skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the role Costco has been filling for a lot of Americans recently. Most of the time you are going to find something at a decent price, that may not be best in class but at least it's going to be near the top of the price/utility curve.
Possible but highly inefficient for power generation. Need massive amount of mirrors with pointing + stationkeeping. For medium orbits will need a huge amount of receiver sites + beefy prop & pointing systems. For Geo will need a truly staggering amount of mirrors + sophisticated focusing + massive receiver sites on the planet. Anywhere you point the beam will have massive ecology / weather disruptions... Probably not suitable for human habitation in a huge area due to atmosphere dispersing the beam. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(climate_engineer... for more info.

One cool thing we could do is slightly boost the amount of sunlight northern latitude cities receive. This will make solar panels there more viable and will make cities far more livable in the winter season. This could also be done seasonally. This is a cool example https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/rjukan-sun-nor...
Suica was amazing the last time I visited Japan. Just bop your watch and go. It even supported reloading cash from my US credit card with the native iOS/watchOS provided card management UI, no need to fidget around with a questionably engineered third party app.
Seems pretty clear that it's meant to be malicious compliance with consent, with consent being automatically assumed unless you say no to this specific scrapper, as though there were even a reasonable chance millions of sites could possibly know about the exact tag.
> they'd have been fixed already by governments.

Governments don't exist to "fix problems". Governments exist to perpetuate problems so that tax money can be funneled to cronies under the guise of "fixing" problems.
Is this actually made by parts of the SDK software, is it?
Strange that you use a still-popular, decentralized, open-standard global service with a myriad of paid and free providers, for which there exists dozens of open-source clients and servers across the planet, all of which integrate with each other... as a model for why Mastodon won't work.

Why do you say "gmail won"? Did gmail switch to a proprietary, closed protocol? Did they lose compatibility with even the smallest, independent email servers? (That was rhetorical-- provided those smaller servers adopt appropriate open, non-proprietary anti-spam measures (DMARC, SPF, DKIM, etc), they work fine.)

Meanwhile, no one uses AOL's old proprietary mail system, if it exists any more.
It's the year of the Linux desktop?
Green Lacewing larvae, aka trash bugs, place the exoskeletons of dead prey on their backs.

https://www.uaex.uada.edu/environment-nature/anr-blog/posts/...
I think the counter is better as “online communities and the broader internet stole our children [and taught them boundaries]
They don't find themselves in the situation of sitting before a terminal emulator needing to kill a process by port in the first place?
Even within a transaction?
Mattresses are a huge racket in general. Think about how often you need to buy a mattress and then consider how many stores in you area sell only mattresses out of expensive storefronts full of salesmen. The margins per mattress have to be astronomical to support a business model like that. But on the other hand they are very heavy and bulky which makes them expensive to ship and since people generally need to try several out before finding one that is comfortable they aren't great for an online business model.
> Genuinely, who do you think is convinced by your comment?

People like me who aren't programmers, or even power users anymore.

> I know it, and I know that you know it.

A long time ago I used to modify the Windows ME registry, and it genuinely created some features doing so. Then they removed this windows-altering ability from the particular feature I was modding and my mods were useless. Maybe the MS programmers saw this as a bug being fixed, but I saw it as a feature being removed. I basically haven't been a Windows power user since ME because of stuff like this.

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Nothing Apple is doing is materially different from what Microsoft was sued for in the 90s by anti-trust enforcers. In fact, it's a bit more, because it just isn't a default browser, it's control of every app. Apple's share of the US market is just slightly less than Microsoft's was at the time.
Opera One
China is building a huge amount of renewable power and shipping tech to the world. But they're also burning a phenomenal amount of coal: so much so that they alone may determine whether we survive this next few decades.
Meanwhile other people are developers who only occassionally need to do this kind of thing. So they/we forget.
GP's point is that eating isn't killing, you can eat meat without (personally) killing any animals, and that can be (and for very many is) emotionally different for people.
Personally I think you are underestimating evolution - we can fix carbon in other ways, but I agree life will be dramatically different.
Thank you for the number. In context, the EU is 15% of revenue for most ad based tech platforms, and its regulation has shown unbounded control over them.
I bet that has to do with the large numbers of human forms and faces present in the AI training data.
why would you want to reduce piracy?
We can't stop climate change by making it profitable. That's literally what got us into this mess in the first place.
I wonder if it'd be possible to transpile it to Rainmeter configuration?
Is that correct? I would think that, even with NOT NULL Boolean field, the physical table has three kinds of rows: those with a true value, those with a false value, and those no longer in the table (with either true or false, but that doesn’t matter)

If so, you can’t, in general, efficiently find the false rows if you know which rows have true or vice versa.

You also can only use an index on rows with true values to efficiently find those with other values if the index can return the true rows in order (so that you can use the logic “there’s a gap in the index ⇒ there are non-true values in that gap)
The loss from the atmosphere is not the issue; plenty of energy still hits the earth while the sun is out, plenty of methods of capturing it (solar panels, mirrors to focus the heat, etc), the issue is that someone actually has to build it and it goes off at night. That, and transport.
Companies are getting a good sense of the price elasticity of demand for their products. Not surprising that down-market alternatives like McDonald's are doing find, as consumers substitute their food for higher-priced restaurants.
Having a single online interface means that people will fight to control it (and it's not partition tolerant). Better to go content-addressed and let people move bits around in whatever way suits their use case. Then, separately from delivery, have player plugins which compare hashes of the content to an online database to decide who ought to get paid for the bits I've consumed. It's the player, after all, which knows how my attention was allocated, not the downloader.
Sample size of one, but even a half course of antibiotics wreaks havoc on my wife's gut. Which is why she doesn't follow the rest of her family in popping antibiotics for the common cold.

In contrast though, she had a surgical operation last year (in the US). The hospital refused to give her antibiotics immediately following the operation, saying she probably wouldn't need it. This was shocking for her - and the surgical site actually did end up getting mildly infected.
Nuclear needs such a highly complex organisation to keep it running. I really don't think that's a long term vision with the current technology. Also Ukraine just last year was close to a drama with.the fighting.
Did they get bought out by a private equity firm? That's usually a death knell for a company.
> and not even a global pandemic could convince us to make any sort of meaningful change.

How is this related? What change was expected from the pandemic?
Our kids will also benefit from the advances provided by fossil fuels. Such is life.
No, we're going to order from LL Bean. We gave up on BBY years ago, the service has sucked for a long time.
Considering how much of our lives is on the internet, it's not a bad idea.
> Yes, I consider that a significant weakness

How can a cobdition which no longer exists be a current weakness in anything except your attempt to generalize from it to current reality?

> In the US, part of being a strong candidate means not only winning the Electoral College, but also winning a major party primary prior to that.

Obviously, winning a nominating contest is part of being a successful candidate, and there are contexts where that is relevant, and being a strog general election candidate is a subset of that.

However, when the context is general election strength, no, ability to win preceding nominating contests is immaterial.
Hartford Courant
>It's bad for the environment

Burning fossil fuels is bad for the environment. A cow eating grass and dying is not.

The part of meat production that's bad for the environment is the machinery used to transport and process the meat. Grain, legumes, and vegetable farming also use machinery for transportation and processing. Outside of that, animals and plants are all part of a carbon-neutral cycle, so long as the plants aren't fertilized with Haber-Bosch excrement.

>it's bad for individual health

This is nearly 100% certainly wrong.

We can say with nearly 100% certainty that a human being cannot thrive without regularly eating meat, or at least dairy or eggs. This is evidenced by human beings having eaten meat for millions of years. Eating meat is Lindy. Million-year-old Lindy things, especially biological things like diet, are robust, resilient, antifragile.

Diet is a solved problem. It was solved over millions of years of humans, their predecessors, and their extinct offshoots trying and testing various foods/diets. The ones who survived ate and continue to eat meat. Guess what happened to the other ones.

>I don't know what the solution is, because as soon as you mention eating less meat people laugh at you or get super defensive

Less is pretty relative, and there is no solution, because there is no problem. It's understandable people are going to get defensive when you attack their means to life.

Just eat how your ancestors ate. For a Northern European, that means a lot of milk and meat. If you're Mediterranean, follow the Greek Orthodox tradition - periodic meat and vegetable eating. If you're an Eskimo, eat a bunch of fish.
Database Isolation Levels and MVCC
The Cannabis Edible Goes Mainstream
Hmm, tried that but that directory seems to contain ~3000 files on my old Ubuntu.
Because we all dream of sub-$1 Linux processors that boot freely without blobs and have loads of wonderful usable documentation.

I kind of want to modify that old adage to now read "cheap, open, documented. You can pick two."
Most people on this forum are flabby omnivores but nobody is going to use that observation to condemn plants or meat because it doesn't make sense. Same with someone's carnivore hot dog diet. Or someone's vegan Skittles diet.
IKEA sells utter garbage. They're the furnishings equivalent of "fast fashion".
let's just fire the chemicals into the air already and hope for the best
The term clean is somewhat esoteric and leaves room for dissent. We also use the term "code smell" Which Wikipedia refers as: "Smells are certain structures in the code that indicate violation of fundamental design principles and negatively impact design quality" When people asked me about fundamental design principles I point them to S.O.L.I.D https://lostechies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pablos_sol...
It's unfortunate that this is such a common belief. There is no silver bullet for solving these problems. Yes, nuclear energy has a part to play. But it's a relatively small part, and absolutely not "a solution" in itself.

MIT has a really neat policy simulator called En-ROADS [1] where you can tinker with applying various policies at various levels, and estimate their impacts. Check it out, and see just how minimal nuclear energy's effects are on their own. Compare that to, for example, just "highly reducing" methane emissions.

[1] https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=23.2...
I never said it wasn't risky.

I'm saying it's unfair to assume it's proof someone is "financially illiterate", i.e. uneducated or stupid.

Educated people can have different assessments of risk.
I am almost sure there is this switch there and in these cases it was set to enabled.
Well, here's your more information: https://i.imgur.com/B2QBY6u.png

Fossil fuel investment has been climbing year-over-year. Fossil fuel companies aren't replacing existing infrastructure to taper out usage of fossil fuels. They are introducing and expanding with new infrastructure.

From the Bloomberg NEF 2023 Energy Transition Investment Trends report, which is incredible reading: https://about.bnef.com/energy-transition-investment/
I wonder how much of it is explained by all the company retirement plans that are set to auto invest via an index fund.

They says it’s retail meme stock buyers… but what if it’s everyone who doesn’t have time to look at things and these publicly traded companies are now just selling into those reliable biweekly/monthly retirement account contributions.
A binary number is a power of two iff only a single bit is set, so pretty trivial to implement.
The problem with copyright is that it was defined by politicians and lobbyists. Since this is about our culture, which concerns everyone, perhaps a national poll is in order where people can vote for a period between e.g. the two extremes 10 and 70 years.
> We're not going beyond our solar system. Ever.

Sorry, that simply isn't true. Multi-generation starships don't violate any laws of physics.

> How do you propose to travel for over 20 years?

By recognizing that you aren't coming back, and that even if you don't make it there, your children will.

I mean, we have examples of this even here on Earth. Moses and the Israelites supposedly wandered for 40 years. The pioneers who set out on the Oregon Trail largely knew it was a one-way trip. Other examples abound..
I love the multiple mentions of Cairo and Pink:

“In order to meet the competitive challenge of Microsoft’s Cairo, Taligent plans to release some of its object technology in 1994 to its sponsors and to early-adopter developers. Delivery of the full operating environment to Apple, IBM, and HP may not happen until 1995. Taligent will not itself ship any commercial products; it is up to the sponsoring companies to incorporate the Pink technology into their product lines. IBM’s announced plans for doing so are considerably clearer than Apple’s or HP’s. According to those plans IBM will be shipping products based on Pink in 1995.”
Ah, the ouroboros raises its head once more.

If we force the machine to show a statistically representative group, are we being more or less racist than if we tell it to show us reality? Is there any meaningful difference between reality and what we expect? If too many technical writers are white, are we being racist to try to change that? Was it racism that led to the situation in the first place? If we "fix" it, are we making the world better, or worse?

Murray Rothbard, one of my favorite historians, has a brief aside about the Washington monument that I quite enjoy: If a state forces a statue into place - how can it be taken down? Not by planned action of another state - we've changed nothing - we're just in a different, statue-less planned state. Rothbard contends the only way is revolution - ie: the statues must be pulled down by a spontaneous mob. Only then can we have a starting square to begin sinlessly from. I do not like this idea, but I cannot reason my way around it either.

Mirrors will always show us what we don't want to see. When we make a mirror that does not, it will no longer be a mirror.
Oh, I certainly disagree with people who put the environment above humans. But usually I just discount such people - they "are not serious people."

> my friends adopt a “humans were a mistake” mindset over the past decade.

This is an edgy take that I see increasingly adopted by young people in cities.

Generally I try to recenter around "okay, if humans are a mistake, who would you like to kill first?" People find it easy to reason about the end of a species in the abstraction, not when it is their friends and family who either die or cannot have children because the world is in such shambles.
It's not all bad. The "business as usual" scenario was actually always unlikely and we're already far from realizing it, because it assumed, among other things, that China would increase its coal consumption much more than it actually did.

No reason to celebrate because there's much to do, but it's not all doom and gloom.
Niche industry I'm not surprised. The cost per seat is generally quite high and thus a strong incentive for businesses to use more seats than they have licenses for.
Would you be pleased if that applied to all of your work too? That immediately anyone can start taking your work and making money off of it?

Copyright at least makes big players pay the original creators for the rights to the works. Netflix going ahead and making money off of subscribers while paying nothing to creators would be a significantly worse situation.
I mean if we're at the point where an AI has cryptographic knowledge unknown to humanity and is using it maliciously, verified images will be the least of our problems.
Tortoise looks really nice! The output is very "polished" and audiobook-like. It's a contrast to Bark[0] which is far more expressive but unpredictable.

[0]: https://github.com/suno-ai/bark
Language Models Are Realistic Tabular Data Generators
"Us" is, of course, influence- and wealth-weighted. Plenty of people wanted many of the pandemic changes to stick. We liked seeing clear air and water, we liked inclusive work and communications policies that kept people off roads and consuming less. But there's too much money tied up in the status quo, on one hand, and too many loud extroverts who cannot bear any real shift away from their social advantage (and emotional safe space) on the other. It wasn't so much about convincing everyone, as it was about us getting dragged by the throat back to "normal".
If losing some small portion of their tens of billions to piracy actually helps hundreds of smaller producers to somewhat level the grossly inequitable playing field, then I think the title is fair.

If hundreds or thousands of smaller businesses are allowed to flourish or even survive, thanks to the higher sales due to piracy leveling the playing field a bit, then it would be kinda wild to suggest that "piracy harms sales", as if only Disney matters.

Btw, 10 out of those top 10 films you cite for 2019 were sequels or remakes. All of them came from huge established megacorps - 7 Disney, 2 Sony, 1 WB. My sympathy for them could dance on the head of a pin.
> WebGPU enjoys a whopping ~6% browser support.

That's actually not too bad considering that WebGPU hasn't been released yet (the number will drastically go up when Chrome 113 is out of beta)
The something in the water link goes to a paper that is a copy of Dracula from what I can tell -- https://osf.io/x4fk3/
Growth? Growth?! Yes, we absolutely 100% should stop immediately digging the hole deeper.
THE single universal defining trait of humans is our refusal to be bound by the limits set for us by our biological past.

But regardless, the alternative to an economically catastrophic meat-centric diet isn't starvation and malnutrition come on. It's not even vegetarianism per se.

Most humans most places through most of time have eaten much much less meat than we currently do. They've eaten a lot more plants and yes bugs and lichen and seaweed and shit than we do. We don't need to idealize that or try to return to it, but we should remember it.

We are extreme outliers among humans who have lived, in this particular way, among others. We should consider the consequences of occupying this extreme and choose where we stand with it deliberately now that we understand what it is.
The difference is how many billions of dollars it costs, and by proxy, who can afford to survive climate change.
I'm not having kids - I'm already shouldering all the terrible decisions of my parents and their parents.
Too true. I should probably have said "All parties with enough political and capital clout to make trouble for other parties." The disorganized masses are disorganized and usually don't end up with a seat at the table if they don't organize.
> whether or not I own a smartphone will not affect the world in any way

But it will: in addition to not giving money to Qualcomm and co, I am giving money to the alternatives and constantly reminding all banks and organizations that alternative systems exist apart from the duopoly (whenever they offer me their apps).
Yep I feel like ligo and Virgo are the Michelson Morley experiment of this century.

They have shown something that is not well accounted for in current theories. Just as MM showed light is always observed travelling at the same velocity Ligo has shown gravity is self interacting. Now we need to change our models and build mathematical frameworks to account for this. It is not acceptable to have a theory that doesn't account for this post Ligo.
And even that is not admitting a truth, but kind of "haggling" about how bad things are, because even 0 growth in fossil fuel use does not get us < 1.5 celsius increase.
The download is done from the Android side.

It's a privileged app ( a service in Android lang ) that once fetched sends the data to the modem, where GPS is actively implemented, and augmented by such extra data.
I feel this is adding an extra layer on top of summarization where you will now also need to trust where the partial summary leads to in addition to trusting the summary didn’t miss main points
Make more individuals care, outside of just people on HN and such.
Maybe a crypto person would know more, but couldn't some DAO be incentivized to verify the authenticity of current known historical documents/images and create a block chain of agreed upon authentic historical imagery? The longer it takes for us to do that, maybe the more likely falsifications can slip in, but I have a feeling that the real world nature of many history books and libraries means we can have a pretty strong head start.
Microsoft launches bug bounty program for the new Bing
I'd love to fail into making $100k :-)
+1 for administrative pains with postgres. My favorite example is that if you want to run a multi-node highly available postgres cluster (read: with automatic failover) you're going to have to use 3rd party software, whereas with mysql it's part of the core (group replication). I'm also not a fan of the difficult-to-remember backslash codes in the psql cli used to inspect databases (like \d+, and others) whereas mysql just uses queries ("describe table").
I think you meant the movie Don't Look Up.
Any indication that those who control the world's wealth won't voluntarily solve this problem implies that direct action, struggle, and hardship are required of us personally if we want a future worth living in. This is not a nice thought and it is understandable people want to look away.