skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a view into 80s, 90s and early 2000s history of (mostly Mac) outliners, here is an article series:

http://www.atpm.com/Back/atpo.shtml
I don’t think you quite appreciate how remote the possibility of a SHA-256 collision is.

Barring a catastrophic break, there will never be a collision witnessed across the full lifespan of humanity.
I am indeed still in Seattle; I moved to Cupertino for a year but came back to the climate I'm used to. :)

I totally appreciate what you're doing! I wish there were a way to make it painful for the TSA.
That makes sense when you consider it thinks about entire words and pieces of words, not letters.
The opposite of the quote is the proverb 'charity begins at home', if that helps.
Where does one build 3.5 million houses? The housing needs to be where jobs / etc, are. It should also be where resources are. A good deal of the state has water issues regularly; additional part of the state can't keep the power on due to - heat waves, fires, over use, winds, cats farting.

The rural county I live in has open jobs, but a sizeable chunk of the work force is either seasonal (logging, etc) then coast on unemployment for the off season or don't actually want to work. Those that do, are flaky as all get go. (My partner and I own a small business in the county).

What does this have to do with housing? Covid and growth of a near by metro area (about an hour away) have pushed people to buying up what was previously cheap (yet affordable) housing. Small cabins that would be going for ~75k or a bit more 7 years ago are pushing over $200k now. The local community college as well as natural disasters further puts pressure on the housing situation. How about building more? Well, insuring housing when large fires have come through? Hard to come by. Building costs have also gone through the roof.

Housing is needed in this particular county (and surrounding) but isn't being built.

Where does housing for 3.5 million get built?
Middlemarch is also my favorite classic novel. I didn't get anything out of Underworld (or White Noise). Don't understand why they're so acclaimed. Curious if you end up the same.
This isn't Seinfeld, and everything doesn't come back to Lloyd Braun.
In defense of the normies I'd say life is complex. People don't know what they don't know. They're making risk assessments all the time, yet with (sometimes very) incomplete information.

Mechanically minded folks say "why ever trust an auto shop?" Tech folks say "why ever give your data/device to someone else?" Handy types say "why pay so much for mediocre work from a plumber/electrician/etc.?"
It just shows that Thunderbird has room for improvement when it comes to how it uses multi-threading. You always want the UI thread to be non-blocking and react instantly when a user does something. Most games (for example) do this really well.
> Preventing climate change is going to take massive changes that no companies or goverments actually want to do

In the most polluting (directly and indirectly) wealthy democracies, the blame can mostly be placed on us as individuals. The politicians and businesses are mostly catering to what individuals want, a systemic problem that we seem to struggle to solve. A country’s pollution is approximately proportional to its wealth. To fix the problem requires huge changes to our individual wealth.

Few individuals want to make the required changes: individually we buy into cheap denial narratives, green-washing. No democracy can act as a benevolent dictator to force us to make the radical changes required to our priorities, our wants and needs. The majority of us are sold on deception, because we want to buy into the deception.

Edit: a few simple assumptions means for a me to capture my carbon with trees, I need to plant ≈1 Hectare (4 acres) of trees, and never harvest the trees. I do intend to do it (it will mean some belt tightening), but it doesn’t address the problem of removing my past CO2 emissions, and would use up 20% of New Zealand’s land to do it if all 5 million of us wanted to. “New Zealand has a total of 10.1 million hectares of forests, covering 38% of the land. 2.1 million hectares are plantation forest.”. “The yearly carbon dioxide balancing rate varies between 21.77 and 31.5 kilogram carbon dioxide for each tree. To offset one ton of Carbon dioxide, between 31 and 46 trees are required. One should use a ratio of 24 kilograms of carbon dioxide per tree and an estimate of five hundred trees per hectare to get the values.”. “New Zealand's gross carbon dioxide emissions in 2018 were 7.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, (CO 2-e) per capita.”. Edit 2: Belt tightening because it isn’t cheap to buy one hectare - far far cheaper if I can find another few tens of people that want to do the same thing).
Maybe the socialists finally took over up there. Based on other recent articles about Stanford, that seems highly likely. They are implementing policy that closely mirrors many of the same elements of Mao's philosophy.
The reason diesel doesn't usually gel is that, starting in the fall, fuel stations/refineries start adding anti-gelling agents to the diesel.

If you have "summer diesel" in your tractor during a cold spell, it will gel. And a block heater won't help, since the fuel gels in the fuel lines and tank too. And trying to start the engine pulls in that gel into the fuel filter and sort of strains the chunks out, causing your fuel filter to need to be replaced even once it's warmed up.

I'm not sure at exactly what temperature it happens, but a Kansas winter will typically gel summer diesel at least a couple of times.
> Regardless of this data breach, phone number login / verification or SMS 2FA is an absolutely stupid idea.

They don't care, its not actually for security or Safety, rather it's a unique ID thats much harder to change than E-Mail, thus much easier to track across services.

Oh also Bot protection if that matters anyway.
Fake accusations can happen for lots of crimes, not just rape. All it takes is someone being vindictive or petty and knowing they can get away with the fake accusation to destroy someone. In these cases, the system becomes the weapon. When you eliminate foundational elements of a justice system like innocent until proven guilty or the ability to question your accuser, you’re changing it from a system from justice to injustice as people realize that it’s an even better weapon with which to enact revenge than a gun or a knife because you can destroy someone with little chance for being held accountable.
Doesn't seem to work here (macOS, Firefox)
It didn’t refuse to do that? Or, did it throw a warning about possibly violating content policy but still producing it?
I clicked on the first GitHub link and landed on the repo page for OpenWatcom. Immediately I hit one of my biggest pet peeves with GitHub repo pages: what is it? The readme doesn’t say!

Repo maintainers: please put a one-or-two sentence description of what your project is at the top of the repo readme! It’s really not too much at all to ask! Assuming people know what your project is just because they landed on the repo page is one of the fastest ways to bounce people out.
If religion was a net negative, it wouldn't have survived for... well, since monkeys grew a rigid spine. The negatives tend to come from people exploiting others' dependency on its usefulness.
in the very early days of utility serice some houses got 110 volt only, but most of them got upgraded to 220 in the 1950s.
ChatGPT is a language model, it does not "understand" anything, concepts, words or otherwise. It is even programmed to give you a canned response saying something roughly equal to this when asking it about its comprehension abilities.

ChatGPT has no more capacity for understanding concepts than any other computer program, it's just very finely tuned to emit responses that make it appear as if it does.
> There will be changes in direction sometimes, but that’s because they also appear sometimes in the training text.

Yeah. My point is essentially that I think they don't appear in the training text often enough, since it's trained on written, edited text, which don't often contain changes of opinion mid-answer, unlike spoken text, for example.

Perhaps if it could somehow be trained on a dataset of humans writing responses, including editing (e.g. removal of previously-written words), that might lead to better responses, since it can then edit the answer after reasoning it through (in OP's example).

Or, to simplify things, perhaps it should be allowed to emit a token meaning "actually, scrap all that, let me start over" when it detects a contradiction in its own response so far. (The model would still continue to see its own response including that token, but the UI could remove everything until the last instance of the token, if any.)

Or, again alternatively, if we want a response closer to spoken text, it could be trained on dialogues from humans that change their mind occasionally, and then verbalize that explicitly (e.g. actually emit "actually, scrap all that, let me start over").
Are you talking about DaVinci 003? Every time I tried it it quickly ends with "they had sex, and they were both left fulfilled and happy with the experience, the end".
ChatGPT seems like it is "just" a very advanced Chinese Room(?). That is, it is optimized for the Turing test: for deceiving human and algorithmic classification to appear to write as "human-like" as possible. Very often this optimization yields "truth-y" or "insightful-ish" responses!

But ultimately, this optimization cannot yield a super intelligence, rather it yields a super mockingbird.

I don't doubt that a sufficiently complex and well-trained computer program could be super intelligent...I just don't think we'll get there solely by making a computer program try to mimic things that humans have written online (while simultaneously avoiding being identified/classified as a plagiarist or non-human).

Edit: I have no idea how I originally called this a "Turing machine". Thank you for correcting my utterly baffling brain error.
My opinion dropped severely after each store, one after another, took away the mute button.

I was ok with this, even though the machines seemed barely competent & often complained about putting things into the bag after I had. But at least they were otherwise fairly painless.

But now that they are yapping loud and often a pain in the ass... Im glad to wait in the longer line & exchange some words with the human, as I get checked out. The experience of machines has just gotten worse & worse.
Also chiming in to say that while I can appreciate your concern that walnutclosefarm's comment may have had the potential to kick off a 'religious flamewar', I don't see their comment as being in that vein. I saw it as a criticism on the quality of Pullman's writing only.
100%. Someone who beats the drum on this regularly and effectively is Brent Toderian, @BrentToderian@mastodon.online. He's a city planner and strong advocate for precisely this position. Another resource is strongtowns.org. But yes, just speaking up, getting involved at the local level, is something that every citizen should get involved with if they can.
The existence of Reddit's wallstreetbets is all the evidence you need to be very cautious when trading options or using margin/leverage.
My first encounter with Linux was a video I saw on youtube when I was 13 years old where they had the song "here comes the hotsteppper" and a bunch of window effects done with compiz fusion.

I couldn't believe this was possible with a computer, I installed Ubuntu on my laptop and managed to get a bunch of effects going. It was a really great time, it also gave my laptop a second life as it was a very old machine and it would just not run properly under windows.
I got some of those calls!
I'm fairly sure current DNS infrastructure doesn't use as much power as a country to achieve usable performance.

But also reading from the blockchain is not fast, and I don't know why you think that.
People don't have a right to access other people. It's insane that we've accepted this.
Hopefully the damages granted are substantial enough to be a warning to others producing that kind of content. A short jail term would have been a much more stronger lesson but I doubt that will happen.
> lots of people at the school value things like inclusion, community and "integrative learning"

Probably true. Although you might find considerable disagreement as to what, exactly, “community” means.

> and want to see the school prioritize it in its staffing decisions.

Prioritize how?

If you mean that hiring for unrelated positions should be require DEI statements, I think you’ll find this is an unpopular view.

If you mean that one should choose one’s hires inclusively such that one preferentially hires people of specific races, ethnicities, etc, then you may find that this is unpopular, or illegal, or dubiously legal, or maybe even unproductive for the purpose of improving the degree to which one’s staff is a representative sample of the population.

If you mean that a university should hire such that the student community feels like a community, then I bet many people agree but may feel that the universities are not actually succeeding.
The realisation that sea level rises have likely obscured both the paths early humans took into the Americas and their early settlements only occurred to me recently. Though yes, it does seem highly likely. It does make me wonder what if any relics may remain beneath the waves.

Inland river valleys are the next most likely sites for early habitations and migrations. Such as this one.

In more populated regions, those are all but certainly obliterated by subsequent habitation and construction.

Sea levels 30--15 kya would have been 120--100m below present levels. Along the west coast of North America, the continental shelf drops of relatively quickly, but this would still leave a coastal plane several mile seaward of present, and some features such as the Channel Islands would have been far nearer, or even attached to, the mainland.

<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Gla...>

Looking at that graph, the first thought that occurs is that civilisation emerged largely as the sea-level rise stopped. Why that is I don't know.

Globally, the Earth would have appeared about like this:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Glo...>

I'd like to see details of the western North American coastline reconstructed. I suspect that the San Francisco Bay would have been a low inland plain with rivers running through it (the Sacramento river from the east, and likely the precursor of Coyote Creek from the south). The link below seems to confirm this --- apparently 20 kya the shoreline would have been at what is now the Farallon Islands, now 30 miles (50 km) offshore.

<https://historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1QWY_20-000-ye...>

A KQED bit on evolution of the bay: <https://www.kqed.org/quest/7788/the-importance-of-studying-t...>

SF Bay shoreline evolution: <https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/ucmp_oldsite_nonwpfiles/museum/eve...>

Peak-glaciation coastline & bay: <https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/ucmp_oldsite_nonwpfiles/museum/eve...>

Both above from: <https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/ucmp_oldsite_nonwpfiles/museum/eve...>

If you go back 125kya, sea levels were higher, and there was a straight between the Bay and Pacific through Colma:

<https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/01/san...>

From: <https://www.kqed.org/quest/49030/geological-outings-around-t...>

California in the Late Pleistoscene (18 kya), with a fully-glaciated Sierra, many intermountain lakes especially on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, central-valley lakes, and a coastline extended far westward: <https://www.secretmuseum.net/map-of-lower-california/>
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article recently [1] about how Princeton's endowment generates more than enough income to fund the entire school forever- no need for tuition. Yet, they still employ hundreds (thousands? I'm guessing given I know USC employs over a hundred full-time fundraisers, then all the fund managers, etc.) of people as part of their fundraising machine.

These schools really are bureaucratic monsters. They need to make more money so they can hire more fundraisers so they can make more money etc.

1. https://malcolmgladwell.bulletin.com/princeton-university-is...
On call, but this is the best time of the year to be on call: none of my coworkers are around to break anything. A gut estimate of my pager load is that 80 percent of pages are caused by bad changes pushed by humans, and another 10 percent are caused by changes pushed by humans exercising latent errors in the system, and only the remaining 10 percent random shit breaking.

The main downside is that I also don't have as many people to escalate / help when an outage does occur over the holidays. But that's not as urgent now that say, generator fires are Amazon's problem not mine.
Yes true. Midnight is not AM nor PM because it's neither ante meridiem nor post meridiem. Noon has the same issue.
Some footnotes:

The plant is self pollinating, saving time

All in the plant is poisonous except beans, therefore less animal pests. I assume that it should be better to avoid skin exposure when you prune or manage the fruit.

If you find worms in the berries, check: Coffee Berry borer, biological control with wasps preferred over chemicals at long term

If you find orange patches in the underside of the leaves check: Coffee Leaf Rust, big enemy of arabica, affecting the flavor of your crop. This is the reason why UK drinks tea instead coffee. Will be a problem near the coast at lower areas. Colder places in mountainous terrain are more difficult for the fungus growth and plants in mountain areas over 1300m can deal with it, or grow clean over 1700m.

Don't bring material from contaminated farms

Soil must be rich and a little acidic; moist but well drained. Both are required. Well drained is a must. Fungi invading roots will be one of our main problems and will appear in a valley or if they are planted carelessly.

They want to be under a forest canopy (required to keep moisture), but probably not in dense shadow. Light indirect but bright. You will want to keep part of the current trees
Ever since I’ve been in charge of my first team, this has been something I believed strongly in. One of the highlights of this holiday season for me was finding out that the new lead who took over one of my teams is doing the same thing.

Out of curiosity, what were the circumstances that made this not workable for the remaining 1 of the 6 years?
This looks great. Meta question, does Safari enforce the privacy policy of extensions in anyway? Besides trusting that this doesn’t leak any data, is there another mechanism that guarantees this?
Merry Christmas friend
What are the alternatives which are properly deterministic?
Having to track down macros across several files really annoys me as well. When I write macros in C, I place them just above the code where they are used and undefine them immediately after.
I like the heat here in TX. I moved from Michigan, where I also enjoyed the cold (but not the lack of sunlight, affinis Seattle). Saudi Arabia was a bit too hot for my taste, but Texas summers are very enjoyable to me. I may be an outlier, but I genuinely enjoy doing things outside in the Houston summers.
Sciter is an embeddable HTML/CSS engine (like a browser): https://sciter.com
And its CSS has @mixin built-in.
> You need to factor in local taxes as well.

Sure, tax burden rankings usually aggregate state and local taxes.

> California cities top the charts for sales tax.

The maximum combined local sales tax rate in California is 3% (There's a 7.25% state rate, on which local district rates can be added to a maximum of 10.25%).

No California cities are in the top 50 for sales tax in the US. [0]

> A lot of these overall tax burden rankings miss that!

It is certainly possible that some might, and its always important to check the methodology, but of those with disclosed methodology, I can't recall encountering the problem.

[0] https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/highest-salestax-cities
number 2 diesel fuel will turn to jelly at a bit over 40f. That is warmer than water freezes. Number 1 diesel will be fine to well below zero, and you can mix them to get different gel points. There are also anti gel additives you can add to prevent gelling. Number 2 diesel has significantly more energy than number 1, and is also cheaper, so you want to run number 2 if possible.
Also all the land and buildings it owns, manages, and rents/leases to others. (eg, they own and lease properties and buildings on El Camino)

And they have their own police force, own thousand of houses, and all the infra too (including streets, roads, sewers, etc).

Stanford is immensely rich, just considering their land holdings alone...
Something must be wrong with your vehicle. I've tracked every tank of fuel I've put in either of my vehicles, and the efficiency does drop in the winter, but nowhere near that amount.

I actually just looked at my economy graph, and I can't tell how much winter affects it. The variance is less than the variance of my driving habits. So less than 20%.
You sound like somebody who's never had to plug your car in at night to make sure that it'll start in the morning.

ICE cars still need electricity to start
diesel starts gelling at warmer than water freezes.
I fail to see how this is propaganda…
some of us do that longer than we should is my point
In my view, I categorize conspiracy theory conversation to be the same as speaking about religion. What I mean by this is I try not to ask poking questions because I want to avoid offending the person's beliefs and I also don't want to make it seem as if I want to get sucked into their religion / conspiracy theory. For the most part though, most conspiracy theories involve faith without evidence. This approach only works when the conspiracy theory isn't tied to urgent action (maybe including inaction or noncompliance) or scapegoating.
San Fransisco isn’t a person and therefore can’t have an opinion about whether to inforce laws. What you have are people fighting for control of San Franscisco (and other jurisdictions), some of which want control and don’t want to enforce laws and those that do want control and want to enforce laws.

In pretty much all jurisdictions, the latter group is more forceful, more aggressive and more determined to take control to impose their own flavor of authoritarianism, left, right or otherwise. The only group consistently failing to take control are those that would take control and actually make a point of leaving you alone.
Did they get the state wrong?

Ohio, Kentucky and a few other states are experiencing rolling blackouts. Texas seems to have been fine.
if you assume that the pot roast took labour to produce, the increased wages from the year is one of the cause of the higher prices of said pot roast.
It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that:

- we are more finely tuned

- and we have a wider variety of inputs that we can respond to and outputs by which we can respond
> not having a 220v outlet in the garage will be like not having a microwave

What about the millions of people who live in apartments and rowhouses?
Even if we got rid of all private passenger vehicles we’d still need some small commercial vehicles and they’d have the same technical issues.
The while condition is reading the pin. The first delay lets the pin stabilize before waiting for the pin to go false.
Remember that compression raises the temperature.
And in practice, this effectively never happens (are there good examples of it happening?). Somehow the revolution keeps getting stuck in the totalitarian phase.
The emphasis should be on Artificial as in faux.