skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I’m sure the execs at airline companies are solely looking at climate change as rationale why to increase prices in a very very tight margin industry, with recent record high inflation and record high borrowing rates.

Perhaps if everyone agrees to a price hike, then customers won’t be incentivized to switch to a cheaper airline.

Climate change movement has lost its original gestalt and now is used as a means of price action, policy changes that really make no sense.

why are the US policy makers hyper focused on reducing carbon footprint of the country and destroying QoL by pushing more expensive but more ‘green’ alternatives. We’re 13th in the world per-capita emissions [0]

And yet, we’re okay pushing child slave labor to mine cobolt for batteries of electric cars that, if even a small majority of Americans had, our electric grid could not handle.

It’s fine, just add an additional tax to it, while millions of families are suffering from economic conditions that are likely to get worse.

The green cult, like many, started for great reasons. And now it’s been high jacked for corporate interest and power grabs.

I would like the planet to be more green. I think most people would. But not at the fire expense of large populations. We can transition to a greener future more slowly. People have touted “the next 10 years is the end” for 40 years.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/carbon-fo...
Sure you could, you could mandate providers in the state give accurate geolocation data with some sort of lookup service and standard. I'm not saying it's a good idea but providers could certainly do it. They provide the physical infrastructure, and I assume have to deal with understanding state boundaries, laws, taxes etc already on a per customer basis when it comes to near state border cases.

I guess people providing wifi near the border could get complex but you could pass that responsibility to whomever owns the physical line and where it terminates. Satellite might be a little difficult.

But I'm not entirely sure we should do it just because it could be done.
> The gas stovetop range is replaced with electric, so it takes 20 minutes to boil water.

Unable to reproduce. I can reliably boil water within 2 minutes.
The science of keeping humans healthy is fairly well researched and can also be explained, but that same science cannot convey the experience of being healthy.
I miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!
> Why learn?

Because if you don't, you won't understand the answers.
A global universal basic income in conjunction with a global cap on fossil fuel extraction would be the simplest, assuming politically possible.
Show HN: Mmm.page beta – Drag-&-drop websites like an internet canvas
Creator of mmm.page here. After 2 years’ of tedious refactoring, mmm.page beta is live!

The beta update brings an interface overhaul and a 90% rewritten codebase. In end-user-terms: premium plans, rich text, drawing, viewport resizing, private pages, custom HTML/CSS, domain names, sections, advanced styling (borders, opacity, etc.), server-side rendering, and an inordinate number of polishes/fixes. Also, sound effects :)

mmm.page has grown from 200 users to 33,000+ members since its launch on HN two years ago [1]. It’s been exciting seeing the range of pages made: pages of My Favorite Things, moodboards, photo walls, prayers, children-drawn comics. Websites closer to an “internet canvas” [2]. Explore them yourself on the showcase [3].

Looking ahead, I have already begun work on 1.0, which will introduce audio/video support, robust long-form text support, advanced layout capabilities (breakpoints, grouping, row/column), and collaboration features.

But most exciting of all is mmm.town [4] – the fun, social layer around mmm.page. Hopefully building on open protocols such as ActivityPub. More on this later.

Take a look at https://build.mmm.page. The homepage is editable, no login required.

— XH

P.S. mmm.page is bootstrapped and I'm full-time on this, so each upgrade helps a great deal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128424

[2] https://paper.mmm.dev

[3] https://showcase.mmm.page

[4] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1611094168981458981
This is absurd.

1) Electric hobs (aka stovetops) are fast as hell. Use an induction. They're not even new. You can even get a plugin one from Ikea for about €50.
2) Toilets don't depend on flow rate.
3) My clothes seem plenty clean. I have the option to allocate extra water and add another rinse cycle if I need to, which I use for particularly soiled clothes.
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I consider that the best argument against any kind of afterlife is the sheer banality of any claimed conversations with ghosts/deceased. I'd imagine that someone that has taken the final(?) journey would have incredible insights to pass on, yet they always just mumble on about something mundane.
Maybe that clerk also grabs a couple and sells them on the corner to some getaway driver. Seems like having your plate floating out there is a bad idea. At best nothing happens. At worst, you get your door knocked in and a mid night beating from the local swat team. Lawyering up, proving it wasn’t you, etc.
> Abstractions lead to coupling and complexity.

Without abstractions, we would still programming using punched cards.
I don't particularly care about climate change, but 22% sounds acceptable. Or even surprisingly cheap. Taking fifth less trips even would be acceptable to me.
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I've read your links and I still don't get it. Please just summarize in a sentence or two what your core point is.
https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/09/Emissions-by-sect...

Though since aviation is generally seen as hard to decarbonise, and likely to grow, it is usually estimated to account for a growing fraction of total GHG over time.
"Just use money" is kinda part of why we've not already solved the problem.

This is more like UBI denominated in rations of air-distance, that happens to be tradable for things people care about, and thus essentially funded by a tax on travelling more than that each year.
It reminds me of the story about the New York beaches where they deliberately designed the transport to try to prevent public transport access to the "better" beaches, so they'd mostly remain only accessible to the wealthy (although it's not clear if this was actually true).

Like they want to make transport so expensive that the poor people stay away, and the rich can travel the world freely without having to share space and attractions with them.

Same for eating meat, and living in the suburbs and larger residences.

That said, an induction hob doesn't take 20 minutes to boil water.
I'd think non-appending writes are quite rare in practice, other than databases. Even when the application is logically overwriting data, in other kinds of programs it's almost always implemented as writing to a new file + an atomic rename, not in-place modification.
AI that finds and converts niche news into posts. Copyright infringement?
So, I built this tool as a side project a few weeks ago but suddenly met with some demand. A public post-IPO company wants to buy an annual contract for the entire marketing team. Now they're asking how legal it is. It's supposed to be Content Curation, and I've seen mentions that 85% of marketing experts use it. However, in this case, the posts are created by AI, and I think that's the difference.
Any advice?
What’s weird is, from my reading of the law in question, a minor using either a VPN or a stolen ID card to access PornHub is a violation. . . for PornHub.

That seems a little wonky to me.
So Elementary OS is one example of Linux that already runs very happily on my 2012 MacBook Air.

Surely most of the required support is there already?
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> Abstractions lead to coupling and complexity.

If you're in the habit of programming in anything other than machine language, I think you'll have to agree that the real story is more nuanced than that.

I haven't actually read this book so I'm not prepared to defend it. But I would happily run my mouth and say that the truth is more that abstractions are a double-edged sword. They can be very effective in skilled hands, but they are dangerous in the hands of the untrained. Unfortunately, what makes a good abstraction (IMO it's algebras or GTFO) is not something in which most of us receive sufficient training.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees that Russia should develop its own communication protocols to replace TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) in order to ensure technological sovereignty and independence of the country.
Would be awesome if it told me what file types it supported and also helped transcode some things like videos.

Looks very interesting though.
I’ve done large amounts of psychedelics and if anything it’s left me feeling more grounded in a materialist worldview.

Not that that’s a negative thing at all. The universe is perfect without any need for magic to arbitrarily insert its fingers into the clockwork.
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That leads to the outcome that your statement "The science of keeping humans healthy is fairly well researched" is false.

Actually it is the least researched field among the most important, in my humble opinion.
It is. And it gets clicks.

But what I rarely see discussed is the opportunity costs in not having this progress at as fast a pace as possible.

The pie chart of existential threats for humanity definitely has rouge AI on it.

But that's a slice amidst many human driven threats ranging from nuclear war to oceans dying.

What there's not very many human driven slices of pie for is realistic solutions to these issues.

On that pie chart, some sort of AGI deus ex machina is at the current rate of progress probably the only realistic hope we have.

People who have been in the AI industry for a long time are still operating on thought experiments that barely resemble the actual emergence we are watching.

So while you have old AI thought leaders going on about cold heartless AI not being able to stop itself from making paperclips because of its innate design from training, we have humans unable to stop themselves from literally making paperclips (and many other things) because of our own evolutionary brain shortcomings, even as it dooms us.

From what I've seen so far, it seems far easier to align AI to care about the lives and well-being of humans different from it than it seems to be to align most humans to care about the lives of fellow humans different from them.

The opportunity cost of leaving the world in human hands as opposed to accelerating a handoff to something better at adapting to the emerging world and leaving the quirks of its design from generations of training behind seems far more dangerous than the threat of that new intelligence in isolation.
Many humans would not be able to solve that problem, especially those that are younger or have lower IQs, and obviously those that have not not been taught multiplication. That doesn't mean they are devoid of all reasoning ability.

Furthermore GPT-4 is able to multiple slightly shorter pairs of numbers, and experiments on smaller neural nets, such as one using a dataset consisting of 20% of all combinations of two four digit numbers, quickly learn to generalize to successfully multiply any four digit pair even though they aren't in the training set.

Try again, give an answer that actually works this time.
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Indeed. This is how ripgrep works. It's compiled for just plain `x86_64`, but it looks for whether things like AVX2 are enabled. And if so, uses vector algorithms for substring and multi-substring search. The nice thing about dealing with strings is that the "coarse" requirement is already somewhat natural to the domain.

But, this functionality is absolutely critical. It doesn't even have to be automatic. Just the ability to compile functions with certain ISA extensions enabled, and then only call them when the requisite CPU features are enabled is enough.

In a nutshell: https://github.com/BurntSushi/memchr/blob/8037d11b4357b0f07b...
My guess would be: more visitors to <insert any other easily accessible porn site or download client here> from Utah?
> that no train should be allowed to go faster than 50km/h

"There was some wonderful stuff about [railway trains] too in the U.S., that women's bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour. Our uteruses would fly out of our bodies as they were accelerated to that speed."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-TEB-2814
I did this for a while too. I'd suggest actually keeping the plates in the vehicle with you. Some grumpy highway patrol can decide to tow the vehicle unless you fix it then and there. Some may do it anyway. Each state has different time limits for ticket vs tow/impound.
100,000 flights a day, every day of the year is 2% of all emissions.

Burning all that coal to make electricity is 20-25% of emissions.

When will we fix the big problems? If we’d started 40 years ago, we’d likely be worrying about aviation being carbon neutral by 2070 instead.

Time to watch Carl Sagan’s 1985 warning again

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI
How much of that is moral progress and how much is technological and economic change? Do you need to conquer land when you could use drone strikes and economic sanctions to maintain hegemony? And did we stop enslaving people because people found Jesus—which I’d like to think is true—or because mechanization rendered unskilled slave labor much less valuable?
"olfactory sensory neurons do not express the gene that encodes the ACE2 receptor protein, which SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter human cells. Instead, ACE2 is expressed in cells that provide metabolic and structural support to olfactory sensory neurons"

So basically, the ACE2 receptor that covid attaches to is found on (among many other places) the cells that provide support to the olfactory cells that allow us to smell.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-covid-19-causes-loss-smell
I have trouble following this logic. Monopolies are obviously bad, but, 1000 banks sounds like an extremely diverse ecosystem.
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Now for official Google Drive support on Linux...
Being able to mount compressed archives as a file system could be interesting.
Is this the beginning of the Thanatonautes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Thanatonautes
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"They're going to have a problem" — for whom is that a problem?

Porhub made the best reasonable effort. The ISPs supplied inaccurate data and are in the jurisdiction, but aren't required to supply anything at all AFAICT. Who has a problem?
It’s probably only a matter of time. The internet became the only place where age verification wasn’t really a thing.

I’m honestly more surprised this didn’t happen 20 years ago.
You shouldn't be baking business logic into your abstractions like that.

Or, perhaps this is a better way of putting it: if there's business logic mixed into it, it's not an abstraction, it's a concretion.
I imagine this is something that has been studied extensively, what good/bad o outcomes are known from societies that do/don't allow porn?
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It’s not just clickbait, though. It’s also designed to acclimate consumers to the idea that not only will prices always go up, but the prices today should be considered a good value while they last. It adds a sense of FOMO to purchasing decisions, while simultaneously pushing previous price increases into the background.
Words, transmitted by sound _absolutely_, without a single doubt, can affect the thoughts of an individual. And, of course, horns and loud sounds and noises will also affect the thoughts.
Everybody knows that prohibition does not work. People will get their fix any other way.
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As long as we are willing to go to war to force other countries not to modernize, it's totally possible.
Why is it any time a user fee related to fighting climate change comes up the comments are immediately astroturfed by concern trolls?
intro to each of these. maybe check out AWS for Non-engineers
> There is no reason preventing any manufacturer to support older devices with security upgrades for a time way longer than this.

software maintenance costs money.

>And remember that Apple was the one throttling iphones with a bad battery.

They weren't throttling as part of some conspiracy to sell more phones. They were doing that so phones with weak batteries won't randomly power off because the battery couldn't deliver enough current.
Speech is pretty well understood - there are two complementary aspects to it, speech production (synthesis) and speech recognition (via the changing frequency components as show up in the spectrogram).

When we recognize speech is almost as if we're hearing the way the speaker is articulating words, since what we're recognizing is the changing resonant frequencies ("formants") of the vocal tract corresponding to articulation, as well as other articulation clues such as the sudden energy onset of plosives or high frequencies of fricatives (see my other post in this topic for a bit more info).

High quality (that is, highly intelligible) speech synthesis has been available for a long time based on this understanding of speech production/recognition. One of the earliest speech synthesizers was the DECTalk (from Digital Equipment) introduced in 1984 - a formant-based synthesizer based on the work of linguist Denis Klatt.

The fact that most of the information in speech comes from the formants can be proved by generating synthetic formant-only speech just consisting of sine waves at the changing formant frequencies. It doesn't sound at all natural, but nonetheless very easy to recognize.

The starting point for human speech recognition is similar to a spectrogram - it's a frequency analysis (cf FFT) done by the ear via the varying length hairs in the inner ear vibrating according to the frequencies present, therefore picking up the dominant formant frequencies.
Society has many scourges and history seems to prove that prohibition is not the answer
It's up 50-100% for most of the places I wanted to visit :(
We don’t need people driven by fear.
Related discussion

* Writing a RPC from scratch (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35782902
> It's already up over 25% in the last year anyway.

Germany to South Africa was 550-750€ (roughly KLM/Air France/British Airways to Emirates range) pre-pandemic, and that was also what we were seeing this year, so maybe that’s more route dependent?
If you don’t mind a query language that is mostly grunting out nouns.
Object storage is a higher-level abstraction than block-storage. FUSE and similar tech can do the job for basic requirements like read-only access by legacy applications but rarely works well for other scenarios.

A more complex layer like https://objectivefs.com/ (based on the S3 API) would be more useful, although I would've expected the cloud providers to scale their own block-store/SANs backed with object-stores by now.
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I would much rather live in a safe area with unpaid overtime. I like my job. Worse for people who don't. I do think we should go much harder on white-collar crime, without relativizing street crime.
> Dark matter developers, you have done everything right!

The article is from 2012. I wonder if the author's opinion has changed much since then? It does seem that we don't pay enough attention to making things that we can keep running and improving for decades. These days I really favor mature tech. Things that have stood the test of time.

I have a lot of respect for things like Java and Ruby on Rails and even Windows COM.
I imagine it's hard to study since you need to find two countries with similar socio-economic status, rights of women, attitudes towards marriage, rape etc but that have opposite opinions on pornography.
There was a whole panic where mobile phones were thought to melt your brain. Similar with radio. Some belived TV would literally give you square eyes. Vaccines. The internet was simultaneously apocalyptic and useless.
It's not "money" thats at issue but rather prices. Markets work great generally speaking but they're notoriously bad at pricing in externalities - especially of fossil fuels. Money would work fine if the cost of air travel in dollars reflected its impact. It just needs to be more expensive.
Do they win? Did the porn usage actually decrease? I'm not sure how you'd even measure that given common distribution areas like Reddit or Twitter. Unless someone does real research on this in a few months, I don't think anyone can be said to "win" here.

Short-term I would expect the usage to be registered as higher while people interested in porn are now checking other sites to figure out what's available.
The "non existent science fiction technology" you're talking about (wind turbines, solar, hydrolysis) is already there for many decades. It just needed a proper push to incentivize the industry to produce and deploy it at massive scale. When deployed at scale it constantly produces clean energy at unbeatable prices per kWh. Compare that to nuclear being heavily subsidized by tax money to achieve affordable customer prices. The only real downside is that renewables take a lot of space (2% of Germany's area only for onshore wind turbines).

NB: Schwesig promoted Russian gas to improve her local industry. She was the pawn sacrifice of the "leadership" in the whole shitshow.
Even databases tend to do sequential writes, whether to a WAL or LSM tree.
This doesn't sound like a whole lot, considering that the travel industry is one of the largest employers in most countries and a substantial part of most economies.
The cynic in me expects them to make zero progress or impact on climate change by their deadline, but still end up with a 22% increase in fairs.
It's effectively a "cap and trade" program for flight miles. And cap and trade are, in the big picture functionally just taxes e.g. many opinions on carbon taxes and GHG cap and trade are affectively fungible.

There's differences, but often not particularly big or fundamental ones e.g. you might say that individuals are getting the money for trading their miles, but it's easy to refund taxes to people as many carbon fee programs already do.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/explainers/which-is-...
This all seems a little disingenuous. First, from their summary, it doesn’t sound like the law actually requires checking a photo ID. They’re treating it like some maximalist regulation that it isn’t—it requires them to do more than nothing though. And also

> PornHub said that a better solution is to identify users by their device.

Pornhub effectively does absolutely nothing to verify users’ ages right now. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if they did something.
If you watch certain tiktok channels too much, you open up space for more souls to enter. Seems to works best for younger girls though.
Very true.

Clear, true title > mysterious title. In general, but according to the HN clickbait title rules as well.
I think it's the wrong approach. Rich people should not escape climate measures.

Flying should be rationed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ration_stamp
I'm curious if you actually ever interacted with IQ 80 humans. They are definitely not on this scale.