skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Natural sciences do allow for free will. To be more precise, natural sciences do not concern themselves at all with non-falsifiable theories about whether free will exists, what is “real reality”, and the like.

You are, of course, free to make such statements—but you shouldn’t try to pretend that physics backs it up, because it doesn’t. With these theories you are engaging in philosophy, and as long as you refuse to acknowledge that it will be difficult to discuss them with you constructively.
That's why you never ran 'xhost +', kids.
We’re staring the obvious in the face for decades: overconsumption is unsustainable. But our entire economy is based off this wasteful mode of production, so we’re sold lies and happily latch onto fantasies to convince us that we can somehow overcome the negative externalities of profit maximization. As long as there are economic incentives to create trash, we will fill the oceans with garbage. I used to believe that we could solve this with “market solutions” which incorporate the true environmental cost of wasteful production, but this is just another fantasy. Even if the real cost of pollution could be known, there is no profit incentive to enact such a scheme.

We’ve got about 20 more years of maximizing shareholder value before we run off an ecological cliff.
Tapes where great - if you mean audio tapes.

Printers are crap even today.
macOS: Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation
Destructible Terrain in RTS Games
Just wondering what thoughts the community might have on this.

It seems to be leading us into a lot of generative terrain.

Sadly UE5 and Nanite wasn't cutting it. So we ended up making our own engine.
I'm not that surprised; HN is techno-utopian libertarianism.

Doctorow's egalitarian, syndicalist and somewhat socialist tendencies don't usually play well with that crowd.
Most of that was when the team was pretty tiny. It was fun starting from when the kernel was just beginning to run userspace code. I'm still very happy with how the syscalls turned out. If I did it again, I'd stick with a (small) monolithic kernel though -- makes a lot of things simpler.
Lack of potable water will never become a worldwide issue. The lack of water which could become a worldwide issue is water for agriculture which causes starvation in poor countries which in turn causes refugee crises and wars. Lack of potable water will remain a very local issue even under very dire scenarios for global warming.
Russian trolling as opposed to American trolling, Uzbeki trolling, Georgian trolling, and (worst of all) Belgian trolling?
> The problem isn't abundance or scarcity, the problem at this point is equal access.

Efficient use of resources is also a big problem. Resources wasted in every society to some degree but knowing/seeing how they were wasted on a scale in USSR left a very strong impression. And this waste was not about equal access (though it was not equal too) but about incentives and caring (or rather not caring about anything you don't own and people owned almost nothing).
I learned that water was quite untrustworthy, and that people drank (wine, mostly), in order to not die, evacuating from both ends.
One cool thing that came with the Britannica was a sheet of stamps. If there was something you wanted to know that didn't have an entry you could send them a letter, including one of the stamps, and they would respond with a custom entry. We used all of the stamps.
Brewers reused yeast skimmed from the top of fermenting beer ("barm"). Wikipedia's "History of beer" article quotes a 1557 source mentioning this, and it probably goes back much earlier. The motivation here is probably speed and reliability of fermentation, which are obvious benefits to people not aware that yeast is a microorganism, but it also incidentally breeds for alcohol tolerance (especially considering the popularity of strong beers). Reusing wooden brewing equipment without sanitizing between batches has similar effects.
That also has a bad licence.
> HBM

> Rambus

I'm not really sure I believe anything they say... I had one of those early Pentium 4s with RIMM memory, and it was one of the hottest and slowest memory I have ever worked with. DDR4/5 seems to work for me just fine.
They could, but I'm sure there are rate-limits in place against that.
Did you read past that one sentence? It backfired in that the slogan is "reduce, reuse, recycle" and everyone just skips 1 and 2 and thinks recycling is magic and calls it a day.

Which of course has more to do with there not being much profit in the first two but it's relatively easy to cash in on making your product "recyclable" or using "recycled materials" and making the consumers think that this means they're basically resource neutral. You can't buy an Amazon Echo product without Amazon telling you how they're so green it would almost be worse for the climate not to buy them (yes, that's an exaggeration but the messaging is pretty aggressive).

Heck, the first two parts of the slogan literally mean "don't buy new things" (reduce = don't buy more, reuse = use what you already have).
Reminds me of everybody saying "mastadon". Let's just agree, Americans can't spell :P
Ha - did the same phishing thing with our RM Nimbuses in the school computer lab. Wrote a turbo pascal program that showed the same login UI as the Nimbus. Logged into my own account on all machines and ran the program. When someone "logged in", it wrote their username and pw to a text file, and rebooted the machine (which got the user to the real login screen). Never got caught for that either, but also don't remember doing anything malicious with the info - I think it was more about the fun of the challenge :)
I could probably fit my entire MP3 collection as FLAC on a single DLT. Shame abou the seek times but some kind of lower bitrate forward coding across the entire dataset, a cache and seek times might not matter as much for long plays.

It would be very silly to repurpose a DLT tape library for an audio jukebox: one which carried "lethal to enter if not disarmed" stickers and a ruinous electricity bill.
I don't see a contradiction. The article only talks about standing out from the crowd. You probably do. But in your case it probably causes people to not want to hire you.
A process that's stuck on an NFS operation is unkillable, even by a SIGKILL from the root user. So any shutdown/reboot procedure that has a "kill all processes" step will be unable to complete (unless it has a timeout).

It sounds like systemctl --force --force reboot will just invoke the `reboot` syscall directly and thus avoid this issue.
15m 32s for those scanning manually.
Thanks, I've been looking for this kind of filter for ublock. Those copycat sites are a pest.
What's interesting, 1980s was the heyday of Russian Rock tape albums.

Soviet government did actually go after artists for doing live concerts (on the grounds of illegal enterpreneurship†), but not after tape recording stuff. You could duplicate as many tape albums as you wished in specialized tape copying booths, as well as at home if you had the hardware.

† You are probably wondering whether there was "legal" enterpreneurship option in the late USSR. Basically, nope, not before Perestroika kicked in.
Well I was thinking of actual dense technical books not for dummies spam.

If there are any left.

As for irrelevant... you should still skim it. So you know where to look when it becomes relevant next year.
>> By the time your battery needs replacement it will cost a fraction of what it costs today<<

There is absolutely no guarantee that it would be the case. The cost of batteries is largely determined by raw materials such as lithium, nickel, etc, and the demand for those minerals will exceed that of supply for some foreseeable time -- at least not until 2030.

>> Battery prices have been falling fast as the volume production of these batteries have scaled up.<<

Yeah, that's only if you get a brand different battery with improved energy density and chemistry. Your EV is stuck with the same old efficient and expensive batteries from the date/year of purchase.
Hi, so what are you using the models for?
The bikini islands.
My pleasure.

It's fun having an archive and finding new / different ways to query it.
If the other four were treated as regular PoWs, ... well, contemporary standard of care for PoWs was "stick them into prison hulks [0] and see who survives the ordeal". More American rebels died in these prison hulks than in all the battles of the war. The hulks were even worse than regular prisons: damp conditions, less light.

Torture may not be the correct word, but brutal neglect certainly would.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_ship
"Home taping is killing music"

The record companies did a fantastic job of killing music all by themselves, the quality has absolutely cratered and the occasional great artist that has made it through the long slog to recognition has done so despite the music industry, not because of.

I spent a fortune on various formats and when streaming came along I simply refused to participate. I'm simply not going to pay a third time for music that I already legally own.

Note that the following was written well before streaming came along, but it is an excellent article on the realities of the music industry from the artists perspective written by Janis Ian:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070509181400/http://www.janisi...

There is a fair chance that if you're under 40 that you've never heard of her, but I suggest you give her music a try as well, it is at least as good as her writing.

And another one by Courtney Love:

https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
So not just keeping slaves and getting tax excemptions but also being allowe to steal native american's land every way they want?
Reasons We Use Open Source FreeBSD as Our Enterprise OS
Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?
My favorite phpBB forums staggered along for many years but eventually collapsed.

The problem was the original maintainers had long sense expired, and each new phpBB release caused cascading bugs and became unmanageable. That and the increasing cost of running the servers, and the lack of backups and general maintenance.

The loss of these forums was real tragedy. So many thousands of priceless contributions from the original guru's has now been lost forever.
At a half decent compression rate it probably fits on a large micro SD card as well, unless you have thousands of records.
Hearing comments from experts in the field of topic
Most people cannot write good old hand written HTML; when WordPress came out and picked up stream, it was the biggest thing to hit the web hosting industry since FrontPage.
It's mainly that the core editor is Emacs or proprietary ones that have indeterminate futures, there are different implementations that are incompatible for things not defined in the standard, such as for GUIs, not a well defined and vibrant ecosystem or community, the package system is strange, and other things of this nature. As a language, I think it has a bit of cruft from being a mismash of everyone's favorite features from all the Lisps around the time that the standard was created. I find that it is hard to read, and this is coming from someone who likes Schemes and doesn't care about parentheses. Furthermore, you will struggle finding a job. Although admittedly, the jobs you do find may be cool. But they may also be giant balls of mud, which is my main impression and true from what I have read.

I think for personal or dedicated use cases within a larger system it is probably awesome. For example, I believe the CLR (.NET) garbage collector was generated via Common Lisp code. I personally use other languages for my personal projects, namely F# and Elixir, and when I want to reach for a Lisp/Scheme, I choose Racket. I find Scheme a more focused language. I don't think I'll ever have the time to actually understand things like CLOS and the metaobject protocol in Common Lisp. The condition system seems pretty cool. I have practically every Lisp book there is, and certainly all the major ones. I just can't get into it, and when I try, it just feels like it's stuck in the past as an ecosystem, and I revert to Scheme or another language. The notebooks in F# and Elixir are gamechangers, in my opinion, for learning, going through books, and even production uses. The various Common Lisp books are awesome, but I use F#, Elixir, and Racket when working through the bits I do write code for.
My knowledge can and probably is very out of date given how many of Google's projects are publicly realized. But my impression was that Fuschia is a general purpose OS and was planned (like, very long term planned) to eventually become the OS of choice for some Android and Chromebook devices. A project that lofty makes sense to have 400 engineers on.
Auth0 is not a good fit for developers/startups so our team made an alternative
So Confluent pulled a "ship of Theseus" on Confluence Cloud, it still looks like Kafka, but everything underneath has been replaced by a proprietary system.
>> how building out nuclear power and other non-fossil energy sources

>I'm not against that, and I'd tend to agree with you on that.[..]

Glad you agree with my central point. Not exactly sure what all the ranting is about, then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I haven't heard of Sid Smith and am not sure why I should have. Apparently some obscure random retired math professor who rants about collapse. I checked the video where he talks about nuclear, and there he just repeats talking points that are either wrong, irrelevant, or both. So same old same old. (I used to vote green, but them being instrumental in the worst environmental/economic and foreign policy decision of the last 50 years in Germany is putting a damper on that). Not sure why I should listen to the rest, but I might just for curiosity, though given what I've seen it is unlikely to be substantive or enlightening.

> So not ecosystems restoration. ... anything to avoid doing the right thing

Where did I say that? Nowhere, that's where. Please keep your straw men to yourself.

> Solar radiation management [problems]

And where did I write this was "good"? That's right: nowhere again. I said "bad, but manageable". And we know that it is manageable because we actually have data. Lots of it. From quite a number of volcanic eruptions.

Again, is this good? No. But it does mean that the doomsday scenarios people keep painting are wrong. The earth will not become uninhabitable due to runaway global warming, because we know how to stop that. And again, the ways of stopping it are certainly less than ideal, but they exist and are even fairly predictable.

Regarding the Club of Rome and LoG: sorry, but no. Their original claim was resource exhaustion on a fairly tight timeline, and resources are not becoming exhausted, and certainly not on anything like their timeline. See the Simon / Ehrlich wager, which put that theory to the test, and was lost in all resource categories.

And no, a political position statement by the UK green + labour parties is not evidence. The KPMG piece that claims to validate the original actually does nothing of the sort. In fact, it has to completely discard the original model's predictions:

"Around 1990, it became clear that non-renewable resources, particularly fossil fuels, had turned out to be more plentiful than assumed in the 1972 BAU scenario. Randers therefore postulated that not resource scarcity, but pollution, especially from greenhouse gases, would cause the halt in growth. "

This is in the "Updates to the LtG" section. Some "update". LOL.

"Remember the stuff we said about resources becoming depleted? Yeah, that was complete bunk. We now know that it is pollution. How do we know this? Well, because of the perfect forecasting record of our models that we just had to discard"

You can't make this stuff up.

See:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economic-growth...

And you still haven't told me how "my approach", the one you agree with, leads to going to pre-industrial civilisation.
I was confused as my project [0] I called it a git heat map, not realising that a similar term was used for other completely different visualisations

[0] https://github.com/jmforsythe/Git-Heat-Map
Did you read past the headline? "Reduce, reuse, recycle" means "avoid buying more things, use the things you already have and recycle instead of throwing away". The inclusion of "recycle" led to a hyperfocus on that last, least effective, part of the guidance at the cost of the other two. It backfired by making consumers think they're doing their part by buying products that include recycled materials or throwing their trash in the recycling bin, rather than simply buying less or not buying things or buying things that last longer and continuing to use them.

Of course this isn't on the consumers but the producers. The article explicitly says the focus on reycling hasn't helped reduce overproduction, which isn't a surprise as the economy grows by producing (and selling) and recycling is orthogonal to that whereas reducing/reusing runs counter to it.
https://collapseos.org also by one person
If you share such a weird story, maybe also provide a link so others can judge whether there is some substance?
> focus is lost from other problems (overproduction, microplastics in consumer waste) and solutions (awareness, modernizing the recycling plants).

Which average Joe can do nothing.
We spend our own money promoting your products on Google
Can you do more videos on preparing the data and scraping data? I noticed you seem to be proficient at it by your terminology and it’s something I want to dive into more.
The tool would be useful as a QA step to test for leading questions in survey design. See Yes Minister's[1] explanation for how they can work. A simulation to see if the questions get the same response irrespective of the order they were asked in could improve survey quality. Obviously, the tool could be used in the opposite way too, to help design surveys that say exactly what the company/govt/charity wants it to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
What makes it probiotic? I don't see any addition of bacteria, other than yeast. I thought regular "probiotics" usually contain multiple strains of bacteria?
‘My life is beautiful’: Felix Klieser, who plays the horn with his toes
Sure.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/12/infanticide-in-trad...
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40330368
Universal prohibition (18th amendment) predates universal suffrage (19th amendment) by a few years, but the two movements had a lot of overlap, and women did widely support the idea and were used to motivate the concept. That said the two are not everywhere the same: the South was had more support for prohibition than suffrage and the west was much more for the right to vote than banning whisky. But also prohibition in the US goes back much farther. Toqueville mentions the idea favorably, many religious movements advocated some form of it (Mormons, shakers, Mennonites,…), and most eastern states still retain a variety of blue laws that restrict alcohol sales and several colleges still retain local prohibitions from 150 years ago.
Very nice! I'm starting to believe the no-JS life may end up being the only answer to the enshittification of the mobile web. One of the reasons I built my own iOS browser was to have a "disable JS" button readily available, so I fully support you!
> participants believe that if they get a lot of points they have easier time finding a well-paying job

It’s true, though. I have a high-rep account and I’ve had a few jobs fall in my lap because of that.
Shameless plug for my project [0] using treemaps to visualise a git repo

[0] https://github.com/jmforsythe/Git-Heat-Map
You make a good point, skilled craftsmanship definitely saw a dive, and certainly factory workers didn't need to be as skilled. But, big picture, each individual became vastly more productive thanks to industrialisation, which made room for more people to get educated and have more intellectual professions (which I think is what OP meant by "skilled", since he made reference to "using their brain"). All in all, I think that the net proportion of skilled labour grew significantly.
Yeah. That's where I've gone for all my Amiga nostalgia needs over the years.
>Nuclear power and coal power are both heat engines turning heat into mechanical energy and subsequently electricity. They merely use a different heat source.

Not completely true. There are some experimental nuclear reactors that convert nuclear energy directly to electricity without the heat cycle, such as [Helion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy).
I was researching effective ways to advertise the dropshipping store I had created on Shopify, I stumbled upon the fact that an old colleague was actually working on this Order Legend tool. Paying a 12% fee for orders I wouldn't have acquired otherwise seems like a fair price.
Why would you store MP3 as FLAC?
Really a shame that the 4070ti doesn't have 16GB.

But I guessed it is expected that Nvidia doesn't want to cannibalize the 4080.
It doesn't give you good tools for networking, for writing concurrent or asynchronous code, for graphics, it doesn't give you a good package manager or means of distributing code, its data structures are unwieldy, it takes work to make it performant, etc.

The obstacles add up, and the time you spend on these issues by dealing with hopefully supported community libraries or rolling your own is time spent not dealing with the real problem you're trying to solve.

Racket and Clojure are better suited for pragmatic use in my opinion/experience.
Having a high reputation shouldn't be a free pass to be an obnoxious jackass, but often that is what ends up happening. There is virtually no consequence to coming into a valid question (or answer) and just close it like a dickhead. No, in fact this behavior is rewarded.

If you are either someone who likes wielding power recklessly or autistic then becoming a power user isn't a problem. But demanding users "prove" they are trustworthy in a system where blatant abuses of authority go unchallenged is farcical.
How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car
Key Witness's Opening Statement in Today's UFO Hearing at US Congress [pdf]
Slightly off-topic: how practical is it really to build devices (iOS and Android) and web from the same code base?

My poor understanding is that React Native, and hence Expo, doesn't use the same CSS frameworks as web development. I'm curious how that works from the same code base, or perhaps that's one of the major difficulties.

Also I see Expo as a fancy build framework but it's still fundamentally a RN application. Is this correct?

(My front-end colleagues are on another continent and we don't get any water-cooler time. Sorry for the possibly awful questions.)
There are many dry wines at 12.5% ABV or less. Alcohol level after complete fermentation depends on sugar level in the grapes. Sparkling wines are often made from grapes harvested before they're fully ripe, for about 12% ABV even when fermented completely dry.

And some strong wines can be sweet, because the grapes had so much sugar that the yeast couldn't ferment it all.
♪ Rekognition, Fraud Detector's cool,
Wavelength, Blockchain, Well-Architected Tool.
Though half of 'em start with "Amazon", for reasons we can't guess..
These are the major services of AWS. ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJAsvJOlhM
Show HN: Website Down Checker
That's what you took away from this?
I stumbled upon one while hiking the Swedish coast north of Stockholm [https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/den-optiska-telegrafen-t...]. We took a minute or so to guess what it could be before reading the explanation plate. It impressively allowed communication through the baltic towards Åland.

In parallel, regular "snail mail" was brought from mainland Sweden to Åland along a similar route, but through a peasant relay. Local farmers were obliged by the state to move bags of mail to the next farmers. And the coastal ones were taking turns to sail the 44 km to Åland all year round.