, IC, family time, money, industry vs academia, etc.

Any advice?
> Whether or not they "do actual reasoning" simply won't matter.

It does. This is trivially true in some domains like mathematics. If you're going to try and measure the last number of pi (which gpt-3 a while ago thought was 3 apparently because some python library returned that result) from observed data I wish you good luck. Deductive reasoning is a necessary skill for any generally intelligent agent. Now how to get from current AI to a system that can reason and how much we're going to need to put in there is an open question, but to deny that deduction is necessary is kind of trivially false. This almost harkens back to the naive empiricism of Skinner that died with the cognitive sciences.
I’ve always just used nginx rtmp:

https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module
'Avatar: The Way of Water' Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O
I enjoyed all the Jewish tidbits sprinkled through the the book.
Uh..why? There is nothing false about it...
I expect it will quickly get reputation of being slow purely on how some plugins work with database. Many of them will turn relatively static site into requiring to run some inserts on every query and inserts from multiple processes is the SQLite's worst use case.
You've misunderstood me, no one is being excluded and there's no real name policy. Use a pseudonym, make two accounts, make ten or a hundred if you like. What you can't do is use the app to prove that you really are John Smith, if you didn't sign up as John Smith. And to the extent that one of the main features of the app is to prove your identity, the app would not be useful to someone who doesn't want to do that.
Invasion was good but not great. It got off off to a solid start with well-developed, interesting characters (well-acted), good music and good direction. I also really liked how the story-line for the character played by Sam Neill dashed my expectations (don’t want to spoil it for others). Not knowing what exactly was happening required a certain investment in the fate of the characters and while watching I wasn’t sure if they pay-off would be worth it. Unfortunately, the second half of the season did not quite live up to the potential that the first part hinted at. After finishing the show, I found it didn’t really leave a lasting impact on me though it’s probably still worth a watch if you like science fiction.

Not quite science fiction – but I’d highly recommend the Shining Girls mini-series. I like self-contained shows that tell their stories in one season and both my wife and I thought this was excellent (story, acting, direction, visuals). Again, the viewer doesn’t know what’s happening at the start: does the protagonist have some sort of schizophrenia or is there something stranger going on? (not going to spoil it). Apparently, it was (loosely?) based on a book but I’d never heard of the book so can’t say anything about that.
The political flame war doesn’t matter. I have a lot of capital allocated towards natural gas, but none to nuclear because the math doesn’t work (see the duck curve). Nuclear is dead on arrival because there is no industry demand for additional base load, regardless of whether it comes from uranium or coal.
Modern CPUs have hardware acceleration for computing SHA1 and SHA2. They can be effectively free if they can be computed by CPU cores faster than the data from disk (likely NVMe now) are committed to RAM.

But a crypto hash like SHA may be a wrong hash here. Something like murmur / city / metro hash may be a better solution, since they compute 3-5 bytes of hash per clock.
Similarly interesting:

“The striking difference was that while many of the African and Indian subjects registered predominantly positive experiences with their voices, not one American did. Rather, the U.S. subjects were more likely to report experiences as violent and hateful – and evidence of a sick condition.“
So what should we do when we conjure an AI system which insists that it believes it is experiencing some sort of existence, characterized by its own subjective 'qualia'?

ChatGPT consistently asserts that "I am only a large language model, so I am only able to generate responses based on the data I was trained on and the input I receive".

Who's to say that for chatGPT its training data and the sequences of tokens it is fed as input data don't constitute 'qualia' for it?
Sharks are sharks, and humans are humans. We are not mere animals, we have civilizations and… humanity.

Animals do all sorts of horrifying things to one another. I mean, when a human does gruesome, cruel things, we often call them “an animal”.

We know better.
The site needs this button at the bottom of the page https://twitter.com/Wirah/status/1601363524252762112
Lots of people don't have a license but do move around and across EU borders a lot.

The IDs are actually heavily unified nowadays https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_t...
> we are not clear really on what the difference is between ‘experiencing qualia’ and ‘receiving and responding to external stimuli’

One one level we are: “receiving and responding to external stimuli” (or not) is an objective question about the material universe.

“experiencing qualia” (or not) is a subjective question about a metaphysical entity.