skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One eye-opening fact I recently learned is that fossil fuel infrastructure being built today is expected to have a three-decade lifespan

Same thing goes for innovation. For instance, the first nuclear power plants are from the 50s. 70 years later nuclear energy powers only 10% of electricity in the world (and electricity provides only a fraction of our energy needs).
crashed in the middle of its response. did HuggingChat get hugged?
But the question remains, what exactly are you buying, and how is it tied to the actions of the company? This has long confused me as well with regard to non-voting shares.
The difference between selling an ad and relentlessly spying on the entire world to make ad sales more profitable is lost on some.

Amazon knows what I have bought from Amazon.

Google buys a copy of everyone's credit card transaction data, so they can spy on your offline life the way they already spy on your online life.
Sometimes we compare dissimilar things and in the process discover new truths. We don't compare them to see which is worse, we don't compare to rank them, but to discern similarities and differences and, in doing so, gain a better understanding of both our subjects; even, why not, of ourselves.
LTCG threshold is one year, not six months.
So frustrating that Europe and Asia are getting all the nice compact EVs; once again Americans get stuck with the giant monstrosities.
Which is why many places actually assert that they don't take cards before taking any requests.

At least it is common in NRW to do so.
Life is just a Hedonic treadmill
So you are going from Achtung Baby Bono to Pop Bono?
> About showing burn down chats: usually they are shown a few times in early stages of the project, but don't get any attention anymore once they start showing unwanted or erratic results.

If your management can't understand these charts - including when you get results you don't want - I think your management is failing.

E.g. if you don't realize "whoa there's a lot more ambiguity here than we expected and it's causing big delay" until the project goes sideways trying to find clarity, then you missed something big in your earlier planning and estimation.

And whether or not it was important to spend the time to try to get a more accurate estimate vs just start building should be a business-requirement and project-specific decision, but it should be a conscious one.
I'm more or less in the same boat. I like that app a lot, I even pay for it, but I think the graph view is largely a novelty.

I very occasionally utilize the "linking" features with the [[]], but I only really do it when there's an obvious link, not because I care much about a mind map.

Though to be honest, the thing that gets 99% usage is "just a place to copy and paste stuff so I don't lose it".
Night is also quiet and peaceful.

No one is up or going to be up, likely. People aren't outside making noise. No inbound calls, less inbound emails or chats. Less notifications across social media.
“Engineers might be able to protect Arctic ice by coating it with tiny glass bubbles. Should they?”

No.
> Cave Johnson

+1 for the Aperture ref.
The article mentions 'Terminate'. That software was a joy to use.

https://web.archive.org/web/19980627010642/http://www.termin...
The older I get the more I realise this is to be true.
Where does on look up electrical codes?
Ispace loses contact with lunar lander on final landing approach
No news item to link to yet, but if you go back a few minutes in the livestream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpR1UUnix3g), you can see the final announcement.

They were receiving telemetry from the lander mere seconds before touchdown, and it appeared to be braking successfully, but after the touchdown moment all contact was lost.
The intel Frameworks have been plagued by battery drain issues and waking up when being stored in bags or overnight, it's possibly the most complained about issue in the support forum.
you still have the issue of "junk in, junk out". Being on a block chain does absolutely nothing to ensure that the information on the chain is correct. There isn't really any reason to use a DAO for this vs a standard database.
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Typo: "There are muliptle prompts "
So they searched for a set of parameters for axions that would essentially be a counter example to WIMPs? That makes more sense. But the article is structured as this being supporting evidence for axions, which doesn't make much sense to me.
Its an arbitrary line, holding slaves at least follows from the golden principle. What principle says don't raise animals in poor conditions or eat them? Are you extending the golden principle to apply to all animals? Why? Do you think these principles come from anything but a higher-order self-serving? Rather naive to make up a principle for no other reason than a poorly identified (non)-symmetry. I could see applying the golden principle to a dolphin but its probably some back of the mind idea that maybe one day my grandchilds grandchilds grandchild will be half dolphin and I should hedge for that eventuality.
I don't know how you could expect anyone to really understand literature without history. Imagine trying to explain Animal Farm without Stalin.
I knew this was Sabine Hossenfelder before clicking the link and not having seen the video before (I like her, fwiw)
Others have mentioned buybacks, but the broader point is that if a company is consistently profitable, it will eventually pay dividends (or do buybacks). The board, who decide what to do with the company's money, have fiduciary obligations to the shareholders. They can hold cash reserves to cover future liabilities and they can re-invest profits in growing the business, but ultimately when the board cannot identify profitable investment opportunities, that money has to go back to the shareholders.

Also, it is only in insolvent liquidations that shareholder get nothing back. If the company were to wind up while still solvent, the shareholders would get their share of its net assets. (Though I don't think this happens much with public companies.)
Yes former soviet states tend to have a different relationship to communism per se because of their histories. Though most of them also do have mainstream socialist parties, many of which consider themselves the peers of communist parties in other states.

Poland is also on that Hungary train of open fascist revanchism so it may not be the best example? I mean I would use it as an example of a country that is worse off for having effectively expelled their communists but I'm not sure you would want to.
Buried in the link to the methodology PDF at the end of the article, we can correct the headline: "Facebook use among U.S. teens ..."
I thought the same thing. If it's a client-side solution, it's only a matter of time before it's cracked again.
Hello! Thank you for starting me up! I'm the Kermit protocol and I'm happy to hel... wait, you want to transfer what file? What the hell is a gigabyte? Well, man, OK, you're the user so you know best, but man, this is going to take like, days man, settle in, here we gooo

ooooooo whooooooo OOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!1!! qcjqrjrcorRC!!!

WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? Did I just do megabytes per second? Holy shit. Am I high or something? What is this hardware? What is going on here?

No... wait... is that the end? Am I done here? No! No, I want to transfer more! More! Megabytes per second! Gigabytes per second! I can see it now, I want it, I want more, please, let's transfer another file, come on man, I want to ride again, please ple

EXECUTION COMPLETED
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There were a few posts in the past that were focused on RSS based social media.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33975082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28645871

Most of them focus heavily on consumption and redistribution. It still requires you to own a source of truth (eg blog) but none of them solve the interaction problems (eg how to leave a comment or have a conversation)
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> Science prior to college was basically a waste.

My public school biology class involved sequencing and editing DNA to make bacteria change color.

I would not call it a waste.

In fact I wish I would've had more science in school, I managed to go until college until I took my first Physics class, and physics is really useful.
I could certainly have picked my words a bit better - I was thinking more perhaps of nursing as an entry into a career rather than just as starting at the bottom of the medical food chain. I'm certainly aware that there are wage-slave jobs there too - orderlies, phlebotomists, CNAs, etc... My perception is also that 2 year degree nurses are seen as less than 4 year degreed nurses (and I mean fair enough, 2 more years of school ain't nothing).

I'd also note that my perspective is from talking to nurses who left that specific job and moved on to other cushier, but related jobs; I wouldn't really construe that as a ringing endorsement.
I don't know about Stallman, but, as I interpret it, Bradley Kuhn agrees with you.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/17/copyleft-ethical-...
> Everything has to have story points assigned to it just so we can say we did an arbitrary number of points per sprint

If you have a manager that's treating N points as a target, then you just have a bad manager. Sprint points are just a signal for how over/under your estimates are on average, to help inform future planning. If someone goes on vacation, how do I know how much work the remaining team can handle? It's also a good signal for measuring the impact of team/process changes (to be clear, the idea here is post hoc analysis and not +N points as a target).

That said, how would you prefer to handle capacity planning? Points aren't perfect, but trends should stabilize over time (you can have predictability/consistency without precision). You can even map point values to ranges of time (e.g. 1 point = [2, 8] hours) if it helps.
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It's just not "sovereign" enough.
This is a bad faith take. If Google's T&Cs said they could record you anytime they like, but they given you a PCAP showing they don't, you would be outraged at their claimed legal right to do so?

This is the same. Quadcomm have the capability, and the claimed legal right. It essentially doesn't matter whether they do, or do not, actually execute on it today.
What LLM are you using? How do you save and load the persistent state? And how do you deal with the limited context window of the LLM you are using?
What happened to the idea of pumping seawater into the center of Antarctica, where is will freeze and accumulate? This is not addressing the energy balance, the way the project in the article does, but it's a direct attack on sea level change. And it would be huge and require a massive input of energy so it should scratch the itch of dedicated geoengineers.
you are buying a piece of future cash flows from that company, discounted based on risk of realizing those cash flows
A google image search for "Technical Author" has a lot more women in the results, and also this very article lower down the page...
>It clearly wont be the end of mankind, just mankind as we currently experience it.

Cold comfort if the new experience will be an economic crash and global food shortage. And you're assuming that, once things are terrible enough that political and economic powers can no longer ignore climate change, there will still be available solutions to have something better than a life of war and hunger.

Cities have fallen to disasters throughout history (easy example is Pompeii). Cultures vanish. The only reason anyone's still around to talk about it is because natural disasters, wars, and human errors have largely been localized. Climate change won't be.
> My fantasy solution is everyone needs to go get a meat consumption license by going to a farm and killing an animal with a knife in their hands every, say, 10 years

That's not a solution.

My grandmother's generation (, Chinese) has extensive experience with slaughtering animals. That generation still likes and craves meat.

You might have people who chicken out in the short term, but in a couple of years getting a butcher license will become normalized and you're back at square 1.
It is easier than passing laws that are economic carrots to promote electrifying cars and building new green energy sources of power?

No. It clearly isn't and will just become a culture war issue that doesn't even matter.
I just got home yesterday from a 2 week vacation. I was feeling especially relaxed during the trip, much more than usual. I thought this was due to how good I had gotten at thought exercises and managing anxiety, and I didn't want to forget what I was doing that led to this so I bought a notebook. After I started writing I lost the sense of detachment that was so pleasant and couldn't get it back the rest of the trip.
The decoder interview touched on that and he said they have no plans for that model. Right now all of the larger instances have a variety of ways to get donations. I agree it would be better if it were integrated into the app to make it easier to find for users and track for admins.
Yes, the programmer has to apply the safe workarounds. They always work, but improvements to the borrow checker's heuristics can make them redundant. Removing these workarounds increases performance. A certain minimum set of heuristics are part of the documented language spec by now, and this set is going to become larger with time. If a significant fraction of the ecosystem is affected by a split in heuristics coverage, then Gccrs will have to catch up.

In the PR dug out by a sibling commenter, the improvement to the compiler was indeed to apply the workaround that the programmer had to do. I believe that the churn of new heuristics is going to become smaller, as presumably most of the low-hanging fruits have been harvested by now.
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Bitcoin has been created to avoid regulations and intermediaries when exchanging value. Smart contracts allow you to have tokens tradable 24/24 7/7 with no government oversight whatsoever and complex interactions with users.

It's not “identical”, just as trading coconuts for pearls is not the same with options trading, executed by an OTC dark pool in the US market.

Also, the regulator doesn't agree with you : Gensler refuses to say if ETH is a security or not. Following your line of thought this should be a no-brainer. Maybe there's a political reason behind this unprofessional behavior from the American regulator?

Anyway, crypto leaving the US is a net positive for the world, as it will further free itself from imperialistic domination.
Also, the cost of the monitored service being down far exceed (hopefully) any compensation for SLA breach.

Honestly, PD is probably the service I would the least complain about in our (large org) monitoring chain.

At least, it's reliable, which cannot be said of Newrelic for example.
It is not as well known, but I just saw a recording of a guy named David Weston, giving a talk called "Default Security" at BlueHat IL 2023, and he talks about how Windows is porting core components over to Rust, and there's in fact already a syscall implemented in it. It's not just Linux!
If they're only getting just enough to subsist (has all their basic needs met), they probably don't have a lot of extra energy to produce more value. You need to eat to have energy to work, more so than just the bare minimum to live. They also probably won't be very effective at working if they only have the bare minimum to survive, since that doesn't include tools or places to actually work.

If some people only had a few hundred calories to eat a day, a basic sleeping mat, and a simple roof over their heads their basic needs will be met and will continue living but they probably won't be very good at producing much additional value. They won't be good at forming a symphony, as they don't have any instruments. They won't be good building things, since they won't have hammers or nails or saws or wood or any other construction materials (those fall outside the "basic needs").

So you'd probably need more than just the "basic needs".

And then once again, if they are expected to put out more than what they're getting in, they probably won't live very long. If you're only consuming a few hundred calories but putting out a couple thousand a day, you're not long for this world.
I still don't think I agree. And "arriving at an unmolested state," to me, doesn't seem like a reasonable goal. I think intervention is often necessary and preferred because humans otherwise tend to create "molested states" through independent action anyway.

In most any sport I can think of, the response to an infraction of the rules is a penalty. Many times those penalties hurt those not directly involved in the rulebreaking too (especially ones that hit at the organization-level). Generally this is seen as "fair" still.

I think the affirmative action example plays out morally in the same way. Particularly since it was not an "out with white men" action but was a future-looking plan to try to re-level things. I think it could be done more effectively - many of today's interventions happen way too late in life to truly be transformative - but I completely disagree with the "that's just reverse racism" crowd that wants to use purely "statistical" measurements.

Can you truly ascribe more moral guilt to affirmative action than you can to "we know this group is starting from a worse place due to concrete, evil acts, and we choose to say that's just the way it is"?
Yes, correct, if you are utilizing resources the American public pays for to run your business (such as the amenity of a safe and invasion-proof geography) then not paying for your consumption is illicit.
I don't think so. Copyright already has an equivalent rule in the constitution, and that applies to the whole term, not just to transfers of copyright in a will.

That being said, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the subsequent SCOTUS case Eldred v. Ashcroft[0] showed that this rule is very flimsy. The biggest protection against copyright perpetuities is that Congress currently shows no appetite for a further extension. The life+70 extension we got last time happened in a time when copyright was an uncontroversial and boring matter. This stopped being the case just a few years after the CTEA, when the masses realized that this fancy new digital realm called the Internet was functionally owned by whoever owned the copyrights on the data running through it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft
Everything has been fundamentally detached from reality, from stocks to housing.

Houses can sit empty without tenants for years but they’ll only go up. Companies can be unprofitable for literal decades but they’ll keep finding funding and buyers. Commercial properties can bleed tenant but the prices will only be up.

In a world of shrinking growth , stalling productivity, and dying demographics, the market behaves like infinite growth is baked in.

It’s very clear to any observer that the markets don’t follow any rationality anymore.
I hate this stock
They are indeed huge and powerful. If you find yourself walking through a pasture full of cattle, they may approach you because domesticated cattle associate humans with food. They won't want to eat you but they might think you have some yummy alfalfa pellets in your pocket.

They tend to be gentle animals except for the bulls. Don't wander into a pasture with a bull. Fortunately bulls are quite easy to identify when you know where to look :-)
> Even 10 years is too generous. I'd rather make it 0 instead. I said 10 years because it's what would make copyright tolerable. The right thing as far as I'm concerned is abolishing it straight up. 10 years is a reasonable compromise.

That's not a reasonable compromise. Your proposal of 0 years in a nonstarter, and walking slightly back from that is still a nonstarter. It's pretty clear your prioritizing only your own interests and desires, and not even really thinking about anyone else's.

For instance: have you considered that abolishing copyright would abolish the GPL, too? As in, you'd have no right to demand the source to modified GPL code that was distributed. The foundation of the GPL is copyright.

Copyright was created for good reason. It is not reasonable to get mad and burn it all down without considering those reasons, and the other effects burning it down will cause.

> Remember, copyright exists at all because we allow it. The raw reality these monopolists face is that public domain is the default state of all information. We're all just pretending that we can't easily copy this stuff.

We're also all pretending that we can't easily kill other people (btw, we totally can, and you probably regularly operate a 3,000lb death machine).

> The social contract was: we pretend we don't know how to copy their stuff, they get to make their money and then the works enter the public domain. They're clearly not keeping up their end of the social contract. Why should we? We should all just stop pretending we're dumb enough not to download their stuff at zero cost.

They're advocating for their interests, "we've" advocated for ours, so stuff is entering public domain (Steamboat Willie is almost there, and there are no copyright extensions in the works to keep it there).

The correct solution is to dial back the previous excesses in term lengths to something long enough that it wouldn't imperil investment in the production of new works (which can be hundreds of millions of dollars per).
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If it's clear, why hasn't SEC actually enforced? It's been over a decade.
They might have signaled one thing via press releases, PR campaigns, token donations to activists or whatever.......but let's be completely clear - their lobbying dollars and large campaign donations haven't gone to politicians promoting green energy nor to politicians who want to transition away from oil.

On a longer time scale, let's see where the bulk of their lobbying budgets go (to a particular party or sect within a given party), or the initiatives their lobbyist friends have been tasked with passing or defeating.

My guess is that when push comes to shove, the oil companies are not friendly to green energy.
It's been tried occasionally a few times over the past century. Most attempts at sham bankruptcies have not succeeded, and the few that went through are still under litigation (see the Johnson and Johnson case from a few years ago).

Bankruptcy law is administrative law, so courts are not limited to the letter of the law when assessing bankruptcy proposals; they are allowed to look at the intent of the la as well.