skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is far more pressing than the climate crisis, but people don’t seem to prioritize it:

One third of all arable farmland has become desertified in the last couple decades as people are in a race to the bottom (just as USA was in the Great Depression leading to the dust bowl)

Biodiversity has plummeted as species go extinct, only to be replaced by farms and monocultures

Insect populations are plummeting

Forests are being decimated

The boomer through millenial generations think they’re smarter than previous ones but they are in fact like an irresponsible kid living on an ecological credit card, that their children will have to pay.

Child mortality was solved but humanity was slow to adjust their birth rates to compensate for it.
I think that I am personally much less likely to run afoul of a police gang than a criminal gang.

That's a practical, but not an ethical, reason for me to prefer police gangs over criminal gangs.
> They don't. They hardly talk about anything else except AI.

Even if that were true, there are lots of people already looking at those other existential risks. The EA crowd was the only group concerned about AI for a long, long time. Seeing an existential risk that nobody else does leads to evangelism and hyper focus so people start paying attention.
I'm curious. Do you currently have Unifi remote access [1] enabled, or is any remote access done through a VPN that you control? I suspect that if a law enforcement agency were sufficiently determined, they could convince Ubiquiti to give them access to your system if you had remote access turned on. Whether this is realistic depends on your threat model.

[1] https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012240067-UniFi-Net...
Safer and faster to just have gpt work it out in a notepad then copy and paste commands. He’s asking 50 questions and then it gets to the meat.
There is nothing “democratic” about how the US works if you define “democratic” as “one person one vote”. Because of gerrymandering, the electoral college, 2 Senators per state etc, you have less voting power if you live in California than if you live in Nebraska.

Besides, a government run by the “majority” tends to trample on the rights of the minority. I don’t just mean racial minorities. I mean anyone who holds minority viewpoints.
Hah, I hadn't thought of Feersum Endjinn as Scottish, but you might be right. I've lived in both Edinburgh and Glasgow (although quietly, as an Englishman) so perhaps that made it easier for me, at least.

What I liked about Banks' sci-fi is that he generally avoided too much 'info dumping' that some authors suffer from. Like "He was a X'nar'kk from the Blagh'le system ..." for like 3 paragraphs before you get to some actual plot. The only time I saw that a bit was in the Algebraist - funnily enough - in the subplot with Luseferous (diamond teeth, enemy head punching bag). Of course the parts with the Dwellers made up for that ('I do hope you have enough people.').

I guess it comes down to whether all the detail is enjoyable or not. When it's a long description of how a Ship converts the majority of its mass into a swarm of weapon platforms or the rapid sequence of events in a battle between drones over the space of a millisecond then it can be good. If someone was not into that, I guess the extra detail is going to make it worse for them.
Headline was a bit shocking
I'd assume that the dominant use case for both is "self-medication of anxiety and other personality issues". Though I'm sure there are seasonal vacation homes, abuse victims with restraining orders against ex's, zealous ornithologists hoping to catch a glimpse of some extremely rare species of bird, and more.
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> heritage building laws

We really overuse these regulations. There are a relatively few buildings that are actually historic enough to warrant saving. But in many areas we're marking any old building as historic on the thinnest of pretenses. Having grown up in a city that was ruled by the historic review board, I'm unimpressed with the results. Maybe it's nice to see what they built 100+ years ago, but being forced to live in it forever? No. People change, neighborhoods evolve, we should carefully embrace that.
My understanding is majority of “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)” for OpenAI comes from contractors:

- https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
You get 100s of normal posts before the "whacky" stuff? For me it seems like every other post is either an ad or "whacky"
Congrats to the Ruby developers, now they are on the way to have more than one production-grade JIT available in the reference implementation. I hope Python catches up soon, and the proposal to merge CPython and Pyston goes forward.
As someone who uses a "real" usenet site and reader, cannot wait until google groups is gone. One of the many issues is "comp.lang.c++" items from google is being sent to "comp.lang.c" because a change google made cannot handle the "++".

The sad thing is we may loose the history that came from dejanews, I was one of the many people who were very upset when dejanews was bought by google. No surprise it morphed into the abortion that is google news.

Good riddance google groups, do not let the door hit you on the way out.
School districts being connected to housing, and therefore to class, is one of the other features of America that seem permanent. Schools have become more segregated since an integration peak in the 70s. This issue too, has deep ideological roots: the right of parents to provide for their children, to raise them the way they wish. We're the only major country that does this.
Ohman, me, too!
In the article, the archive.org page is listed.

https://archive.org/details/wozaday?&sort=-week&page=16

About 1,500 titles. Click and play in the browser. There are no ads or spyware on archive.org. Thumbnails and proper labelling.

Point a browser at this site, put it in kiosk mode so they can't go anywhere else, and you're golden.

I think you will find all dedicated emulators for the Apple II involve more fussing about with poorly-labeled disk images than a kid will want to do.

"ramaadv1a.img? Sure, that sounds like fun! Oh, I have to swap the disk... I'll press F6, scan down the list and figure out that 'flip the disk' in this case means I want ramadva1b.img, even though on other titles the convention was b1a. Oh, I guess this is just a text-mode cooking tutorial program from 1985."
Google Groups performed the classic embrace-extend-extinguish maneuver against USENET, by way of their acquisition of DejaNews and then implementing their own forum/mailing list interface on top if it.

But, I wonder how many communities that are using Google Groups would be suitably served by falling back to USENET. I suppose it would require some updates to both NNTP server software to be easier to administer (if you want to go that route), and especially NNTP client readers to be more modern and user-friendly.
> easier to find common interests and unite

I think the idea is that there are common interests to be found, but borders artificially keep people apart, by segmenting up legal jurisdictions. For example, why Starbucks employees in Jersey City aren't all that different from Starbucks employees in New York City right across the river.

> Whole Foods' heat map says lower rates of racial diversity increase unionization risks

To what extent is this correlated with the economic security of their employees? Employees in wealthier areas (statistically correlated with whiter) might be more educated on average (which could be correlated with desire to unionize) and/or more likely to have a higher-income partner or family member (which means lower financial risk due to failure or being fired).
> fuck people and their rights, data mining is all that matters, amiright? GOTTA GET THAT G-D-P.
Can you say that about Standard ML? theres traditionally certain langs with particular ergonomics that lend them self to this kinda work. Like having (parser, lexer libs as apart of the lang's stdlib)

Rust's ADT seem particularly useful in this context. it really makes refactoring a breeze. (OCaml has a similar type system.)

Your point is generally true though.
I miss nntp. Gmane used to be my goto after nntp use fell off, but that died also (I get it though... the work to keep that working is not something I would want to do).
I find it surprising (but probably shouldn't) that in the London - Hong Kong - Sydney path (http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SYD-LHR%2CSYD-HKG-LHR&MS=wls&DU...) Hong Kong is visibly off the path (probably a couple hundred kilometers) but that only adds 3 km to the overall distance.
And anyone who comments on Google-related topics with the link to killedbygoogle is beating a dead horse...

So tired of that argument.
Leaked Audio Suggests Amazon Considering Giving Laid Off Workers Their Jobs Back
All those articles are very theoretical, in reality 1 pass of dd /dev/zero makes things unrecoverable, for recent SSD since trim is enabled by default you can't recover anything, I deleted a document by mistake on an SSD and it was impossible to get back, the moment I pressed delete on windows the trim command was sent and everything was erased on the ssd.

Pro recovery compagny that are not shady know that SSD recovery with TRIM is impossible.
Going to https://vanillaos.org/ and scrolling down, I encounter a section with the title "Immutable.." which seems to be what you're looking for?

> ..but also not.

> Vanilla OS is an immutable operating system, core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes and corruption from third-party applications or a faulty update. Some paths are still writable, such as the home and configurations directories, this allows the user to keep their files and ensure the normal functioning of applications.

> Core components are only updated via controlled and atomic transactions, which are applied only on success and made available on reboot.

> Need to install a component in the core system? No problem, you can open a transactional shell at any time, make your changes and let the system apply them automatically!
Loom users were logged into other users’ accounts
> undisturbed forests

there are no really undisturbed forests

rain and winds brings contamination into the most remote corners of the world

for example the Aral Sea has not dust but salt storm, to top it of they are highly toxic due to extrem over use of pesticides upstream and toxines from there have been fund as far away as in snow in Sweden (probably further away too, I just don't remember).

another example dust from the Sahara somewhat frequently get carried as far as Germany

and climate warming affects remote regions too
I like to have SumatraPDF on every Windows machine I use, because it's so fast and light. And I like that I can easily change the theme via the Advanced Settings text file. It's great! Thanks for your work on it!
People are excited and doing things, that’s wonderful. What are you doing besides complaining?

Everything starts small.

Also, the most important thing about a service is attracting customers, not the tech stack under it. Facebook was made with PHP, Twitter famously failed constantly while struggling with user growth.

I’d much rather have tons of users with a tech stack that is a wrapper for a bunch of other stuff, than have super impressive in-house tech and no users.
Fair question given a lack of details.

Cheaper: we got rid of the supplier mounting, so even counting the BOM of the new box and manifold, we saved about 5-10%

Worse performance: The extra connectors on the manifold increased the total volume the sample passed through, which gave a lower resolution (this was a chromatography system). Nothing that wouldn't pass spec, but visibly degraded compared to the original system.
There's also more potential for minor leaks because with the manifold you now have an additional 12 connection points to worry about
Get access to the internet, get money. Money buys it power to get people to do things in the real world. Or it can hack through systems and blackmail and coerce people. Now it can act in the real world by getting people to do things it wants.

As one example it could design, synthesize and spread a highly contagious and lethal pathogen.
They manage a cap on usage for predictability or have other means of converting early/often enough?
That old $75,000 figure has gone through a lot of inflation.
Another issue is California’s “environmental” plan to reduce daily commute miles. Most places implement it by intentionally snarling rush hour traffic. This leads to camps of motor homes, sky high real estate values near offices, etc.

Of course, convincing the NIMBYs that support this plan to simultaneously invest in public transit is not an option.
Sure, you could close the streets to traffic. It is unsafe for pedestrians and motor vehicles to share a road. The pedestrians are soft and squishy and are inevitably the loser in any conflict.

Even poor countries can manage to build sidewalks and bike paths. Not having them is a choice to favor the motored over the unmotored.
What are the requirements / key features of Google Groups that you use?
Guido hates higher-order functions. Once upon a time there was map, filter and reduce as builtins. Then for Python 3, they tried to remove all three, but failed due to community pushback. reduce() did get banished however.

The argument is that making it hard to use higher-order functions discourages point-free style. "Explicit is better than implicit" is a design principle of the language.
That's good to hear, it will make a real difference to usability.
The incentive is just profit. The idealized version of capitalism is that companies that solve problems or make the world better are rewarded by people buying their product or service. Sometimes that happens, but a lot of the time there's more money in making sugary drinks or weapons of war or snake oil. Additionally, a lot of "costs" are hidden from producers, like the consequences of dumping pollution in the river, or the cost of cheap plastic garbage taking up space in a landfill, so market forces are inadequate. And finally, a big cost to companies is labor, so they are always trying to find ways to cheapen human worth, exploiting illegal aliens who won't bring cases to trial, fighting unions, using prisoners for their labor, moving production to countries with weak labor protections to take advantage of child labor, and in the past slavery.

The incentive is just profit. A lot of the time, there's a lot of profit to be made from human suffering. That's why I'm an anti-capitalist.
I don't disagree with the core point that long-horizon, FOSS communities should think twice before operating atop services like Google Groups. Also the particular quality atrophy and feature degradation sucks.

Perhaps it's better framed to say that Groups is not prioritizing the particular users that the author is speaking on behalf of (ack, the monospace thing is a serious bug beyond FOSS communities). Google Groups and the shared infrastructure underneath is a critical piece of GSuite and GCP in many places, and I'd be very surprised if it ended up on the Killed By Google list.
> * Cost of living only works for so long. We've seen areas in the last decades that have an influx of population and they usually see a corresponding increase in COL. There are approaches governments can take to slow down the growth of COL, but it seems inevitable.

This IMO is the big issue though. Governments need to be aware of long-term population trends as stay ahead of them when it comes to planning. I consistently feel like local governments find themselves surprised at demographic changes that have been obvious for several years.
Thank you so so so much!!!
If anything it's much less risky.
The Effective Altruism movement itself helps justify and bury bad behavior.
The rhetoric technique I am using is called good faith discussion. I am asking you for evidence that the casual use of the word 'master' trivializes slavery in the minds of the speaker or listener. The questions you're calling slippery slope are genuinely intended to help me make sense of your position, because I don't see how they wouldn't follow from it- presumably from your response they do not. There is no intent to ridicule.
I agree. Kudos to the author for sharing a working example of using the OpenAI's PHP Whisper client though. Digging a bit deeper into the organization that released this seems to provide more context: https://beyondco.de/. It appears this is Laravel oriented.
> The "Keep it Technical" has been the Rust community answer for years

Because it's a better answer than smearing a group of people.

> So I should tolerate your ideals while you have zero tolerance with mine? Does it sound familiar to some real world Silicon Valley politics?

I will say that your argument does feel like modern American politics in one way I notice -- it's all about vibes. It doesn't have anything to do with anything technical. It's all about how people (sometimes transitively) made you feel. And I'm sorry someone made you feel that way, but I'm not sure the way you're acting is conducive to feeling any better.
Serious question -

With their past retraction, why wouldn't Nature demand independent verification of the results?
Being open-source is a key differentiator. With us being open-source, UpTrain can be easily customized for any specific use-case.

With UpTrain, one can define custom measures to monitor upon, add custom algorithms for model stability or drift detection as well as fill in any integration gaps in terms of using us in production
Thanks for the reading. The 2017 talk/article is interesting in light of COVID:

"Some of the reasons I'm skeptical of natural risks are that first of all, they've never really happened before. Humans have obviously never been caused to go extinct by a natural risk, otherwise we would not be here talking. It doesn't seem like human civilization has come close to the brink of collapse because of a natural risk, especially in the recent past.

"You can argue about some things like the Black Death, which certainly caused very severe effects on civilization in certain areas in the past. But this implies a fairly low base rate. We should think in any given decade, there's a relatively low chance of some disease just emerging that could have such a devastating impact. Similarly, it seems like it rarely happens with nonhuman animals that a pathogen emerges that causes them to go extinct. I know there's one confirmed case in mammals. I don't know of any others. This scarcity of cases also implies that this isn't something that happens very frequently, so in any given decade, we should probably start with a prior that there's a low probability of a catastrophically bad natural pathogen occurring."

I wonder if this is a case of extrapolation fallacy? Modern human dynamical behaviour is significantly different to both animal behaviour and less modern behaviour. Viruses spread more easily in the age of global travel; those that used to be too deadly to spread very far suddenly have more opportunity.

EDIT: Reading this more carefully, the speaker does actually address globalisation, but seems to dismiss it as a counterargument and I'm not really sure why.
There are indeed a lot of countries that have followed the American lead into car dependent urban design. But the issue is by far the worst in the US (and possibly Canada). Although SUVs exist elsewhere, they are far more common in the US. And in no other country do they get as ridiculously big as in the US.

But you're absolutely right there's no single silver bullet. The problem is big and complex, and so is the solution. Smaller cars, less cars, electric cars, more bike infrastructure, better public transport, better designed cities. All of those things are part of the solution.

Of course most of this is about urban areas; rural areas have very different requirements, and some of these solutions are irrelevant or infeasible there. Cities can do without cars, rural areas probably not, which is part of why electric cars are still important.
I don't have epilepsy but keto fixed another sleep condition (Non-24 wake/sleep disorder) that is not generally "known by science" to be fixable.
You could provide even rough numbers to back up your claims. For example, personal cars being a "large part" of carbon emissions. A single container ship outputs more emissions than tens of millions of cars. What percentage of carbon emissions are actually associated with cars compared to the other behemoth polluters in the world?
IIRC sprinkler systems are just code now for all residential construction. Even new build single family homes must have them.
https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/645z/

says a 51MP CMOS sensor, and has been CMOS since 2015.
> others have made the argument that pollution from fertilizers, manure and other organic wastes, such as sewage, have placed the Earth’s oceans on the “edge of anoxia,” or a complete lack of oxygen.

This is nonsense, obviously. Would apply only for shallow bottom or fresh waters
Or- great work to Google for maintaining a product that has waned in popularity and not killing it off!
Hated the love point. It looked like someone pooped.
> With Linux, you get a modern stack such as Linux containers or ZFS if you want those excellent filesystem features.

While might be more pre-oackaged containers available for linux, our OCI stack has nothing on BSD's Jails. ZFS was ported to linux from Solaris, and still runs better on the BSD's (at least in regards to license controversies, if not feature support or performance, which have mostly converged in OpenZFS). The linux-native option would be BTRFS (love them both :p).
Does it have to satisfy your standard of being novel, or be super approachable and adoptable by customers?
You're arguing straw men rather than engaging in the points being made.

Virtually every thread means both positive, neutral, and negative stories.

Something about Rust makes people feel justified bullying people supporting their families laboring in C or C++ codebases. No other language community has this.

The other fallacy is equating laboring with pridefulness. I never said anything about pride. Most C and C++ programmers are very aware of the problems in their ecosystem and they are starting to solve the problems. The pace of those improvements might not be to your liking, but that doesn't mean it's even plausible to convince my boss to rewrite software in Rust or introduce Rust incrementally.

We are four levels deeper into this discussion and it seems the points in my original comment are only strengthened, as evidence in the replies.