skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like quite the large strawman in TFA. Most of the folks I've talked to in longtermist-adjacent circles (futurists, effective altruists, etc., that crowd) see climate change as a very real existential risk, for the same reason the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists do: it greatly increases the risk of large-scale conflict which could lead to nuclear war. Even if Homo sapiens survives, there's an existential state where we knock our progress so far back, we aren't able to re-bootstrap the industrial revolution, due to depletion of surface-level resources at a scale sufficient to restart industry.

So yes, climate change does have the potential to compromise our existence over trillions of years.

I think the bigger problem with this movement is the concentration of already-wealthy types amongst its adherents, which skews the overall perspective away from more common plights.
Or use Gitlab. I remember doing a mirror syncing from Github with one of my gitlab repository. The main reason I used to do it is Gitlab offer free built-in CI at that time
In my case one of most important thing is the GitOps workflow. It's single source of truth so it's also single point of failure ;(
Hi literally talked about how before pandemic it was almost all short term rentals; now it’s 1/5 are 30 days or longer.

He talked about it on Prof G Podcast.
Gitea is pretty light on resources so even though it has a extra functionality you don't need it's not really a resource pig. Unlike say, GitLab.
There’s also probably some social bias. In the US, we have a strong bias towards self-determinism and saying someone did something because (in-effect) they are pre-wired to make that deterministic action flies in the face of social conventions about individual free will. There are always some policies that are shot down because they run against social normative ideas, even if those ideas are shown to be false.

(The free will vs determinism is obviously overly simplistic above)
Systemic user error is a software defect.
Wendy’s CEO touts AI drive-thru deal with Google
> The cheesy, white-culture, corporate "comedy" of Google and Facebook over the years...

White-culture? I'm really not sure how you can come to such a conclusion based on the video posted.

> I wish they could just showcase the technology with some upbeat music and let the tech speak for itself.

That's most of the video already. Although I admit there is a ton of bolded text statements popping up that I'm not a fan of...
I use it to document my work week so that I have a record of what I am doing several years down the line. https://cruit.coralworks.ca
I work for one of the companies on that list and can attest we still use smalltalk/pharo.
> As a consumer you can't in the UK choose to be fully exposed to price fluctuations, which would completely destroy you. You can choose to be partially exposed, it's very expensive right now, but can be cheaper in some periods. It's a risk, take only if you understand it, Octopus Energy are the people to talk to.

FWIW for the last few months, the Octopus Energy Tracker tariff has been quite a decent chunk below the Ofgem capped unit rates.

E.g. today's gas unit rate is -59% and electric unit rate is -42% below the Ofgem capped rates for my area.
Integrating a React App into a Go CLI
Conspiracy and fact are orthogonal descriptors.
>But it's likely just another folly that (it seems) mostly the rich and powerful use

Those are the ones can yield the most damage tho
Do you say the same thing about AGI?
Is he referring to writing code or books/essays?

For code I think he's forgetting that the people using ChatGPT to write code for them aren't really good programmers. These are mainly people using frontend frameworks that have horrible documentation and use ChatGPT to help them parse the garbage into something that just works. These people would never learn a functional programming language or any assembly. They simply copy the tech that others are using in order to stay employed. What type of code could these type of people, on their own, without ChatGPT produce that is actually useful for others to read or use?
I also thought of fx322 and oto313 (from another lab). Hearing regeneration and tinnitus healing are those things that seem "achievable " but are way more complicated than it seems initially.

The subreddit r/tinnitusresearch has good coverage of the scientific efforts. Which as you mentioned are not that many.
you can (and often do) have constructors in smalltalk: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36878787/making-a-constr... - i think the stuff you quoted was probably written with little thought.
France got a 40 year head start. They werent even aiming to decarbonize their electricity, it was a side effect of chasing energy independence during the oil crisis.

It was the way to go in 1970.

People think nuclear isnt the way to go now because it's eye wateringly expensive. EDF's bankruptcy and the rapidly exploding costs and risks of dealing with France's aging plants confirms this. In spite of still spending hand over fist, the % of nuclear power is in decline in France (theyre officially hoping solar and wind can fill in the gaps).
I dont feel so good about this.
Google Search Labs
In 2001 I started a PHP project and it was cool, lots of people were going that way. In 2008 folk we telling me it's a terrible security risk. In 2014 they told me it's the WORST choice. In 2023 it's cool again?
> Telegram and Google, as companies, published misinformation.

They didn't.

> You are free to publish your opinion on a movie, your code, your own selfie. You are not free to publish bullying content, fake content, or anything that harms others.

You're misrepresenting the current law project. Have you read it least? The 1st big problem is who will have the say in what is/isn't fake? The people backing this bill often spread lies and have zero commitment to truth and honesty. Fake news is everything that is inconvenient. Clearly, they have no issues with fake news when it supports them.

There is no place for a ministry of truth in a democratic system. I don't want my country to follow the Chinese example.

> It is not censorship if a court rules a social media company to delete pages/messages/whatever that violates any law.

What is being removed didn't violate any laws. Opinion and free speech is a constitutional and international right. The court orders were nonsensical and legal only because they came from the supreme court which is above everyone else so they can interpret things as they wish.

It's insane to have a supreme court overruling the legislative and the executive branches in a weekly basis. The supreme court actions are undemocratic and create dangerous precedents. It's slowly becoming a judicial dictatorship. Even elected representatives are afraid of them.
People are also mad at that but sometimes less so. It seems those indirections launder the grumpy since there's not one focused place to complain. YouTube takes more because they're doing more work. It's funny cause no one seems to think YouTube deserves any munny for their technological marve of long tail content sometimes.
Wait you're not using islands architecture!? Hahahaha how quaint! Get a load of this site, it's not using islands!!
The evidence for the lab leak theory is weak. You're assuming facts that most experts dispute.
R&D organisations hit out at proposed new EU patent rules
> But there are many who have so many battle scars and war stories with the language and its ecosystem that they decided it's just not worth the pain anymore

This applies to absolutely every language or stack. You switch to Ruby because the grass is greener, and 5 years down the road you feel the same. Then you switch to Kotlin or Erlang or JavaScript and you'll end up hating it anyways if that's how you roll.
Constructors are tools to put an object in a starting state, but there's alternative solutions; in Go, factory functions are pretty common.

Primitive types reminds me of Java, which doesn't have primitive types per se (everything is an object under water), but they're adding it soon (or already have) for performance reasons.
>then in the long term people will be vastly, incomprehensibly richer than us

Like Rome after the fall was so much richer than before?

Or how Hiroshima and Nagasaki were so much better with the advent of nuclear fission technology? Since, technology basically just makes us richer and safer and everything!

Or like how the average working/middle class US (or European) family is so much more comfortable than in decades before?

>so they will be much more able to deal with problems than we are.

Like how we have the best government and Presidents ever?

And the best infrastructure and public policy, and the more capable?

A lot of this attitude is from people in the upper class (at least salary wise) who can't fathom anybody else suffering more now, because it's business as usual or better than ever for them...
that I will never be disappointed in them

They may not be gifted but they can see through this lie.
Everyone thinks they're being reasonable.. and just for context: I don't put much stock in long-termism, but not because I see it as a potentially dangerous ideological dogma, but because I don't see it as that useful.

In my opinion, the tendency of the optimal action for short-term interests to coincide with the optimal action for long-term interests, and how much easier it is to determine the former over the latter, makes it better to focus primarily on the near future, with a less-well-defined long-term objective being used only to orient one's general direction.
If it's very cold, yes. But the average should still be well above 3:

> Similarly, in Finland, tests of air-to-air heat pump systems from various manufacturers resulted in COPs of 3 at -10C and 2 at -20C.

Source: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-the-energy-crisis...
I'm surprised nobody's mentioning Mike Oldfield who was topping the European charts in 1974-1975 with Tubular Bells and Hergest Ridge. Both mostly instrumental album with 20min+ tracks... Totally unimaginable now.
You still have access to it, of course.
Religious communities have places of worship. But I'm not sure if you are looking for a digital space or a physical one.

Mastadon may have some relevant communities too. More likely to be dev-oriented as well.

And I know you're no stranger to building your own stuff :) So there is that possibility.

Even a mailing list, if one person joins, that's a start (not a newsletter).
I get the longing for new ideology, but that's not going to be it. Dominating intent to identify, predict and mitigate "existential risks" is simply arrogant.
I love the appeal to the "independence" of science from politics, after what may have been the single most materially and socially destructive scientific disaster since the invention of the atom bomb. We'll just act like none of that ever happened and continue with impunity.
I mean it kind of goes without saying that as long as climate change doesn't make us extinct, it wont matter on a time scale that includes things like the sun exploding. I suspect you don't hear the statement much because it isn't particularly controversial.
It's important that people know the truth.
Judging by how much insulation the typical English house has, it doesn't get cold there.
Ken Griffin's Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire
Wow, that's funny - almost looks like bcachefs explaining a similar issue here https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230509165657.1735798-7-kent.o...
Because of all the conspiracy theories, it is not going to be pretty if there's a lockdown in the future for any reason whatsoever. Indeed, I think governments will be very reluctant to order a lockdown even if it's the right thing to do. This has nothing to do with facts about virus research though.
The guardian likes to ignore this, because it doesn't suit its reporting angle much, but England has 1.8x more population density than Germany and 3.6x(!) more than France. This means by simple maths far less available land per capita. Overall the UK comes in closer (but still ahead) of Germany but this is largely due to Scotland, which is a significant proportion of the UK landmass, but has very few people.

The government ban you mention only applies to England, which already has almost half of the UK's onshore wind despite having by far the least space for it. Making complaints that the rural population of England, already under pressure due to soaring population density, doesn't want their remaining rural spaces covered in wind turbines when plenty of other good options exist requires quite a bit of mental gymnastics to justify.

Population densities in people/km2: England 424, Scotland: 68, UK overall 272, Germany: 232, France: 118.
Landmass in thousands of km2: England 130, Scotland: 77, UK overall 242, Germany: 357, France: 551.
In an ideal world, we'd realize through cost benefit analysis that seeking out novel strains of animal viruses and bringing samples of them back to labs, especially in an era where lab leaks are common (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...), and then further doing gain of function research on those viruses to enhance them for further testing, might not be the best idea. At least until we had better methods of securing such facilities.
Even as a longtermist, I wouldn't discount global warming so fast. Even if you categorize it as a "non-existential" threat (which I wouldn't be so sure of - you just have to look at Venus to see where global warming can lead to), it took less than what we are currently facing to throw (European) civilization back for about 1000 years when the Roman Empire fell.
Faster CPython at PyCon, part one
I have this setup running on a Synology NAS at home. I'm currently syncing all of my starred github repos to local storage using a short bash script that runs once a week. Once a repo is in gitea, it pulls any new updates from github every 6 hours or so. It's mostly for archival purposes, just in case something majorly bad happens to github.
Did a COVID write this?
Woke people always come to that conclusion.
Makes sense. If you're a genius in a country of people who make worse decisions (IQ/culture/other), you may ne worse off than an average person in a country with an average average decision making level
worth reading!
The community does the VAST majority of the moderation. The "mods" is one person who steps in when the normal system fails in one way or another.
It would be funny if it wasn't sad and scary. Those supporting this bill are doing everything the bill was supposed to be against.
The danger is specifically to the copyright holders of Linux - the authors who have code in the kernel. If they do not defend their copyright, then it is not strong and can be broken in certain scenarios.

"Linux copyright holders in the GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers believe that distribution of ZFS binaries is a GPL violation and infringes Linux's copyright."

Linux bundling ZFS code would bring this text against the GPL: "You may not offer or impose any terms on any Covered Software in Source Code form that alters or restricts the applicable version of [the CDDL]."

Ubuntu distributes ZFS as an out of tree module, which taints the kernel at immediately at installation. Hopefully, this is enough to prevent a great legal challenge.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/
In the case of writing/presenting/many things, there's definitely a case for doing something regularly even if a lot of that output is pretty routine and pedestrian. So there's probably a limit to the degree to which you can automate away the routine stuff and still expect to parachute in and produce something killer on demand every few years when you need to.
Speaking only for myself, I tend to stagnate in a job that doesn’t embrace new tech or allow for much experimentation. I guess I’d ask what your goal is. You could stay relevant as a Java developer indefinitely. You might struggle if you’re still building web apps in Perl.
They don't make money on non-Apple hardware.
A seriously creepy thought that I've had (that I certainly don't agree with) -

It could be a way for governments to quickly and affordably "cull the herd" of expensive to support elders, immune compromised, sick, and infirm individuals. In doing so, it would free up capital, resources, housing, jobs, etc. for the younger workforce.

This is of course only a creative musing, not a proposal for an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers
How does this impact taxes and other liability overhead on your part?
The evidence for every other theory is even weaker by any objective standard, though.

EDIT: the evidence in favor of wet market zoonosis is what, exactly? "It's always been zoonosis in the past" plus "we (claim to have) first found this in a wet market" and maybe also "there's some RNA fragments in the wet market samples that show interesting animals plus covid"? As far as I'm aware that's it.
>> That, in turn, makes it often possible to just take straight C library example code, copy it into a PHP file, add a $ in front of all variables, and have it magically work.

* head explodes awesome

I know what I'm doing this afternoon!
you don't understand the power of the Lindy effect. All of the dated infrastructure we have now has ultimately survived the test of time.

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

by the way DNS is wonderful.
Act like what didn’t happen?
I honestly prefer community supported battle proven production ready "magic" than what most product developer under a deadline cobble together. In my experience the problem you describe happened like... 2 times in my 20 years career. And I literally spend my entire days fighting my own colleagues very explicit smartnesses
I was with you up until that strange closing question.
At the bottom of the readme is a huge spammy star this project advertisement with animated images. I cant help but laugh at the irony of a project which replicates the experience of Windows 11 - an OS with integrated self promoting Ads - itself displays spammy self promoting ads. The same github user has this same spam on every repo - no wonder they are a Windows fan, right at home with spam.
Oh, that's really good news. :)
Very cool. Smalltalk is one of those "I'd like to learn" languages for me.
https://archive.is/goc0C
Many languages need constructors (and static methods) because the class is not an object.

In Smalltalk the class is the sole instance of another class (MetaClass), so a "static method" becomes a "class-side" method. And so it is inheritable.

The meta relationship is hard to understand (at first), but it is part of what causes the parsimony in all the interactions, and the "everything is an object".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57898036/is-it-true-that...

Primitives (as in int, double, etc.) are a different subject, and although an Integer or a Smallinteger is a specially optimized object, it has the overhead of being an object (as in "Boxed" Integer in other languages), instead of some bytes at some memory location.

Most of the times you don't need the optimized version, and if were the case that you do, then it's when you optimize that piece of execution specifically (maybe making an external call to a more low-level, optimized version).
By some measurements the Holocaust was a walloping success.

What particular measurement you choose is very important, so "some measurements" is basically meaningless.
Yes, white culture. Black people don't find that kind of stuff funny or cute. Middle Easterners don't. Most Europeans don't. Africans don't. South Americans don't. Asians don't. Some out-of-touch, white Americans do. That's the target audience, I suppose. It's snarky and hollow.
Mine says "Bard" where yours says LaMDA. https://i.imgur.com/p8wIPHj.png
I asked Bard for the weather in my locale and it came back with a wildly inaccurate prediction. I then asked it where it got the information and it said from "Google Search."

I checked weather.gov and told Bard the prediction was wrong and it came back and said yes it was incorrect and now agreed with me based on the weather.gov prediction.

I then tried different locale to see if it's smart enough to use a better data source on the second try. I asked about another city my family lives in and it once again came back with an inaccurate prediction. I asked where it got the prediction from and it gave me a link to the weather.gov website. I checked and the prediction Bard was giving me for the high temperature was actually the current temperature.

I can't say for sure, but it does seem like Bard has access to these websites but is struggling to properly interpret them.
Drawing is thinking, too.

https://tumamocsketchbook.com/2011/12/drawing-is-thinking.ht...
Why is this story flagged? It should not be, it's an important piece of history and I think meets all the criteria for an interesting HN story submission.
I don't know enough about WASM to know why it can't be exposed directly to the DOM, since in theory the DOM should be a language-agnostic interface. If that were to happen, I think the floodgates would really open on WASM and we'd finally start to see JS die.
AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less
It feels like (at least in my country) all the lockdowns were part of an experiment; try something else, see if it works. At some point they tried a curfew for a few weeks, it had an effect but people didn't like it and enforcement was a huge issue (naturally).

The other thing is that every time a measure was effective, they would stop doing it so that the cases would go back up again.

That said, as China proved, a totalitarian lockdown (where people were locked in their house) didn't work in the long run either. China got back to productivity faster though, and gave their population time for a vaccine to be developed and distributed.
Live Bacteria Bang Out Solos on Graphene Drum
We're discussing the use of the word 'Open'. Which was first applied to systems. Then "source", which actually did in fact argue that openness of source was more important that system open-ness. As to system open-ness, that is well understood as open access to blackbox via open (non-proprietary) APIs. Which is precisely what "OpenAI" is providing.

> Your comment also tries to side step the issue ..

We disagree. Narrowly directed and addressing the "issue", in fact.
Some things never change. I rolled over laughing at the fact that of all the MDM vendors on the market... they picked Blackberry.
Yes I think that's why I was surprised and confused. I never saw them 'step in' until now when they intervened with that post.
I believe that some degree of longtermism is a requirement for consistent progress… yes, there’s a lot of pressing problems that need to be addressed today, but at the same time humanity isn’t going to be moving forward as a whole if everybody is busy staring at their feet.

It’s only natural for some number of people to be concerned with making sure that tomorrow brings progress on some axis, because that is not something that just happens on its own. Progress, particularly leaps of it, is made as a result of people having “outlandish” visions and working to achieve them.