skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EIA almost always projects boring linear growth for everything. Their data is a terrific resource for what is currently happening, what has happened recently, and what is already scheduled on the pipeline. I would not put much stock in their projections beyond their Short Term Energy Outlook. I would certainly not describe them as the most optimistic industry projections.

They project that the solar growth rate will drop after 2023 when the ITC would have expired, but it was extended in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. From there, they expect the growth curve of solar to slowly decay. It's basically all a linear projection and scarcely any more insightful than that.

They expect that electricity generation from coal will be flat (except for already-announced early coal plant retirements). They expect nuclear to be flat. They expect generation from natural gas to increase (unless renewables are cheap, in which case they expect it to be flat). They fail to anticipate the replacement of coal by natural gas or renewables and they fail to anticipate the replacement of natural gas by renewables.

Finally, as a point of comparison, take a look at their projections for EVs and hybrids. The EIA projects that EVs and hybrids will still only make up about 20% of the market for new cars in the US in 2050. (See page 9 of [1]).

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/AEO2022_ChartLibrary_Tr...
UBI has long-term challenges in that organizations will try everything they can to siphon off the money ("rent seeking") until they succeed. UBI needs to deal with this reality to succeed even in the medium term.
It’s terrifying how easy it is today to destroy someone’s life with no escape from bullying. Back in my day, I had to deal with the beatings but I could always stay at home, and when I became an adult I could avoid it. Today nowhere is safe
We’re in a similar boat and have never set limits. Our two kids have learned to self moderate. They both like technology but get bored after a period of time and move on to other activities. We also encourage other activities with cub scouts, play dates, gymnastics, swim lessons and of course occasionally have to be strict with prioritizing homework. I give my partner credit for facilitating most of this. Maybe we’re lucky or maybe setting limits oddly fosters addiction?
Whatever way we demonstrate it, it isnt via Q&A. This is the worst form of pseudoscientific psychology you can imagine.

You're likewise neither high on cocaine just because you can type out an aggresive twitchy response.

Questions and Answers dont form the basis of empirical tests for physical properties, being neither valid tests nor reliable ones. The whole of psychology stands as the unreporducible example of this.

You can, in any case, replace any conversation with a dictionary from Q->A, turning each reply in turn into a hash table look-up.

Hash tables dont think, hash tables model conversations, thef. being a model of a conversation is not grounds to suppose consciousness. QED
I have an AlphaServer in my collection, running OpenVMS. It's been a while since I've booted it up. It's very loud.
Technology?
News?

(Edit: I can no longer post new comments, saying "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

This post was an Hour ago, before which I have made 5 comments in the prior hour, my only activity in 24 hours besides liking posts)
LOL, small world. I was at OmniTI from '10-'13; I was around for the transition from Solaris 10 to OmniOS. It was an interesting system and I do wish the rest of the freenix world would learn some of the lessons that could be learned from it. (I guess in fairness they're starting to re: openzfs, ebpf, some of the smarter service management tools, et al.) That was the last time I touched proprietary unix at work, though. Even working at Oracle's AWS competitor later, everything internally was Oracle Enterprise Linux (which is to say, RHEL with the serial numbers filed off).
He was talking about working on AI the other day. Artificial general intelligence "or die" type of challenge taking.

Guess he's getting full time busy with that.
I am entirely undecided and I'm wondering what is best for long term happiness, I guess.
Andrew Huberman recently had a Harvard educated psychiatrist on the podcast. This psychiatrist specialized in treatment resistant mental health conditions. He was trying to help a patient lose weight and inadvertently found it helped their psychiatric symptoms as well. Fast forward 5 years and he had written a book, and the tl;dr is that he has seen many patients improve their conditions be going low / no carb. For patients with less extreme disease they can often get by with low carb and eliminate fructose but keep some healthy complex carbs in their diets. Seriously ill patients may benefit more from full ketosis. In any case, he often reports patients are able to reduce or sometimes eliminate medications on this diet which helps when they have trouble with the side effect profiles.
Can you fucking imagine telling a 90s Windows developer who just built an amazing multi-tasking multi-window UI that a 2022 innovation was taking away the ability to label the windows on the taskbar?
> He seemed to be focused on latency and scale, where Meta seems to be pivoting to fidelity and graphics.

Which makes sense, you want your users to be able to really take in the graphical glory of the Metaverse.
Members of both chambers of Congress have a near 100% reelection rate. The only time a politician is replaced is if they decide to retire or their own party doesn't support them in the primaries. Even if Americans really have "so little faith in Uncle Sam" they definitely don't show it in the voting booth.
It’s still relevant to the subject of harming animals. With that said, factory farms at least attempt to kill animals humanely, but it doesn’t happen all the time due to pricing pressure. Margins are low.

No, I am not vegan.
> It's almost as if it does take too long

It doesn't take too long, it takes same amount any large infrastructure does, like a bridge or a damn. We are too late starting it.

> Meanwhile the UK is refusing planning permission to solar farms

Yeah this is terrible
And Abraham
I'd like to see the EU decide Twitter is their Public Square
> Even a crappy mask can still give others some protection from your coughs & sneezes.

The evidence is incredibly clear on this. It doesn't. No mask wearing has resulted in less COVID transmission on any population around the world.

N95 masks are the only things that work - but they don't fog your glasses.
We're sacks of amino acids dissolved in saltwater. It seems unlikely that we can think either.

Nonetheless... some of us manage it.
What is the ROI of the xbox series over time?
Vista was a necessary evil on Microsoft's end. While yes some things weren't great (Aero), the main issue was always drivers.

Microsoft had to switch the ways drivers work for some very necessary security reasons. This led to many hardware manufacturers just not making new drivers or slapping together the shitiest thing and hoping it worked. Took a few years but eventually everyone had new hardware (with decent compatible drivers), at which point 7 came out which is basically Vista with a new skin.

Hell, at the end its life an up to date Vista was actually pretty decent.
I can't speak for OP or their particular use case (because I don't know about it), but kubernetes is not a panacea for large scale batch processing.

For example, large banks need to securely, reliably, and very efficiently process an unfathomable amount of transactions[1]. In this case, kubernetes would be a giant waste of resources and complexity. The former one hampers throughput, the latter one means security and reliability suffer.

For people not familiar with it (me included, actually), it can be mind-boggling what throughput is achieved, and what mechanisms for reliability are in place. Not just in software, in actual hardware; this goes way beyond ECC memory.

[1] Transactions in the bank sense, not in the computer sense, because I don't want to confuse matters more. In the mainframe world for example, there is a difference between "batch processing" and "online transaction processing", but both could be applied to bank transactions. Note that I'm not advocating for the mainframe world here.
Hi, I’m sorry you are feeling overwhelmed. My advice:

* Slack goes to the separate small monitor, not the big “work” monitor. Expense one up if you don’t have one.

* Sure thing, close Slack up from time to time. It might help to assign yourself some “office hours” (look at slack after lunch)

* Slack strength (its immediacy) is also its weakness (low permanency). Anything older than a week is forgotten. So- rejoice! Your backlog has just reduced to the last week, tops.

* You can mute with granularity: channels, people and threads. Mute away. Remove yourself from the “team” mentions. Remove yourself from “@here” mentions.
Some people think that whether something experiences qualia depends on it having the right kind of complexity. For those people, looking along that continuum, they might just say that ALL those things experience qualia, but that the richness of that experience varies according to the appropriate complexity.

For some of us, though, whether or not a thing experiences qualia depends primarily on whether there is a mental substance involved. A computer has no mind (we suspect), and so even if its complexity (of the alleged 'right sort') exceeds that of the human, there is still no experiences.

The main point I'm making here is that trying to draw attention to this continuum is only going to be a persuasive argument to those who already think (or are inclined to think) that the ability to have experiences of qualia comes about merely from having the right kind of complexity (e.g., 'receiving and responding to external stimuli').

I am inclined to think that other humans and other non-human animals have experiences, but I don't think that's merely because they're complex enough systems (of the right sort of complexity).
I was referring only to his grace with respect to Tesla tweets. Not more generally. Sorry for the misdirection.
I would imagine that different countries might had slightly different traffic laws or acceptable risk levels, so might want to have their own licensing schemes. Maybe the could have a unified form-factor that gets stamped by the individual countries though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Eargesplitten_Loudenboom... (emphasis added):

> This humorously named cartridge was developed in the 1960s by P.O. Ackley for Bob Hutton of Guns & Ammo magazine, and was intended solely to exceed 5,000 ft/s (1,500 m/s) muzzle velocity. Ackley's loads only managed 4,600 ft/s (1,400 m/s)(Mach 4.2), firing a 50-grain (3.2 g) bullet. Based on a .378 Weatherby Magnum case, the case is impractically over-capacity for the bore diameter, and so the cartridge remains a curiosity. The advent of new slower-burning smokeless powders may have changed the equation.
IT projects fuck up all the time. Poor execution is baked into the human DNA. It doesn't take malice or crime to fail to be excellent. Neither the Newton nor Google glasses failed on corruption. Carmack is smart but he also failed to make his rocketry mark. Maybe individual brilliance in code is less important to execution of things than we (he?) thinks? Or maybe he only picks targets with hard end-goals versus the easy marks?
FWIW: It is already seriously cool.
Who else can bridge the neurotypical spectrum? Maybe Eric Weinstein from the portal but he stopped that.
I don't have ADHD and 1000+ channels is a lot. I feel the same way at 10 channels.

As an engineer I would make the tickets only exist in the ticket tracking system that's not on slack. Communicate over there.

I don't know about other roles.
Sure, but it's VR. Not making people sick (= low latency) needs to come first
I didn’t read OP as making any comparison, nor needing correction. I can say I think beating one’s offspring is bad, without needing to qualify that I think throwing them into a volcano is worse.

Granted it can be good to raise awareness when someone expresses a moral judgment of atrocities which might reach further than their stated objections. But it can be done without making assumptions about their position on those further reaches.
I wonder if there's a tally anywhere... I suspect that if you look at attempted vs successful regime changes, the CIA isn't actually that good at it (at least in cases where the US avoided more overt actions, like sending in the military)
I’m fairly certain it started out as him expecting to have some sort of positive influence on the slimy mold that is Facebook, but in the end he found out that his advice was often just thrown to the wind because it didn’t match someone’s political agenda.

At some point you have to decide whether it’s worth it to keep fighting.
This blogpost from 2014 has been an almost perfect predictor of the last few years of the Meta disaster. It misses some stuff, but it's not really wrong anywhere beyond some minor details. It calls out Carmack as being the canary that will ultimately predict Oculus/Meta's future.

https://assayviaessay.blogspot.com/2014/03/virtual-spaces-re...
The underlying issue is lack of self-discipline (to not over-consume things like the phone), not the phone itself.

Removing the phone is treating the symptoms instead of the issue.
I hear theories like "this parasite has evolved to make it's host want to be eaten by lions" and I instinctually think that's crazy, but then I remember all the way more crazy things that nature does, and it starts to sound reasonable. Thanks for sharing!
Underestimating? Are you having a laugh?

Sharks are persona non gratia at the best of times. They are not something you can farm without a lot of cruelty.

You don't love sharks - that's mad. No one loves sharks: one on one a shark will kill you. You might love diversity and that's fine.
We know who’s already won that argument, yes, but we also spend a lot of time here talking about the dystopian mess created by reducing everything to a number. This is the same exact situation.

I didn’t make an accusation to win the argument. I made the accusation to make the accusation.
> CO2 has been decreasing

You're looking at the wrong statistic, my friend. Climate is a global issue, so global emissions matter more than US emissions. Try this graph, from your same source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

(Of course CO2 declined in 2020-2021 due to the pandemic shutdown. Unfortunately, 2023 global CO2 emissions will likely continue the prior growth trend.)

Your comment that the proper application of regulation, carbon capture, and nuclear energy would fuel declines is fine and I support all of the above. However, climate deniers and opportunists cherry-pick data and stall needed regulation in the name of politics and economics.

Carbon Engineering-type solutions and generalized R&D into massive climate capture is absolutely necessary, but has little to no business model behind it without a carbon tax or other market-driven incentive. Again, climate deniers lambaste government-funded climate R&D and free-market incentives (i.e., accurately pricing carbon) as either pork-barrel politics or unnecessary and broad overreach. I'm being kind, because people at the extremes use much more dire language.

Carbon Engineering is a fascinating case study and odd place to hang your hat. They are a startup, with 142 employees on LinkedIn and their flagship plant "is expected to capture one million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually when complete."[1] Humans emit approximately 35 billion metric tons of carbon annually, so it would take 35,000 Carbon Engineering plants in production to get us to carbon neutrality. And even then, our atmospheric CO2 is still 100 ppm higher than it was in 1960[2]. Who pays for building those plants? At best-case cost of $94/ton, who pays the $94M/year operating cost per plant, or $3.3 trillion per year?

Actually reversing the carbon impact requires us to massively reduce emissions and massively invest in carbon capture. We're not doing either.

Nuclear is a phenomenal technology, but a political and regulatory nightmare. Thankfully it's being re-thought, but that will take time - as will the process of building them. Significant additional nuclear power won't be connected to the grid for a minimum of 7 years, maybe 10. It's just not enough.

This is why "all of the above" is such an important concept. We need to invest in research, revise regulations, create market incentives, and use wind and solar that are available today to feed our growing need for power instead of building new coal and gas fired plants.

But there will never be the political will to do all of that when people delude themselves to believe carbon is declining (it's not), solutions will appear on their own (they won't), we aren't affecting the climate (we are), and the drive to shift to a lower carbon footprint is because a cabal of elites want to take over the world (they probably are, but that's always been the case and that doesn't mean climate change isn't real).

[1] https://carbonengineering.com/
[2] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Engineering#Pilot_plant...
As a small company veteran -it absolutely happens at that level as well.
Isaac Asimov's “Gold”, one of his final stories. The future of AI art.
It would be pretty difficult to write threaded code for Windows in 1989, since it didn't support threads until WinNT 3.1 (1993).

But even in late 90s it was still common for desktop Win9x apps to use the main window message loop for async processing (Win32 API itself heavily encouraged it at the time - e.g. that's how OS timers work) in lieu of threads.
Windows XP wasn't bad either. Windows 98 was great as well for its time.
I'm asking who is looking for and deploying exploits for an OS no one uses.
In what way do you and plants and you and the ocean 'agree'? I'm not sure how to make sense of these claims. I'm not even sure that you and the dog agree on this matter, but I can make more sense of that.
While the parasite is found throughout the world, more than 40 million people in the United States may be infected with the Toxoplasma parasite.

Once a diagnosis of toxoplasmosis is confirmed, you and your health care provider can discuss whether treatment is necessary. In an otherwise healthy person who is not pregnant, treatment usually is not needed. If symptoms occur, they typically go away within a few weeks to months. For pregnant women or persons who have weakened immune systems, medications are available to treat toxoplasmosis.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/gen_info/faqs.ht...

Maybe we should make it more of a priority to treat it rather than be all "Meh. Not symptomatic. Moving on."
Get a formal diagnosis.
Get accommodations.
Don’t just drop off slack without protection for when someone inevitably complains that you didn’t say “how high” when they said jump.
The problem is when it's not objectively wrong but it has an opinion of what is right and refuses to consider alternatives. Just had an experience with it when I asked for advice on xyz it effectively said "xyz is bad, um-kay" when "xyz" was not objectively bad and there are debates about it all over. I tried 5 ~ 6 different ways to get it to acknowledge there were different points of view but it just kept parroting the same paragraph that effectively said "xyz is bad, um-kay"

It made me really scared for the day there is the one "true think" and that's the only answer you get from Siri, Google, etc...
> Bees also cannot eat sugar.

Are you sure about that? I came across this article in another comment: https://carolinahoneybees.com/feeding-bees-sugar-water/
I'd give it to those first two, and V. I liked Against the Day but there's this long middle-to-end section of filth and depravity that I could do without, and it's weirdly more coherent than the rest. The other books have bits of that, but move on before long.
> I don't want to be that person that's not reachable but more and more, I'm thinking about closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day.

What's wrong with this?

Also, learn to mute channels we have thousands too, I'm in about 20-50 at a given time between pruning. Out of those I only keep important, low noise channels unmuted.
In a way, it gives an aroma of truth to reality is all perspective. It’s fascinating to think that mental models affect the rendering of reality. Language enforces a particular constraint on its own.
There is no right answer. At different times I have optimized for career growth (startup), compensation (FAANG), and currently work-life balance and flexibility (consulting). The only thing I would've done differently is that I didn't optimize for anything the first ten years or so, and jumped on whatever opportunity came knocking. Though in the end it all worked out well enough. So my first recommendation is to identify what matters to you most right now and don't second guess yourself - there is no perfect job out there. As soon as your priorities change and the current situation no longer works, switch.

The second bit of advice is to always push yourself out of your comfort zone. Embrace change. This might come off as trite, but that is how growth happens. Many people seem to find a comfortable groove (I did as well) and end up stagnating, and it can be hard to pull yourself out. Good luck!
My god, Rink works. I remember them having one of the first "Tech Support Humor" sites way back in the day(1997?), and just casual glancing saw updates from around 2020 the pandemic so I guess they're still going.
Maine's trees are tiny compared to the PNW. Most of them would hardly graze the line if they fell over.

It's really difficult to prune, say, 50 miles of Douglas-fir that stands easily over 150-200ft and grows right next to the lines -- many of their limbs are fatter than any tree I saw in the northeast. You'd have to get a crane and block the road off, and one tree could take a good part of a day. Can't fell them either, generally speaking, as you get into all sorts of disputes and the environmentalists will send you to hell 50 different ways with lawsuits.
I just tell everyone that if it’s not urgent enough to call me (on my phone), it can wait.
Wow, this has gotten bad fast. I did some reading on the water shortage in the Southwest the last time I saw a story about it on the FP, and came away with the idea that this is a classic coordination trap, and the only solutions are a) everyone involved spontaneously decides to conserve water in unison, and b) the Feds enact quick, decisive regulations that almost no one (the states involved, counties and cities, developers, industrial corporations, big agriculture, etc) likes and enforce them harshly. The former is a fantasy and I'm not sure the latter isn't either. It's hard to draw any conclusion other than: don't move there.

Previous article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31987408
I would expect F# to be faster than OCaml, given that it doesn't box floats, and is backed by a JIT that proactively does monomorphization of generics.
I wonder what is the rational of removing features like allow for customization.
90s to early 2000s, it was "fun" to accidentally use "killall" on the wrong machine. System V derived UNIXes really mean "kill all", not what Linux meant with it ("kill all with a certain name"), and what today is better represented by "pkill" anyway.
Just poking at the 'human' part of the definition.

Because if we want to ever be able to answer a question like 'does this AI system experience qualia', we need a definition that doesn't rely on 'well, qualia are a thing humans have, so... no'
His unscripted talks were amazing. Everytime I watched them I was thinking "ok, the official Meta announcements are corny, but there is still someone that still cares about what is the actual end result;" that's why I was still semi-positive about Meta.

Well, I guess not anymore.