skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science communication and trying to appropriately communicate risk has a lot of issues, yeah. I don't really blame them because there's been more than two decades of very obvious failure to get sufficient numbers of people sufficiently politically engaged to change enough to avoid catastrophic outcomes. In general, if you're a relatively high information person, you should probably be looking up the actual reports themselves by organisations like the IPCC.

As to your 1/2/3 scenarios, 1 is basically impossible at this point unless every major country starts extremely rapid decarbonisation, like zero carbon within 15 years sort of thing. We think we are on track for option 2, and with predictable mitigations (countries successfully pull off all pledged reductions) it's still pretty much 2, just potentially less severe. By "less severe", I mean we can try to prevent at least some of that sea level rise which means there will be some cities that become coastal but don't get catastrophically flooded. But like, Miami for example, that city won't exist by the end of the century without a hypothetical and unproven seawall (people always say seawalls, sure it's a decent idea, but we don't know if it's even feasible for us to build them to the necessary standards. It's like asking every coastal city to build something more complex and safety critical than Hoover Dam).

An important thing to think about is that the difference between 1 and 2 is class based. When I said 1 was impossible, I meant that it was impossible for like "most people", because we're on track for billions of people to become refugees because of climate change, likely leading to wars and significant political issues. But obviously if you're wealthy enough, you are basically insulated from those outcomes because you can just keep moving away from the coast (even if millions of other people are trying to move there at the same time) and the only real impact on you is the broader economic impacts on the country you live in, and even those are muted. So for the wealthy, it's always really been a question of "Is it going to be 1 or 3?", which is a big part of the reason why it has been so immensely hard to see significant political change to prevent anthropogenic climate change.

We don't really understand the science of 3 well enough to understand what the tipping points would be to start a runaway greenhouse effect, so no one knows for certain. We need more science on it. I think a very reasonable guess is that it won't happen until our greenhouse gas heat retention is at least as high as it was during the various times in Earth's history when the polar ice caps didn't exist, which gives us significant runway to work with. Beyond that, we just don't know.
HN has a problem that it rejects "shaming" in the community.

I think you can shame people in a way that isn't completely abusive, and even instructive.

Shame exists for a real reason in communities - but it only works if the shamed (and everyone else) understands why they were shamed. This takes more communication than a downvote ...
There is a thing called sampling.
Maybe not in its current form (disregarding the hyperbole).

I'm more surprised that given Google's scale, they couldn't do it in a way that makes them much more money, but perhaps at the expense of ethics/user experience
I totally agree with you. For this reason, I don't follow mainstream outlets about climate change. The most balanced source I have found so far is this substack by Hannah Ritchie. Here is one of those balanced article - https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/15c-warming-tempor...
I noticed my Chrome Canary install uBlock Origin has stopped working this last week. Any one else see the same?
Webpack – Roadmap 2021 (2020-12-08)
Last Webpack blog post is from 2020
> Of course there's a "we".

No, there isn't. You use the word, and deep in your lizard brain you hear yourself say "myself and all these other people who care about me and love me and are on my team".

There's no "we". No one wants to be part of that "we" with you, and those who lie and say they do want to be part of it with you are hoping they get more out of the deal than they give to be part of it. I'm probably the closest thing to being your friend that you have when I'm at least honest and tell you that's horseshit.

If people like yourself spent more time trying to solve the much smaller problem of "how do I make my way in this world" instead of "how do we make it so everyone gets what they want", then quite simply more of you would get what you want.

> but we're a social species with division of roles,

Your role's about to be eliminated. Might take 20 years, the timeline's hard to pin down. But the guys who get to keep their roles are perfecting autonomous war drones. Your odds don't look good.

Where's your "we" in that?
"Source available" is not open source and has nothing to do with open source. Open source never confused people until bad-faith actors started intentionally trying to confuse them by labeling things that aren't open source as "open source". Open source has a precise definition and it has had it for decades. If you describe your software as open source and it is not available under an open source license then you are a malicious bad-faith fraudster that is trying to use the reputation of open source software to prop up a fraudulent practice based on lies.

It doesn't matter one whit whether people can "pay the bills". It's totally irrelevant to the discussion. If you can't make money making open source software, then go get a job. This is like people complaining they did a degree in underwater basket weaving and can't get a job, or people complaining that they can't get a job as an artist or a guitarist. Guess what, most people can't make money from their hobbies. Some programmers get pretty lucky and turn their hobbies into jobs. If you want to give it a go, good on you. Most people don't even want to. Of those that do want to, most do not succeed. You have no entitlement to be successful in your attempts to do so.

And there's no rule that says that you have to release things you make as open source software. If you want to make money, you might find that the best way to do that is not to release your software as open source. That's your prerogative. But you can't make that choice and then also choose to ride on the reputation of the "open source" label. That label means something, and has meant the same thing for decades. You can choose: release your software as open source and call it that, or release it as "source available" and be honest about it.

And you're completely wrong when you say "They have not won the culture war on what the term means". They absolutely have. The only place I've ever seen anyone pretend that "open source" can legitimately mean something other than the OSI's definition is on this forum.
There's big problems with both downvoting and flagging: you don't know WHY people are doing it. Without that, you can't correct behavior.
I am reminded of software like the “Snake” malware. Not exactly “ostentasteful” like the Sydney Opera House but grand and intricate with a specific, kinda-but-not-exactly unique purpose.

(I’m sure there are other examples but my mind has an information security bias and I learned about “Snake” recently.)

Not the bespoke CMS I work on for Bob’s Bait Shop.
Yeah but today's view of businessmen and executives is less charitable.
> It's quite a bit higher than comparable social media sites

What site besides Twitter even has paid API access for something like this? I haven't seen anything to indicate Facebook charges for API access. Even then, you can't build a full facebook replacement with their public API's. I agree that the execution in terms of timeline was awful by reddit. But the pricing makes sense when you realize their goal is to kill off third party apps. Reddit charges $5 a month for Reddit Premium, so allowing a third party to charge less than that and deliver the same feature set is silly.
The headset is not varifocal so an app like that can't be made.
I pay for reddit gold. I can use reddit’s mobile app without ads. It’s still shit compared to Apollo.
Odd, I'm paying for Kagi but still find Google better
> And there are still a few hunter-gatherers. I

Go hunt on their lands. See how they welcome you.
So what?

“federal income tax” is only about 2/3 of federal taxes on income, and the other 1/3 is the much more bottom-weighted payroll tax.

And in any case, yes, high end earners of normal income (which can include some of the top 1%, ~$700k non-capital income isn’t unheard of) get heavily taxed; capital income is favored, not high non-capital income.
Indeed, I’m trying to figure out what is the reasoning here? Is it just regulation for regulation sake or what?
That just isn't true. You're talking about some science communicators and activists, not "scientists".
You can only roll the die once.

Alice and Bob have a dozen dice. They agree that if they roll a 4, that's the signal for "attack at dawn" and Alice has decided that she wants Bob to attack at dawn. Alice rolls the 12 dice, and at the agreed upon time, Bob also rolls his 12 dice. The sequence they get is 1,5,3,2,2,4,6,5,1,2,1,6. The 6th die is a 4, which is the signal that Alice wants to send. How does Alice signal to Bob that she wants him to look at the 6th die? If Alice can send a signal to say, "look at the 6th die", why wouldn't she just send a signal that says, "attack at dawn"?
The "trying to sound overly sophisticated" is a thing in German too, no worries :)

That said, personally I'm prone to this when writing. Even in English.

You've also tried. With this sentence, haven't you ;)

I can, very sporadically, grasp such long sentences in my language at the first pass, but it's always difficult and, even then, I usually reread just to make sure I really understood it.

With some thinking you can probably convert your entire post into a one sentence paragraph.
Most of us our building prefab housing, but the challenge is there's infinite ways to put the modules together, and unlike real housing no physics to reduce the problem set of possbilities.
The passengers, however, will stop them. It only used to work because the passengers thought it was a hijacking they could maybe survive. Once that hope was gone, it stopped working. Both on 9/11, and several times afterwards.
Just tried this experiment by typing "Messaging" in the play store. The top 3 were marked as Ads, and number 4 was "Messages by Google", with Google clearly listed as the creator on line 2.
I would say that Doom (1993) is one of the few games of that era still kind of holds up today, the gameplay hasn't aged poorly. Can't say the same about Wolf 3D.

Doom 2016 however made the right move. It wasn't out to replicate the old games but take the essence of it and re-imagine it in newer faster terms. It is not a sequel but something that stands next to the original. The focus is almost entirely on the fights but they are stacked that you actually have to plan your attack (figure out which enemy tier is most problematic) while in the middle of near absolute chaos. I get why people didn't like it but I thought it was such a brilliant homage to the original. The sequel, I wasn't too keen on.
Really? That's very interesting, and good to hear. I'll have to look more into it, because that's really my main concern long term. Not that I have any real control, but I'm reticent to support platforms that could still go dark out of nowhere if I can avoid it.
The thing they seem to completely miss is that the value these apps brought comes from the dedicated/addicted users who generate the only thing of value: content. And needing a 3rd party app to make regular use viable from a mobile device has always been a thing.

It’s totally fair for them to say they need to address the ad issue. But to claim these apps bring no value is pretty ridiculous on his part.
This may be the last straw for me trusting Google. I say this as a paying Google photos user and owner of a pixel 6.

If they kill THIS nothing is off the table.

Time to find alternatives and even switch phones. No more all-in-ones platforms.

For a solid alternative I recommend Porkbun. They do just domains and nothing else, with a clean no bullshit UI.
I'm more interested in how it affects your eye focus. With regular VR it's hard to focus your eyes right when bringing objects closer to you. It takes some getting used to.
I think that while they can be owned by the oil companies, you can also enter into a licensing contract with said oil company to use their likeness.
I never saw this anywhere until this comment. The letters "RCS" never appear anywhere in the blog post[0] where they announced they were removing SMS Signal support. Where did you hear this from? This would be a much more reasonable reason than the drivel the espoused in their blog post.

[0]: https://www.signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
The protocols Google is redefining to be user hostile are a layer below even infrastructure. The very nature of HTTP and DNS are being rewritten to serve Google's business interests.
Do you have the means to hire a secretary that can give you a run-down of the latest hacker news at your convenience and censor out the posters you don't want to hear? That's probably your fastest solution.

Your filters won't work against the new accounts that are plaguing you, and an AI will never be better than people at detecting sarcasm, or be able to sniff out unpleasant states of mind such as nihilism, selfishness etc.

You could create a community of hackers to together censor and weed out questions and comments that aren't kosher, but that group will soon disintegrate with in-fighting, as you will all personally have your strict opinion of where to draw the line of what is acceptable or unacceptable.

So I say go with a smart secretary. He or she will do the job as you demand, and since you pay there won't be any shenanigans or all night debates on what question is honest or bait.
That’s not the argument you think it is. Chrome isn’t on the Mac App Store because it’s not compatible with Apple’s walled garden. So while you might need to go to a separate page to get Chrome on Mac, it can’t exist at all on iOS, and would have never had the opportunity to thrive in the first place if macOS originally started out as locked down as iOS.
> When it comes to the uptick in testicular cancer, meanwhile, he says rising cannabis use is likely the leading culprit.

Passing mention in the story, but is this a common hypothesis? I’m aware of UCSD research suggesting THC suppresses apoptosis [0], but that’s very different than being mutagenic.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30309981
Reddit is already threatening to replace mods who continue with the protest. Expect them to replace the existing mods with "friendly" ones and "re open" the subs, then claim they're back to normal.
Could we link a non-paid source? Presumably this article is just rephrasing the announcement, and they have a picture of an eagle on the top. I'm not exactly a biology expert but cmon!

For example:

- https://huggingface.co/tiiuae

- https://falconllm.tii.ae/

- https://www.tii.ae/news/falcon-40b-worlds-top-ai-model-rewar...

- or hell just the leaderboard https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

P.S. The UAE makes LLMs now? That's... a tad unexpected. Must've been out of the loop. Good for them - despite political grievances, you've gotta admit this is pretty damn impressive.

EDIT: Also it looks like the news here is that they released an `instruct` version of the pre-existing `falcon-40b`? Might also be worth highlighting in the title.
There's No 'Right Way' in Software Development
Archaeologists find a 3k-year-old bronze sword in Germany
If you have the full 10 years remaining, you might not be able to transfer right now according to:

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/224-transfer-domain-from-goog...

Since domains can only ever have a max of ten years registration at any given time, sometimes the registry won't allow domain transfers that already have nine years of registration.
Please stop it.

I watched the recent developments to Twitter, Google and Reddit, and loved it all.

One way for self-hosted service to catch up is to wait for the big companies to mess up, and they're messed up very well at this moment.

Google previously changed their account expiration policy, and decided to lock users out of their usernames instead of allowing the old owner to re-active it, making the expiration permanently destructive for the user.

This effectively told their users that use of Google services is not "maintenance-free", you have to constantly engage with Google to keep it alive. And funny enough... maintenance costs is one of the reasons why people choose to abandoned their soft-host services.

Now the pendulum swings another way, it's great.
There aren’t really any features that I want, and I any content I might want deleted comes from throwaway accounts.
(didn't read because paywall)

From experimenting with Falcon-40b-instruct the base model, outputs are acceptable for very simple tasks though still dwarfed by closed-source LLMs in usefulness.

The thing stopping me from experimenting further is how expensive inferences are - 40b to takes 8-10mins per 200 token generation, loaded in 4-bit with transformers on a colab A100. The model weighs in around 27GB on VRAM with these settings.

Has anyone gotten faster inferences with the 40b model?
Price and features. Squarespace charges $20/year for a .com vs $12 on google and less than that elsewhere.

I haven’t used squarespace but I also imagine they don’t have as much of a power-user appeal, given that DNS is not their main product.
Oh god please don't give them any ideas. Delete this ASAP
What does this mean for Google's registry business? It's new gTLDs, some of which still haven't even launched
I recently ran across the the license for Dragonfly [1] which has some restrictions (rights reserved), but 5 years after the license date the license switches to Apache 2.0. Basically a time-limited rights reservation. I don't hate it. I might even contribute to such a project for free.

I propose something like this: When I release code, it's rights-reserved for 5 years, then open-source (and this particular clause would be irrevocable). Anyone may use the software for non-commercial purposes. Anyone may contribute, those who contribute will be granted permission for commercial use if I deem their contributions significant enough. Anyone may distribute the software under these terms.

If such a model became popular, I have a hard time imagining it could make things any worse. It might even accelerate open-source development by shifting societies resources to those who are actually producing this valuable software.

You might say, "but it's not open-source", fair enough, but we can view it as open-source contribution with a delay. For example, if this model became widely popular this year, and we saw great progress with this model, then come 2028 we would be flooded with new open-source software and ultimately might be better off than we would have been without this model.

Ultimately people choose to make their software open-source for moral reasons, and because they hope that by giving they might receive in turn--I contribute, you contribute, and we share freely (and we're both poor). This model I've talked about still achieves similar goals. People might still be willing to contribute, even for free, because I have given them an irrevocable legal promise that their contributions will be made available to all at a specific time.

(This whole thing makes me rethink copyright and patents and how much they really contribute to society. Perhaps their terms should be shortened?)

[1]: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...
You played piano for 8 hours straight, but were you 1) playing well, 2) repeating the same things over and over again, 3) doing something creative, or 4) any or all of the above?
I wish I could find a good enduro (KTM, Beta, Sherco) or motocross bike (KTM, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki) with zerk fittings for the suspension. The expectation is that you take apart the whole suspension and grease it every 25-50 hours.
> passengers don't tolerate anybody making trouble

Examples of this? The shoe bomber is one, but the shoe bomber was solo. I don't know what a situation would look like in a 9/11 attack where you have 4-5 attackers. Esp in a widebody jet
That is such an elegant, concise, and accurate description of the situation. Bravo
Should we wait to see if a tiger lives under your bed before hiring a poacher to get it out?
The way I remember it, the first iPhone was criticized for not having 3G, which was a standard feature ordinary people were already using. But maybe that depends on the country. At least at some point, the Japanese were supposed to have really fancy phones, while the US was behind the rest of the developed world in mobile technology.

In Finland, mobile internet was already a big thing during the dot-com boom. The early attempts failed, because the hardware wasn't ready. Regardless, "mobile portal" remained one of the big buzzwords, and even taxi drivers knew that the mobile was the future. In a few years, new phones got color displays, cameras, 3G connections, and GPS receivers. Ordinary people bought them, because flagship phones were cheaper than they are today. And then mobile internet started finally making sense. I remember using the local public transit journey planner on my phone in 2005 or 2006 to determine the right stop after taking an unfamiliar bus.
I remember a news article about the Apple headset a few weeks before it was officially revealed. It cited anonymous Apple employees being pessimistic about the prospects of the new headset, and one of them was actually quoted as saying that perhaps the apps will save it.

This sounds indeed like Apple doesn't know what it might be good for, while hoping app developers will find some novel use case.

Otherwise it will not be much more than an AR window manger.
True, but then why even go into the business? Could they not model out that this would never be a giant revenue stream and customers all the grief.
Cfr, wef … list goes on
I've seen more than a few people on various drugs do some obsessive things, continually for long periods without a break. That didn't make them smart or skilled.
I worked for Squarespace 2010-2012 and the focus from management was mainly on keeping customers happy. It's not like it's ad focused and there's a need to extract maximum value from the userbase. It's possible that's changed in the last decade but Anthony (CEO) was really into having a premium product and a quick glance at the about page shows that most of the senior leadership hasn't changed so I don't see why they'd change direction.
I think Apple’s release of their headset was conservative by design. They saw what an ambitious vision for spatial computing did to Meta, and I don’t think they were keen on repeating such a launch. Both in price point and functionality, the Vision Pro seems to be very clearly targeted for developer use. Apple knows that very few consumers will pay $3,500 for this thing, and that’s the point. I don’t think that they actually plan on selling very many of these headsets until they have a few more years to shave off battery weight and innovate on the OS. They’re offloading a lot of the software R&D risk to developers, and I think they’ll be watching with lots of anticipation what people like you build and how they should position their Vision 2 accordingly. Remember, one of Apple’s primary market cap drivers has been their growing focus on services. App Store and other distribution gatekeeping is a money printer that they’ll want to capitalize on from the get-go for this next platform. And I think that’s why this boring headset is Apple saying to developers, “Here are the keys and do with it whatever you en-Vision (haha) so we can give you a subsequent version that lets you take your apps to mass market.”