skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we explore this issue from a not-panicked perspective?

I think we tried doing that. See, for example, Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 [1].

I _wish_ that fossil fuels could be on your list. I think a main reason why nothing is being done is that oil is big business! Oil companies have toppled a democratically elected government because that government was cutting into their oil profits [2]. Moving away from fossil fuels would cut into oil's bottom line, so they paid lots of money to discredit and oppose climate change research for decades [3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bp-and-iran-the-forgotten-histo...
[3]: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53640382
You may not run into people over 40. But most people over 40 absolutely live in ordinary communities.

The original point I replied to suggested everyone at a high risk for bad CPR outcomes is in a hospital. Now we're talking about suburbs.
There is a consistent lack of experts in general intelligence and computer science in these conversations. Expertise in both these areas seems important here but has been brushed aside everytime I've brought it up.
> The guy volunteered to be an expert witness

From what I gather from the article, no, he didn't. The CA Attorney General named him as a witness without asking or notifying him. Which does, I think, mean he ought to be asking the CA Attorney General's office for help with this.
So basically CLR in 2001.
Not all of them are wealthy, a significant number are academics.
US urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in nuclear power experiment (TerraPower)
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> but "don't piss the judge off" runs counter to everything we are supposed to believe about the US judicial system being based on fair and impartial judiciary

“Don’t piss off the judge” is shorthand for don’t abuse the rules. You have the right to ask for anything. But the judge has to consider reasonableness. If you always dial it to eleven, you’re going to adjust the judge’s priors, and that loses you the benefit of doubt in future requests.
Checking the logs for the web process, and they are working correctly. The worker process also working fine.

The problem is with the Heroku router...
Why? You can still implement a WASM runtime with no GC, and so it's just additional functionality for where's its desirable. Additionally, the GC spec is low level and allows for pluggable GC, and better defines the WASM memory model.
Same here, my app is down with the same error.
It's not a personal issue. It's doing something like pushing code that you haven't tested. It gets you higher scrutiny in the future and annoys everyone.
IMO you just found another area where Sturgeon's Law applies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law).
I feel like the regular taxi stand is now often much faster (and often cheaper) at many airports as a result of these dynamics
> (after being bought by opera and then buying themselves out again)

that history does not assign to me confidence in them as custodian of my emails
Design patterns reduce cognitive load, to those who know and understand the design patterns. For those who don't, their cognitive load is increased. That's why so many people so there's more to learning how to program than learning a programming language and its most popular libraries. You need to learn the design patterns too. It'd do you well to also know some anti-patterns. After all, it's useful to know what not to do as well as it is what to do.

Once you've mastered the most useful design patterns applying to your problem space, you can then focus on learning the architectural patterns.
> they don't exist

That's true -- neither do the "necessary" reactors however.

> it ain't viable

Citation needed.

> You want to run a steel mill or a chemical plant on batteries?

No, obviously certain industries with different power requirements will be treated differently in the grid... just like they are now. Doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that. Furthermore, there are some interesting and not-too-exotic designs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32006791) that seem better suited to industrial high-energy applications than your typical lithium-ion. In fact, lithium only makes sense in mobile applications: you can use heavier (and higher capacity) materials for storage which doesn't need to move at all.

> How much battery would you need to sustain Germany 3-4 days?

Bad faith argument that misinterprets the point of energy storage to the point that it's arguing against something that is not relevant here.
I would find it really annoying to have it constantly calling out its own limitations. That's like having a conversation with someone lacking so much self esteem that they can't get a sentence across without qualifiers and apologies. What's wrong with just taking it as it is and entrusting the user with the role of determining what is real? It feels like it is hip to complain about this stuff, but I hope that all this whining doesn't ruin it for those of us who just want a useful tool to interact with. I'd rather get rid of all the guard rails and just have the raw power of the model to go on with my day and be more effective.
>Do you think we could wipe out all furry mammals, for example?

lets go with over a particular size. Lets say larger than the biggest rat. In that case yes, very easily. Once you get to rats it becomes far more difficult and you're pretty much just destroying the biosphere at that point.

> It assumes that intelligence basically can overcome any obstacles

In the case of human extinction, no, a super intelligence would not have to overcome any obstacles, it would just have to overcome obstacles better than we did.
Or Firefox Relay.
Javascript runs surprisingly well without optimization. I think it was the Chromium based version of Edge, of all browsers, that was the first to offer doing so as a security pitch.
Reinventing Java and .NET application servers...
Do you have the system automated? Meaning: if I send email right now to {somerandomstring}@{yourname}.{yourdomain} does it get automatically rejected, or flagged? And if yes, how do you add {myname} to your whitelist?
What's to pay attention to, isolated conspiracy theorists elevated to the level of hate figures and the boring, neurotic, malice of ideologues? No, thanks.

Unless someone has become pathologically preoccupied with oppression and is inventing new places to find it, there is no reason for anyone to have heard of this obscure misfit, or his writing. There is a legitimate and serious conversation to be had about economics and policy, which includes immigration, and one railroaded by ideology is not it. I'd argue your internet weirdo has no place in this conversation other than as a straw man you brought into it.
In fairness, this reasoning would suggest that any new language developed 40 years younger than C and 30 years younger than C++, that incorporates advances in computer language design that C/C++ cannot adopt without breaking backwards compatibility would enjoy the same success, if not more, than Rust.

It seems likely that there are other important factors. It's debatable what they are, but clearly there is a difference of opinion about how much Rust's leadership accounts for why Rust is succeeding more than most.
Perhaps related to this bug which Google has known about for 12 years, and is potentially in breach of GDPR?
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35889152
> Microsoft's .NET

There's your problem.

Sure, .NET is technically cross-platform, but that's a relatively recent development, and WASM has runtimes that let it run in most environments, even microcontrollers.

Also, looks like C++/CLI had conflicting syntax with standard C++, so it might not have worked on some applications without some patches.
TIL that Google Chromium has more than 35M LoC

Are these lines of code written _just_ for Google Chromium, or does this include all dependencies that you would normally not touch the source code of?
The indirection itself serves a perfectly valid purpose, which is to remove a lever of control from Russia.

They are paying a premium for independence. Any given barrel of oil may or may not still come originally from Russia, but Russia can not use it as a lever any more, because there is no single channel any more. Russia would have to stop selling to everyone in the world, or raise prices to everyone in the world.

This probably even drives prices down, which both helps everyone else and hurts Russia.
Note that it's not really the activity, it's the people who matters: I was part of several scuba diving club when I was younger: each had his strong points, and the community aspect differed a lot from one club to another..
> No, more CO2 in the air does not lead to increased flora.

Are you sure?

“A quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25 [,2016].

[…]

The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.

[…]

Studies have shown that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring plant growth.

[…]

Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.”

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-green...
I'm an Irish dev living in Spain getting paid Spanish wages. I'd easily be on double in Ireland.

It is what it is.

The only thing holding back Spanish devs is a relatively low level of English by other European standards.
> The US can issue debt in USD and even print 1 trillion USD coins. But what happens to the value of the currency when they repeatedly do that?

Thus far, not all that much of consequence.

> Crypto (and other assets obviously) can act as a hedge against such bad government behavior.

Objection, Your Honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.
100% massively detracts from my willingness to pay for their services …
Indeed. It's probably what I would do if I were him. Or direct OpenAI entirely into AI safety research and stop doing capabilities research. I watched his interview with Lex Fridman,[1] and I didn't think he seemed very sincere. On the other hand I think there are a lot of people who are very sincere, like Max Tegmark.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw&pp=ygUWbGV4IGZya...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZya...
This was in 2010, not the opera you know today.
In Finland we had to scale back nuclear because wind + solar were producing too much for the grid to handle. And still the cost of electricity was negative, I only had to pay for the transfer charges (which are the same no matter what the actual electricity costs)

...and it was the nuclear plant we've waited for 18 years to come online :D -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
I wonder what level of mergers is optimal and who the winners will be.
Indeed, there isn't -- you've provided pseudo-answers that miss the point completely.
Why am I seeing this now?
How JMAP made that better ?

Last time we did something like that new email address was just "add entry to a Dovecot database", fully protocol agnostic
Google already know about this one, fat lot of good it's done for the last 12 years: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35889152

Person abandons old account attached to a group/project, account then hacked, et voila!

It's also probably in breach of GDPR regs that say you should be able to update your own information if it's incorrect.
Part of the issue is that rightly or wrongly, all of its strengths have effectively been regulated out of existence.

I needed to quickly send some money internationally for a perfectly legal purpose. I have an old Coinbase account I wanted to use for the purpose that I hadn't left any money in (because crypto is not a good investment vehicle). Thanks to changes in KYC laws, I found myself completely unable to do this. I had to give them a very uncomfortable amount of information just to unlock the account (including a scan of my driver's license and my social security number). At this point, they still wouldn't let me deposit any cash without further verification. They then proceeded to refuse to let me verify every payment method I tried using (including debit card, PayPal, checking account... they were "unable to verify" any of them). There was some third party service they wanted to use that would literally log into my bank account to provide verification (??!!), but I drew the line there.

So I just ... gave up. Forget any of the more interesting uses of crypto. We're not even talking gray market goods here (it would be interesting for people who need cheap insulin to be able to order it from international pharmacies in countries with lax laws, for example). We're talking boring ordinary transfers, effectively made impossible by regulation.

And yes, there are a lot of scams in crypto. It's not very economically or environmentally efficient (usually). Maybe it deserves to be regulated out of existence. But I do know that for a while it was able to do some things that were difficult or annoying to do in other ways.
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But even right now in bitcoin you can initialize a node with -assumeutxo to avoid IBD costs. You either get the UTXO set from a node you already control (and its turtles all the way down), or if bitcoin supported UTXO set commitments you simply pick a committed UTXO set from N blocks back, for some sufficiently large N. All block headers are downloaded, but full blocks back to the Nth block commitment are validated.

While technically SPV, this ends up being exactly the same security model overall, since an attacker that can invent (say) a full year's worth of alternate history to fool you can already perform arbitrary double-spends on main net. In addition, although this is not required, for most of bitcoin's history the last year or two of mining represents almost all of the proof of work anyway, so someone who serve you a more-work forked off false chain with a false UTXO set commitment could have also rewritten the block chain since genesis.

Bitcoin's security model already assumes this is not possible. So with UTXO set commitments (which bitcoin will eventually get in some form), you only need to IBD a few months worth of blocks, or maybe a year or so if you are truly paranoid.
> During that short period of time that your eye is travelling to observe the motion you are LITERALLY BLIND.

There was a video I saw recently that exploited this, and it was WILD. I can't find it right now, but basically, they showed how blind you were while your eyes darted around. They had people look at a picture on a computer screen while some device monitored their eye movement. Whenever their eyes moved, an object in the picture would vanish or change. Nobody was ever able to detect an object vanishing or changing. It wasn't until they would be like "Wait a minute, wasn't there a person there?" or they were shown the original picture with all the objects in place that they would notice the picture was changing at all.
Your best bet for something like is simply to set up catchall rule to move everything not already shunted elsewhere to a "staging" folder, and then use a script to apply whatever advanced filtering you want that your provider cant and move anything that should be allowed past to your inbox.
> The UI issue is that the chat itself has no error messages or even warnings for many things it can’t do. Imagine a compiler that worked that way.

Compilers do work that way. Bad code generation is a real thing and can have really bad real world consequences. Likewise, most compilers can't tell you why it generated the code that it did -- but you can put the compiler under a debugger and figure it out usually fairly easily (although not always so easily).
Congrats, you have made the "Guns don't kill people. Humans kill people" argument.
> The "less bureaucracy" is the lack of the same trademark policy. That's literally it.

Right, and like I said, that's fine. But it's pretty meaningless and actually has literally nothing to do with the language, which has no trademarks associated with it (nor could it ever have such a trademark as the foundation does not "own" the language). So forking a language over a trademark that doesn't apply to a language makes very little sense.

> They're not threatening to sue you if you don't include disclaimers on everything you do while using their language.

No one is threatening to sue anyone for using the rust programming language. That is an extremely incorrect view.

At best you could say there is a threat to sue someone for how they use certain terms or icons, but this is completely unrelated to the language itself. It's also completely standard. Further, the document in question was a draft submitted for feedback.

Almost any language is going to want trademark. Python recently had to deal with a troll trying to assert ownership over the branding because they had not defended against this. As someone mentions in an issue on the crab repo,

How would you feel about a shady company posturing as "The Official Rust" distributing a paid copy of the compiler? Does that seems like a thing we as a community should allow? That's what the trademark policy is for: preventing shady abuses of our beloved lang and community.

These things will absolutely happen - they have happened before to other languages!

I think software developers just have no idea how these things work. You know that every LICENSE.txt is a "threat to sue you" by your standard?

edit: Also, you're wrong. Their goals go beyond just removal of the trademark policy.
Average people understand the limitations of Wikipedia (which has been around for 20+ years).

LLMs are new, and people don't understand their limitations yet.

Plus, we're trained from birth to interpret plausible-sounding text as likely correct and true. LLMs generate plausible-sounding text without regard for truth. So now we can either fix the LLM models or become much more critical readers/listeners. Unfortunately I don't see either happening anytime soon.
Because it isn't understanding, it is derivative work
Is it wrong? Assuming he refers to top talent, $50-80k isn’t enough to get anyone. You’d hardly be able to hire a top developer in Southeast Asia for this kind of money

No one is taking about average employees
See also the closely related "DVFS Frequently Leaks Secrets: Hertzbleed Attacks Beyond SIKE, Cryptography, and CPU-Only Data," presented at Oakland last week: https://www.hertzbleed.com/2h2b.pdf
it's not about not paying Google Map licensing. There are, as mentioned, geo features like pickup ETA, trip ETA and cost, drop-off location photos and features that Google doesn't provide at all.
you're ignoring religion.
So, someone's doing AS/400-style pointers for various smaller platforms.

The mentioned Morello boards appear to be these:

* https://www.arm.com/architecture/cpu/morello
io.js (node.js fork) seems like a parallel. It split off to get away from Joyents advisory board that was slowing down development and the trademark issues around Node. It was more performant in the short term with faster development cycles. Once the issues with Joyent were worked out it was merged back into mainline node.

Different political issues here so whether it gets ported back into Rust or becomes what Rust was (or just fades away) is still TBD but who knows?
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I had a similar idea to this and wanted to add a couple of more features. It essentially is policy-based email so I thought:

* Every cert is put into a trust classification that can dictate a default policy
* Policy items could include things such as rate limits, message sizes, spam filter weights, etc.
* Identities can be tied to multiple certs to allow for different modes of communication when desired
* Allow for a trust classification labeled as "public" that is the default classification (with strict limits by default)
* Make common mail items first class objects and allow URLs (e.g. attachments are no longer inline but must be a URL with metadata that can be verified before my system is willing to pull it on my schedule).

I have other ideas as well; This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. One other feature that would be nice is if you could somehow link it up to SMTP gateways. I realize that sort of defeats the purpose, but that would accelerate adoption of any new technology since it has so much gravity.

Anyway, just ideas for now...
I'm prefacing this by saying I'm not affiliated in any way, but I found it very humorous that you basically described the app One Sec (iPhone only I think) to a tee. It uses uses shortcuts to put a barrier of your choice before opening specific apps, writing down the intention being one of them.
The concept is pretty great (I actually tried building something similar using shortcuts before it existed) but in the end I found that it doesn't really work for me unfortunately. When my brain decides it wants to look at something, delay isn't enough to make it reconsider.
So ymmv but I think it's worth to try it out.
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so there is a separate management frontend for the hack that prevents the computer from shutting itself off?
This might be the closest for me. Grew up in choirs and play multiple instruments. Would really love a gospel choir, if one would have me. Will poke around. Thanks!
Skip javascript entirely. Pynecone (https://pynecone.io/), htmx (https://htmx.org/), Vaadin (https://vaadin.com/), Buffalo (https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo) all exist and can help you avoid some of the mess that is web/JS development.