skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The risks are definitely real. Just look at the number of smart individuals speaking out about this.

In our society smart people are strongly incentivized to invent bizarre risks in order to reap fame and glory. There is no social penalty if those risks never materialize, turn out to be exaggerated or based on fundamental misunderstanding. They just shrug and say, well, better safe than sorry, and everyone lets them off.

So you can't decide the risks are real just by counting "smart people" (deeply debatable how that's defined anyway). You have to look at their arguments.
That's shockingly common with almost all reports of drivers crashing into things. It takes the agency away from the driver and pushes the narrative that "accidents happen".

From https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

> One was an attempt to shape news coverage of car accidents. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, an industry group, established a free wire service for newspapers: Reporters could send in the basic details of a traffic accident and would get in return a complete article to print the next day. These articles, printed widely, shifted the blame for accidents to pedestrians — signaling that following these new laws was important.
Is there a rule of thumb for when to use Halton sequence, versus Poisson distributions, versus Sobol sequences, versus <insert 10,000 other random sequence algorithms) for Monte Carlo scenarios... or even general "I need to generate a random set of XY or XYZ points in space"?

Hell, I even see people use voronoi patterns to position points, which seems like overkill. Is it purely by choice/fascination?

It seems rather choose-your-own-poison, but wondering if there are any shorthand use-this-for-thats.
That ("fossil fuels were a limited resource") is only true if the fossil fuel oil producers have to pay the cost of cleanup. Take a look at how a new superfund site is being constructed: https://archive.is/AMt7I

But it's ok because it makes gasoline cheap, and hey, we can figure out how to clean^H^H^H^H^H make more money on the cleanup when people start dying.
Given that Lyft's only rival, Uber, is partnering with Google's Waymo, seems like a prescient move to get out from Google's thumb.
I moved back to NYC after a long time away, and to a different part of town than where many of my old friends live, and getting a dog considerably improved my connection with the folks around me.

And of course, as others have said, volunteering.
Slightly off-topic rant: it seems (at least in hn circles) all the crypto buzz generation has found a new target in AI. Whereas prior to GPT-3 _every_ problem's solution according to a certain crowd was a hefty dose of web3/crypto, it seems now the consensus among a comparably sized crowd is that AI is actually the answer to all of humanity's pressing issues.
It turns out space is full of big floaty rocks that you could hollow out and put your factory inside.
Giant books like Taschen's will be the big survivors of the e-reader onslaught because it provides visual, tactile, and nostalgic dimensions.
Great! If you could open an issue and perhaps lay out what you would like to see I would be more than happy to add a chapter like this. This book should serve the community and I think you've described a good gap that the book has which we could close with such a chapter.
For those who aren't religious, there's also Sunday Assembly: https://www.sundayassembly.org/

For those who are spiritual but not Christian, there's also the Unitarian Universalist Association: https://www.uua.org/
This is why anonymity in this country matters when it comes to the little guy criticizing the big guy.
I have other citations if that one is not to your liking.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snap-works-for...

> The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) delivers more nutrition assistance to low-income children than any other federal program, making it the nation’s largest child nutrition program. In 2016, SNAP will help about 20 million children each month — about one in four U.S. children — while providing about $30 billion in nutrition benefits for children over the course of the year.[2] (See Figure 1.) While SNAP provides only a modest benefit — just $1.35 on average per person per meal for households with children — it forms a critical foundation for the health and well-being of America’s children, lifting millions of families and their children out of poverty and improving food security. Research shows that its support can have surprisingly important long-lasting effects.
It's been fully independent for like 10 years, and existed as a commercial product for over 20, so I think it is pretty safe from 'startup' risk.
Even if we agree that there is a fixed finite amount of people, mind that not everybody will work with everybody wit h the same process.

Having only a single organisation might prevent some people from contributing, who in a different environment might submit ideas and do some work.

The results then may influence the other project as well.

Human interaction is complicated ...
GCloud security is horrible. It's like they designed the whole thing to be insecure by default. Coming from AWS, the amount of permissions they give by default in the most commonly-used roles is insane. They also seem to lack some functionality necessary to make fine-grained access permissions to access some of their advertised features. It's really crazy.
I don't know how it works in California, but in WA, the requestor pays.
The adage "we have a legal system, not a justice system" is repeated ad nauseam in these cases. But thinking about it: what if we were to have none, neither legality, nor justice, but simply randomness, fiat fortuna, et pereat mundus [1].

An example in this case would be: instead of all the boring legalese, the high-paid BigCons [2], and the unfulfillable expectation of pristine judgements, to have just a coin flip: 50% chance for guilty, 10 years jail, 50% chance free as a bird. Skew it even further, for every person killed or $1 million stolen add some percentages to the guilty chance and some years to the penalty. Solve every lawsuit in a matter of seconds, nothing to debate [3], no false belief of fairness or equity, just sheer, dumb luck, for the society or for the accused.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_iustitia,_et_pereat_mundu...

[2] 2023, Mariana Mazzucato, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

[3] 'Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”', lots of unprecedented to come in the near future, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f...
> I would think that the region where I live (north Germany) could be driven two-three times with renewable energy.

I suspect not a very economically strong region then?

> Given that nuclear energy will be slow and extremely expensive to build, we'll better look for alternatives sooner than later. Plus: spent fuel storage / reprocessing costs how much for what option? We have nuclear power since the 50s, but dealing with nuclear waste is still largely unsolved.

It’s pick your poison: that or global warming. Japan and Korea are ramping up their nuclear power; Korea gets em up and running in 2 years…

> That's fine. We'll see more people doing it and we'll see many GWh distributed storage capacity added over the next years

PVs are horrible for grids to handle and for every installed PV we also need to have the gas equivalent if PV doesn’t deliver. If we are really optimistic and assume we would only need to cover 3 days we probably need around 3600 GWh or storage which is equal to 12 million tons of batteries assuming 300 Wh per kg of battery (if I got the math right on my phone).
I am curious about the browser compatibility layer.

Does it support networking? (And if so, is it using a proxy to connect to the internet or is it using a virtualized network layer that stays in the browser?)

How is fork implemented? (Asyncify all the code?)

I was looking at the Github org page (https://github.com/wasix-org), but I can't figure out where this stuff is.
This was an enjoyable read. My GE fridge uses RFID for keeping track of when to change the water filter. This isn't really an area I'm familiar with but I'm curious how much I would be able to figure out with the right tools.
Can’t you be both deaf and healthy? Or missing a leg and healthy? I don’t see how “disabled” implies “not otherwise healthy”.

I often run into people who are deaf, or an amputee, or have type 1 diabetes, etc, but I rarely come across someone that (to my knowledge) has a substantial illness. But I live in a city where I very, very rarely run into someone much over 40 (at that point they are likely to have been married and had children, and the thing nearly everyone does here is move into the suburbs once they’re married with children).

I suspect that where you live makes a huge impact on whether or not you’re surrounded by unhealthy/ill people.
> The phrase “climate change” was invented by Republican spin doctors and for unfortunately it’s become the standard term.

Let's avoid jumping to delusional conspiracy theories. Both terms have a place in science.

> Global warming refers to surface temperature increases, while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas amounts will affect. [1]

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_ot...
Kriller – An eternal seven day looping art broadcast
Evidence points to the specific change we are charging forward into resulting in huge amounts of drought, famine and flooding around the world. This will lead to resource wars and refugee crises at a scale we have not yet dealt with.

Or, if we somehow set the greenhouse gas levels back to where it was not long ago and kept it there, we would Not have tremendous excess amounts of drought, famine, flooding, wars and refugees.
Unfortunately it was several weeks ago and I don't remember or have the code on hand. I think it involved a switch statement in some way
What is bad is the variance. We know that the variance in weather is increasing, and the average temperature is also moving up.

Yes earth has been hot and cold, but the point is to avoid enormous fluctuations due to variance as they lead to extreme events. We saw huge droughts and floods in Europe, China, and the US, events that we hadn’t seen in a long time.

We also know that the variance causes a split of the polar vortex in Europe which creates heat domes and traps air from Northern Africa. The world we have built was not designed to withstand such heat, see infrastructure melting in England last summer, and much of the world is not prepared to deal with extreme heat, ask the Scandinavians how they handled last couple of summers, I know I suffered in CPH.

We also know that it is caused by our emissions, while we use “CO2” it’s a few different gases and we scale their potency to equivalent CO2.

I can recommend “firmament” as an introduction to weather science. Dr Simon Clark is an excellent science communicator with a PhD in meteorology, and has a great YT channel.
> but expecting outrage at Amazon for defending their interests in a lawsuit mostly shows a lack of understanding how litigation works.

This is cast as an aspersion of the author, but this seems like a perfectly reasonable position for someone who isn't an expert in law to find themselves in.
While the xkcd comic mentions 14-15 competing standards, there are only 3 email client standards in wide use: POP/SMTP, IMAP/SMTP, and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. POP is wholly surpassed by IMAP in functionality and ActiveSync is proprietary, so we're left with IMAP/SMTP as the only viable universal option.

I would really like to see an open email client standard that is more reliable and performant than IMAP/SMTP, and JMAP could potentially be it. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have 2 competing standards instead of 1 when IMAP hasn't seen any improvements in 20 years.
No legal use case? Really?

Honest question are you legitimately excited for FedNow? What problem will it solve?

What does FedNow have to do with cryptos downfall? Does FedNow fix our 120% debt to gdp ratio? Estimates of inflation required to get our debt to gdp back to 50% is 4-5 years of 12-20% inflation.

You don't want inflation? Well then I guess the US is going to default on our loans. 98% of countries in the last 120 years that had a debt to gdp of 130% has either defaulted or had massive inflation (only exception is Japan which is still in progress, currently holding off because its positive NIIP, US has negative NIIP).

For the US it's either default, print, or hope for a miracle.
It is not a fluke that ChatGPT becomes popular in a time when alternative facts wins elections. A time when prominent business people look down at education and talks about smart people being dangerous. A time when you have to sit down with your dad for an hour to explain that the post he read on Facebook is not really a news article.

I am not sure it is up to OpenAI to solve all these problems. I don't think OpenAI are doing worse than anybody else.

What I personally dislike about ChatGPT right now is that it seems to have more and more difficulty to actually stay on the context of the chat. It has become a QnA.

Secondly. Hidden ads. It even advocates for Azure bs that has even been removed from Azure. Even on data ChatGPT was trained on. Is that just by chance?
> So if you want unwinding, you’ve got to have an equivalent to setjmp (or throw / catch)

Unwinding is a somewhat cleaner interface than setjmp/longjmp, and it's a useful primitive in its own right, especially if you can attach a notion of a stack trace to the unwind primitive. At a low-level language primitive level, unwind can be seen essentially as a combination of a mechanism to have two distinct exit points from a function call (the normal and exceptional return addresses) and an intrinsic that causes the function to return via its exceptional return address instead of the normal return address.

> if you want asynchronous interrupts, you’ve got to have an equivalent to signals.

... not really. There's a few different kind of signals. Synchronous processor signals (e.g., SIGSEGV, SIGFPE) could be supported via something akin to unwind rather than signal handlers (and this is essentially how they work on Windows). The asynchronous events can instead be supported by basically having some primitive notion of an event loop, dropping those signals as events in the event loop. Signals already interoperate pretty sketchily with event loops, and many signal handlers for asynchronous events already tend to boil down to "just dump this as an event in the event loop", so you're left with a pretty sketchy work around to do what you actually wanted to do.

Interfaces like fork and POSIX signals are pretty notorious for being generally wrong ways to do what you actually wanted to do; if you're making a new OS ABI, there's absolutely no reason to include them, especially because they can be hard to emulate on some OSes, e.g., Windows or Fuchsia (which lacks POSIX signals altogether).
> During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND.

Not relevant but a fun addition - you then make up what you saw as though there wasn't just a big blank gap in your vision. When you look at an analogue clock sometimes it seems like the second hand is still for far too long, that's because your brain (or eyes or somewhere on the journey between I'm not sure) is filling in the gap incorrectly.

For magic, not only will you be blind for part of this then you will experience it like you were aware of everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
Academic research involves large components of marketing. That's why they grumble so much about the time required in the grant applications process and other fund seeking effort. It's why they so frequently write books, appear in newspaper articles and on TV. It's why universities have press relations teams.
Please Google "Blackadder how did the war start video" and watch.
Last I checked, the GC primitives in WASM are rather low level, and are more for building a GC system on top of, rather than relying on it to be your whole GC.
You're a priori writing off my comment as fruitless because of your emotions and not because you actually have given it deep thought and carefully reached the conclusion that social feedback is somehow bad.

Also, the notion that "people's work" is inherently worthy of respect is just nonsensical. I do shoddy work all the time. Hell, you just casually dismissed my internet comment work as shallow and told me not to do it. Please don't post a shallow dismissal of my work.

Don't you think that this is all a bit anti-intellectual?
Does this mean you can go broke merely from being a witness? Or does Amazon have to reimburse him for his costs and time?
I tried wise some time ago. I wanted to send Euros to them, convert it to USD and then send it from my wise account to an American Bank account.

To my dismay, I found that wise doesn't do Swift transactions in USD to bank accounts in the USA. I actually thought that was the whole idea behind wise, but apparently not?

The other option was to pay my bank an additional 40€+ fee for each Swift transaction, which is too much if you need to wire money every month to the states. USDC was the cheapest option in the end (Coinbase doesn't charge for SEPA -> Coinbase and the EUR/USDC exchange rate is closely tracking EUR/USD).

I would agree that >99% of the tokens and cryptocurrencies are garbage. But I would be sad to see Bitcoin and Monero dying.
Even when the requestor is the defendant? That seems open to abuse: The government sues someone, and then they have to pay huge sums just to get the documents to defend themselves.
No, you're down voted for posting with an anonymous account, preemptively complaining about being down voted, and not adding anything interesting to the discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

>> Avoid flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

>> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

>> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

>> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

>> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
This hand-wavy thinking can and will cause shifts in wealth, prosperity and future of Germany and Europe. Ignoring it or feeling good about it won’t change reality very much like the central banks “laissez faire print money” led to (unavoidable yet very predictable) inflation putting individuals, families, companies and countries in a pretty delicate situation.

Ideology doesn’t replace reality.
Making OpenAI Whisper Faster
That appears to be incorrect. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229
Yeah I guess I'd limit myself to 1-10GB just for sanity and probably use python. This isn't for customers or anything, just something that both caught my attention as a project and something I need to learn a fair amount to work on.
I don't know enough about managing the data and need to figure out where to start. All the measurements need context from times before and after to be useful and I feel like I'm missing or misunderstanding some basic ideas.

Thanks
There's also a fork called Olauncher Clutter Free, which I prefer because of the added features.

https://github.com/OlauncherCF/OlauncherCF
I was an athlete in college and struggled to find community after joining the working world…

… so I built a platform to connect college and pro athletes in-person around sports and shared interests.

Would love any feedback on the app as we roll it out this summer! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adak/id6444288312
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-s...

I'm not sure what fraction of HN is between 15 and 35 years old, but it's probably pretty high. Lots of people want to get a career in the new and exciting thing.

(I jest, but I do think there's some truth at the core here)
What is really depressing when looking at this graph, is that if Germany had kept the same nuclear generation as in 2010, it will be producing electricity almost free of CO2 for a large part of the year... but instead they are burning lignite.
If you look at how many people will have to ride a bike instead of a car to offset that you see how ridiculous this is.
You don't need to use their client. Just grab a config and use an OpenVPN or WireGuard client instead.

PIA official repo: https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections

https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/guides/linux/linu...
Thanks @5bolts!
That past seems to be left for the Linux desktop, given that Microsoft already signaled at Blue Hat IL 2023 that development certificates will be coming into Windows, maybe by Windows 12 time frame, similar to notarized apps on macOS, or the whole mobile ecosystem.
XKCD has a graph that tries to make this feel real:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

But since you've premeptively dismissed the science behind it, maybe a web comic won't convince you either.
This is sort of the answer to the question "what if you designed a query language just for dealing with streaming data?".
"Serverless"...this word is so thrown around nowadays that it lost its original meaning. Same way the phrase "we're like a family" transitioned from a beloved one in 50's to its thrown away in 90's meaningless all the way to today be considered a red flag when you hear such a word at a hiring interview, the "serverless" word is in its late 90's nowadays. One decade and will become just another red flag.
> Some would disagree with this take:

No they would not. From the link you provided:

> “Russia’s export revenue in April was down substantially year-on-year, mainly due to the impact of the EU import ban and lower oil prices. This means that Russia’s budget will likely stay in deficit, constraining military expenses,” said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at CREA and co-author of the report.
Why would you post a baseless conspiracy theory that is easily disproven by anyone in less than a minute?
Why would you need to enable IMAP ? It works out of the box. Every non-android platform uses IMAP to access your account (k9 mail, outlook, thunderbird, the iOS/mac email client, etc).
I would absolutely be in favor of a vacancy tax where we are redirecting the money to some sort of building subsidy, but a vacancy tax on its own penalizes development.

SF, for instance, just imposed a vacancy tax that exclusively targets apartment buildings rather than SFH (ie. excluding most of the actual housing stock but targeting new construction housing stock). I voted for it, but I don't think targeting new development in this way is productive.
My thinking for ways to avoid this scenario are:

- If there is no concrete type that you can infer for the given literal, throw a type error.

- If there is no concrete type that you can infer for the given literal, fall back to a default, e.g. Int.

But this sort of situation is why backtracking during type inference can lead to pathological behavior.