skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially the premise of the quite entertaining UK TV series 'Goodnight Sweetheart' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Sweetheart_(TV_serie...). I just learned two new words (Fortean and timeslips) to describe the phenomenon. (Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1053/)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century

https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/03/15/it-may-be-uncomf...

The animal agriculture industry is the leading cause of most environmental degradation that is currently occurring.

https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imper...

Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/abandon-industrial-agri...

"We are in the middle of the sixth extinction with as many as 274 species going extinct every day—we have lost an average of 68% of all bird, fish, mammal, amphibian, and reptile species in the past 50 years—and the decline is continuing at more than one percentage point per year. Agriculture is the largest cause of these declines—86% of those species threatened—with animal agriculture (60%) the salient perpetrator."
Electronic devices keep state in all sorts of strange ways nowadays. If you have the money, the safest strategy is to shred everything rather than having to do a ton of research figuring out whether a given device needs it.

For example, lots of people don't realise how many printers are vulnerable to recovering previously printed documents. In the past, you might have just opened it up and ripped out the hard disk and memory, but nowadays with NAND and DRAM being soldered onto motherboards, do you really trust that's enough?
Cool! Summarizing comments would be interesting too.
Why don't they have a requirement to disclose it?
It is 100% equivalent. You are saying we will censor A topic because it will hurt X race. In the same breath, you will not censor B topic even if it hurts Y race. That is hypocrisy. Everyone sees through it. Some may choose to be blind to this hypocrisy. And that is not my problem.
I meant it in the way that Go is not cut out for most embedded use cases due to having a fat runtime with GC.

It is ok for CLIs and small utilities, but I can’t really stand looking at it (they went with a type syntax that is neither C-like, neither Haskell-like and is absolutely unreadable to me, even though I can usually get the gist of any language from having seen my fair share of syntaxes).
Yup. Dril is a former FYAD poster.
If you're actually interested in running Debian/Hurd then go to the Debian website.

https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/
Sure - the next corporate ship will torch VC money until they can't, they'll go user hostile then the next corporate ship will have received VC money to torch to fill the void
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Don't have kids; eat whatever you like. Your own impact pales next to N^N impact of your descendents.
The question is how much of rendering actually happens in M2 gpu, and how much is delegated to R1.
This can barely be recognized by a layperson as a QR code at all.

This may be great for steganography — like these US POWs in Vietnam blinking Morse code for "torture" while being filmed, when their captors don't realize that and pass the video, and the morbid message is later extracted.
> because once you answer the good questions, nobody needs to ask anything anymore.

If that's your belief, then nothing I could say will ever convert you away from such a peculiar religion.

(For everyone else) Not only will many need to ask questions still, but the "encyclopedia of good questions" is rather useless to many of us. Some small fraction of our needs is about a classic textbook example like out of some intro class. We live in the real world.

The "encyclopedia of good questions" has more to do about soothing the egos of jackasses who are (somehow) ashamed of the great thing they accidentally created.
It takes quite a bit of nerve to ignore skyrocketing grocery and rent costs.
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> but Linux is usually a single command and the whole system is upgraded

I'd wish this remained the case. As a Fedora workstation user (XFCE spin), it consists of a couple of steps, and a reboot for the upgrade. Now the annoying part where they started a couple of releases back to Windowsify the experience, with a nice upgrade screen that makes my computer useless until it installs the thousands of packages. I guesstimate (pessimistically), between the download time and installation time, it takes between 1-2 hours to upgrade the version (had to install around 4k packages the other day for the F38 upgrade).

I'm quite sure they won't improve the upgrade process as they are definitely going to try with time to push the Silverblue/Kinoite (GIMP/KDE immutable distribution spins) further onto users. To speed it up for us that don't want to switch our flow, definitely torrents for package downloads, and smarter update packages would help (having the same package version on F37 & F38, but with a f38 naming suffix ideally shouldn't cause a full package reinstall).
Demonstrably incorrect on my street, which has hotly contested on-street parking that narrows the roadway to a single lane. Cars have to stop and reverse into parking spaces to pass each other. Yet children play ball games in the street, and stop to move out of the way of the cars, with the cars barely needing to brake.

Children are not mindless suicide machines; they learn at a tremendous rate from their environment. The children you see around you might not survive on my street, but that's because they haven't lived there for all of their lives.
> almost nobody was saying the source 'might' have been a lab leak

Untrue, from memory, but what's the use in anecdotes. Other users have shared links.
> IIRC there was a lot of FUD simply because it came from Microsoft.

It was annoying because we already had odt as open format and OOXML was reported to be more of a text dump of what Microsoft did in binary than a standard meant for interoperability.

> But I can read them on my Linux machine and you don't need a byte of non-free software for it, and I had a lot more trouble with the .doc files they published 20 years ago, so.

OpenOffice was already better at reading old doc files than Microsoft Word was well before OOXML was a thing. Meanwhile my last few attempts to deal with power point or excel sheets where still a gigantic mess of missing content.
Unecessary anxiety etc if it actually isn't real or isn't man made. (I'm probably on the 'it is man made' side though.) Could ask the question "is there a downside to people not being paralyzingly afraid of a potential meteor strike every waking hour"
Indeed, there were a lot of scaremongering about covid. It then turned into the worst global pandemic in a century which killed millions and millions of people, and hundreds of millions of people (if not billions) was afflicted with it, many of them with symptoms that affect them for years. I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make.
Of course. Even when justified, the longer you are hysterical, the more regular people tune you out. They just get emotionally tired. It's even worse if your predictions are off.
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Admins routinely interfere in elections to make sure they get the "right kind of moderator". This has happened personally do me, on one of the other SEs.
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It’s a long interview, you can skip through if you want. I’m impartial to Lex Friedman, I just enjoy long interviews and a lot of his guests give me a lot to digest.
I don’t think that’s how it works. With these drives the AES encryption is always being done by dedicated hardware on the drive, but by default the key is just a random value stored in NVRAM.

When you do a “secure erase”, the drive will internally regenerate a new key and overwrite it in its NVRAM. Crucially, the algorithm must be securely random and the old key must be reliably overwritten. But if those conditions are met - presto! Everything on the drive that was written with the old key is now unreadable and entirely unrecoverable.

If you actually want to “lock” the drive, the key would be generated by a KDF from the password, the one saved in NVRAM would not be used.

It’s more complicated than that, if you want to support enabling a password without wiping the drive. That would involve encrypting/decrypting a stored key with the password. But either way you can definitely secure erase a modern unlocked drive, if you trust the implementation!
I Made 7 Predictions for the Web for the Next 5y. 7y Later Here’s What Happened
much better than java, c++ and python for big projects. worked on huge such codebases.

only ruby is comparable, but ruby breaks compat way too often.
I could, no joke, see Jake Paul taking a run at it.

Tucker C is too compromised from his emails getting leaked and already has the reputation of being a spineless mouthpiece. He'll need more than (foreign) money to run the cursus honorum enough to get legitimacy, i.e. what happened to Sarah Palin.
Me too. Reddit almost certainly ran those numbers.

They might have chosen to ignore them. They might have fed biased assumptions into their calculations. Project management might have messed up and deprioritized the features meant to placate that section of the userbase. Institutional churn might have resulted in the corporation forgetting that they ever did run those numbers or why they are now heading down this path.
But third party app users are likely to be even more sticky. Doesn't that mean they should encourage everyone to install third party apps? No, this is just idiocy.
The payment processor ceased operations in 2016. Kagi Search launched in 2018.
Sounds like a useful feature to me.
It feels like the outcome boils down to this: if you build a business around making your product look exactly like another business’s trademark, you’re not protected from a lawsuit.

That doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Obligatory IANAL.)
Wait, should we not critique?

OK i'll fix that.

It's perfect. Stop all work and development on it now guys, it's perfect. It has no flaws and makes no mistakes. Amazing I guess.
But the model you mentioned also doesn't work, because it's essentially single-task, IIUC.
Nope, didn't quite mean that. What I meant was the overall gravity of what was the pandemic.

Quite possible that something that happened in one place was much more serious, or even totally different in other place, and in other places it was life as usual.
For me the jury is out there, if indeed there was a pathogen out there. For all you know it could have been a radiation leak. In other cases it could have been cases of cold or flu.

What I can confidently say is that it was not the pandemic of large proportions as it was made out to be. (no one I knew died). What I can also confidently say is that no one can really say with a high degree of certainty that it was a virus, the tests (PCR) are flaky, the symptoms can be attributed to many things etc. etc.
But convincing SoftBank to give you money is being a good executive.
> We have a billion power-hungry PCs running

Let's do some math.

According to [1] Human production of energy is even lower at an estimated 160,000 TW-hr for all of year 2019 (a COVID year)

Let's hypothesize the difference is on average 10watt/hour (rather large for the average device), the difference for a billion devices would be 10GW/hour.

Which is exactly 1/16,000,000th of the total.

Assuming every Apple computer consumes 100watts less than the equivalent non Apple, assuming there are 20 million new low power Apple computers (probably there are much less), assuming the CPU are 100% of the time in sustained mode (of course on average CPU do not run at 100% of the power all the time continuously, but let's assume they all do in this example) it would mean 2GW/hour saved, which corresponds to a 1/80,000,000th of the total.

It would allow, maybe, to shutdown an average power plant (the largest one produces 23GW/hour)

Unfortunately there are over 65,000 power plants in the World, 2,500 of which run on coal.

Unfortunately the energy saved could come from renewables, so the difference on emissions would be even less relevant than it already is.

Economically those 2GW even at the Denmark prices ($0.50/KW) would cost one million dollars (2GW = 2,000,000KW). AKA nothing.

As you can see the difference must be quite large to make a real measurable difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget
I agree with everything you said, especially tailoring documentation for intended purpose.

Except...

> User docs are simple.

User docs are NOT simple. You have to put yourself into the mind of someone who is going to use your software to solve a problem which they have. That's never easy and it gets really hard, really fast, as the software grows in complexity or as your audience gets wider.
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Maybe then. Right now you can work 30 hours, party and then get bought by another VC operated company.

This is what was missing when Apple and Amazon started and for the last decade this dirty VC business has stifled innovation and made people look only for an exit. That is why the biggest companies in the VC era has been companies like Uber and AirBnb instead of Apple and Amazon.
HTTPS means the network connections between the app and the backend are opaque to third parties including the user.

Certificate pinning means you cannot insert yourself as the backend and/or MITM the requests. The app will only communicate directly with the owner of the private key it was pinned to.

Depending on the app and OS, it may be more or less easy to change the app to remove/crack the pinning. In general, if you are not in full control of the device (root), it's not possible.
Looks like the trims are different; looking at the Kia NZ website, my model is closer to the Earth trim, which is listed at $99k NZD. I would agree the base Model Y is a better value than the base EV6, but once you start moving up the trim levels, it's not as mismatched.

According to this article, last summer the prices were closer (I assume it was a similar situation to the US, where EVs were hard to find due to demand)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/129019916/price-increases-f...

Obviously I'm not familiar with pricing dynamics of NZ, like tariffs, tax incentives, or the role that the dealer network plays in influences prices.
Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: what was asked for
Interestingly, over half the site's top 1000 subreddits on private barely makes a dent in the number of posts and comments. How much of that is attributable to the long tail of subreddits, and how much to bots?
Jim Geraghty of National Review has written a lot about this, as he pretty early advocated for the possibility of the lab leak. Because he writes for a right-leaning publication though, there are lots of ad hominem attacks thrown his way that are pretty baseless.
Today, it makes the news when some locality is able to draw 100% of its power needs from renewable sources. I'm not terribly worried about the problem of struggling to use up all of the renewable energy. Maybe someday, but certainly not now.
Related to “the aggregate thermodynamics of what is happening [...] is staggering”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36287863
Considering it was a 9-0 unanimous decision, and we have large variation in ideology on the court, I think the issue and decision has more nuance than “corporations always win!!”.
Seems like a reasonable line: you can parody a trademark in your speech, but you can't parody a trademark in your trademark.
I'm hoping that in a decade or so, people will stop using "vaccines never prevented transmission" as an argument since it has been said at least a billion of times since the beginning, VACCINES PREVENTED SERIOUS ILLNESS. Same thing about the imaginary widespread side-effects or the mask being useless.

Depressing.

Personally I'm more worried about the people that went full retard about covid alternative views and conspiracies, I've lost a few friends to that. Sometime I wonder if you will be able to integrate into society ever again.
It seems this case makes sense. You don't have a parody/1st amendment right to violate someone's trademark in a situation you can get a trademark yourself for a parody product. The song "Barbie Girl", 1st amendment protected. The parody squeeky toy is not because they are also bringing that product into the trademark arena.

Essentially, the USSC is saying, "judge if this new trademark infringes on Jack Daniel's current trademark based on trademark law." Where the question is not free expression but "are customers likely to think it's a Jack Daniel's affiliated product". The defense the USSC is telling the dog toy people to use is "no reasonable customer would think JD made or authorized these toys".
Yeah but my kids' kids are going to figure out how to make cows that can photosynthesize.
A typical office laptop is pretty useless after about five years.

Even if the standard consumer stuff works fine, all the annoying enterprise security and remote management software that you're required to deploy just seems to suck up more and more resources every year. Unless you're lucky enough to work in an industry where that sort of thing isn't needed...

But even if you forget the software side, most office workers don't take great care of their devices. Even a solid ThinkPad will often have bits falling off it after that amount of time.
I should clarify that when I say “a more commonly used figure”, I mean “among things that have put any consideration into optimisation”. Where not controlled deliberately, tools tend to use the quality of the source image (which is probably around q=90 to q=94), or choose an unnecessarily high value like q=90. But take tools that have put at least some effort into sanity, and you find things like: https://squoosh.app/, a human-friendly tool for manual image optimisation and conversions, defaults to q=75 on JPEG; and the Zola static site generator defaults to q=75 for JPEG <https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/image-processi...>; and Sharp, a Node.js library used by eleventy-image, defaults to q=80 on JPEG <https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/api-output#jpeg>.

The considerable majority of images on the web are way higher-quality than they need to be.
and that right there is how you promulgate a social suppression campaign.
I have uninstalled several apps that I actually wanted to use due to trying to do this. I feel you probably increase engagement of the users who stay at the cost of scaring away a whole bunch of other users. I have for example uninstalled the FB app and only user their website.
Yep. Top notch research.
This kind of thing is exactly my jam. I read Becker about a year ago and it set off a landslide that has still not settled. Much appreciate the others, I have made note of them.
Creator here. We are working towards open sourcing the platform. We’re looking for feedback. Give it a try and let us know how it goes!
They don't care about saving their platform, they care about cashing out in the IPO. The incentives are all wrong, and show why every link-aggregator site ultimately kills itself trying to become Facebook.
> There's also a high chance the browser will unload the reddit page causing a flash of no content and potentially losing the user's scroll position.

The funny thing about this is that this misbehavior is mostly exclusive to badly written SPAs and other heavily-JS’d sites. Plain old rendered HTML sites like old Reddit don’t flash blank and restore scroll position fine.
They have a sticky saying they’re going dark till the end of the month. Don’t know when it starts though.
> Don’t confuse optimal with maximal.

I'm not, we won't be able to utilize all of installed PV when it's producing max power. Currently at around 300GWp yearly added capacity and rising.
But also I'm not saying hydrogen/ammonia production and storage is the only option we have. I just don't see many others.

> And in this case we can.

Sure we can. How?
Mining secures the ledger but it is also critical for continued processing of transactions. "Hey, we'll all wait until the next time we have an excess of renewable power to accept everybody's transactions" is... a mess.
Your own comment doesn’t include any specific examples of these communities, which I think reflects the big problem: discovery. As big as HN is, I rarely see it mentioned anywhere that’s not HN-adjacent. I’d love to hear about some of these other communities, but I do suspect they’ll each have varying features, cultural norms, and suboptimal onboarding guides for newbies. Especially if they’re decades old.

I think if you’re “in-the-know” and have grown with some of these high quality forums/communities for years, you’ll lose touch with understanding what new users need to join as the quality and depth of discussion become higher and deeper.
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Reddit once faked tons of users making posts. I have a feeling they'll look for ways to do it again.

I wonder how hard it would be to have a series of bots that harvest posts from other social media sites, add a little 'human' LLM magic to it, and make it look like actual people are posting lots of content?
You’re indirectly pointing to two ongoing problems with docs: discoverability and findability. Can you accidentally or purposefully find what you need to know?
This job is aimed at people who make infrastructure software. I work primarily as an infrastructure SWE and although the community of people who work on such products is bigger than in 1994 it's still pretty niche. To a lot of folks the knowledge you need to have is viewed as esoteric.

The web has spawned off a number of jobs that are abstracted above the system level that require very little deep integration with the system(s). DevOps, web backend devs, web frontend devs, designers, etc all live a layer or two of abstraction above building OS tooling and services that serve as significant a purpose as the webserver. That's to say, he knows who he's talking to.
Would be fun to feed this into video-to-video stable diffusion to create (none stick figure) animated or photorealistic videos...
Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in the US and Europe.

Not having kids and consuming like crazy won't save anything.

https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

Who has contributed most to global CO2 emissions?

(Don't forget we've outsourced our manufacturing to China)

https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-worst-places-...

Countries contributing the least to the climate crisis are feeling the worst of its effects
How about not driving a car absolutely everywhere? Even electric cars use many times more energy than an entire household. I already eat less meat than I used to but I cannot look past the obscenely high energy use of a car
When there were zero evidences? Yeah, go figure.
What the problem with Lex Fridman?

He speaks slowly (listen on 2x for regular person speed) and he’s trite, but he interviews people and lets them talk.

That’s good enough. And it’s especially good enough in that he gets big names to come talk.

He doesn’t need to be a genius or to ask clever questions. Merely letting Chris Lattner geek out for 2 hours on audio about his project is a win.