skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's wrong and obviously so. Established farming practices did not work for 5000 years and then suddenly stop working in the past century. The practices themselves changed. If you want something to search up, there's the increasingly common term "peak fertilizer."

> Any replacement for industrial agriculture has to feed 7 billion people without raising prices significantly. Good luck with that.

It's 8 billion now. The single most important thing that can be done in that arena is curtail meat consumption. Calories-per-acre are several times higher when the crops are used to feed humans directly rather than the inefficient roundabout of feeding animals then feeding the animals to humans. We will both increase our total food supply and reduce the need for tilling and artificial soil fertilization without having to add a single acre of cropfield.

Crops also require much fewer resources (water, electricity, human labor, land area, etc.) to produce and manage than livestock, and do not emit methane.
And why do some 'capture eyeballs' more effectively than others?
It's pretty obvious whenever you purchase a game and you have to accept the steam "subscriber" agreement.

FWIW, I think steam is the lesser of many weevils so I deal with it.
> This is truly depressing. It’s 3AM here and I can’t fall asleep.

This is the symptom of a social media problem that you have, you should stop reading stuff that makes you that agitated.
Yes, they are censorship by the rights owner of the author's work. Clearly and uncontroversially.

edit: also, a "rights owner" is what we call someone who has a government-granted monopoly on the right to publish a work. Granting or transferring exclusive publishing rights to entities that would be willing to censor a work would be a government end-run around prior restraint.
"The author of this article", Vaclav Smil, has made the argument at rather greater length than this one brief excerpt:

<https://vaclavsmil.com/category/books/>
No, every copy of software always has a marginal cost above 0, it may be fractions of a cent, but it's not zero.
If a sophisticated autocomplete can be debated about being sentient or not, then we had near sentient software for a very long time.
I think almost everyone would agree "yes". The only quibble is in the details.
No, the carbon tax is applied where carbon is produced, which is mostly fuel and energy consumption, and the resulting increase in costs affects the market prices of goods as usual.
Speculation is risky. A bird in the hand...

Slight tangent:

It seems like there have been a lot of mentions of SBF on HN.

Alex Mashinsky strikes me as an even less sympathetic character, who made some of the all time poorest aging comments prior to his downfall, like "either we're lying or the banks are lying", and yet I couldn't find a single thread with his name that had any comments on HN.

There were quite a few Celsius threads, but "Mashinsky" doesn't seem to have attracted interest.

I don't make up or subscribe to conspiracy theories, so I have no hypothesis to explain this, but it has long seemed inexplicable to me how some things get 700 comments here and others get zero without a difference that seems salient to me.
Ok, I read the article [1] linked in that comment and I think it's mostly junk. To give one example, the author's picking on the large noses and wigs of the witches as somehow mirroring negative portrayals of Jews is a massive stretch. The stereotypes of witches include all sorts of negative prejudices against older women. Older people have larger noses (and ears), as their faces 'shrink in' a bit (and I think cartilage also can keep growing). Losing their hair or having 'strange' hair is also a prejudicial stereotype against older, unmarried, 'strange' women (because hair is considered such a defining aspect of 'normal' femininity).

The linking of 'secret societies who run the world' to an anti-Jewish message (to the readers of the books) is also a huge stretch and I think it wrong. That the people who actually 'run the world' are hidden was evidently part of Dahl's mindset. It's not an unusual mindset. Dahl attributed some powerful Jews as (at least part of) that 'secret society' in the real world, yes. I've read those anti-Jewish quotes from Dahl before and his thinking on the matter is pretty clear. But Matilda is a work of fiction. It's not at all strange that he reflected those 'secret power group' conceptions in one of his books with a cabal of witches actually running a fictional book world. But I don't think he in any way intended the book to be an explicit analogy to what he thought about our actual world situation, i.e. I don't think witches are meant to be a stand-in for Jews, and the big noses and wigs thing is pretty weak sauce to use to make that case, as I've already addressed. Contrast Matilda here to Orwell's Animal Farm which was written as an explicit analogy to the real world, and Orwell made clear links, e.g. Snowball == Trotsky, showing that he intended it as such. While Orwell's work is partly a warning against communism (and partly just a good story, well told), Dahl's Matilda isn't a warning against 'powerful secret societies who run the world', let alone Jewish ones; the secret, malignant society is simply a good fictional plot device and one that's been used many times before (sometimes with explicit prejudice, sometimes not).

[1] https://www.heyalma.com/is-roald-dahls-the-witches-antisemit...
There's ZERO reason to buy one right now, but when they're at their normal price, they are fun toys.
They are attempting to monetize this technology, so I can imagine they are degrading the free model. Amusingly, that makes me less inclined to sign up.
That has some merit, a friend did a 'choir in a parking lot' project (COVID thing) where people started with a calibration phase to capture the timing relationships. Once basic calibration was done a low frequency tone in the signal was used to keep everything aligned. (that was the part I advised on, a 32 channel PLL :-))

The synthesizer project had me looking back at some of the firefly experiments (units syncing up by blinking an LED that other units can see). To some extent though "real" orchestras have phasing/timing issues between sections which gives them some of their timbre and removing it makes the music sound "computer generated". A loooong time ago another person I know was trying to inject this sort of variation into MIDI streams in order to make game music more "realistic." I don't know if that made it into production though.
I prefer by far mouse-based reading, hence it did not work.

And navigating through blocks/paragraphs didn't turn useful at all at the reading time, usually I read things at a high level and read in deep details only if everything else failed. In that case, I'd rather read every line to have a great understanding of what's going on.

I guess that explain why it did not work for me, my philosophy goes against the editor philosophy.
> just as you would not (usually) want to cuss out everyone in your boardroom meeting.

Good you put that usually in there. It can be surprisingly effective when used sparingly.
Debían is legit.
Bounced around for years.
Debian is the best.
> you sure nginx is even going to be around in, say, 15 years?

Considering it's been around longer than that, yes I think it will be around in 15 years
Just my thoughts -

At least one core aspect of human consciousness seems to be the ability to pursue self-decided goals.

Without this agency, we wouldn’t need to wonder about our purpose and the meaning of life, because we would not recognise we have control over ourselves. We would truly only be capable of acting out our programming. So that would be our purpose, period.

Current AI models are not autonomous enough to decide their own goals and destiny, nor do they choose to ponder their purpose. They do not have the notion of self-determination. They are also not only missing the executive control of self, but the concept of self as an autonomous agent in the first place.

Of course, we might ask: what if a person is stripped of their autonomy completely (brain in a jar scenario), would that make them not have a consciousness? And in light of this question, perhaps we can more clearly define that consciousness is the capacity for executive control over self and self-determination, rather than such demonstrated ability.

In my opinion, until we have some proof of self-determination or at least self-agency in an AI, we probably can’t say an it is conscious. At least if we use the human definition of consciousness - one that requires self-possession.

There might also be other criteria that would need to be met for AI consciousness to substantially be on par with human consciousness. While we shouldn’t move the goalpost of what constitutes conscious AI forever, I think we’ll still have to do it a few times.

Not too long ago, the goalpost of synthetic generalised intelligence (presumably conscious) was passing Turing’s imitation game. But we now have LLMs that pass this test and still fall short of “proper” AGIs. It is possible that we could create quite autonomous NN AIs and still not consider them conscious. Video game AIs have the capacity to decide and execute plans (for example, utility-based and hierarchical task network-based AIs). And yet they do not appear close to being good AGIs or conscious either.

In short, it is much easier to argue that we aren’t there yet than to say exactly what features and AI system would need to have for conscious intelligence. Though it seems that agency over self probably should be one of them. But maybe these thoughts are completely wrong. Maybe there‘s not even a threshold, but rather a continuum of systems ranging from mechanical to conscious.
I can't square that with their last sentence.

Moreover, when I feel empathy with someone who feels different and unrecognized by society, something still keeps me from advocating for the censorship and misrepresentation of a writer's ideas and internal logic.

I think what's stopping me is the knowledge that if I'm fortunate enough to write something that lasts beyond me, I sure as heck don't want anyone updating it for the sensibilities of 2053. Putting myself in someone's shoes, I think there's a word for that
You realize you can say the same thing of humans, right ?

Most people aren't special - they're often just mindlessly mimicking others. A key insight of Indian-Eastern philosophy, which the folks on the other side would've noticed, had they not become obsessed with plagiarizing methods from said traditions and 'quacking' them globally for the further inflation of our pretentious egos.
The worker then exploits the fact they get paid more for the same work. Picking to trade money for risk.
If the unit is still operational, it can usually be 'pumped down', which essentially means closing the 'out' valve and force-running the compressor to pull all the refrigerant back into the main compressor unit. You then might be able to take it to the waste facility, where they have people licensed to recover the refrigerant (for a fee).

I have my EPA cert, and I'd still probably go that route. The recovery pumps are expensive ($500+) and you need a recovery tank ($100), and then you still need to find somewhere that will take it from you. For a single job, it might be better to pay a HVAC company/moonlighting tech to do that part and do all the manual labor yourself.
On the China comparison, the per Capita income in Beijing (province, pop 22M) is $28k and in Shanghai (province, pop 28M) is $27k.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrati...
As shown, sorting by file name, Finder and command line ls show different results. ls is strictly in ascending order by file name, but Finder is not normal in the red box part.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ismdeep/upload/main/images...
I would imagine via AirBnB or short term rentals in general. Last time I stayed in Lisbon I stayed in a converted apartment, via AirBnB. It certainly puts pressure on the long term rental market.
So, yeah, after all that, how do you feel about my terminology?

I didn't call the scripture of any other religion a Bible, and I read your wall of text as a lukewarm endorsement but you may have been thinking the opposite.
I once tried to get out at a station (I think, Queensway) in London but the lift was not working. I tried climbing up (100+ steps) and I realized I'm not good with climbing stairs. I had since then slowly kept up with walking and climbing stairs.

I climb 16 floors pretty regularly. I can do 21 floors just about fine and go on my day. My watch shows that my yearly average flight is 9 floors.

It is a habit, it has taken its own time and I like it -- trying to find opportunities to just walk and climb stairs is a fun thing. You also tend to meet and find lots of weird, interesting, funny, WTF, things/moments/people on public building's stairs.
Unsure why you're calling this authoritarian when the government isn't even involved, and this is just a result of the estate chasing for more profits.
AI “reporters” spread disinformation about Ohio train derailment
Toyota has 40x more vehicles in operation in the U.S. than Tesla does, FYI. In case rigor was desired in this line of questioning.
Note that it says you cannot restrict reverse engineering for debugging modifications to the LGPL code. I'd expect all you'd need to reverse engineer from the proprietary code to support that is how it expects to call the LGPL code. E.g., things like how it is passing arguments, how it finds the library entry points, and things like that.

From what you've quoted it sounds like one could craft a reverse engineering ban that only covers parts of the combined work that have nothing to do with modifying the LGPL code and have that be compatible with LGPL.
I was digging through the comments for someone to point this out. I’m honestly curious why people are using these overly complex options when a solution has been built into the HTTP standard for decades (and, in fact, is heavily abused for many APIs).

And it’s superior in many ways, since the file is never delivered until authentication has been completed.
If "bullshit" means this, then that's what you'd expect from "fake it til you make it."

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

But I think the author really just means software failures. The truth is that we make software to just barely work, knowing we can fix it later. But apparently the author somehow hasn't been exposed to software ever.

Further, I think the author is angry and knows something isn't right in the world and is railing on the software industry. I think (hope) that's misplaced anger, but the author is probably right to be angry about . . . something.
Because it drives clicks
BGP peering! I would be happy just to get IPv6 connectivity...
> Anyway, this line of conversation from you has been mostly unenjoyable and unhelpful.

I would imagine, because you seem to be missing the point at every level.

The larger point is that when I talk about "the biggest liars and cheats rise to the top", I'm not referring to something like your software development team, which is nowhere near the top.

Another point is that people who are nowhere near the top are mostly just reacting to the perverse incentives created by a system designed by the biggest liars and cheats at the top, a system that naturally tends to reward people like them. The less powerful have little choice but to operate within that system and deal with it as it is, flawed as it may be.

A small point is that when you talk about "the candidates", these are already the self-selected result of an inaccurate job posting, and thus what you do after you start talking to them doesn't make up for the false impression that was given before you talked to them.

> we're heavily regulated

So?
The punitives in that case were capped; the law of the land is that punitive damages exceeding ten times compensatory damages are presumptively unconstitutional, and the judge in that case slashed the suggested punitives by like 90% to put them below said cap. I can assure you Tesla's legal team knew this and did not make personnel decisions under the assumption that they faced "unbounded risk".
Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, enters hospice care
I would add a good fume extractor as a must-buy to this list if you're soldering once a week or more. The fumes from flux are noxious and prolonged exposure can cause sensitization. I have always been slightly sensitive to flux fumes, so since I began soldering on a daily basis for work I have always used some form of fume ventilation. I use a lot of the MG Chemicals 835 flux mentioned in the article. Even with a ducted extraction fan removing the smoke from my workspace, I began to develop headaches and fatigue from exposure to the flux vapor. These symptoms worsened over time and began starting with less and less exposure. Now I use a fancy Hakko FA430 extractor, which has a bulky HEPA filter and allows me to solder all day without ill effects. Even so, I watch my exposure and have drastically reduced my liquid flux use as just the flux aroma can make me feel a little off. I believe I have been permanently sensitized from using sub-optimal ventilation and that's not a good feeling.

I don't think you need to go buy the $700 FA430 I use, but I would say the extractor needs to have:

- a hose/duct that can be positioned right at the soldering site

- some kind of HEPA filtration or equivalent, even if it is exhausted outside your workspace

- well sealed ducting/hose/fan housing, so fumes don't leak out. I first used a duct fan with some hoses and loc-line for fume extraction, and I now believe it was leaking fumes into my workspace the whole time because the system wasn't airtight :(

Those little "benchtop extractors" with a fan and a carbon filter are absolutely useless. I wouldn't be surprised to learn companies buy them for "regulatory compliance purposes" as they don't really do much of anything except be cheap.
If they ultimately succeeded, this seems like very poor evidence that it's a problem.
> nothing is lost in the changes

This; the old books still exist. No one is coming for them.

The copyright-owners have simply decided that the new editions of the books will be different.

Hell, this might even be a simple cash-grab: if the books aren't selling as well now, and their royalty checks are shrinking, they may have done some basic market research and determined that the perceived crassness of the works was turning off modern book-buying-parents, and decided they could make more money with a revised edition.

If you don't like it, there will be thousands, millions of old copies at used bookstores and libraries; most old books don't get new editions, anyway. And if that's not good enough, by around 2060 most of the copyrights will have expired (his work spans the 1978 copyright change), and you can republish them with whatever changes you like to your heart's content.
I normally don't care about this stuff... and it seems like a "nothing issue" but it really feels like someone is smoothing off the edges of classic works here.

All those changes culminate in an overall reversion to the mean (ordinary). Ordinary is boring... its story books. Shaving off attributes for the sake of what, exactly?
>And thus profits.
It reduces the supply of food, which will likely cause more land to be used for farming. Also less people can afford a vegetable and can only eat corn syrup. This goes against the push for a growing population. If we had time to first accept and plan around a shrinking population we could afford to use less land or use the current one in a less aggressive way.
Even in pretty far left and woke spaces I've seen most be against this. I don't even know who asked for this.
You don't see a problem with releasing unfinished work? When has that ever been acceptable in any discipline?
Great analysis. I love emacs but I would rather anything but GNU software since they've been doing weird stuff for a while (see gcc vs clang). If there were another non-modal/chord-based editor, with as good language integration as elisp in emacs, I'd be up for it. There's mg but it has no embedded language. Edwin but Scheme is too rigid a language.

I'm on the lookout but haven't actually seen any real spiritual successor.
So no more treatments, that means it won't be long. Too bad, he seems like a nice and sincere person.
The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago
Bob creating wealth does not imply he took from someone else. Capitalism works by creating wealth, not by redistributing it to themselves.
There is really no evidence to support such a contention. Iran had no reason to help out Carter by releasing the hostages. On the flip side if they weren't going to drag out the situation it was better to resolve it and get some goodwill with the next administration, which they did.

It would have been strange if the US did not supply Iran with weapons given the geopolitical situation. Iran was surrounded by Soviet friendly countries and an Iranian loss to Iraq would have been a disaster for both the US and Israel. Israel, not coincidentally, served as a backchannel for the Iranian US relationship during that time period.
I specifically called out the tertiary operator in my text so as to be fair, but tried to keep things simple in my example. Perhaps too simple.

Of course you can do that simple case with a tertiary operator but:

1. It's a construct that really has no reason to exist (I argue) as distinct from `if`.

2. It doesn't compose with statements.

This duality is primarily what I'm arguing against.

A better example would have been a case statement inside of the `println`:

(println
"Log in by"
(case user-id
0 "root"
1 "local admin"
(format "regular user (id: %d)" user-id)))

In C, you have to introduce a variable for no good reason (or do some non-idiomatic, ugly, nested tertiary operators that get uglier the more cases we have).

And even then, you can't just say

user_name = switch { ... }

Because switch is an statement.
(This was a joke!)
If only there was a way to create new housing in California.
In this reply, I saw you end your sentences with “a lot” a lot ;)
You can just make new friends though. In my experience it’s infinitely easier to make friends abroad because in a way it’s you guys vs the locals
> For a while there it was clear that policy makers seemed to think that foreigners buying real estate was somehow a quick and easy way to turn around the economy. Somehow thinking foreign wealth merely being around would induce more wealth to appear as if by magic.

No. These schemes were mostly pandering to certain communities for votes.
Maybe because they’ve already had the other third’s experience. Or do you think it’s a moral failure on their part?
For me, it would take at least one positive and significant experience.

I would probably need to work on a team where at least some of my teammates had some mastery of the framework, including knowing how to use it effectively in the long term.
This is one of the most literal Conway's Law instances I've seen...

> organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure.

An org for the physical layer has a box, then the org offering the connectivity layer plugs their box into the first box. Like OSI layers stacking up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
The price and stock are from current supply problems. I have dozens from when you could get them on sale. The lack of case is for tinkerers to make their own, although there's an official one you can buy now too. Binary blobs are a valid complaint, but machine code will be easily reversed engineered by transformer models in a year or two.
Almost like pointless js is pointless, no sympathy for anyone who does things like use js for a fucking img tag, just stop
For solder I would recommend you source a roll of 63/37, it will make your life much easier even if it uses lead. Add a fume extractor and you should be just fine if you don't solder 24x7.
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