skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lappen’s taxonomy also suggests a more philosophical way of looking at these disagreements as reflecting two fundamentally different worldviews: a human-centered view of environmental problems versus a neopastoralist one that emphasizes the interests of nature as distinct from humanity.

The obvious(?) resolution of this dichotomy is that humans are not distinct from nature and our interests are identical. I mean, you believe in evolution, right?

More precisely, there are no "interests of nature". The phrase is meaningless. Nature has no goals. Life (living biomass) is a chemical tautology.

(As an aside, I like to point out that you cannot measure the efficiency of life because it has no goals.)

The problem here isn't some conflict between Human and Nature: we are natural.

The problem is that we have become only partially self-aware as a species, and therefore only partially aware of the world around us. The very moment we began to actually examine the living world around us (the science of ecology) is the moment we as a species began to figure out how it works and how to work with it.
Do you think you could articulate any of them? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, however incomplete they may be.
> Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it.

I don’t know anyone with a “For you” tab like that. What’s the explanation? Are you engaging with that kind of content?
But what percent of the work force is in a professional field? And is that true of all professions or is this another software bubble?
Indeed, we seem to be in the age of binary thinking. Maybe it's always been this way and I am mostly now noticing, but it is quite maddening.
The triad is "cheap, good and fast" - and the motto is "choose two".
Generally I layer podcasts on top of work that doesn't involve auditory processing, such as driving, grocery shopping, working out, laundry, etc. If you target those moments in your life when your hands and 'physical brain' are occupied, but your 'language brain' isn't, even busy folks can find time for this. It also helps to listen at a speed higher than 1.0.

Some people can do this during nearly all of their working time due to the nature of their work - welders, truck drivers, landscapers, etc. IE, not thought laborers. I think it's something of an untapped market for audio content to focus on these folks.
I'm so happy I have no debt.

Had $20k of student debt at one point. After that experience, I decided to live mostly without debt.

The only exception might be a mortgage of 25-33% of a house value, I'd put 75-66% in cash.
That doesn't sound very liberal. ("Liberal" meaning "in favor of freedom for people".) It doesn't even sound very politically liberal, meaning "in favor of peoples' right to protest injustice" and "in favor of peoples' right to not be shot dead by police".

Isn't "order" the concern of the conservatives?

I've heard a number of times that politically left and right mean different things in Europe; is this one of those situations?
It's funny, I met the two co-creators of Godot at GDC this year and they both pronounce it differently. So there may never be a consensus!
Wow, not only is this absolutely worthless content, but it's blatantly wrong. They don't even have someone doing a 30-second skim before they publish these.
> Right, and until this happens these systems are not HITL.

You're drawing the system line strangely and making the choice about "in the loop" strangely.

A human decided to hook it up to a plugin with their Github credentials and to allow it to do actions without pre-approval. A human was still in the loop because the human then didn't like what it did and disconnected it. It only did a single action, rather than the kinds of scripting mistakes that I've seen that can do hundreds, but it still wasn't a very sane default for that plugin.

Is my cruise control HITL? It does not ask for my pre-approval before speeding up or slowing down.
It has nothing to do with reality it is just something new to write about, before it was everyone is quitting now it is everyone is not quitting.
Yeah, I was not at ease with this kind of stuff but I more and more like it.

I'm hesitating between using a fully XML compliant code to be able to automatically spot stupid mistakes thanks to the parser, or this. If I'm not validating the XML I don't see much point in writing these extra tags. It's just less data to transfer. Compression is a thing but still.

I do see one point: the version with the extra tags is closer to the actual representation of the document in the browser. You have to explain to newcomers that a full DOM with html, head and body elements will be rendered even if they are not present in the source code, with consequences for CSS and JavaScript to style and manipulate the document. The speech is just easier when the source matches the DOM.

For the missing tag endings, it requires quite deeper knowledge about parsing HTML to read a document. It's clear that it makes taking notes faster, but the code is perhaps less clear to someone who has not read it. Still a bit hesitant on this.

Nitpick: you might need <meta charset=utf8> before the title.
They don't have any backdoor and they don't mandate ones. This is meant for using zero days legally
"A remote eventuality" my ass, I bet that's the primary reason behind the push.
I want to add it to a app so how do I convert that to api after fideling with it
https://www.rvrx.dev/blog/
Early career Dev, just redid my website and started my blog. Newest post was on implementing a safe Wireguard Kill-Switch on Ubuntu
In my years of arguing with people online (#xkcd386), I notice that those who resort to metaphors and analogies often have the least convincing arguments. Metaphors are great when you're explaining a difficult concept (of which you've attained a satisfactory level of understanding) to a willing listener, but it's really easy to enter the slippery slope you mentioned if the correctness of something is in dispute.

These days when I see a argument based on metaphor, I just ... disengage.
My first reaction to your comment was that it was probably missing a "/s" at the end.

Rationale - I last did HTML when Netscape Navigator/ Communicator was still around. IIRC, usual discussion among us college students was how MS IE encouraged bad programming practices by ignoring (many?) unclosed tags, whereas Netscape wasn't as forgiving.

I've not seen much HTML since then (I definitely plan to, now). Your comment brought back some fond memories. Thank you! And mind blown.
I'm curious what the naysayers of global warming (especially the big oil?) are saying now, who kept saying all good? What's their excuse now?

"Bye I'm going to bunker that I built using $$$ from making earth hotter"?
Perhaps read(or reread) it? There is literally nothing in there which "bans any and all communication among millions of citizens".
Well if you are under 60, you will find out seen enough when people from southern regions start migrating north in mass and you have constant power outages due to high demand for AC.

Where I am, when young, we never had heat like this in June/July. And in the winters the lakes would freeze enough for you to drive on. I have been unable to walk on frozen lakes for at least 10 years, never mind drive. So everyone, keep driving your SUVs :)
So ours has a manufacture date and I know people look at it and if it's older than 3-4 years they won't buy it off you, but as far as I can see that advice isn't anywhere in the manual of the seat. Maybe some seats "expire" in some way, but it sounds like an urban myth.
Give up yer phones.

Will it become illegal to be phoneless person, or will it just make such people into an untouchable caste?
Because it is a disaster of our own creation which we can mitigate if we take it seriously. If people start taking it seriously maybe we can quite talking about it.
I am continually frustrated by climate doomerism by people who aren't willing to make the lifestyle changes that would be requiring to stop using so much oil.

We don't have enough raw materials in the world to replace the current oil grid with wind and solar, and nuclear requires a top-tier industrial society operating at peace for thousands of years to ensure there's no risk of catastrophic failure or radiation leakage.

Instead activists like to blame the usual suspects (Exxon, BP, etc.) without asking themselves what all of this oil is getting used for. International shipping, plastic, jet fuel, auto fuel, industrial lubricant, diesel for agriculture. I know people who will go to a climate protest on Thursday and get on a plane to visit Costa Rica for fun on Friday. Climate activism at the popular level is a virtue-signalling game. If we want to stop emissions we need to turn the global economy and its consumer activity into a smoking hole and keep it that way for centuries. And concurrently we need to transition to wind, solar, and nuclear.
Thanks! Good discussion follows this comment, thank you :)
Quite incorrect. Defamation is a tort, not a crime. It's legal.

Criminal defamation laws in the US have been repeatedly struck down as unconstitutional, not by absolutists but by lots of normal working judges.
The court clearly found that wrongly because they do say that there are other non first amendment protected speech that the government can indeed suppress on social media.

It’s just these few non first amendment protected items that the court is ideologically opposed to that the government cannot suppress.
That sounds utterly amazing.

I think a big low hanging fruit on windows at least is to make single programs asynchronous to be more tolerate to various delays.

I.e. if you open a folder it should not wait until every single hard drive has spun up to be responsive. What if all I want is the recent access top option loaded from NVMe?
It sounds like you only care about problems that affect you very directly, which is pretty short-sighted. There are many climate-related problems that are affecting people already in Central America (no rain, can't farm, so they're walking north), the northern US and California (wildfires and wildfire smoke), the Midwest (aquifers depleted, rendering farmland less valuable), Florida (sinkholes from aquifer depletion, flooding in streets, no they can't just build a dike). It's a pretty multi-factorial problem and it's unfortunate that the interpretation here seems to be pretty simplistic.

Your does point out something, though, that really really bugs me from climate activists/politicians. The idea that you have to "believe" in climate change, like you'd believe in religious proclamations. I don't give a sh*t if you believe -- and making this ideological creates tribes where one group is like "I believe climate change isn't happening/is God's will/is natural, so I will run my F150's AC with the windows open and breathe in exhaust proudly because internal combustion and burning oil is what God has ordained as the pinnacle of human achievement". Belief whatever. I'm much more interested in action. Why does it seem good to some people to... just waste resources without much return? Irresponsibly manage our farmlands for short-term profit vs long-term yield? pin success to ownership of fossil fuels in specific places rather than a more flexible and less geopolitically fraught paradigm? There are a lot of visible problems to address, to your point, efitz.
NAND life is where it's at.
Or the manufacturers will just not sell their phones in France. Ultimately it’s the French citizens that will miss out.
Not when your are a government official demanding that political speech be censored.
> And most cops are trying to do the right thing.

Citation needed.

The slogan may be counterproductive to achieving its stated aim, but it's also opening the ol' Overton window to a range of possibilities beyond the usual vague but well-funded "reform". If that's what it takes to get a marketplace of ideas, I'd say it's productive.
> It appears there is a reallocation going on in the economy.

There's a reallocation going on all right. From more middle class people to more poor people.
Demands are free speech, even if unreasonable. The First Amendment constrains the application of the power of law, like prosecution and imprisonment. Which is not what happened in these cases.
It's funny how close your example are to S-expressions, just replace the pointy brackets with round parenthesis and move the closing one to the end:

(table
(tr
(td one)
(td two)
(td three))
(tr
(td another table)
(td with more stuff)))
A dumb phone might not be much better. There wouldn't be a camera for them to get, but they might still be able to get the microphone.
Mine may or may not qualify as a "personal blog." It is running on blogging software (Wordpress) and I am a person, but our content is more magazine-like than blog-like. In any case, it can be found at https://www.damninteresting.com. Established 2005.
Ignorant question, but where is ATI in the AI/ML space? I only ever hear about NVidia and it's Cuda.
Part of their problem is that they aren’t.

But they should be just text files with pointers to non-text things.

Creating a proprietary format just because is an unnecessary complexity and cost.

I used Evernote for 5-10 years and had thousands of notes. I had maybe 10-20 photographs or diagrams mixed in, but mostly it was text.

Not sure how common my use is, but they kept adding stuff I didn’t want. And it’s now a “free” feature in Apple notes, onenote and countless others.

I think the difference is that Microsoft and Apple are just trying to find efficient ways to store data in their cloud storage. Evernote was trying to find ways to make customers pay for note taking.
Next you're going to tell me we need daily meetings in the morning, after lunch, and before closing...
Most of those millions of lines of code are drivers which are largely irrelevant factor here. The actual core Linux is, while still large, significantly smaller and tighter codebase
Population in Syria has more than quadrupled between 1960 and 2010, so they had to feed four times the people from the same area of not very fertile land. Are you sure climate change had a greater destabilizing effect? If so, please explain.
Bugs are never OK. Slow delivery, though? That depends on what you mean by "slow delivery". I happen to think that the trend of rapid release has been pretty awful for software product and service quality, so if "slow delivery" is the absence of that, I think it's desirable.

Bugs are inevitable, but that doesn't make them OK.

But that's not the point the article is making. They're talking about whether or not bugs and slow delivery will break a company. Obviously it won't, because both have been a part of what the industry releases since the start.
I've got the point, thank you so much.

I'll dig on snapshots which I always ignored
TySON: TypeScript Object Notation. Use TS as an embeddable config language.
JSON + types + functions using TypeScript syntax. Makes it possible to use TypeScript as a configuration language for applications written in `go`, and soon `rust` and other major languages.
Seems pretty clear to me that they’re looking for a shorter form than what a podcast normally provides.
You're very lucky, I'd say.

Someone who can put up 66-75% for a desirable home generally is.
Haha yeah I know what you mean.
Also, I recall that the green light on the apple camera is controlled by the camera's firmware, making it more difficult to turn on without the light come on. (You'd need to overwrite the camera firmware.)
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06040-5
If CloudFlare is down, a significant portion of the Internet is down. Not that it's an excuse, but this isn't Microsoft or Apple. I'm sure funds have to be allocated to take into account the likelihood of something being down. But by all means write a blog post and tell them what they're doing wrong and how you'd fix it. Maybe they'll hire you...
> It’s trivially easy to find counterexamples of companies failing because their software products were inferior to newcomers who delivered good results, fast development, and more stable experience. Startups fail all the time because their software isn’t good enough or isn’t delivered before the runway expires. The author is deliberately choosing to ignore this hard reality.

While I personally haven't seen a company going under due to bad code, one can also definitely make the argument that software that is buggy or doesn't scale will lead to lost profits, which could also eventually become a problem, or present risks to business continuity.

I still recall working on critical performance issues for a near-real-time auction system way past the end of my working day, because there was an auction scheduled the next day and a fix was needed. I also recall visiting a healthcare business which could not provide services, because a system of theirs kept crashing and there was a long queue of people just sitting around and being miserable.

Whether private or public sector, poor code has a bad impact on many different things.

However, once can also definitely make the distinction between keeping the lights on (KTLO) and everything else. If an auction system cannot do auctions for some needed amount of users, that's a KTLO issue. If an e-commerce system calculates prices/taxes/discounts wrong and this leads to direct monetary losses, that's possibly a KTLO issue. If users occasionally get errors or weird widget sizing in some CRUD app or blog site, nobody really cares that much, at least as far as existential threats go.

Outside of that, bugs and slow delivery can be an unfortunate reality, yet one that can mostly be coped with.
> It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There's the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.

Mark Zuckerberg an hour ago: "Our approach will be the same as all our other products: make the product work well first, then see if we can get it on a clear path to 1 billion people, and only then think about monetization at that point." https://www.threads.net/t/CuW5-eWL34x
I would like to take a parallel view to the BitterLesson and how its playing out. There are exceptions. Its not only computation but also a mix of:

1. decades of theoretical breakthroughs coming together.
2. there is also collective human creativity and perseverance.

Like Yann Le Cunn, Geoff Hinton etc have been working since the 90's and there were several milestones that were hit and it only caught on fire/went on steroids once the application(and the associated funding) was found due to creativity in the tech sector. But if the computation was somehow available before I am not sure it would have happened so quickly.

Another example is that all methods under the AI umbrella are not dependent on crazy amounts of computation and data. Take the field of AutoRegressive models in Social/Life Sciences field. For example lets look at the STAN which broadly does heirarchical Bayesian Inference using MonteCarlo based methods in social science.

It took some hard theoretical advancements to move the needle on MonteCarlo Simulation methods like detecting convergence and ability to have non conjugated priors for posterior sampling to work etc. The new methods are better by leaps and bounds over the conventional methods in the field. The computation for running the modern models from 2013 would be enough to run em for most cases.
> If anyone has questions about how I use it or my workflow I'm happy to shill this app more, lol.

I've recently begun using Joplin and am still futzing my way around. Would love to hear about anyone else's workflow.

One question, not specific to Joplin, I always have with note-taking apps is what's the best way to organize content? Or do you not worry about that and simply use tags to create structure/relationships?
I doubt he's lying, those zero days exploits are very expensive and it's not like you want to burn them for investigating some small theft
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Building, releasing and supporting your own app.

We don’t let junior devs do this now because programs are huge. We throw junior devs into bug fixes on large existing code bases (which are often not well architected, full of tech debt, etc)

There needs to be a step between the toy projects in college courses and the million+ line code bases.

Building, releasing and supporting small apps successfully, interacting with users, making changes they want and actually delighting them gave me a huge confidence boost in my early career.

We do a disservice to junior devs now.
The fact that you are not convinced is why you need to keep hearing about it. Once people are convinced and taking reasonable steps to mitigate, we can quit harping on it.

For instance the sea level is expected to rise much more than an inch in the next century. It is projected to rise 10 inches in the next 30 years.
Ah yes... my snowflake setup where I expect to be able to paste file paths into Gtk file->open dialogs without it erroring out.
I understand. I meant $25M for the whole season would have been ok for me. The parts I liked were all dialog and intrigue.
- What is the best way to export Evernote into plain text?

- Is there a good way to export the notes so that it preserves stacks and notebook structures?
Instead of

bool is_digit = std::regex_match("123", std::regex("\\d+"));

you could write leaner:

bool is_digit = "\\d+"_re("123");

Isn't this the whole point of user string literals? Looks like, someone should propose this as a boost library gem.
The people who care about the Fediverse won’t touch Meta’s products with a ten foot pole
The article states

> Modern desalination plants generally recover about half of the intake flow, which means their brine stream is about twice the concentration of normal seawater.

I imagine this heavily depends on the actual plant design though. Also because of the above mentioned issues you generally don't discharge it like that but blend it with other water.
They're an easy reference class, to be sure, though not the only one.

If I'm framing the problem for an anti-capitalist audience, I'd ask something like:

Imagine the billionaire you hate the most. The worst of them. Now give them a highly competent sycophant that doesn't need to sleep, and will do even their most insane requests without question or remorse…

what can go wrong in this scenario?
Sadly GPT hasn't been trained on GODOT 4, so it's been very difficult to develop.
Earthatile – 3D Maps for your Apps
Fair, "easier to write." They lose heavily on the "easy to read." (And folks that recognize my table as the org-mode table know that resizing the pipes is automatic for you, such that that shortcoming is addressed. :D )
Nobody is going to give up their F150 and Corvette if they don't believe there is anything wrong with burning fossil fuels.