skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do wish we could overcome our squeamishness about nuclear. Because our climate circumstances are indeed dangerous. And in my opinion, they're quite a bit more dangerous than nuclear power would be, if we committed to scaling it up with a reasonable balance of safety and cost-effectiveness. It is only expensive because we hold it to a much higher standard of safety than any other power source. And understandably so, to some extent, because the tail risk from operating nuclear is greater, but we are facing tail risk from fossil fuels warming the planet as well, and I think that tail risk is much greater and much harder to control than that from nuclear.

I think we need less moralism and fear of complex systems, and more hard-headed, engineering-led cost-benefit analysis.
What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?

Hosting the posts shouldn't be that hard. Storage is so cheap these days. Is it the legal aspects of handling user generated content?

Ranking the posts is another issue. Is that where the value of Reddit lies?

Maybe one could build some hybrid thing which capitalizes on existing structures? I could imagine a frontend which only shows posts by users who signed their posts via their Hacker News accounts. Aka they sign their post with a private key and publish the public key on their HN profile. This way, a new Reddit alternative could benefit from the karma distribution of the best community on the web today.

Hosting the content could maybe be done via one of the new decentralized systems like Mastodon, Nostr or Bluesky? Those inherently have open APIs, so it would be easy to build a frontend which aggregates the content into one simple UI.
> this entire post reads like a pointed complaint at German researchers for not outperforming Microsoft.

I don't think it's fair to accuse me of such things. The post is a "question" not a "proof". If you have evidence that points to the contrary of what I said, I'd be happy to read it.
At least anecdotally I can say worse ride performance is not true. Lower noise emission is hard to tell as a passenger, but seems to to be the consensus in the literature I found. Thats probably among the reasons these tracks are usually only installed on stretches not running through any towns/cities.
I don’t get why his questions are getting so much media attention. There isn’t anything special about the questions he asked and anyone even remotely curious about ChatGPT would have already asked similar questions. Non-news
I would say the same about GPT and LLMs in general. For me, it’s been nothing but garbage in, garbage out and a massive waste of my time, so far. Hopefully they’ll figure out how to do symbolic computation in the future so I can finally trust anything that it spits out.
meanwhile in the minds of ZeroMQ devs...
I've got two friends who are doctors and who don't know each other (different countries): most common cause of "toy" bringing kids to emergencies... Trampoline. But: it's nearly always when there are two kids simultaneously on the trampoline. A trampoline with a strict rule: "only one kid at a time or I sell the trampoline" does help a lot (it's what I did).
When they speak but no one listens.

Mr. Atkinson is a famous white and male comedian. How many famous comedians do you know belonging to minorities? Who would give these minorities a voice?

E.g.: google for "Vinicius Jr. Valencia". He is a Brazilian player that was continuously harassed and threatened in Spain, spoke a lot about it, filled complaints but nothing happened.

Then in a game where he was harassed his teammates escalated it and stopped the match, his coach made an interview denouncing the racism, the Brazilian government issued a formal protest and the Spanish prime-minister condemned the racism. Only then the Spanish league reacted.

There are thousands of black people living in Spain that don't have the power to escalate aggression that Vinicius had. These are people without free speech because no one listens their speaches.
In theory, you mean if there were like separation of concerns. Like the billing address being in the billing service instead of the customer service?
You read a story about an exec being paid half a billion over five years and you lose sympathy for the people making $260K? I barely make $45k myself, but my takeaway isn't that the people asking for fairer compensation don't deserve it because they make more than me already.

What a reductive view. Labor unionization sucks in this country for opinions like this.
If this world with a billion people existed, most likely (7/8th chance) you wouldn't exist. How does never existing make you feel? Unless in this fantasy you'd survive and enjoy the extra resources which comes off as extremely selfish to me.
Prescribed isolation is treatment.
Nice, thanks for sharing. Not directly related, but since you mentioned s_client, please see my warning regarding its security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179850#36186559
When I first read this, I thought the function names could only include letters from the word function, and only in order!
The Network Effect.
Especially because there's no way undergraduate discrete math has changed significantly since last year - the only difference is going to be shuffling the page and problem numbers around so you can't get away with using the older textbook.
It's a crime against humanity to give authorisation, licenses and whatnot to these giant agro industries that pour tons of pesticide per hectar and have been turing natural farms into monocrops.
Nobody ever asked me whether i was okay with that, but i get charged a tax if I want to grab a plastic bag for my groceries, which I find sensical, but the asymmetry between indvidual contribution to the environment demise and industrial practices is massive, so is the different treatment trader joe vs mega corp.
I don't see how it would be worrying. The alt right are basically the only major suppressed group in the Western world at the moment, and I have no problem with that. Even they are not silenced by the government, so even their free speech is being protected. However, people generally don't like what they say, and want to silence or ignore them - without government involvement.

Of course free speech would be extremely important in countries like China or North Korea, but we don't really have access or impact to those countries.

Perhaps you have a different view?
You'll love the railway track laying machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMXfU8blPMM
A waiting list that gave preferential treatment to YC companies, that is. This is according to a recent lawsuit that was filed against OpenAI.
I guess the question is whether the students as a group pay more over all. If not, it feels like a sneaky way for the school and textbook publishers to charge an extra fee for textbooks. It's a fee everyone has to pay, and which the schools control the rate of. And if not having to pay for it directly means that people stop paying attention, the price could slowly crept up to previous levels, and relatively few people would even notice. I mean, obviously no university would ever do something so greedy, so this is of course a purely theoretical proposition...
I was in Germany as an exchange student (in 2012). In the library, they had copying machines that photographed from top and processed the images so they looked like perfect scans. You would just go there with a book and USB drive, turn pages for a while and then you had a copy of that book. Needless to say that we distributed the copies. So it was only necessary when we couldn’t find the exact version. The libraries usually had several copies books.

For some courses, professors also just uploaded PDFs of entire books in the learning platform.

There was also an on-campus shop where you could buy the printed slides for an entire course for a few Euros. I still have one of them for nostalgic reasons because I was intensely studying the math in there. By the way it was beautifully done by the professor's team in LaTeX.
(Relatively) high voltage, so lowish current. I think 20 volts at 5 amps or so.
I understand the purpose of this and that if they raise a sufficient enough stink, it will likely get them to cave for the time being.

However the problem is that they have already showed their true intentions. The business of Reddit is not beholden to users, it’s beholden to its investors. They have an obligation to provide value to them and they decided this is a way to do so. There might be a temporary price reduction but overall, the writing is on the wall: Reddits corporate priorities are no longer aligned with the community’s.
The hardest part is going to be the community itself. Reddit (the board and shareholders) are betting that the community is too large to migrate to a better alternative.
That hardware will ultimately also be running software, and you need to be trusting the vendor/supply chain of both.

This is not at all to say that there is no point in hardened/secure execution environments like smartcards, Yubikeys, hardware wallets etc., but the important point is that the statement "hardware is more secure than software" by itself is dangerously misleading.

And there is no such thing as (fully) "FOSS hardware". Somebody needs to build a physical thing in the end, and you can't verify every single step of that process. Openness/transparency has its advantages and reduces the chance of nefarious things happening in your supply chain, but this is lightyears away from "trustlessness".
We simply don't know. I recommend Peter Ward's video for more info.

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

"The impacts of the decline and potential shutdown of the AMOC could include losses in agricultural output, ecosystem changes, and the triggering of other climate tipping points."

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

"The possibility that the AMOC is a bistable system (which is either "on" or "off") and could collapse suddenly has been a topic of scientific discussion for a long time."

https://www.livescience.com/gulf-stream-slowing-climate-chan... (2021)

"The Gulf Stream — one of Earth's major climate-regulating ocean currents — is moving slower than it has in thousands of years, a new study suggests. Human-induced climate change is largely to blame."

"If the Gulf Stream crosses its tipping point, it will continue to weaken even if we have managed to stop global warming," Caesar told Live Science. "Afterwards, it will slow down by a lot, coming close to a complete shutdown of the circulation."
I love the OtherUnix page.

There's a link to a Hungarian company called Unix Autó who have a product called InfoMix - which I initially scanned as Informix. That would've been a coincidence too far.
Which isn't what I was talking about, so I have no idea what you're trying to say.
I co-founded a webmail provider in '99, and when we needed a message queue reaching for our heavily customized Qmail setup was a relatively natural choice. I've mentioned it here before. Provides all the routing and retries we needed, and made debugging trivial (e-mail from our desktop clients to the queues worked; cc:'ing a real mailbox with copies worked; checking out queues with POP3 worked...)
so what's to change in index file?
In the 90s in the US, for more hard science and math courses, the course was taught against course notes that you needed to buy from one of the many print shops next to the university. This was spiral bound, often a couple hundred pages and costing 20-40$ because that is how much a short run print job costed. These were made by the instructors.

For courses where a book was required, you could check a book out from the reserve and photocopy the whole thing on one of the many high speed photocopiers on campus that all shared a linked card system, so you didn't have to use coins.
The forest knows: the Amazon village with a message for the world, a photo essay
std::deque has O(1) access by index so it's fine for random access (although it has some extra indirection so it's still slower than vector)
Again here's my software mind:

(a) If you fill all the gaps, water can't get in in the first place, and it doesn't need to drain. Abstract out the problem.

(b) If water can still get in, it can also get out.
There was a lot of reporting regarding the same issue in the UK last year

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022-07-19/why-cant-uk-roads...
Thanks! Aha, that was made in a bit of a hurry for pinout.xyz back in July 2013 when uhh I fell afoul of Raspberry Pi trademark terms! Necessity is the mother of invention.
I think it's safe to say that if people were getting value out of this then we would be hearing about it a lot
The oceans normally undergo a cycle of patterns in ocean currents which also manifest surface temperature warming and cooling. You've probably heard "El Niño" and "La Niña" during weather forecasts.

The cycle is very irregular and I doubt we have good prediction models for it. However, the observations of the ocean currents line up very well with ocean surface temperature readings.

On it's own, the ENSO cycle would not cause an overall trend of warming. However, it is very capable of being the cause of the "bands in the data" that you noticed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_...
“It’s not our fault” is on brand for malfunctions of all modern tech conveniences.
>In case you really need to vary a variable, the when keyword lets you check a variable each time it mutates.

The kOS plugin for Kerbal Space Program implements a programming language that actually has this feature.
I see you have entirely avoided admitting you were wrong, then made up another accusation and climbed on a high horse. You obviously have no interest in solving anything, just in virtue signaling.
Weren’t all of those changes done willingly by the publishers/copyright holders of those works?
This post was partly inspired by this conversation earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36184948
Ask HN: Help with Social Skills?
What is the best way to learn and practice social skills? I know the generic advice "just go out and meet people", but when I do it I feel like I have to solve a partial differential equation when I have problems with adding fractions. And you can't go back to kindergarten... So what is the proper way to do it?
Identity, memory are masterly pursued in Patrick Modiano's trilogy also in the context of WWII. It's an outstandingly good read for which he got the 2014 Nobel prize in literature

https://books.google.com/books?id=_ThGCgAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
You're avoiding the crucial question: where would the money come from?

Either borrowing or printing money. Neither are sustainable and would collapse the value of the currency.
Same here with GPT-4 via ChatGPT Plus
Every modern operating system was designed to easily move hardware. (It also helps a lot that all hardware is basically the same thing.)
I guess they don't but here remixing a power supply with other things and I don't like the complexity. See my other answer above if that helps explain my concern.
No more than 7 hours a day and no more than 35 hours a week

...and only outside school hours. If a child is absent from school, the parents will be fined more than the child will earn.
There's a lot of moving parts yes, but in practice it's proven to be pretty safe. Issues usually manifest as charging being too slow, rather than going too fast and causing a fire.

Whenever you charge a device you're already trusting a complex computer-controlled system not to turn the lithium ion pack into an incendiary device, trusting a computer not to overload a copper cable is small stakes relatively speaking.
Every society is 3 meals away from total chaos.

What provides those meals is a system built on top of topsoil, fresh water, fish, oil, pollinators, and atmospheric conditions of humidity, temperature, precipitation, etc. And the absence of pollution.

Topsoil is not dirt, it's an habitat for organisms that make soil fertile. It takes many years to regenerate 1 inch of topsoil. Agriculture consumes topsoil faster than it regenerates.

Fresh water is water with low saline content. Desalination does not work at scale, and if it did, it would still make food prices rise. Fresh water is only 2.5% of Earth's water. Rivers are being polluted, groundwater is being pumped faster than it is replenished. Rainwater is not enough to sustain agriculture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsThobgq7Q

Sustainable fishing requires harvesting only fish above reproductive age. Fisheries do not care about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawling

Pollinators everywhere are dying due to habitat destruction and products used in agriculture.

And on top of that we are changing the composition of the atmosphere via pollution, causing it to trap more heat, and causing oceans to become acidic, which in turn causes climate to behave differently in ways that affect agriculture.

In short, it's an ecocide. We are in the middle of an extinction event: the Anthropocene extinction, an extinction event caused by humans. Animals above certain weight are dying and that is an excellent indicator that we are next in line.

Each human has a stomach which is a chemical reactor, and food is its fuel. And as more humans are added to the population the rate at which we process (destroy) the environment accelerates. We are already beyond the point of sustainability and heading towards a predictable collapse.

Putting a single-use plastic container into a recycle bin won't do shit for the environment. Our civilization is just a giant ant death circle following each other's pheromone trails until we collapse collectively.

Not much can be done other than downscale your lifestyle, avoid traveling, go zero waste, stop buying from ecocidal corporations. But this will only delay the inevitable: more environmental impact, and ultimately, global conflict.

Remove the 3 meals from people's tables, and you'll get conflict over the resources that are left. The strategic pieces in this conflict are already being placed on the board.
The EPFL and ETH are the two main technical schools in Switzerland which has a population of 9 million. Going by population stats this puts Switzerland next to New Jersey.

The pattern I've noticed is that all software in the US failed after Bell collapsed and the collective unconscious moved software innovation to Europe.
While what you say is possible, I would think there could be some members who are not working very often making much less than 40K, having the opposite effect.
I do wonder how humans made it this far. 60000 years and speech seemed to work fine. Now it becomes a complex issue needing complicated laws that restrict instead of allowing more speech.

One is constantly checking which terminology one is now allowed to use for minorities without offending.

Humans have inbuilt biases that we won't be able to get rid off with more laws. Ironically if we look closely at AIs, they are amplifying those biases - remember Facebooks face recognition software that incorrectly identified some minorities as primates? It wasn't AI at fault, it was the bias in the training set.
I don't get the benefit of giving everyone money just to take it all back from 80%+ of people over giving money as needed as the welfare state does now.
sneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort, due to their own inability to imagine that the subculture OP is part of is more than their own narrow definition of it.

I guess the disrespect is clearer when one has grown up with its many forms, but assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped.
Lots of reasons, by having sex or praying the wrong way were common. The wrong way being the way some other out group does it. Now we can end the world by doing things like driving the wrong kind of car (but not by flying around the world to "broaden the mind" as in group members like to do that). You can even buy indulgences.
Movies Are Best Before Noon
How would that differ from freedom of speech, and is there an indication that there is a problem with that in the Western world?
People can have children below the replacement rate

They already do, in tons of countries

It might take care of itself, if not for AI and nukes humanity could be fine. But they just can’t resist, humanity seems to be acting like a rapacious child because of competition across countries.

As for your question… look ul the Doomsday Argument. 7% of all people who ever existed are alive today. If the population constantly increases then given the fact that you are alive means you’re more than likely living in the last days before a major population crash. The only question is what will be behind it — birth control or some ecosystem collapse?
"Everything will evaporate" is the press-release title, and does not fairly capture the Schwarzschild-black-hole-focused work in the paper press-released by the university. The PR title overemphasizes and mischaracterizes the last paragraph of the paper's conclusion as something more than an appeal for further investigation of central masses other than black holes. Their analysis does not rely on the presence of a (particular family of) horizons (cf. Visser Phys. Rev. D 90, 127502 (2014)), and therefore other spherically symmetric non-rotating central masses (possibly even noncompact ones) might induce this gravitational analogue of the Schwinger effect.

> assumes ... ever-expanding universe

No it does not.

I already gave the link to the preprint in your parent comment, but for ease of access <https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18521>. Equation (5) therein is the line element, standard Schwarzschild, and in particular you'll notice a lack of \Lambda or any other expansion term. I drew explicit attention to the asymptotic flatness and Israel-Darmois junction conditions in my comment you replied to.

We can "knit" (using junction conditions) an asymptotically flat solution into a cyclical spacetime like the Gorkavyi model in your set of links. Because the re-collapse timescales there are a lot shorter than the black hole era of the standard model, large black holes may not even stop accreting, but they will however still induce the gravitational pair production that is the topic of the paper. This seems at first glance to be comparable to the outgoing gravitational radiation induced by compact objects that Gorkavyi considers. If one takes the gravitational backreaction of the gravitational pair production idea into account, the incoming gravitational radiation might even make it and Gorkayvi roughly compatible (the idea being that it would induce a small acceleration on the BH similar to the "anti-gravity" idea raised in the appendix of his Astro. Bull. 76, 229-247, 2021 paper, contributing to the "Big Bounce"). A generalization of the Vaidya metric seems like it might be helpful. One might even wonder if there could be a gravitational analogue of the Stark effect induced upon close binaries (esp. with his relict neutron stars with large mass ratios) in a Gorkavyi cyclical model.

Unfortunately, since you engage with the title at the top and practically nothing else, you missed an opportunity for taking this type of synthesis seriously.
Release of methane permafrost

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

Not all ice is made from water. Some ice is frozen methane. If you melt it, you'll release methane.

Atmospheric methane is good a trapping heat (aka greenhouse gas). That heat warms the atmosphere, which melts more ice, which includes methane ice, which in turn releases methane, that heats the atmosphere more.

In this way you have a self-reinforcing effect where before you know it you have an exponential release of methane/exponential temperature increase and an extinction event like the Permian–Triassic one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6RIQ0Bw-E
Controversial, but you can’t teach problem solving