skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To all the aspiring billionaire preppers: you should be expending your resources in preserving the status quo or improving it too prevent the chances of societal collapse.

If society collapses, your wealth won't mean much without law enforcement. It will be survival of the fittest: and I bet your security team is fitter than you - they won't need your money in a post-apocalyptic world, but they could do with a well-stocked bunker
As others have said, there are unfortunately not that many good alternatives for serializing data in web browsers (that are both performant and don't require bulking your app with the serialization implementation).

We've done our best to make sure that the way we're serializing objects can either be done in a consistent manner across implementations or, if done inconsistently, it doesn't matter.
Whatever it is they do for money, people visiting in this context are unlikely to convert, taking it down also mitigates a little of the reputational damage at least.
> EDIT: all other effects can be ameliorated eventually by paying more. If there isn’t enough specialized labor for the role, the unspecialized labor will be incentivized to specialize themselves. If there isn’t enough labor in the local market, they will move there.

Proof in the pudding -- working at oil / gas / mining camps in Canada.

All you need is the ability to climb a ladder and be a proud 8th grade graduate; pay is $100k+ CAD, and often much higher for skilled or specialist roles with degrees and certs; easily 200k+ in some cases.

No shortage in finding bodies. Working conditions are brutal, long times away from home, and no shortage of Dear John letters, but there wasn't a shortage of labor.

When there is good $$$ on offer, people will line up around the block. Esp. if all it takes is a 2-week course at the local community college.
Having used both Go and Rust for networked and networking code, I'd say it's a pretty nuanced set of tradeoffs between the two.

I've written a couple protocol handlers in rust (that is parse the packet and handle the logic before giving the data to some other bit of code) and I found Rust really nice for that - real enums, pattern matching, and the use of traits can make interacting with binary protocols (particularly of the state machine variety) really nice with ergonomic interfaces. Meanwhile go's net/IP type (etc) often leave me frustrated.

On the other hand, goroutines and channels are such a nice way to handle a lot of message passing around a server application that I find myself reaching for mpsc channels and using tokio tasks like clunkier goroutines in rust often.

I think I'd draw the line more along "how often I need to work with byte arrays that I want to turn into semantic types" - if I'm going down to the protocol level and not doing a ton of high level logic I'll reach for rust, if it's more high level handling of requests/responses (http for example) I'll often reach for go.

(like the parent, I'm more inclined to reach for Rust over go if all else is equal, but I enjoy go too).
I might be misremembering, but didn't YouTube do this in the early days? So yeah, that was what I was thinking of when replying, not a traditional hash function.
Thanks for the grammar check.
Well, as the saying goes, "Death Comes In Threes..."

I wonder who's next?
Newton's Law of Cooling shows it's an exponential decay in heat transfer rate as the delta decreases.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_cooling
Basically the logical conclusion of neoliberal thought: nothing is worth doing unless profitable, anything not profitable is by definition not worth doing, pretty much replacing what earlier iterations of human civilization called "god" with "the market" as the arbiter of right and wrong and the main organizing force in society.
It's all kind of irrelevant. If they are not copyrightable, then most companies will simply hide them behind an API. There is no law saying these companies must release their weights. The companies are releasing their weights because they felt they could charge for and control other things. Like the output from their models.

If they can't charge for and control those other things, then we'll likely see far fewer companies releasing weights. Most of this stuff will move behind APIs in that scenario.
> I created a website

I’d really like to see this - any chance we could?
Well, yes, it obviously is and there is no need to go that low. Don’t you have a freezer at your place?

Technically food in a cold enough freezer will never get uneatable. It is indeed flash frozen to preserve its texture. The issue is that quality tends to get down with time due to water sublimation.
The war caused the sanctions, so...
It would be a wild long play, but this is how rail companies purchased land as well. I say it in past tense, but Bright Rail is currently using that playbook right now elsewhere.

Buy the land, build the train connections, develop the land, sell or rent the now hopefully prime real eatate.
OP said _payment processing_, and then parent said

> they are all essentially the same when it comes to functionality and pricing because they are the middlemen between you and visa/mastercard/... and not much else

Which is false, as there are many payment providers using fixed cost models and not touching the CC networks. And in a lot of countries this is the main method of online payments instead of credit cards.

I would not say it is exactly the same as in the US.
Exactly, some scientists raised the warning flags but were chastised despite being right. The obvious consequence has been a chilling effect - scientists are now heavily biased to understate the problem and most are somewhere between ultra-conservative and completely silent about impact predictions.
This story is heartbreaking, FTD is a horrible disease.
Does Blizzard still do April Fool's jokes? If so they're all set for next year.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803153, which has the original source that this one points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Shareholder capitalism is an optimal insider information hedging strategy in a competitive market.
Well, EU is a free market with safeguards. The libertarians hate EU because they believe that it's a socialist organisation, the hard left hates EU because they believe that EU is a neoliberal one.

None of these would be happy, EU won't let companies optimize for absolute profit in the expense of society and EU won't act as a central planner which will turn the companies into a non-profits which build to comfort the electorate.

I guess the situation on peak hours will improve as the battery tech improves. The tech problems won't be solved through regulations, EU would intervene only if the issues are caused by suboptimal market conditions like monopoly trying to milk the customers or the for-profit institutions fail to provide the services and cause issues(like not installing charger at low demand locations).
This map makes it seems hysterical to me that people think it's being done as espionage and is a national security issue. The land is wide open and easily observed. In any actual conflict anyone operating in that area could easily be shut down. And just look at the map, it's an awful lot of land to just "spy" on a military base, a lot of the land is as far as 20-30 km away.

This land is all filling out a very good area for wind power generation, so I'm guessing they have plans for a lot of wind farms.

EDIT: If you go to https://globalwindatlas.info/en you'll have no trouble finding the area on a view of CA. It's one of the bright red areas between SAC and OAK and this land conveniently fills most of it.
Diablo is the original "anti-souls" game.

The slot machine mechanics, the lacking of significant strategic elements and sense of hollow progression have always been key factors for my dissatisfaction with it.

That said, the beautiful / dreadful / horror vibe and simplicity of the first game to this day regularly pull me in – only to ultimately dissatisfy me greatly. Each time. To me there is just "no there there" - and that's probably the point?

So I agree on many fronts with this article.

Diablo could have been so much more but they turned it into a highly engineered form of drug that can potentially destroy you, with little to nothing to gain for it. Nicotine? For sure it's more gambling than gaming - again to me mostly timeless yet inherently toxic coating - down to the systems level. So in a way, it's the original "mobile game", the ultimate computer based life waster.

So depending on the person and with the right .mpq file in hand this could either mean getting addicted to or maybe getting off of "cigarettes" completely:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/blob/master/docs/...

(Devilution/X is amazing and maybe more interesting than playing the game itself, complete clean-room reverse engineered version of Diablo).

Edit disclaimer: local / in-sync multiplayer is (probably?) not as life wasting
Reader View works.
Even putting aside the insanity of buying a nation however small, is Nauru really the best place to survive apocalypse? Low-lying small territory, susceptible to oceans rising and no serious agricultural let alone industrial capabilities. As far as I know the majority of food to small pacific islands is imported. And I’d highly processed kind which causes obesity epidemic.
There's a lot of posers on OSINT twitter. You need to be a much more discerning on who you follow. As the meme goes, "I am tired of being an infectious disease expert. Today, I'm a military intelligence expert!"
There are fixed wing uavs
From my non-legal-professional POV I can see an angle which may work:

Firstly, llama is not just the weights, but also the code alongside it. The weights may or may not be copyrightable, but the code is (and possibly also the network structure itself? that would be important if true but I don't know if it would qualify).

Secondly, you can write what you want in a copyright license: you could write that the license becomes null and void if the licensee eats too much blue cheese if you want.

Following from that, if you were to train on the outputs of the AI, you may not be guilty of copyright infringement in terms of doing the training (both because AI output is not copyrightable in the first place, something which seems pretty set in precedent already, and possibly also because even if it was, it gets established that it is fair use like any other data), but if it means your license to the original code is revoked then you will at the very least need to find another implementation that can use the weights, or (if the weights can be copyrighted, which I would argue is probably not the case, if you follow the argument that the training is fair use, especially if the reasoning is that the weights are simply a collection of facts about the training data, but it's very plausible that courts will rule differently here).

This could wind up with some strange situations where someone generating output with the intent of using it for training could be prosecuted (or at least forced to cease and desist) but anyone actually using that output for training would be in the clear.

I agree it is extremely "have your cake and eat it" on the part of the AI companies: They wish to both bypass copyright and also benefit from the restrictions of it (or, in the case of OpenAI, build a moat by lobbying for restrictions on the creation and use of the models themselves, by playing to fears of AI danger).
Human consumption of soy & corn is not the problem.

> large fields of soy

https://ourworldindata.org/soy

"More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh"

> fields of ... corn that are the issue

Corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (40%) and as animal feed (36%)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/corn-industries-susta...

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...

> We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we will need to produce more plant protein for direct human consumption or even bioreactors

Not at all.

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
Either charge more, or just don't? If people aren't willing to pay enough for something, to the point that it can't be done profitably without exploiting your workers, that's the market saying it doesn't deserve to get done.

For example, Applebees is on the ropes. People are unwilling to pay enough money for Applebees' food for the company to remain solvent. Does that mean Applebees has an ethical basis to use slave labor to keep their doors open? No! They should just go out of business.
> Lady Gaga made a good and good-hearted call to preserve and promote his music by working on two albums together.

It was great listening, and somehow the first I ever heard of him, he truly was a gem
There is no need for hostility in your response. Informative reply would be half the Kenya and would provide double the value
India's interests are that of its citizens. And that means buying oil at a cheaper rate, even if it is from a country that a certain moral policing nation doesn't like.
Any early access codes you're spraying around? Also how does Function compare to something like your out of the box test-ordering companies? https://www.ultalabtests.com
Who are some "usually right" accounts to follow? Ideally ones that aren't plainly designed to spread propaganda of one sort or another.
I'm sure it's a bug--they're not adequately debouncing the key and it's being taken as an answer to the next question. I've told them but I doubt the people in the store have an adequate way of pushing a bug report like that up the chain.
Every station I see in California has them. Hawaii doesn’t for some reason.
You got to wonder if this is the PR component of a campaign to stop new energy development in the US. Another component is the political theater. Some municipalities are passing ordinances preventing Solar, for example, Eloy AZ would remove water rights to farmers who install solar on their property [1].

[1] https://www.pinalcentral.com/eloy_enterprise/commentary-tell...
More breadth than depth sounds better.
“ExxonMobil… [acquired]… a smaller Texas oil and gas company with the U.S.’s largest network of pipelines designed to carry carbon dioxide.”

There was a great episode of the Volts podcast, about a startup aiming to make synthetic shipping fuel (methanol), where waste CO2 was one of the main inputs.

Some good discussion of where they sourced their CO2, and the practicalities of CO2 distribution.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1...
You think the military controls every elected dope? What country do you think this is?
The belief that makes them consistent is that the authors of a million Reddit posts have no way to assert their rights while the big company that trained a Redditor model does.
There's no legal precedent yet, but WordPress plugins/themes are widely considered as being GPL because they're a "derivative" work.

Or, at least the PHP code in those plugins/themes are - possibly not the CSS + assets.

https://kinsta.com/learn/wordpress-gpl/
I don’t really play games at all and the only system I own is a Nintendo Switch. I played the new Zelda and am really enjoying it. When I get stuck or have a question I google it. When I google it, I note that the top say 10 sites that answer my question all have similarly-formatted articles and also have the same mistakes in the answer to the question.

I expect nearly all the sites pointing to Zelda tips or FAQs are not original in any way and are instead just regurgitated from one another through AI to form a webring of shit.

At least I use ad blockers and block JavaScript so they don’t get some ad revenue.
> For something as exotic as chip manufacture, you genuinely can have a labor shortage. We are idiots not to immediately green light any visas for people with these skills.

All evidence suggests these roles pay between 50-70k USD, require insane hours, and a short course at the local community college is all it takes to be qualified (or qualified enough) to do the job.

For high-end computer-engineering grads? absolutely. For the fork-and-spoon operators in sector 7-G who just press the buttons? nah.

They ain't trying to recruit PhDs or brain surgeons, and may be trying to drag their feet as they do so.
>What does it mean to "buy" a sovereign nation?

It basically means you are an absolute monarch, even if you don't use that title. The whole country and everything in it being the personal property of the sovereign sounds weird now, but that's basically how everything was until the invention of the modern concept of the state and constitutional monarchies.

>from whom do you buy it?

Presumably the current government and you'd sign basically like a treaty I'd assume? No idea who get's the money. The fair thing would be for all citizens to get a share, but the world isn't usually fair.

As for the remaining questions, at that point you'd be the sovereign so they are all kind of irrelevant because the answers are whatever you say. Citizenship, property, rights, courts, government services these are all just concepts defined by the law, and you are the law at the point.
I primarily use the g604 (more buttons and thicker hump so also more comfortable) but the g502 scroll wheel is so much better
The facts aren't entirely clear here.

But, hypothetically, if the insurance company did this ... it's not a privacy violation. Your "right to privacy" doesn't extend so far as to forbid your insurer from viewing your property.
I encourage you before fighting what’s implied get clear on what was meant by the original comment first.
> However, based on my long experience, you really don't want your client to touch the HTML/CSS of your site.

Certainly, and in the same vein you don't want your client touching the design of the site. Clients can barely write good copy, much less make good design decisions. My freelance projects go a lot more smoothly now that I can hand off the site to the client knowing that they're restricted to adding/removing blocks and updating content (and that they can't see the 'open code' button).
I don’t think this is right. I am pretty doubtful of the discussion of the granularity of the results of clock_gettime, but I failed to find any sources and I don’t have a suitable computer to hand to experiment.

But here are two more doubts:

1. On at least some systems, clock_gettime will be implemented by a vdso call that (on x86) uses rdtsc to give you the time, so you should expect its results to be pretty highly correlated with an rdtsc immediately afterwards, so you aren’t really adding useful entropy (whereas you are losing time-locality of your identifiers which may be desirable if they are to end up as primary keys somewhere)

2. On some systems (eg some AMD processors), rdtsc gave me pretty low precision results (eg rounding to the nearest 10 cycles) so you also won’t necessarily get the entropy you would expect from the description of the instruction. I failed to find a reference for this too apart from an offhand mention in a paper about timing attacks.
Wait, you're saying not everyone has a drawer full of old phones, chargers, and similar junk?
Asking Exxon to take action to prevent global warming is like asking the foxes to guard the hen house:

https://tz.linkedin.com/posts/alisheridan_assessing-exxonmob...
How about 1980s. I seem to recall that some hobbyist BBS operators operating off residential phone lines were investigated by phone companies and harassed into paying for business phone lines.
I hope it's a success - but I am doubtful in the US payment landscape, as absurd incentives persisted so long:
- C2B payments (everything from cable to insurance) is dominated by credit card payments, as consumers chase rebates/miles/cash back [paid for by the people who don't pay their card in full every months]
- C2C payments, because it was virtually impossible for an average person to pay another bank account to bank account, a whole shadow banking system like Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, CashApp was created.
- B2B could always pay via ACH, doing it in real time for vendor payments has no advantage
- B2C payments, maybe - when you insurance company settle a claim same day (just kidding...).

So I hope that the US gets to a place where it is secure and convenient to pay others bank accounts with the balance in your bank account - but I doubt it.
Indeed. For them to work, some massive electric grid infrastructure has to be added. The directive mentions "at least 400 kW by 2026", which is probably doable mostly with existing spare capacity. They also mention 1.4MW and 2.8MW chargers 120 km apart by 2028.

This will require a number of new transmission lines, and quite some new electric generation, at the very least in hundreds of megawatts of base load. (A nice new nuclear power station providing a couple GW would be handy, but I can't expect it to spring up by 2028 anywhere, except maybe France.)
And, sure, lack of copyrightability changes the parameters and will change behavior. What I think you have failed to support is that the particular change that it will induce will eliminate all such releases.
> Price gouged? Don't you mean, fair market value? Price is always contingent based on the information shared between the buyer and seller.

Since when? Buying and selling anything is always a game of imperfect information.

There’s nothing special about the buyer being a large corporation or the item being land.
"Fighting"?
Sell prepaid cards at approved vendors and in more centralized vending machines which take cash. Kind of like most public transit cards.

This was also an issue with mobile phone payments, it was solved then, it can be solved today.
Don't get me wrong CSS isn't perfect, but it has done a really good job of scaling through difficult problems as HTML, and browsers, and user expectations have grown over the decades. The tooling and CSS frameworks have gotten really good.

I think HTML + CSS is an example of a declarative system where you can start out not knowing very much about it, just drop in Bootstrap or Tailwind, and start getting great results by using prebuilt CSS classes from someone else.

This is what is missing in most modern infrastructure as code. Sure you can start out with prebuilt IaC templates from someone else, but these templates are basically like getting handed a big chunk of HTML that has inline styles on it. It might render great in the browser and look great, but its hard to read, its hard to understand why it works, and you'll have trouble adding on your changes to it without breaking things.

What I'd like to do is decouple the semantic aspects of infrastructure from the specific configuration aspect, similar to how HTML + CSS lets developers write their semantic markup with semantic CSS class names, and then have a CSS framework provide the exact styles that make it look pretty.

Infrastructure as code needs a similar standard library of semantic configuration mix-ins that you can apply to your infrastructure as layered mutations to produce the final result. There are many tools out there approaching this challenge right now from different ways, and I think the future of infrastructure as code is going to look quite different from what most people are doing today, more like HTML + CSS, or imperative code, than flat YAML and static structures that must list out all their own properties.
Right? That’s why I continue kicking kittens. If I don’t, someone else will. It better be me, because I’ll kick them real gentle.