skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch, that was not my intention. The problem I see is in the lack of rigour for obtaining and sharing knowledge.

A lot of research in the social sciences, almost by definition, deals with extremely complex interactions that are hardly possible to say anything constructive about. For example, one cannot reproduce experiments, nor objectively measure things such as, say, happiness.

On the other hand, most contemporary research in the exact sciences, such as quantum computation, is so hard to understand, that one needs a PhD in a respective field to even reasonably talk about it.

Obviously, I should have avoided to make this sweeping kind of generalisation, but from my personal experience this dichotomy at least exists in the fields that I am interested in (e.g. mathematics and physics on one side, contemporary art and philosophy of mind on the other side).

It is not even the culture that is different, it is the method being used, and the matter being studied that differs.

Is this still considered an outdated view? And how should I go about changing my perspective?

I really like it if someone crosses the boundaries of these two domains, but I have found very few inspiring authors who do so successfully. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
And the gap is 6.5M homes.
Who lives fine without a smartphone today? See your sibling comment for an example.
I think the fascinating bit is that ebay locked down his account to "verify they were actually his to sell."

Which seems an awful lot like "we're just going to, uh, you know, hang on to the ~$28,000 you just made. For a couple of months."

Was he still responsible for shipping the orders while they held onto his money? Not everyone can afford to just shovel out the shipping and labor needed to do that.

Has anyone been through this who will talk about what it involved?
We got the GPLv3 to close the TiVo loophole, I wonder if we'll get the GPLv4 to close the Red Hat loophole.
>And probably also low because every unemployed person drops off the list after 6 months AFAIK.

Source? The BLS definition for U3 (ie. the figure that's referenced when people talk about "unemployment") doesn't say anything about 6 months.
> "Linux" is an infinite number of combinations derived from an a large and unbounded set of hardware, driver, OS, and environment choices.

So, sort of like Windows?
AI-generated fake news sparks rumors of Gary Gensler’s resignation

https://cointelegraph.com/news/gary-gensler-resigns-ai-gener...
> They can get away with demanding smartphone use.

> In 5 years, if you say “I don’t have a smart phone” you’ll just be denied service. Period. No questions asked.

IANAL, but I feel like that should be illegal.

Sure, they can set up an app and those who want to use it may do so, but for things things like parking there ought to be an alternate. Beach, national park etc is a predominantly offline service for which it's absurd to insist on using an app.

Especially for something that's on a "national park" — I don't really know what the "national" part indicates (not from USA) but I'm assuming that the govt is involved.

Somebody should go to court.
This article is doing something weird: it's treating natural gas as an analogue for oil (and using the rise of natural gas exploitation as evidence for continued investment in other hydrocarbon sources) when natural gas is explicitly part of the US's energy transition plan.

Is burning natural gas ideal? Absolutely not. But it's much better than burning oil or coal for electricity, and using heightened financial and generation figures for natural gas to imply that hydrocarbons as a whole aren't successfully being replaced is deeply misleading.

(A cursory scan of this author's other posts indicates that this is a general theme of theirs.)
Internal emails about Microsoft's gaming strategy
It depends on the definition of “nothing.” Typically one would go out on a few dates, typically 3-5, until one of the people (usually the guy, but can sometimes be the woman) confesses. However, any forms of intimacy beyond simple flirtatious gestures are normally considered off-limits until both people agree to be in a relationship, such as kissing and even hand-holding. Granted, I’m speaking in terms of broad cultural norms; individuals may choose to do differently.
Just to check, are you aware that Freenet 2 (formerly Locutus) was created by the same person and has similar goals, but is much more modern?
Yeah, these are pain points for engineer, but not for any product, so there is no priority and space to improvement.
Basically the state is getting to be that almost every game exluding some, which require specific anti-cheat engines, will work.
In some cases it is just a matter of enabling EAC linux support by game publishers.

Future is here!
Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months
Why stop at suing energy producers? Let's sue energy consumers too! Everyone knows their energy consumption contributes to emissions contributes to warming, so aren't consumers similarly liable?

Utterly asinine. One of few legitimate roles of government regulation is to address issues of externalities. This is an issue to address with regulation, not litigation.
They do when there is a certification process. That’s the key to a well defined standard, a certification. The test suite is the real standard.
Yep, exactly. I ask things that I know the answer to, or at least know enough to understand what the right answer is going to look like. I just can’t recall the specifics or am busy thinking through something else. It’s basically just an assistant, saving me the time of digging through official docs, searching previous project code, my own notes, etc.
Maybe tie in the ESP BOX as an open-ish Alexa like Willow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35948462
Really? The SEC chair resigned two days ago and nobody else has reported it?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/gary-gensler-resigns-ai-gener...

False rumors have again been spreading over the resignation of United States Securities and Exchange chair Gary Gensler — this time, however, artificial intelligence has seemingly played a part.

On July 1, a news story appeared on a website dubbed “thecryptoalert.com” claiming that SEC chair Gary Gensler had “submitted his resignation following an internal investigation," citing an anonymous official.

However, Cointelegraph found the article’s text scores high on third-party AI-detector ZeroGPT, scoring 96.8%, signaling a high degree of AI text generation.

The website also appears to be very new, with only 17 posts in total, the first of which appears on June 22nd. Most of these articles also appear to make heavy use of artificial intelligence, with all articles scoring about 70% with ZeroGPT.
The problem is how you get those keys, rather, the results of crypto functions on those keys, back to the requesting website. That process, 'Client to Authenticator'[1] relies on the goodwill of the 'Clients', which for all intents and purposes are: Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Windows 10+, iOS, and Android.

Maybe they'll always support cross-platform USB/NFC keys (they probably will), but I don't want an external device(s), especially if I have to remember to set up multiple devices for every site to have redundancy.

[1] https://fidoalliance.org/specifications/download/
You should see if anyone has written any articles about network effects.
I'll start to code my own wayland compositor once the steam client drops its legacy 32bits code which is hardcoded on x11 and GL (and they seem adamant at keeping it), and they have a wayland backend. I'll use Xwayland for the old games without a wayland backend... if any...
I mentioned publicity as a dimension of what made them excellent but it's not the only thing. Direct appreciation combined with salary increments are an excellent reward. You have nothing to regret and should be proud of your efforts.
I'd also (re-)add: film is just one part of a transmission process.

Film has to be developed into something. And that's a chemical process, which is non-linear. Developer, the bath you put film in to activate the still blank but exposed reel, to turn the grains into actual "developed" photo, is a complex and local analog process. "Developer" is expended while developing film & becomes less effective at developing, creating a much stronger local contrast across pictures in a natural chemical way.

There's a pretty complex Shannon Information Theory system going on here, which I'm not certain how to model. There's maybe a information->transmit->medium->receive->information model between the scene and the film. Then an entirely separate information->transmit->medium->recieve->information model between the undeveloped scene and what actually shows up when you "develop" the film.

As you say, there are quite a variety of film types with different behaviors. https://github.com/t3mujin/t3mujinpack is set of Darktable presets to emulate various types of film. But the behavior of the film is still only half of the process. As I said in my previous post, developing the film is a complex chemical process, with lots of local effects for different parts of the image. There's enormous power here. https://filmulator.org/ is an epic project, that, in my view, is incredibly applicable to almost all modern digital photography, that could help us so much, to move beyond raw data & help us appreciate scenes more naturally. It's not "correct" but my personal view is the aesthetic is much better, and it somewhat represents what the human eye does anyways, with it's incredible ability to comprehend & view dynamic range.
this post is going to age poorly. The energy transition has been accelerating, and we’ve recently hit the point where, in more and more cases, it’s cheaper to switch to renewable than to maintain the legacy infrastructure. We’re already at the tipping point.

We used to see articles all the time about “paperless office? but everyone prints out their emails” and that was true until it suddenly wasn’t.
Aerodynamics is one reason. But most riders are not in the Tour de France or in any context where it makes a difference. More pragmatically for us mere mortal cyclists, you can massage your muscles, clean off dirt, treat wounds, apply sunscreen, etc without getting tangled up in nasty leg hair. At some point it's just a hygiene thing.
I stopped trusting Google Authenticator several years ago when I realized it had no syncing, backup, or even device transfer functionality whatsoever. A quick test made me realize that if anything happened to my device, I would just lose all of my 2FA keys with no way to recover them. I also then realized that if anything happened to the app (which apparently has a couple of times throughout its existence), I’d have the same problem.

I migrated to Authy because it at least has syncing and backup functionality. Sure, it’s less secure, and I should probably self-host somehow for the best security/stability assurances, but Authy seems to work pretty well for what I need it for.
Both ccTLDs fall into the same category of "small company that sold out / got sold out to a scammy sorta-free-domains service", and both of them carry the same stigma as a result.
I also note that he doesn't even attempt to quantify how much was spent on hydrocarbons in the same time frame (as far as I can tell, investment in oil and gas was at least 2x in renewables in 2019, and I suspect that multiple would get a lot higher further back), and that the timeframe chosen is quite long to spread out the recent gains in renewables over as long a time as possible while giving hydrocarbons longer to stack up an increase.
If you’re going to be investing much time and energy into AI/ML on your GPU, I urge you to consider going the nvidia route rather than an AMD GPU. (CPU-wise, either AMD or Intel is just fine.) Using ROCm instead of CUDA may be possible, but it’s unloved, unsupported on consumer hardware, doesn’t even build with PyTorch at its current minor version, and generally a frustrating time-suck.

The proprietary nvidia driver situation is unfortunate, and if you’re sufficiently driven off by it, ROCm can work, sometimes, eventually. But do consider the effort and time it’ll cost.
(Not to mention the electricity bill..)
Thank you for this update on the situation our world finds itself in.

For anyone with a sense of honesty we all are consciously (and for a few, subconsciously) aware the Syria-style false op being conducted by the kleptocrat backed regime because their counteroffensive has been an unmitigated disaster (19,500 troop losses, 1,400 losses in equipment, and 88 ammunition depots) after genociding about a third of a million of their own men, please take a moment this week to reflect and ask yourself whether you are truly on the side of Good, or whether you have been mislead by the side of Evil, or whether you more side with the latter. For some this is actually really not a simple and trivial matter (tens of million$ worth of conditioning and the amount of psychological operations that have been ongoing since at least 2013).

On a more positive note, at least after the shutdown of normally open public radiological data sources in Poland following the detonation Sunak's DU into the troposhere, we seem to be heading back towards supporting open data. Hopefully mass spectrometry chemical element and isotope data will also be open for the public.
AFAICT you’d either have to pass the length at runtime somehow, or treat the function as a generic/template and generate a separate version for each separate N it’s called with. The latter would be pretty far from the ethos of C, imo.
It seems like AMD's power savings just doesn't compete with Intel. I'm a few generations out of date, but my computer setup idles at ~200W, whereas a few-generations-older Intel HEDT that it replaced idled near 50W. Not turning my computer off at night costs $14 a month!

(BTW, monitors will get you. With my monitors on reading HN, I'm burning 400W!)
I wish Alma, Rocky - or preferably both — would just fork. i.e. create a roughly parallel stable distribution in the approximate style of RHEL.

For my use case, I’d just be interested in the server side stuff, but I don’t know how important desktops are for the RHEL styled distros.

But just in case, I’ve started practicing on Debian 12.
I know many in the US that fluoride treatments that are ridden with fillings. I think you have a tooth shape and oral microbiome, that is resistant to cavities, rather than the fluoride treatments. How can we know what the provided the benefit based on n=1?

Also General Jack D Ripper has concerns about the impact to P.O.E. ;)
(in the US) renewables overtake coal for the first time: "Wind and solar sources produced a combined 252 terawatt-hours in the first five months of 2023, compared with coal's output of 249 TWh,"

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/renewable-energy/wi...
Indeed, the reason for the talk of transition is the combination of the cost of renewables becoming extremely attractive and the corresponding takeoff of adoption, which is currently still quite exponential. It's a prediction of where we're going, not a description of the last 18 years.
>The only reason people don't see this is because they weren't around back then. It's not going to be different this time.

There are people who've been around who think it's going to be different this time.

Look it's fine if you don't. Maybe you'll be right and they'll be wrong but this "anyone who disagrees is ignorant" rhetoric is uncalled for. You shouldn't need to result to ad hominems.
I don’t think we should treat it like they have a deadly weapon, but at the same time, cars are incredibly deadly at the best of times. A 17 year old trying to escape from law enforcement in a stolen vehicle is a significant danger to the public, regardless of if they have violent intentions. Apparently before the police had managed to stop the vehicle in the video in question he had nearly run down a pedestrian and a bicyclist while fleeing. I obviously don’t think people should just be shot, but I also think it’s insane to just let someone fleeing in a vehicle have free range. I’m not sure what the solution is.
You can't download apps on your phone without logging into a FAANG account in the app store.
All of that is true, but I don't think it's a realistic concern. You're going to be sharding your data across multiple nodes before it gets that large. Nobody wants to sit around backing up or restoring a monolithic 256 TiB database.
The Khmelnytskyi Mother's day weekend event that happened in the early hours of dawn, for anyone not closely following this.
If you have to walk the string anyway, the null terminator has no downside.
Yeah— the distinction strikes me as vestigial.
I think most of the time people really want a sum type, NOT a tuple. i.e. you can get back either a value OR an error, but not both. In Go, there's the pattern of returning nil, err, which is a hint that we really want a sum type there.

> In most languages that don't support multiple return values, both problems are solvable with templates or local equivalent

I don't really see the difference between tuples in C++ and multiple return values in Go (since you cite C++ as a language that doesn't have multiple return values).

val, err := do_something()

or

auto [val, err] = do_something();

What's the real difference there? Syntactic sugar?
Honest question, not meaning to disagree with you: how do you view previous predictions of the success of AI, such as Marvin Minsky predicting in the 60s that AI “would substantially be solved in a generation”? What reasons would there be that the experts are correct this time?
I think you make a good point. Anecdotally, I haven't yet found a good use for it in my workflow, despite trying. A few shell scripts, but mostly my existing workflow has proven more effective.

I am keeping up with the technology, though, to see how it evolves.
The author cites the BNEF energy transition investment trends report a few times, and I encourage everybody to flip through it. It contains many interesting facts, and you certainly have to take an extremely skewed view to arrive at the same conclusions as the author: https://about.bnef.com/energy-transition-investment/

Notably, the banner fact that 2022 was the first year - ever - where global investment in renewables equalled investment in fossil fuels[1]. This was primarily championed by China, which produced one of the most astonishing graphs I've seen in recent times[2]. It entirely upended how I view leadership on this issue and what countries are taking it remotely seriously. Canada isn't even in the top 10!

Anyway, given that - again - this is the first time ever that investment in renewables has matched investment in fossil fuels, it is not surprising that fossil fuel usage has continued to grow.

[1] https://imgur.com/B2QBY6u

[2] https://imgur.com/OlMAKVd
A multi-cryptocurrency payment system would be the perfect solution for online payments but unfortunately nobody has figured out how to solve the double-bullet problem which stands in the way of mass adoption.
Lets start naming PC as Phone Computer.
This is another cool example of a toy database that is again very small:

> The database size for one warehouse is
approximately 100 MB (we experiment with five warehouses for
a total size of 500MB).

It is not surprising that when your database basically fits in RAM, serializing on one writer is worth doing, because it just plainly reduces contention. You basically gain nothing in a DB engine from multi-writer transactions when this is the case. A large part of a write (the vast majority of write latency) in many systems with a large database comes from reading the index up to the point where you plan to write. If that tree is in RAM, there is no work here, and you instead incur overhead on consistency of that tree by having multiple writers.

I'm not suggesting that these results are useless. They are useful for people whose databases are small because they are meaningfully better than RocksDB/LevelDB which implicitly assume that your database is a *lot* bigger than RAM.
Among other things, it's better than "join our disc*rd"
Are there really much of a difference in terms of emissions? I would agree gas is much better than burning coal in terms of health, but it is only ~50% of emissions, not even an order of magnitude.

The main takeaway for me is that nuclear isn’t getting enough press time because the prevailing view is that renewables are so successful, which he is arguing is essentially propaganda not supported by the numbers.
Ever considered cloud gaming?

I built dozens of gaming desktops as a kid and young adult, but lately the time demands of adulthood means it's hard to keep up with the latest trends. Like you I got sick of fighting Windows just to launch Steam. But I also had numerous bad experiences with desktop Linux, and with not wanting to deal with Proton and Wine. When I want to relax I just want to get in a quick game for an hour or two, not go through a ton of driver updates etc.

To that end, GeForce Now has been... no pun intended... game changing. It works miraculously well, and has almost top of the line hardware. Paired with my ultrawide QHD screen, most games run beautifully. Shooters are out due to the input lag (small but definitely noticeable) but all the other genres feel fantastic. No fan noise, no heat, no giant tower taking up space, no worrying about upgrades... It's an amazing service at a terrific price point. I have a Mac but just plug in a Windows keyboard and mouse and it works flawlessly. Same with an Xbox controller.

People pooh poohed cloud gaming for so long, but these days it's so easy and seamless I'm honestly worried about the future of the gaming PC market. Nvidia seems well on their way to providing data center and AI cards and just renting games as a service. (Honestly, that's fine with me...).
Yeah, it was a very shallow read. This read to me like AI generated content and not so,etching written by someone with hands on experience deploying honeypots or tokens.
Remote work options are something I often hear people refer to as a negotiable thing these days. But how does that work?

Successful remote work is a function of company culture. Assuming you are allowed to work remote more than your peer how are you going to create a successful culture?
I think its anxiety. A transfer near home is safe maybe even familiar. A transfer far away feels risky, even dangerous, where mishaps could be more likely.
Freenet: created by Ian Clarke in 1999

Freenet 2023: created by Ian Clarke in 2022-2023

Honestly I find it difficult to sympathize with people who get so attached to a system that they can't deal with being labeled as using the old version when the creator of that system wants to improve it 20 years later.

He has similar broad goals for the new system and I say every right to use the name. Why would people get so bent out of shape about being Freenet 1.0 and having a 2.0 exist now?

It would be different if the other developers involved with Freenet over the years had significantly modernized it or created a new paradigm, but that's not the case.

When people fail to adapt it makes me think they have cognitive limitations.
Is part of the game trying to figure out what the objective is?
Robert Bryce has spent his entire career pooh-poohing solar and wind, and is a paid mouthpiece for the natural gas industry.

He advocates increased fracking on public lands and a curtailing of environmental reviews.
> Eh? This was 20% random writes, 80% random reads. LMDB is for read-heavy workloads.

The page says "updates," not "writes." Updates are a constrained form of write where you are writing to an existing key. Updates, importantly, do not affect your index structure, while writes do.

> No, that is normal for a B+tree; the root page and most of the branch pages will always be in cache. This is why you can get excellent efficiency and performance from a DB without tuning to a specific workload.

It is normal for a small B+tree relative to the memory size available on the machine. The "small" was the unrepresentative part of the benchmark, not the "B+tree."