skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heat resistant and anaerobic ? Years? Why so long ? /s

https://xkcd.com/1732/ (natural speed of changes vs. anthropocene)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-trajectory-of-the-An...

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

The "hockey stick" is just starting.

- Marine life: Warmer sea temperatures can lead to changes in the distribution and behavior of marine species, with some moving to cooler waters or changing their migration patterns. This can also affect the growth and reproduction rates of different marine organisms, which can have cascading effects on the food chain.

- Coral reefs: Coral reefs are highly sensitive to changes in sea temperature, and prolonged exposure to temperatures above 21 degrees Celsius can cause coral bleaching, which can lead to their death. This can have significant impacts on the many species that depend on coral reefs for food and habitat.

- Ocean currents: Changes in sea temperature can affect ocean currents, which can in turn impact weather patterns and climate. Warmer sea temperatures can lead to more frequent and severe weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons.

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

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

- Sea level rise: As sea temperatures rise, the water expands, contributing to sea level rise. This can lead to flooding and erosion in coastal areas and impact the livelihoods of people who depend on these areas for fishing and tourism.

- Decreased solubility: As sea temperature increases, the solubility of oxygen in seawater decreases. This means that warmer water holds less dissolved oxygen than cooler water. Therefore, as sea temperatures rise, the amount of oxygen available for marine life decreases.

- Increased stratification: Warmer water is less dense than cooler water, so as the sea temperature rises, the water column becomes more stratified, with warmer water sitting on top of cooler water. This can prevent oxygen-rich surface water from mixing with deeper water, leading to the formation of oxygen-depleted zones.

- Algae blooms: Warmer sea temperatures can promote the growth of certain types of algae, such as harmful algal blooms. These blooms can consume large amounts of oxygen when they decompose, leading to oxygen-depleted zones in the surrounding water.

- Oxygen-depleted zones, also known as hypoxic or anoxic zones, can have significant impacts on marine ecosystems. When oxygen levels become too low, many marine organisms, such as fish, shellfish, and crabs, can suffocate and die. This can have cascading effects on the food chain and lead to the loss of commercially important species. Additionally, the decomposition of dead marine organisms in these zones can release harmful gases such as hydrogen sulfide, which can be toxic to marine life and humans.
Russia pledges harsh response after Polish 'seizure' of embassy school in Warsaw
I believe that’s because they’re unsalted (which I wouldn’t consider run of the mill, but a specialty baking product).

This Reddit post says the natural “flavoring” is lactic acid to replace salt as the preservative, but obviously you can’t be sure with that labeling:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/comments/26q208/natural...

But I see the Kerrygold equivalent, which is also sold in US stores doesn’t have this.
To your last point, I think you’ll see much more of that soon.

A trick of writing is to leave stuff off the page. If you put everything on, it’s tiresome. If there’s nothing left off, characters seem hollow. A character background or even scenes that exist but aren’t shared means there’s a sense to things that the reader can pick up on, even if they don’t know exactly what it is.

I can see the same thing happening with generative AI. Rather than procedurally generating desks and the objects on them, you generate a sales team. The composition of the team makes sense. Then you give each employee a paragraph of background, then from that generate a desk. This will give something much more cohesive than adding a family picture if rand < 0.2.
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges (video)
I'm building a MIDI controller that has knobs (rotary encoders) displayed on top of a full hd display. I looked everywhere for something similar and I'm pretty sure that it does not exist. Did my first gig with the first prototype. It's basically a mix between the Electra One, the MP Midi Controller and the Stream Deck.

I'm working on this for months now, and I had to learn how to use tools like Fusion 360 and Kicad for this, which is incredibly fun!

I'm looking for a name for this product, current propositions are "a screen with holes" and "écran total" but ideas are welcome :)
What's old is new again: if everyone has their own isolated network, then if you need message exchange, you can light up FIDO or UUCP!
The Gospel of Marcion is possibly the earliest new testament gospel, either a primitive form of the Gospel of Luke, or sourced from the same text which the Gospel of Luke drew upon.

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

Indeed, St Paul's letters are the earliest recorded New Testament books. Marcion's cannon grouped most of the letters of Paul into a collection termed the Apostolikon, which was the centerpiece of his branch of early Christianity:

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

"The premise of Marcionism is that many of the teachings of Christ are incompatible with the actions of the God of the Old Testament. Focusing on the Pauline traditions of the Gospel, Marcion felt that all other conceptions of the Gospel, and especially any association with the Old Testament religion, was opposed to, and a backsliding from, the truth. He further regarded the arguments of Paul regarding law and gospel, wrath and grace, works and faith, flesh and spirit, sin and righteousness, death and life, as the essence of religious truth. He ascribed these aspects and characteristics as two principles, the righteous and wrathful God of the Old Testament, who is at the same time identical with the creator of the world, and a second God of the Gospel who is only love and mercy.[11]

Marcionites held that the God of the Hebrew Bible was inconsistent, jealous, wrathful and genocidal, and that the material world he created was defective, a place of suffering; the God who made such a world is a bungling or malicious demiurge."

[...]

"In Marcionite belief, Christ was not a Jewish Messiah, but a spiritual entity that was sent by the Monad to reveal the truth about existence, thus allowing humanity to escape the earthly trap of the demiurge. Marcion called God, the Stranger God, or the Alien God, in some translations, as this deity had not had any previous interactions with the world, and was wholly unknown. See also the Unknown God of Hellenism and the Areopagus sermon."
Nice, but there is a huge amount of text out there on creating funny mechanical stacks of things going back probably more than hundred years. Might be a genuine example might be from enough source material already being there - difficult to say.

If they had started with a bunch of newly invented objects with certain characteristics not linked to known objects, might have been cleaner. Perhaps stacking arbitrary shapes in more than 3 dimensions?
Machine learning for programming languages and code generation
> That sort of problem is beyond the scope of the runtime in any case, isn't it?

Yes, which is why Go's outright crashing also makes sense to me...both Go and Erlang's behavior seem conceptually the same, with some architectural tradeoffs. It's not really that different for a process to die and restart. If some shared resource reaches an undefined state, then you have to kill everything and reset your state anyway. I suppose Go's behavior lends itself better to "microservices", whereas Erlang's behavior is better suited for "monolith" processes that do a lot of different things.

IMO either of these are better than Java's default behavior of silently swallowing the exception and allowing the thread to quietly die.
What are the arguments here? If it didn’t cause inflation, the USA should abolish taxes and just print trillions of dollars and buy everything in the world, and give each resident a million dollars a month as basic income.
In terms of using gpt optimally. But fair enough. If you tried it in multiple sessions trying to convert Apache rewrites to nginx and it wasn't able to do it, I guess this is another failure mode. I just found that curious because chatgpt is usually very very good at regex.

Side note is Google extra terrible lately or is there really no docs on this almost anywhere?

All I could find about it is this and the rules looked very simple, from my experience chatgpt should have got this https://activecollab.com/help/books/self-hosted-activecollab...
Higher heat means a greater amount of dissolved gasses, which means more more acidity due to an ability to capture more co2.
But a lot of US govt programs from that era spent a lot more money, and didn't deliver such impressive results: if they delivered at all.
I got rid of all my vinyl (much of it with some water damage) years ago, but I do sort of understand the tactile appeal, the retro-ness, and the listening intentionality. In these days of lossless digital formats, CDs are mostly just a medium to buy/transfer a bunch of bits. I can't say I really understand interest in cassettes at all. Obviously it was the only way you could copy someone's album or make a mix tape at one point but that doesn't apply today.
In other words, by using a RESTful style, with HTTP as the protocol, you get all the benefits of REST. The fact that you're using protobuf as the media type is irrelevant to the protocol.

As for the content negotiation for JSON vs protobuf, that's also defined in the HTTP standard.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
Would need to dive deeper to get a better handle here. But if what they are pointing to is accurate and wholesale then that is disturbing. Insane amount of energy to heat up the ocean like that - transfer that to all our weather systems, yikes
Companies are of course experimenting with this. And the mod communities are working on projects too.

A Fallout 4 mod is using AI to voice human written options in the same voices as existing characters. And there's a couple Skyrim projects working on dialogue generation. Personally I expect this to be an area where amateurs/hobbyists contribute quite a bit of research.
That's just not true, though. Nobody who is after money goes into academia in the first place. It's not where the money is.
Using current technology as an analogy for consciousness is the equivalent of trying to understand natural phenomena by modeling them after human emotions and behaviors, such as greeks did with their gods.
One of the phenomena of some records is that excessive bass can cause the needle to jump out of the groove.

Tchaikovsky*, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Erich Kunzel – 1812 : https://www.discogs.com/release/2205254-Tchaikovsky-Cincinna...

> Amazing recording! The sonic mastering on this one is outstanding. Make sure you have your stylus and needle prepared for the canon blasts in the 1812 overture! Take a look at how wide the grooves are near the end of Side 1! I had to adjust my tone-arm weight so the needle didn't get thrown off the track or skip. This is a great listen and sounds amazing.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/mccartney-and-old-time-need... also has some discussion about the mixing of bass for records.

So there are very real reasons why a record would have a different mix than a CD.
Fish aren’t likely the ones at risk. Corals, plankton, and other invertebrates that can’t move too far are going to be heavily selected against if they aren’t heat tolerant. My lab in college used to study heat shock and how it impacted evolution. Our theory was that a rapidly heating environment could expose latent genetic diversity that heat shock proteins masked through chaperoning the folding. We demonstrated this in fruit flies.

We could see a rapid change if it’s prolonged enough.
Such a fan of rotary encoders, building a hardware Sonos controller with them now
Passkeys WebAuthn effectively replace client certificates.
Ayn Rand Will Kill Us All
A Terminal Email Client as an Alternative to Gmail: The Old Dog Neomutt
The seat is pushing me in the car and the earth is pushing my feet when I stand up on it.

The frame of reference is the curved 4 dimensions space-time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space
> Pretty much nobody uses "true" rest.

[citation needed]

You're using it via your browser on this very website.
IMO email is dead and spam killed it. Who uses email anymore? It’s basically business communication (but all the biz communication I’ve done in the past years has been through telegram / signal / whatsapp / etc.) and registering to websites.

Once we figure out a way to handle website registration that’s not tied to email (whatever that means) I’m not sure email will be useful for anything.

Most useful conversations have moved to messaging apps.
Wikipedia's information often isn't collated how you want. Eg List the states where the biggest city is larger in population than the state capital? There isn't specifically an article for that. Sure you could take the List of United States cities by population article and assemble the list yourself, or you could just have ChatGPT do it for you.
I've not used these myself but they seem to be designed to solve this problem:

https://chargie.org/
So you'd slam on your brakes with someone behind you? Instead of accelerating forward?
> correlates well with job performance

highly doubtful, but i would be interested to see your evidence. IQ tests might provide a rough gating mechanism but applying them in the field you don't have any control group so there is no proof that they are actually selecting people correctly (you don't know how many good performers you are rejecting because they didn't score well on the flawed test).

> maximum level of education attainable

since the education system is also designed by the same misguided people who designed IQ tests it wouldn't be surprising if scoring well on IQ tests also leads to doing well in the education system, but that doesn't meant that either are doing anything of any value.
Tape Source: my Dougal @ Vibealite tape where the MC keeps telling the crowd to move back because they are making the needles jump.
From the introduction:

> Rhode points out that temperatures this week were just under two-tenths of a degree warmer than the previous record. “Two-tenths doesn’t sound like a lot—but in ocean terms two-tenths is actually a lot because it doesn’t warm as quickly as the land,” he says. As you can see from the chart’s record of past years, March is normally when average sea surface temperatures start declining.

But then the article wanders away from that point before saying when the temperatures do start declining.

This is a big failing of science advocacy as it relates to journalism, public policy, and public discourse. Two-tenths of a degree requires interpretation to understand its significance, and it feels like a small number.

Instead, lead with something like the oceans should have started cooling down a month ago but they haven't. It's more relatable and gets right to the point.

I'm neither criticizing this article nor science journalism in general. I just wanted to draw a comparison to the issue where science communicators need to figure out how to more effectively present information to journalists, policy makers, and the general public.
Moderation is hard.

Also, there is the homeopathy problem. Do only homeopaths vote if a homeopathic paper is good or bad, or any medical doctor can vote?

It will be very difficult to distinguish voting ring from serious research, because some communities are very small and each one cite each other paper, and have some papers together from time to time.

Now the idea is that the jornal has a magic public vote, and if the paper is bad the reputation of the journal is stained, and after enough bad papers the hivemind decides it's a bad journal.

Another form of votes are the citations. So instead of karma, there is the total number of citations, the h-index, and other form of counting them. They also can be gamed, because people can add self citations or citations to friends, specially in the introduction. And sometimes the reviewers ask for a cites, like in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738717 but most of the times it's more subtle.

There are a few new journals that claim to be "peer review", but are actually just a forum with upvotes and commets. I'm not sure if any of them are "serious" because they are not in my area, but moderations is very hard. If votes are secret, there is no incentive not to voter crap. If votes are public, you can be coerced to vote.

Note that now it's also very hard to know if a journal that is not in your area is serious or not. There are some metrics like impact index (average number of citations ¿during the first year?), but they are easy to game, different communities have a different number of average citations in each paper, and different community have different time to publish. An impact index of 1 is good en math and bad in physics.
Huh. I wasn’t worried before reading this thread. Now I’m a little more worried.

1. We don’t need to worry about Kessler syndrome, as the orbits of Starlink will decay in five years (from 550km).
2. ISS is at 420km.

Has anyone else ever worked with something dangerous dangling over their heads? It’s kind of nerve wracking, even if you know that there’s very little chance of it falling and hitting you.
Whats next is you bank directly with the FED.
I think years is several magnitudes off for how fast evolution works.

https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2011/aug/lasting-evol...
I think it varies according to industry culture. It's anathema to some industries to have that level of openness be the default.
This is the full set of requests and outcomes (scroll for English): https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

The only missing one is this: "introduced mechanisms to enable data subjects to obtain erasure of information that is considered inaccurate, whilst stating that it is technically impossible, as of now, to rectify inaccuracies". It is not clear to me however how one would request removal of information about themselves.
I'm an old, I grew up with vinyl, walked into stereo stores with dozens of turntables to sell, have about 200 records from back then.

I was glad to leave it all behind, first with CDs then digital. My main memories of vinyl was constantly trying to keep dust off the needle, off the records, not touching them with my fingerprints. There was a special brush that you put some special liquid on that, got the dust off, waited for it to evaporate...I just wanted to listen to music.

I did buy a USB turntable a few years ago but that was to capture music from the obscure Atlanta new wave bands that didn't make it to digital. And even those I can now find on YouTube, someone's done the work for me.
Dell Inspiron 7415 also works OK-ish, except for the digital pen (reported: https://marc.info/?l=linux-input&m=168275886027392&w=2). No coil whine, but bad sRGB coverage and poor-quality (low level + hiss + non-zero DC offset) internal microphone. But at least Windows users suffer from the same issues. So pick your poison.
Chernobyl Revisited: Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response
There are many ways to do this. Asterisk and a rented VoIP line, a hosted PBX service you just rent and transfer your line to, a 'Web 2.0' variation of the same (like Twilio), or even a programmable desk phone.
AI coding companions will change the way developers work
Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter
Thanks for the detailed reply.

Hopefully writing things down will push my brain to think more, rather than using subconscious way to directly start coding.

I'll start writing docs from user's perspective and a few possible implemation variations.

Maybe once I start writing docs, I'll start getting better at knowing what is must to consider before jumping to implemation.
Now, I didn't say "recently".
> I wouldn't mix in "ethics" here

Ethics is not an all-or-nothing proposition. I think the idea that ethics doesn't come into this until you're approaching Jainist levels of respect for life is not just wrong, but counter-productive.

If you're going to eat butter, is it not inarguably better to get it from cows that could go outside and enjoy nature and eat grass; rather than cows that were subject to factory farming?

Would it be better again to be vegan? Sure; no argument there...

But the difference between the horrors of factory farming versus the much milder horrors of traditional farming is vast.

It's honestly quite surprising to me that anyone (other than a big agri PR goon) would take issue with pointing out the quality of the farmed animal's life as an ethical concern.
Cadbury's has never been treated as anything other than a "chocolate for the masses". It was however, a pretty decent middle-of-the-road chocolate. Until it got bought out. Now it's shite.
Right, general intelligence has been here all along. Humans are the ones that are specialized. Pylomeic mistake 2.0
Soap nuts are okay for certain situations. But in my experience, they don't work well for really greasy foods.
My Awkward Inference
On macOS the concept of tab is a part of the window management system.
However a lot of apps decide to do it themselves anyway—and given the stage of the window manager of macOS I can’t really blame them.
2018: The best AIs can't pass an elementary school reading comprehension test.

2023: The best AIs score in the top 10% of law, medical, engineering exams, and outperform licensed professionals on real-world tasks.

Please stop speculating. You don't know what we are (or aren't) "close" to.
Missing graph:
https://media.wired.com/photos/644b17b8ef8671d76d4a856f/mast...

source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
This also solves remote-support problems for me! Afaik there is no VNC Server / TeamViewer / AnyDesk / etc (server!) for Android, but telling someone to plug their phone into some computer I can control is easy enough :-)
That's the documentation on the URL. And yeah, I was surprised too given how people had hyped it so heavily in much more complex scenarios for dev work (well, claimed to anyway, they haven't documented it in most cases of claiming to x).
I wanted to listen to the audio version of "Founding Sales: The Early Stage Go-To-Market Handbook by Peter R Kazanjy." But I couldn't find an audible version so a friend and I downloaded an ePub version of it and converted it to audio using Microsoft's txt to speech model and built a simple UI.

I plan to make it general purpose so you can download and ePub and convert it to audio seamlessly.

https://listenandread.netlify.app/
For those who want to salivate even more, check out this short video about a French butter maker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b--l_0eMbo8
I wonder how they are going to keep the show going with this plot line.
In general the rich pay most taxes: https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-t...

Rich people pay more property taxes.

Rich people pay own companies, which pay corporate taxes.

LA just enacted a wealth tax on 5m+ real estate.

My point is how many times have we been sold the concept of "if we just bond or tax X, we can solve problem Y". These always turn out to be Big dreams where billions get spent and nothing really gets better.

Look at the CA high speed rail diaster.

Look at this one... The government sold a bond for homeless housing and raided the money for another project. https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/03/california-...

We don't have revenue problems, we have spending problems.