skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geohot is a smart guy full of hot air. He keeps claiming that problems have simple solutions and vow to fix it as a proof of how easy it is.

Then he meets reality and silently gives up within a few weeks. Every. Single. Time.

See comma that still hasn't produced anything.

See his stint at twitter where he claimed he'd turn everything around within weeks but gave up after 2 days.

See the absolute bullshit that went on with his shitcoin, cheapETH.

Now see this.
Never link discussion of it with your other alts. ;)
The idea is a 5-10% fatal virus would have far more severe social distancing and thus couldn't infect everyone. Otherwise, a "100% fatal, infects everyone" disease would be the worst case scenario.
Sounds like what George Hotz is trying to do with tiny corp
Please don't use ChatGPT for this, it's transparent and kind of ick.
Whole life is a scam (just get term life and drop the rest in an index fund and skip the middleman), and health insurance is heavily subsidized.

Health insurance also stops at age 65 and becomes a taxpayer funded program (Medicare).
Tacoma smelled- paper pulp plants, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroma_of_Tacoma

I see Gary also had paper plants, but I think it also had a ton of other industrial activity.
More similar to SVE than NEON, supports both int and FP vectors. One instruction can process 256 / 512 / 1024 bits of vector at a time if you only need 16 / 8 / 4 vector variables (including masks) in your loop, not 32.

Full FPU and MMU, runs standard Linux e.g. Ubuntu server boots with about 36 MB free RAM.

To answer the previous poster, RV64GC is more similar to Thumb2 (but with 32 registers of 64 bits, not 16 registers of 32 bits) than to the cut-down Thumb1 (technically ARMv6-M) in the Pico. Plus, yeah, DP FPU and vector and MMU.
His Twitter shit was ridiculous, imagine ever having beaen a software engineer and thinking you alone can universally out-compute MILLIONS of man hours of human brain compute into a project.

Fucking audacity beyond words.
I think its too new and cumbersome to use for that, everyone is just used to torrent now.
You have to pay full salary regardless of whatever you deem work is and however you judge the status to be done or not. You can ask the employee to stay longer do it enough and that employee now pushes off their night and starts coming in later to.. because they are going to be staying late anyways. And nothing gets done after 5pm aside from making plans to hit the bar at 7/8/9. The CEO notices this and this employee has a rep of staying late. Soon he is your boss.

What would you rather have again? An employee finishing early sounds good to me
books and libraries and radio and tv and internet will revolutionize education - people said.

It was either a joke or schools and universities have an incredibly tight grip on their market.

Picture what illusive product one can make in those settings. You can have insane prices, the only limit would be what people can afford. The maximum price then becomes maximum debt. While at the same time you can rush out a product that is complete crap, borderline believable but only for the ones who make the relevant decisions.

I see a docu one time about a semi-commercial chinese education formula. Each subject is cut up into tiny modules, seemingly as tiny as possible. One tiny booklet and 1-2 classes. You remember dependency hell? That was it, on steroids.
The cert for the module, combined with others did give you access to additional modules and the bundle of coupons eventually turned into a more milestone like diploma but this wasn't the interesting part! You could take a different path after doing a module and become an instructor assistant, become an instructor and then become an instructor assistant instructor! If someone discovered a hard question there was always additional gray matter above you in the food chain.

They had people who could barely bang 2 rocks together TEACHING how to bang the rocks as if the universe revolved around it.

Others build a parkour tightly packed with modules one after the other. If they failed anything they got stuck eventually as you cant do C without A+B

The early adopters of the MLM program had their hands full assisting the teachers teachers teachers. It looked humbling to say the least.

edit: I forgot the part where one could start a business and continue to enjoy the advice from those you paid to teach you and the job offers listing specifically what modules were required.
Oh shit, nice. I went through every page of results on https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=leancrew.com but somehow missed these. Thank you!
When is the last time you saw a far left columnist in the NYT?
(In birds.)
How does the human brain "see" the signal impulses that pass through the optic nerve?
I never figured out how to get an FFP2 mask to be tight. Air always passed on the sides somewhere.

The only mask that I've tried that is actually air-tight is a 3M silicone mask with replaceable filters. It works even with a short beard. I think only proper masks like that actually prevent the bad stuff from getting into your lungs (assuming you buy the correct filters).
At 1 FPS this isn't quite real time enough to be useful for real time use cases, but I can see how a realtime stable diffusion would be a fun tool to use when producing for live events.
This is pretty much a reasonably solved problem. You issue a bank card to anyone who doesn't have a bank and deposit the funds and resolve issues of identity by physically showing up an an office. Post offices are pervasively available and usually very close to where most people live.

For fraud issue you have the bank or banks running the program handle fraud per normal procedures and the government steps in to prosecute people who abuse the system as they do in present situations. The program loses no more than a normal bank to fraud and covers losses from fraud by investing deposits in safe securities.
I'd disagree if AM5 follows the path of AM4.
So…both.
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I like websites like this.

Simple fast, and, as you say, you can use reader mode.

Some people have blogs like this arguing that the user should have the power to customize his experience, for example, using a custom CSS. So they deliver plain html, with a very basic CSS sheet.
What Modern Day Trench Warfare Is Like with Drones
An interesting area, yes, but I think these slides are too abbreviated to work standalone (unless you've already read all the papers in question, in which case they make sense but tell you little new that the talk itself might).
Except there's no guarantee that fatal cases and child-initiated cases are independent. Given that older people are more likely to die and less likely to have children in the home, it's entirely probable that children are responsible for a far smaller number of deaths.
Thanks for that video link, curious how they do this on single track. Perhaps pick up the waste further down with the dump cars on a siding?
Fantastic! This site provides an intuitive overview of carbon dioxide removal purchases sourced from six different market places and two registries. Metrics include carbon credit sales and deliveries, prices, names of suppliers and purchasers, and the method of carbon dioxide removal (e.g. direct air capture or biochar production).

I find this site useful to get an overview of the development of voluntary carbon markets and their recent rapid expansion. Voluntary carbon markets are fractured into several market places and registries, so getting an aggregate overview over all markets was somewhat difficult prior to discovering this site. Thank you for the submission!
And for the final time, my point is that both of these are symptoms of something far worse.
Reactions to FDA approval of first Neuralink clinical trial
CSS snippet to hide HN posts of specified URL domain
Via browser extensions like Stylish[0] etc.

tr.athing:has(td a[href="substack.com"]), tr.athing:has(td a[href="substack.com"]) + tr, tr.athing:has(td a[href*="substack.com"]) + tr + tr.spacer {display:none !important;}

The above example CSS rules hide all submitted posts that link to substack.com, including substack subdomains (and the immediately following "spacer" TR)

Note: Be sure that your browser supports the :has() CSS pseudo-class.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
Do we need copyright? (2012)
I already know this is AI generated, was just having some fun.
A PSU "deciding" to do that is an ultra rare case, and probably dwarfed by PSUs that simply break internally and deliver the wrong voltage, which can happen to any PSU.

The closest thing I've heard of was a cable that pretended it was a device, making it so that unplug events didn't register properly.
https://archive.md/3HpIn
"It would unleash an entire new generation of recurring revenue generation opportunities as innovators could develop exciting new technologies and industry leadership while protecting intellectual property rights holders"

"blah blah blah worm security blah blah"

-- same sentence different language.

(and -- I'm entirely trying to be tongue-in-cheek -- the notion of little dynamically updated microcontrollers everywhere in my house, getting bricked or asking me for a micropayment to turn a light on is a pkd story come to life)
Great tutorial on using Wozmon! I recently built a complete Apple 1 in Scratch. It runs Wozmon and I also included Steve Wozniaks' original Integer BASIC, which used to be loaded from cassette tape.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/646921021/
It’s arguably less cumbersome than torrents, but yes, the “new” and “alternative” aspects of IPFS certainly seem like limiting factors.

If I were trying to make IPFS remotely popular, I’d start by hosting the same kinds of things that made http, gnutella, and BitTorrent popular.
We have at least 3 laserdisc players, the latest being McIntosh MLD 7020 (basically a reskinned Pioneer CLD-97). Watched Falling Down last week.

We haven't noticed any degradation issues with the discs themselves. By the article we should assume it's because they've been stored well.
I couldn't tell from the site, is this "offsets" or actual carbon sequestration? And because sometimes the difference is fuzzy, is it paying for stuff that would have happened anyway, or is it somehow net removal?

I saw a "method" chart but it had no labels on my phone so maybe it's addressed there.
I appreciate the thought put into this, and really don't get the nihilistic response of "Oh, it will never work, why even bother trying".

If you have suggestions for improvement, raise them, or critiques that need a response, raise them.

My suggestion would be to combine this approach with quadratic voting. Then there's no need to decide who does or doesn't get to vote on a development proposal. People who care about it will use their votes on that. Those who don't will use their votes elsewhere. Because votes are finite, people have to prioritize.
I figured this wouldn't be about "Aqualung", since it's not exactly poetic, but that's always the song that comes to my mind when I hear the words "park bench"
If you were a composer, you’d be Salieri.
I use ChatGPT to summarise research.

I created a prompt where I tell ChatGPT to read the research [then I copy and paste the entire research into my prompt] and tell ChatGPT to answer the following 4 questions about the research in language lay people can understand.
The 4 questions are; what was the aim of the research?, what was the method? What was the result? And how are the results important?

Basically it just gives me a more in-depth abstract. I find it suitable for the purpose I am using it for.
I would not trust this method for scientific/academic research purposes.
I am currently using a Sony RX10M4 camera with a Nisi close-up lens attachment.

It is a 'point and shoot' model (no detachable lens), so the lens attachment helps to zoom in on small organisms. With some support, I can take handheld shots of insects about 5 mm in length.

At the moment, I still find mirrorless cameras by Canon, Sony, etc. a bit too expensive for my taste, so I compromised by getting the RX10M4, which is considered one of the best P&S cameras with a huge zoom range, which is good for shooting all kinds of wildlife, big and small.
Creeps can't stop themselves from creeping.

How about this: Step 0 - define the ungameable behaviours that you know will result in an improved business outcome. Step 1 - tell everyone about these behaviours so that don't have to guess about what should be done to make the business great. Step 2 - track all of behaviours to ensure that everyone is doing them. It isn't necessary to be a creep about it because the behaviours cannot be gamed. If you find that you have to be a creep to accomplish your objectives, go back to step 0.

Please don't retort with creep's favourite quote: "Once a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.". If the measure is any good it is fine if it becomes a target. As an example, NPV is a fine measure and fine target.
The incremental requests are verified if running through your own node as a side effect of loading the data
John Conway's game of culture? How long until the AI chatbots develop meaningful cultural progress?

I jest, but its sort of an interesting idea. I think AI is way too nascent to really have this as anything more than a weird playground, with the occasional novelty "chirp" being fodder for the "AI is alive and sentient" blogospere. Cool project
Gross, why didn't you just quit instead?
> No one in my family is overweight or has any sort of health issues

> As you are aware, it is kind of a rude question, but also a weird one

The (US) media drilled into us for years that being overweight/obese may as well be a covid death sentence, doing things like stating how many covid hospitalizations/deaths were overweight/obese without context. So it's become very easy for people to jump on that.

The missing context was that if you actually compared like-for-like, using the real rates in the general US population... overweight/obesity has (almost) no effect. They just left that part out so the number sounded high, or compared "obese" in the population to "overweight or obese" in hospitalizations.
This isn't unusual at all. It costs around $10k/month to house a street case in a hotel because you need to renovate a lot. And that's just an average, there are plenty of much more extreme hard cases to balance out the costs of more benign ones.

Tiny homes are seen as a better solution because they are relatively more disposable than hotel rooms.
> Also, 80k USD a year is a ton by European standards

I can't speak for Iceland, but for Western European tech workers 80k USD isn't massive. Like it's not bad, maybe an early-mid level developer?
Nothing on his Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie#Personal_life_a...

It does make me sad, because I know a lot of people who shelter themselves in computers, always wanting something more out in the real world but never being able to get their comfort zone wide enough to achieve it.
Professors and textbook companies are ripping students off. They are immorally trying to suck each student dry with exorbitant prices. I think pirated textbooks is 100% fair play and I support it 100%.

Back in the 90s, copy shops across from the university would have entire books photocopied, and we could get them for $20 instead of $150. Some of the international students would go back home to Hong Kong or India for the summer and take orders on next year's books, because they were much cheaper in Asia. This is a racket that has been going on for decades but only got exponentially worse these days, and I completely support starving these robber barons of any revenue.
Author here. I double checked the Hyperspec [1] and you're quite right. I'll fix the article tomorrow, thank you for noticing!

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/CLHS/Body/f_redu...
okay, if you had zero words in your vocabulary. how would you interpret what a tree is, or anything to do with your day job, would you even have a job without words? without language? would you have a home without written language to order the supplies all of which have very specific names and measurements? all of humanity's achievements is because of language.

I mean you can look at the speed of innovations. things were slow as hell until the 1400s, when the printing press was invented, the industrial revolution would've never kicked off without the ability to push thoughts and language into more hands.

Education is all about language, hard to learn in grunts and pointing.

There's more that goes into actual memories than language, though language is how we understand it interpret them... we have senses, feelings, and other contexts associated with a memory but without a word for sadness or anger, how do we know what we're even feeling?

Language is one of the things that truly separates us from animals and before written language our hunter gatherer ancestors were little more than animals wearing fur skins.
> Why compare the cost to the future profits of wells that are just about dried up?

If future profits were more than the cost of cleanup, the company might even do the cleanup. Right now, it's pretty much guaranteed they won't (and nobody will go to jail for the this-should-be-a-crime, either).
So a one stop shop to look up which corps invest in ESG-mandated feel-good BS? Noice.
>However, is using a proxy like ipfs.io really using ipfs?

Yes! Because the gateway can go down and you can still access the content via local IPFS node or by using another gateway.
I don't see the point of your examples

- A billion dollar fab will be 0.00001% of the forest.

- Oil can be extracted without destroying forest
Wonderful article and a fantastic example of how there’s a big gap between being fluent in English and being fluent in English, especially the English that your counter-party is using.

Took me forever to get used to California English after I moved here from the slavic part of Europe. Still find a lot of it utterly boneheaded, but at least I know what’s going on and can cope … at great cost to personal sanity.

It will never not irk me when people say ”Please feel free to X” when they mean ”It is paramount that you do X”
Perhaps maybe values are only _mostly_ represented, such that storing a `maybe` will baybe result in true or false actually being stored, contingent on the compiler and surrounding code. Thus, maybe accurately describes itself--storing a maybe will maybe store a maybe.

Perfection.
The electricity is going through the plug for only a few millimeters, and is going through the rest of the cable for 500-2000 millimeters. It's okay for the plug to have more ohms per meter. It's going to have a very tiny voltage drop and emit a very tiny amount of heat.
I get an error on Firefox:

"DB worker could not be created

TypeError: second argument must be a function"
There's quite a few more birds than mammals, though mammals are not especially diverse, esp. with 60% of mammal diversity in bats and rodents. There's at least 50k identified mollusk species, 65k identified arachnids, and with insects things go nuts with ~900k. There's around 60k identified vertebrate species overall (fish, mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, etc), the invertebrates ~1.3 million.
Because companies assume if you've got time to dick around after your work is done then you've got time to do more work till your 8 hours are up.

At least that's how it's where I live in Europe. Companies feel entitled to the full 8h per day of productivity so if you know everything out in less then that they want to see it and give you more work to fill the remaining time, which Is why WFH is very rare and in office work is the norm here (Austria).
Reading this makes me very grateful to my university math department for choosing WeBWorK: https://openwebwork.org/
If it's atmospheric capture or un-gamed diversion of emissions, I think it's a win. If it's carbon offsets tied to an existent forest or whatever, I agree with you.
Of course it is.

It's pretty common for students to fail a course and pass it or even master it later.

You just have to put in the work. Finding the right resources absolutely helps as well. As does shoring up your foundational prerequisites.
Needs a `really` operator for scale.
> The scale of immigration here is very hard to compare with anything the EU sees.

It's not. Lots of European countries have comparable or greater immigration rates than the US. And the EU as a whole is soaking up a huge number of Ukrainian refugees.
"Last week Chile said that nearly 9,000 sea lions, penguins, otters, porpoises and dolphins have died from bird flu along its north coast since the start of the year.

Most mammals are believed to have contracted the virus by eating an infected bird.

But Webby said that what "scares us the most" are indications from a Spanish mink farm, or among sea lions off South America, that the virus could be transmitting between mammals."
You are correct. But if someone ran that DML in production it would have the same effect but worse. I am thinking of ways to reduce this issue in the future. I have not settled on a solution just yet.
More details in the Microsoft deal

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/15/23724418/microsoft-carbon...
This is literally how modern internet propaganda works: selective reporting that provides enough truth to be plausible but omits enough and/or distorts to avoid being comprehensive and accurate.

There's lots of studies that discuss both the pros and cons of this subject - this epochtimes article has pointed out the ones that on their face support their narrative, and (very very very likely, given their well-earned reputation) omitted those that don't, and may/probably have come to a conclusion that the study authors would not have.

This is why everyone's so stupid right now: we're all overconfident that we understand the small shreds of evidence we have and that they're the complete picture, and that overconfidence means we talk past each other in our separate realities. The only way to get around this is a) be an expert who has a comprehensive view of the range of evidence and what precisely it means (hard), b) be humble about what we can understand, select our sources extremely carefully, and get multiple perspectives (medium), or c) ignore the noise and wait for broad consensus (easy but slow and not perfect).
We're going to see headlines like this with increasing frequency. Look up wet bulb temperature. At a certain temp and humidity it becomes literally impossible for the human body to cool itself off (cooling via evaporating sweat doesn't work) and humans just cook unless they can get into an air conditioned area. We can survive some pretty high temps if it's dry enough, but throw in extreme humidity and that goes out the window.

This is already becoming a reality in some areas and it's certainly possible that entire regions of the world, many that are HIGHLY populated, will become uninhabitable during parts of the year. Scary stuff.
What does Kubernetes use instead?
It's well known that parents get sick more often. It's fairly obvious, and there have been studies showing the same effect. See figure 1: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/61/8/1217/376653
It’s not the NYPD, it’s the union. In NJ, when I was given one of those cards from a friend’s father as a teen, I was told the card would be surrendered if I got a moving violation and I’d answer to him later.

I threw the card out, it was useless trash.