skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France has so far cut its emissions by 25 percent compared with 1990 levels, requiring major fresh efforts if it is to hit the new 50-percent target.

That is actually pretty good progress, but I assume they are not counting the emissions built in to their imported goods...
I’m sure it’s true that wild elephants can be aggressive.

I was surrounded by a herd of elephants in Pilansberg National Park in South Africa. We remained calm and they just walked around our vehicle.

Was simultaneously terrifying and thrilling at the same time.
I will worry once someone lays out a fully implemented plan for world domination achievable by one or more humans who are not allowed to leave their house.

All the hand waving about what methods an AGI would use to kill all humans could equally apply to government research labs, terrorist cells, 4chan, or Indian spam call centres.
Because it's not simply a coffee Whitener, it can be used for other things, it's also not labeled as a dairy product, it's labeled as a plant based milk alternative, which is pretty clear.
No but you can say they work in the construction industry, like how the health care industry is more than just nurses, doctors, and surgeons.

I think it's fair to say that product owners and UI designers are tech workers too, but maybe the issue is that "tech industry/worker" is way too broad of a term. Especially when a lot of these roles are extremely new to humanity (engineering and doctor/healer have been around for thousands of years whereas a marketer is barely over a 100 years old).
Unfortunately I don't have a very helpful answer - it's free to me. I said VPS as a simplification, but the actual situation is some co-colocated hardware a friend of mine runs. He gives me a virtual slice of it because he has excess capacity.

That said, compute-wise I would expect Jitsi to run fine on a $5 droplet or similar. Probably have to watch out for bandwidth costs, I haven't been monitoring my usage because I don't have to.
https://archive.is/BzNgh
12M sound bit weird number for limit, I wonder where it stems from. Similarly I wonder why row count is limited at all, or at least why the limit is not something huge like 2^32 (or available RAM).
As someone who tinkers with conlangs as a hobby and has been working on a similarly highly-engineered language not unlike ithkuil in features, this is one of the main things I struggle with.

Actual natural language is very fluid. Spelling, pronunciation, grammar, all shift around, and for all manner of reasons. But the main one is efficiency. Humans are always subconsciously trying to cram as much information into as little time as possible, while preserving enough intent. This means extra redundant information whittles away, but there has to be enough redundancy for error correction.

With these highly compressed languages, the problem becomes that a slight mispronounciation or misspelling can totally mess with the meaning in ways which lead to confusion. There are just too many phonemic sounds (a given sound difference is phonemic if the distinction matters, eg in English, p and p' (aspiration) is non-phonemic, but in Korean it is)

When you actually analyze languages for their "baud rate" so to speak, languages with more symbol diversity (English) have less phonemes per unit time, while languages with less symbol diversity (Italian) have more phonemes, but the overall entropy per unit time works out pretty much the same. (I can't find my exact source right now, but if you poke around keywords like spoken language entropy rate, there's quite a bunch).

Basically when you have machine code as a language, you pretty much need machine brain to process it.

Edit: here's a start of some sources:

https://seantrott.github.io/information/

Which mostly cites https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594

Also: re why no conlangs have taken over, momentum is a huge thing. We still have big iron running COBOL. Now imagine you hear COBOL from the moment you are born, for hours a day, you start babbling in COBOL, basically everyone around you converses in COBOL. It would be thoroughly entrenched.

There's a reason "English follows other languages down dark alleys, beats them up and rifles through their pockets for vocabulary". It is the lingua franca. It's incredibly flexible and extensible, and combined with superpower hegemony, it dominates. Any dominant language is bound to acrete vocab and eject dead weight (though why we still have dental fricatives is really weird).
Nah, they'll only want 15 years of Rust experience.
tangentially related, but could anybody give me the TLDR on whether increased usage of WASM on the internet is expected to open up a new slew of security vulnerabilities for users? Someone posted on here before that even JS was controversial during its adoption (and now for some users), I can only imagine that some of those concerns are multiplied when you're talking about something with such broad capabilities as WASM
> Will stick with your link to scidev and dailymail for now.

Why link to dailymail at all? They are in no way a reputable news source. Submitting dailymail links is never a good look. If the story holds up, there will be other sources.

"unreliable ... Sensationalism and flat-out fabrication" https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/wikipedia-editors-ban-dai...
Without any documentation about how etiquette will be respected and sites won't be hammered, it's fair to be sceptical about the ethics.

Not every crawled site is "big tech" or even commercial.
GPG ASC upload support was quietly added later IIRC. EWDurbin might recall
Sitting on the sidelines, It makes us feel superior to criticise and derive intellectual pleasure out of that but I haven't seen a lot of people who actually step into the ring and try to fix what's broken. I was one of them.

We can all agree that the current traditional and digital finance systems are broken but I don't see any solutions being provided as an alternative.

In every industry which involves innovation, there will be speculation and definitely people who like to profit off that which results in ponzi schemes but in the end, there are some genuinely hard working people who truly believe in the mission they signed up for 10 years ago and still continue to work. I would suggest you to take a look around and dig deeper into some of the blockchain projects and you will understand how much blood, sweat and bits have been poured into this.
This has been discussed to death, but I'll just add that in my opinion this is like saying one painting is worse than another painting because of the technique of the painter. Never mind that one was sold for $10 million and the other for $100. Sure you can rate something on technique but outside academia hardly anyone does. It is not like most people buy albums based off how good technique the musicians have and after all the better entertainer is the one who entertains the best.

I have also walked the halls of geeky academia where people wrinkle their noses and call these musicians average (at best) while they themselves have wet dreams of being half as celebrated. I think for many it is jealousy. They would more often than not rate musicians on a scale from Great to Bad that is completely aligned with Great Technique to Bad Technique and funnily also completely reversed from Unsuccessful to Successful. Also see “Wine experts”.
This makes me wonder how much of this is because research typically happens in an academic setting versus this just being the nature of research.

I wonder if researches from private companies feel the same woes. If so, its probably just the nature of, like others have mentioned, a deliverable / outcome based jobs. I'd imagine (and hope), that at the very least they're paid better and have more resources available to them.
sure, but the thing that's broken was just that, a "thing". It wasn't a "lightbulb", because it was never able to produce light. It's a broken "bulb", at best, and that's a correct use of the word "broken", because it can be compared to other bulbs that aren't broken, in this case the glass bulb itself.
For all the great promises and actually great ideas behind using cryptography to ensure efficient flow of funds... it has become scammers' paradise.
I’ll add that any time you care about a song, you should probably be doing your own transcriptions. I’ve seen so many different problems with so many different transcriptions of songs.

If you make your own transcription, it may not be more accurate, but at least it will be your version of the song.
$250k is guaranteed. Above that you take your chances on policy.

I don’t think the $250k was ever intended to be an absolute upper limit.
They do mention someone else who was a CS major but, yes, not clear how much of this is developers etc. and how much is all the other people who work at a tech or a finance company.
Just to clarify, we do expect people to negotiate the contracts, and most of our users negotiate on at least some portion of their deals.

The difference is that the agreements are split up into cover pages, which are designed to be edited/negotiated for different companies and deals, and the standard terms, which are designed to be the same across uses of a particular agreement type.

As a simplified example, the standard terms included a section describing the limitation of liability. In that section, there's a variable for a "liability cap" which gets set on the cover page. The idea is that you might negotiate over whether that cap is $10,000, $1 million, or 2X the past 12 months' fees, but that you rarely need to negotiate the wording of the paragraph describing the limitation of liability.

All that being said, this won't work for every business or deal, but we do hope that it will work for an increasing percentage of them over time.
I'd guess it's one of the non-Southern Slavic languages (e.g. Polish or Russian): those languages repurposed what used to be past participles (and so, just like adjectives, had genders) to be past tense verbs themselves. The Southern ones (e.g. Bulgarian) did not do this.
> It's just plausible to me that there was more than one reason for it.

The code that put up the fake error messages (in the Windows beta versions) when running drdos was xor encrypted in an apparent effort to obfuscate / hide the code. What possible reason would there be for MS to try to escape detection if there was any legitimate reason for the error messages?

These BS error messages have a more modern equivalent by MS-- MS added open document support to MS office natively, having already supported odt with a plugin in their earlier version in order to do business in places that mandated open data formats. The native odt support would convert all formulas in a spreadsheet to the static values they calculated to the first time the spreadsheet was opened by MS Office. Destroying people's work to annoy them to using their proprietary formats. The old plugin did not have this issue (so MS did know how to implement proper support, and had to expend effort re-writing existing code in order to get the 'destroy document' feature to work).
This is the primary reason I'm averse to languages and ecosystems that rely on package managers. I have never had a good experience where these things aren't just constantly breaking. Stack/cabal, cargo, pip, npm/yarn, gem. Scattering files across my filesystem and having extremely brittle configs that shatter the ecosystem into a billion pieces at seemingly random intervals. A problem exacerbated by these package managers often being more complex than the compiler/interpreter itself. Luarocks is probably the least problematic, and that's mostly because it hosts really simple and self-contained software.

Say what you will about the old school way of manually building and copying shit around, at least when something breaks I don't have to spend a couple hours keelhauling a bloated toolchain in a debugger for mutiny.
you mean like the us troops in western europe?

no, srsly, idk what's what
Unfortunately your theory falls apart once you read literally a single book on macroeconomics.
clangd is pretty good
> the ability to bring compute to data eliminates the need for as many microservices — run those in the database instead!

Isn’t that a step backwards? De linking them means you can scale the two appropriately independently.

I guess if you’re using could and can “steal” a bit of compute that way it makes sense.
One example where natural language is clearly suboptimal is math. Most people can do simple transformations on equations with small polynomials in memory. But that's thinking in formulas.

When you try to do it in plain English it becomes very hard.
An early stage lab has a lot in common with a startup. The PI is given seed money to validate an ambitious idea and has limited time and resources to do it. The work is extremely labor intensive and in the early stages the PI will be in the trenches with the early employees working in the lab and setting an example for them to follow. Fast failure and pivots are extremely common. Furthermore, at any time the research idea could get scooped by another hard-working research lab, resulting in publication in a lower-tier journal. The PI must get early results that can be used to obtain further research grants.
A good PI in this situation will set expectations accordingly that 60+ hour weeks will be required and hopefully those who are not willing to do so will self-deselect. From their perspective I completely not understand not wanting to invest $50k/year of their startup funds in a graduate student who is not putting in the necessary time to succeed.
The prospective graduate student's maximum power is at the time when they are choosing a research advisor. Choose wisely, and remember you are always free to choose not to go if you don't see a good situation. I advise that people think long and hard about whether or not they truly want to do graduate school. There are far better ways to spend your 20's than in a lab. I had two great experiences in "intense" labs in my field (organic chemistry) after a very poor experience with a prestigious but absentee graduate advisor in another field - but it is definitely not for everyone.
Ask HN: What are you excited about / looking forward to?
In the next 1-3 years in particular.
There's rough rhythm-only cuts of Justice on music services (I think they were on the last reissue) and it's like listening to an entirely new dimension of those songs. I don't play guitar but my friend does and he was like "none of what we just heard was in that transcription book we had in high school." Heh.
Regarding Go, it didn't have generics until recently, partly because some of the community didn't think it was beneficial. They've been nothing but positive in our project as we've been able cut down on substantial amounts of boilerplate in some areas.
Why are you conflating digital payments with Forex transactions?

> Yes, they did raise the limit to 7 lakhs in a year after public backlash. Initially the 7 lakhs was not there.

The limit was always there. The notification is simply a clarification because the earlier rules were ambiguous.
I don't know why you're making that guess when both are obviously bad in totally different ways.

Cigarettes, which social media is sometimes compared with, are still bad for adults, and the rules for them are for a minimum age of purchase rather than to ban for everyone.
> There's VERY few population centers in the US where it's raining heavily >10% of the time.

First, you're utterly wrong about how rainy cities are[1]. Most of the population of the US lives in a place that has more than 100 rainy days per year. The Northeast Corridor by itself has 50 million people and 120+ annual rainy days.

It also doesn't need to be "raining heavily". It can also be raining lightly, snowing, foggy, dusty, or smoky.

But even if you're right and it's 10%, the predictability becomes a huge issue. I've spent my whole life on the East Coast, and you never know if it's really going to rain until it does or doesn't. The forecast changes literally minute to minute.

1. https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-annual-pre...
"At most, the recent selection for killing those with aggressive behavior, large tusks"

Are million+ years recent?

Humans successfully hunt big animals since we exist and all the hunter societies that still exist, share the idea that the biggest trophies come from killing the most fearsome animals. And if an animal killed a tribe member, killing that specific animal comes with great respect for the hunter. So the organized hunting of elephants especially for their tusks might be a recent thing, but killing dangerous individuals is not.
Yes for sure. And professional cooks are focused on different things too, not all of their skills are normally applicable in home cooking. The two best cooks I know (both better than me in terms of consistently delicious food) are as you describe: older people who have just been paying attention and caring about it for a long time.
These were considered to be satanic black magic when they were first discovered. this is the 'quaternomicon'
Yup, Polish.
Absolutely. It's such a load of bullshit.
Well, yeah. But the parent comment is insisting that the spiritual bits is doing something, and I was just way too lazy to look for a dose response study.
Where does the user specify the cryptographic key to sign a package before uploading?

Serverside TUF keys are implemented FWICS, but clientside digital publisher signatures (like e.g. MS Windows .exe's have had when you view the "Properties" of the file for many years now) are not yet implemented.

Hopefully I'm just out of date.
Physicist here. Stopping distance is actually directly related to square of velocity.

Work-Energy theorem:

Work = ΔKE

Force * distance = 1/2(mass)(velocity^2)

distance α v^2

Slow down everyone :)
Back in the pre-digital era that this was recorded in, I think this would have been impractical.

Today, every piece of pop music, at least, is quantized to the point where the accuracy is perfect, but also sterile of feeling, as discussed in any number of Rick Beato videos.
As they say, the 3 biggest advantages one can have in life are money, power and attractiveness.
I don't think that's limited to Boomers.
How GPS Works
This was forced by a regulatory body. Strangely, it was forced after the transaction had closed rather than blocked before closing.
I mean... You can do that, but I don't think you're going to enjoy the process compared with playing a physical instrument.
There's also a glaring oversight in the motivational model for releasing a world-killer AI. While it's not impossible to imagine someone creating a genocidal AI for the sake of genocide, it's much easier to imagine someone doing it for ecological reasons, religious reasons, or nationalistic reasons. IE the person(s) doing it will have convinced themselves that they are doing it for the right reasons.
End of an era: CD Baby stops distributing artists’ CDs, vinyl, and other goods
Yeah the whole thing looks like throwing away baby with bathwater; the package should

* get a signature for author ("the actual author published it") + some metadata with list of valid signing keys (in case project have more authors or just for key rotation
* get a signature for hosting provider that confirms "yes, that actual user logged in and uploaded the package"
* (the hardest part) key management on client side so the user have to do least amount of work possible in when downloading/updating valid package.

If user doesn't want to go to effort to validate whether the public key of author is valid so be it but at very least system should alert on tampering with the provider (checking the hosting signature) or the author key changing (compromised credentials to the hosting provider).

It still doesn't prevent "the attacker steals key off author's machine" but that is by FAR the rarest case and could be pretty reasonably prevented by just using hardware tokens. Hell, fund them for key contributors.
This is a very oblivious take.

I have friends who are doctors.....their work doesn't feel meaningful. They are constantly pressured to move from patient to patient like they are cattle.

Friend is a pharmacist, she stands 12 hours a day. She he is forced to go in sick. She gets written up for being late.

Many teachers hate their jobs, they are underpaid and have to deal with all kinds of good/shitty kids.

Chef? Seriously do some snooping around subreddits/message boards for these professions. You will quickly realize how corporations can make any "meaningful" job a drag and unhealthy.

Programming can be extremely meaningful. You can create great things that help society. However, many of those projects won't pay for themselves. So, if I company wants to pay me over six figures to write some code, I will gladly take it.

Plus, I am a nerd, I like building stuff, sheds, racing sims, tinkering on bikes, cars and computers. My ability to tinker with computers, write queries and programming can allow other people to do their jobs. Imagine a health system without a computer.
Uber had to fight tooth and nail to get permission in numerous countries - Alphabet will not want that battle. Add to that battle they suddenly want to be autonomous too and they will really struggle rolling out. Also, would you trust an Alphabet Uber? It'd be torn down within a year like usual, based on precedent - looks at Stadia controller annoyed.
the FBI has been misusing its power since its inception, it's always been this way, you're just aware of it now — hopefully this broader awareness can help
I've heard of incredibly variable experiences from people working on science PhDs.

I've known maths PhD students who found they could only really do 2-3 hours of truly productive maths in a day, allowing them to spend the rest of the day playing games and suchlike, and after two years their supervisor told them they'd got enough interesting results to graduate.

And I've known chemistry PhD students whose supervisors felt if you're doing a mere 8 hours a day of work you might as well drop out now because you're obviously not serious about graduating, and expected their students to be in the lab tending to long-running experiments on evenings, weekends and even christmas day. And yes, we only give you three years of funding but everyone takes four years to graduate.
IMO, the healthiest way to run a community is for the head admin (and top lieutenants) to be inactive. Let the deputy admin and mods handle the site. When they start power-tripping, it's time for the head to step in and clear the house.

This model is dangerous when no worthwhile applicants arrive after the call for new mods. Then the forum either stagnates, is overrun with spam, or the head admin starts becoming active (therefore putting them on the path to petty power trips that they just cleared the leadership board to be rid of).
If all the African elephants 200 or so years ago could communicate and coordinate, they could more or less take over the world - at least Africa + Eurasia.

An elephant goes where he wants and does what he wants, and only extremely thick steel or a fearless / stupid human with an elephant gun can stop it.

Now imagine 100k elephants working together and humanity is armed only with muskets.

I imagine primitve cannon would be effective, but in this alternate history, disciplined young elephants might charge and overcome an artillery position.
> We can all agree that the current traditional and digital finance systems are broken [...]

Could you expand on that? That's quite a strong opinion to assume everybody agrees on.
And I suppose the AI just presses the “take over the world button”?

Most “rogue AI” scenarios begin with good-faith operators handing high credentials to an AI and then the AI abuses them.

If I’m an evil billionaire and I can build a human-level AI for $200MM in hardware costs and $1MM/month in electricity, maintenance, etc, all for one single human level intelligence, how exactly am I supposed to leverage this to take over the world?