skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are mountains of people doing what you do and complaining about alarmism and fear mongering and chiding people for apocalyptic predictions any time this subject comes up. I think that's worse than unhelpful, and is a disservice to everyone that lives after us. People are sounding the alarms and making dire predictions because there is so far 0 indication that as a global society we can cooperate well enough to prevent serious and irreparable harm to Earth's ecosystems and a great deal of consequent human suffering. We just barely, as a species, managed to contain ourselves well enough to not blow up in a nuclear light show. Peace is a fragile stalemate, not a lack of desire to destroy each other. If you ask me, there's no hope of an adequate change of inertia to prevent unprecedented human suffering stemming from AGW, and that's in large part because people would rather ignore it and stay comfortable. Toning down the alarmism does nothing to fix that.
The prospect of solving this with AI dreads me.

Luckily we don't need to construct solution out of the most recent hype, we can pick previous instead.

Imagine convenient crypto wallet app that you always has with you on your phone. And you have two options to make an appointment:
* Pay upfront total cost of an appointment. You receive NFT that indicates you appointment. To cancel appointment just send it back to receive your payment depreciated according to the time you hold the appointment NFT.
* Or you may validate your identity by logging in to the clinic website with your crypto wallet. If you hold enough identity proving NFTs issued by various government agencies, you are eligible to make an appointment.

I feel like half of the required pieces already exist. We just need to connect the dots.
Yes. Absolutely. Many jobs at that, not necessarily related to the immediate discussion at hand, but many occupations require physical ability.
https://mssv.net

Writing about games and technology, with the occasional sci-fi short story and politics thrown in.

https://adrianhon.substack.com

I play a newish game every week and talk about its mechanics, game design, and what makes it interesting.
On Semaphores
Fairly low-level exploration of semaphores, and how Semaphore(n=1) is different from a Mutex. (WIP status - validating content)
From part of the injunction:

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the following actions are NOT prohibited by this Preliminary Injunction:

1. informing social-media companies of postings involving criminal activity or criminal conspiracies;

2. contacting and/or notifying social-media companies of national security threats, extortion, or other threats posted on its platform;

etc.

I worry about that 2nd one creating a loophole. A lot of nefarious activity can be loosely justified as "for national security reasons." Why wouldn't the 1st set of actions be sufficient? Are there national security threats that aren't already criminalized?
Care to elaborate? I haven't had the pleasure of checking Mastodon out. (You're talking about that, right?) And also, which instance are you talking about?
"You will have to worry about people who are using AI replacing you"

Oh yes. I should be very very afraid of the flying copypasta monster. As if my productivity is reduced to the mere rate at which I can write code! What's even project planning? Why even have meetings if it's all down to "is it done yet"? Who works at these coding sweatshops that are so afraid of AI? If they get fired and find a better place to work, that's a win.
You don't think women might trade tirades about men when having off the record conversation with just two of them in the cockpit? People vent, it doesn't mean much by itself. If he had a fight with a male copilot, he may have had a different tirade.
Happy'ish. There are always things that could be better, but there are also for damn sure a lot of things that could be worse!

I would say that when I'm "in my head" myopically focuses on my own internal drives and desires I can find room to say I'm less than fully happy, because there are plenty of things I still want to (have|do|see|accomplish|whatever). But when I step back and look at things in perspective, while my life isn't perfect, I can see that A. I've (done|seen|had|accomplished|whatever) quite a lot the things I wanted in life, and B. there are lots of people out there who would probably see me as "successful" and would be happy to trade places with me. So yeah.. on balance, I'm not unhappy, but I'm still striving for things. Definitely not in some Zen state of enlightenment or whatever.
Pathologist finds €500k ‘floating gold’ in dead whale in Canary Islands
That condition is not in the spirit or commonly accepted definition of open source.
There are tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of land based weather stations, bouys and floats, weather balloons, radiosondes, observatories, and satellites around the world that form a lot of different sensor networks like Argo, ASOS, AWOS, etc. operated by a bunch of government agencies around the world. The World Meteorological Organization at the UN coordinates the sharing of all this data and there are too many players to list but the most important global datasets produced by the US are the GHCN v4 for land and ERSST v5 for sea.

Each organization creates their own models and often compare with each other but most methods start by defining a grid that divides the planet, then use a model to estimate the average temperature for each cell given available sensor data. Many cells, especially in the middle of the ocean, don't have any direct measurements so have to be filled in using satellite based estimates or kriging (interpolation). They average over all of the grid cells in each hemisphere separately then apply some sort of formula to account for the fact that the northern hemisphere has significantly better coverage.

It's not the most precise calculation and what most people are looking for is the rate of change over time using the same model and dataset (which are also versioned based on changes in methodology).
This is why I suspect most cloud certifications are garbage. Most often they are just teaching you their product offerings. Even the implementation details aren't that useful because they change so often.

Compared to something like a Cisco networking certification: The CCNA will cover practical use of their products, sure, but they're also going to teach you subnetting, both standard and Cisco proprietary routing protocols and how they work, in theory, as well as how to employ them in practice. I've mostly moved on from using Cisco products day to day, but all of the understanding was directly translatable to any other platform I've worked with.
They don't want to use a framework so they wrote their own framework that is most likely shittier and more impossible to debug. Also, now they have to train all their new engineers on their own home-grown shitty/impossible-to-debug framework.
It was almost certainly over-utilization of a low revenue tier that did it.

Cloud companies all make certain claims around bandwidth/CPU/memory/etc. on low tiers, but if you actually fully utilize the tier, they'll almost invariably make your life miserable.

Normally they won't outright boot you (this seems surprising), but your instances will suddenly always be limited to what the Cloud Company considers to be "proper" for the low tier you are paying for--which magically is always much smaller than what they advertise.
No, because I'm sitting in a 95°F apartment because, despite complaining many times over the years I've been here, they refuse to replace the AC unit which is old and seems to have a freon leak.

They've had plenty of money to do lots of cosmetic renovations though, and no wonder since the rent has increased over 25% in four years.
You can work around this somewhat by moving things to external storage and they symlinking it back to the original spot (or so I've heard, I have the top end model and haven't filled it up yet).
The same way you take any temperature... by sampling and then averaging over the samples. Obviously you need to have enough well distributed samples to get a reasonable accuracy, but this is all an old hat.

Btw., I suspect you get that "I don't know what average temperature even means" from some nonsense Ivar Giaever spouted at a presentation that's on YouTube. The simple answer to that is that average temperature means the same thing as temperature, because temperature is always an average that we can only arrive at by sampling (since it represents the average kinetic energy of a volume of particles and you can't meassure each particle's energy individually). Ivar Giavever knows that, but he also knows that people will believe almost anything that comes from him because he has a Nobel Price. After all, his autobiography is titled "I'm the smartest man I know".
Ericsson is a large company with many different products but I didn’t see any usage of ClearCase when I was there. It was mostly git, C++, etc. Some product was written in Erlang but most weren’t (what I know of at least)
Yup, for me I cancelled my YouTube Premium subscription—which I had been happy to pay—because of YouTube shorts. They were constantly pushing them in the mobile app, and sometimes I would succumb and click on one, and then often lose several hours to scrolling. Skill issue, I know, but when I went looking for a way to disable them in the UI I found there isn't one. I ended up feeling like it was a adversarial relationship—they're using dark patterns to hijack my attention to increase their engagement metrics, to my loss—so why would I pay them? I installed NewPipe and subscribed to the creators I watch regularly on Patreon and I'm very happy with this setup.
One brings traffic to the original work, supporting its creators. The other takes uses the creators' labour without giving anything in return.
And also two days ago. Only 1 reply though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570112
LibreOffice is a perfectly functional spreadsheet for basic spreadsheet tasks. It is, however, not in the same league as Excel for more advanced spreadsheet tasks. Sometimes as a user you just want to be able to use the software that works better, you know?
This is just how language evolves, stop gatekeeping it. Most engineers these days have never been near an actual engine, and nor do they have any need to.
You'll need to exhibit character like servant leadership to do well as a doctor.
what legal actions from contributors are you fearing, and how does your CLA protect against that? (btw: i can't find any mention of the CLA on the website or on github)
> Chilling honestly.

There are a couple ways of looking at this, yours is one take.

We can look at it another way. The kind of people with the intelligence and persistence to successfully complete a Ph.D. are disproportionately neurodivergent, IME. You’ll find a lot of people on the spectrum at the upper ranks of academia. Such people lack in dopamine production, and may end up taking medication to deal with that as they are diagnosed during the course of their graduate education, which typically provides access to healthcare and therapy.
Thanks for letting me know. Oh yeah, I can see in the logs that someone was summarizing a 100-page PDF. It slowed things down for a few seconds. All should be well now (I need to tweak the PDF function to prevent this, it seems to cause issues)
Jinja is a templating framework. You can use it with ansible for example, to replace config values or secrets in a configuration file for different servers, etc
Could the linux integration use dax[0] to bypass the page cache and go straight to ARC?

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
> Frameworks bad
Yeah cool!

>We use html and css
sooo hip!

>We use jinja
wait.. what?

>and self-made file-watching static generator that uses python and css-generator

Are you kidding me? That's the real good case of NIH syndrome.
* STL algorithms typically operate on half-open ranges bounded by iterators [first, last). This convention is not used as often in C*

I don’t think this is true. p != end is a very common check in C?

Regarding composition, I suppose it’s kind of true. The string functions in the C standard library for example unfortunately often return null instead of end. I use functions that return end instead, which makes C code much more elegant.
What kind of updates are you looking for? They have an official website with blog posts: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/updates
> mozilla-employee-confidential

With the exception of addressing critical security issues, why does an organization who positions themselves as a leader of open source software make so many user-unfriendly decisions behind closed doors?
Haha. The thought process behind using Go was probably like: "Great! SQLite is written in C. That means I can write my library in Go! And use microservices!"
I'm not sure:

- We might be sitting at a 500M population after the [climate / pandemic / AI / nuclear / system collapse / etc] apocalypse.

- We might be sitting on a terraformed Mars (or in bubbles under the ocean)

- We might be sitting in glass domes in the middle of an increasingly climate-hostile Earth

... and so on. We're very bad at predicting the future; it's hard to pick from thousands of (individually highly unlikely) possibilities.
YouTube could play ads and let me play videos while my phone screen is locked. They could play ads like they used to: a small popup. They could play ads like they did after that: one 5 second pre-roll. Or like after that, a pre-roll with a skip call to action.

But at some point it got into the ballpark of two 10-15 second ads every 5 minutes even on the channels of people who explicitly asked not to turn on monetization because they're making educational content, often for kids and schools. The mobile app nags me with a "try premium" / "skip trial" popup 5 times per week. There are consistently small bugs in the user experience of the app.

Oh, and they're rich as God because they're also the people who own the operating system, browser, app store, and search engine I used to find all this stuff -- plus my email and my productivity software, all of which they will leverage to _squeeze_ every last bit the juice out of me as a user. They own all my data already. They own everything.

So, what is the "principled stand"? Enough is a goddamned enough! If they were just going to show some ads, it would be fine, but like every single parasitic horror show out there, they promised they'd be good and they cannot stop getting worse.

At the very least, I can choose not to pay them $12/month for the privilege.
https://tiberriver256.github.io
> people who do PhD are not actually very assertive on their own and they have very impaired cooperation skills

Where exactly are you pulling this from? That has not been my experience, both from my research lab and from other students I've met at a variety of conferences.
https://headlinedev.xyz

still figuring it out
So what are you testing for in this interview?

Is it:

Demonstrate to me you meet our hiring skill level by working on the problem.

or:

Find the best solution to this problem, get $200k/year
> I don't think removing the parser will take you across the finish line if you otherwise were running out of steam.

Everyone's different. The problem with parsing isn't the difficulty, but rather the potential for endless bikeshedding. You're having to make a ton of opinionated decisions that in turn produce more questions about your syntax. If your personality is like mine in that it's a bit obsessive "completing" a phase, then parsing feels like an endless quagmire. In comparison, AST -> type inference -> codegen feels more structured and straightforward.
Wikipedia hosts people's hard work and makes it available to the world.

Search engines help connect people to the things they want. At least they mostly do.

AI inserts itself in the middle and strips the creators of credit, recognition or income.
You watch 50 hours a month. I watch maybe 30 minutes. So it makes a lot more sense and a better value to you, obviously. Would you still be keen to pay if it were say, charge by the hour? I'd probably sign up for something like that, as either my cost would be negligible, or yours would skyrocket.
They literally wrote a blog post about how they're going to use this feature. In what way have they not "specified their plans"?

> I'm an extension developer myself. I'm not ok with a world where a tiny number of lucky extensions get whitelisted, while my extension and everyone else's extensions get silently, remotely disabled by Firefox

Ah, now I see the real concern.

Honestly, I'm not that sympathetic. Extensions have always been a potential security liability and anything that protects less savvy users when accessing online banking or other sensitive services is a good thing.

Heavy extension use is the hallmark of a power user. Power users can configure Firefox to enable these extensions (Mozilla has specifically said they plan to deliver more user controls in 116), so I personally don't see the problem.
My first real exposure to programming was scientific programming in Matlab and basic C++ in an electrical engineering course. (Went to college 06-10). Interestingly I hated them both so much I switched majors out of Computer and Electrical engineering track to Biomedical Engineering.

Fast forward to today and I’m now a Data Engineer with a good bit of software experience under my belt writing code every day (mainly Python and JavaScript). Wouldn’t want to be doing anything else.

Not sure why my first exposure turned me off so much, certainly think back to that time and wish I had stuck it out but then again I am plenty happy where I am now.
https://tomasdiblik.cz/pages/blog

It ain't much, but it's honest work
Not until they go into effect
> writing compilers is a really neat and useful learning project but you have to be smart about not biting off more than you can chew.

Writing compilers is an especially useful project when you learn roughly how much you can chew. (Algol 68 is a nice example of a bunch of smart people, with relevant domain expertise, biting off way too much for the machines of the time.)
Do you have anything specific to add to the conversation? Immediately starting off taking away things is a not so good start.
Eh I prefer their approach. Instagram already has too much crap in it, so adding a twitter clone into it would just be one more thing to bulk up Instagram, and from the Threads point of view, I'd like a new Twitter clone to be simple and dedicated, not a feature slapped onto the side of the Instagram app.

It seems this thing's only real association to Instagram is that you use your IG account to login, and they already have your social graph to import if you want to.
There are huge trees everywhere in São Paulo. Billboards would block the view of some of that gorgeous green. Nature doesn't exist just in national parks.
Yeah, such is the effect of "jigsaw puzzling" hundreds of papers to get a feel for a field. One had better be really interested to come into dialogue with others' observations, and not have it be trite. Philosophically, scientific idealism instead of materialism is one possible way forward as the sense/relationship of self-other evolves.
To the first point: If we assumed this is a dichotomy, which would you prefer? The government banning social media from all minors' devices? Some MDM that disabled it by force during certain hours, requiring intrusive software?

Or, that we remove the problem by removing the tool entirely and without inspecting the devices contents?

You talk about using computers properly, which is a noble goal, but the banning of phones in classrooms has multiple reasons behind it. One of which is the belief that social media and smartphone games are addictive. Should we teach kids how to smoke cigarettes responsibly during their lunch break?
Apache 2 doesn't require that companies are charged. It's proper open source (meets all the criteria of the Open Source Definition).
In 2005 maybe
Choice quotes from the ruling:

https://innovationnation.blog/p/this-ruling-is-huge-155-page...
Then you and your acquaintances are unusual. In my experience, the left-leaning people are pushing for more digital learning. In my country, every left-leaning political party has it as a part of their program. In EU, there's an entire left-wing party based around digital stuff (Pirate).
I always start with the AST and just work forward and backward from there.
About that negative 18 degrees for equilibrium, does that take into account the heat radiating from within the earth as well? Radioactive decay, the core is quite hot.
Your startup idea probably isn’t venture-scale
The market often doesn't know what it wants until it taste's something. I'm wary of any true 'formula' for creating art. It must be hard for artists to be heard (ironically given our digital age). Patreon is a good model?
https://joisig.com
Fun game! Thanks to the provider.
Why lug it to the school when the school could have them ready in classrooms, just as mine did?
I will work for you, not with you, as the loyalty of your company is non existent. I worked for many start ups, and enjoyed working on that type of challenges, but I am always aware loyalty is non existent. It is a red flag if company talks about "we are a family" or "work with us".
I'm also not a much fan of 'creative' as a noun for much of the same reasons. I feel this way about how we commonly use 'talent' to mean - "They are magically gifted in ways that are innate", as if they rolled 18's in all their stats, and not "This person has achieved a level of skill that is remarkable."
I've got all of HN in SQLite if anyone else wants to play. You'd wanna hydrate into something better.

Share on Torrent maybe? Like 640MiB per year.
Amazon generally has some of the most competitive prices and competing with them is a major factor in preventing other retailers from charging more. The evil to be prevented is poor people having to pay more for stuff, so how would that help?
What exactly is suppose to keep hydrogen cars from being developed?

Better question --- What keeps hydrogen from being a commercially viable energy source?

Short answer: Economics. The same reason you don't (and probably won't) run your home from hydrogen --- because electricity is a much more universal form of energy that can be produced, safely distributed and utilized more easily/cheaply/efficiently.
Another common spot to easily find Megalodon and other large shark teeth is the Savannah River just past the shipping ports. The river dredging from a few years ago created a few new “islands” where shark teeth are plentiful.
It's US data. To claim it is racist and censor it is exactly the problem.
DMA applies only to gatekeeper companies, of which there's less than 20. It doesn't apply to Mastodon instances.

Further, interoperability concerns messaging apps, not social media apps.
I don't think you can downplay how huge the scale of this was. It's a 155 page ruling destroying the federal government's actions.
I agree. Yes, it’s a “framework” but it easily outputs static sites that work fine without JS enabled, you don’t need to know any Svelte to use it (but it’s there if you want it), Tailwind works out of the box, and deploying it to eg Netlify is dead simple (much easier than FTP).

If you ask me, it’s the best static site builder right now, and a lot simpler than what’s described in this article.
Quote from that page :

“ This page provides time series and map visualizations of daily mean 2-meter air temperature from the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) version 2 (April 2011 – present) and CFS Reanalysis (January 1979 – March 2011). CFS/CFSR is a numerical climate/weather modeling framework that ingests surface, radiosonde, and satellite observations to estimate the state of the atmosphere at hourly time resolution onward from 1 January 1979. The horizontal gridcell resolution is 0.5°x0.5° (~ 55km at 45°N). Temperature anomalies are in reference to 1979–2000 climatology for each specific day of the year.”