skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to share, although I don't know how applicable the journey is to most.

The project started as nonprofit with both a business goal (sustain itself by selling online courses) and a philanthropic vision (essentially: increase education access by disrupting the degree market & also open sourcing the code).

A decade later, the nonprofit sold the entire online course business, its brand, and most of its staffing to a for-profit company. It kept the copyright to the open source code, and the remaining staff now use the proceeds of the deal as an endowment to pusue the original philanthropic mission, which includes being a sort of core team for that open source code.

Some details [0]. The online course business is edx.org, the buyer was 2U, the source code is Open edX [1] and the nonprofit started as edX Inc and was renamed to Axim [2] after the sale.

0. https://press.edx.org/2u-inc.-and-edx-complete-industry-rede...

1. http://github.com/openedx

2. http://axim.org

TL;DR: Start off as a nonprofit, build a valuable product, sell the product, and then use the money to continue the nonprofit. YMMV ;)

EDIT: Probably obvious, but I should note that this didn't all just "happen"--there were (and are) extremely passionate people on both sides of the sale and in the project's open source community who worked hard & advocated loudly for years, ensuring that both the nonprofit built a compelling product and the open source project thrived. Both of those were critical ingredients in the project getting to its current well-funded state.
Euclid test images tease of riches to come
Thanks for sharing both of these examples!
I used to be like this, with a fewer number of devices. Now I eliminated them all, and I have everything under my own Jellyfin server in the cloud.
This is as absurd as it is futile because of forest fires, decay, and math.

"TeamTrees vs REALITY!!" https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY
I don't know about all compounds but CFCs stay in atmosphere for about a century only and we've already banned them, and methane has a very short lifetime of about 12 years. So we 'only' need to control emissions of those to solve the problem.

On the other hand, as said, CO2 stays for centuries if not 1,000+ years so at this point net zero is only half the job though probably the hardest part.
I’ll take a risk and be skeptical of that claim and see how my life turns out.
Just leave areas alone and let nature do its thing.
Not a math student, used to be a CS master student (with not so great math skills). For me, it took 40 hours to learn with Overleaf/Sharelatex (or whatever they're called nowadays).

Just creating many small proof of concept thingies, and slowly building them out. I did this until I was comfortable enough. After 40 hours of learning it, I was about 90% as fast as typing in MS Word. There was one difference though, LaTeX made me way more structured because I commented at every paragraph what the intention of that paragraph was. So my writing became way more focused.
I agree with most of what you're saying here about this being a comparison problem.

The one area of major disagreement is regarding the "cannabis" designation. For me, this term is associated with the opposite connotation. When I started taking its effects more seriously, I started using the cannabis word because I feel it lends more respect to the plant. This wasn't originally my idea, and so I'm not alone in this.

This respect was part of my own mindset shift on usage away from habitual use. A way to remind myself to take it seriously, and to partake intentionally if/when I do.

Most people I know are pretty aware of their "problem" but have no intention of changing it. Calling it one thing over another might be a form of self deception for a few, but self deception will always find some answer.

> It won't kill you like alcohol withdrawals will or make you agitated like nicotine will. So then it must be okay right? These same potheads will quote studies and news articles talking about the benefits or just how risk free it is.

I do think we have major issues with how we paint these different groups. When someone is an alcoholic, they gain sympathy and support from society proportional to their maladaptive behaviors and/or willingness to address the issue.

"Potheads" is almost always derogatory, and I don't think people who struggle with this are seen in the same light as people who struggle with other drugs of abuse, and it's not surprising considering the pretty clear misconceptions the public has about cannabis as a whole.

And I think this is important to note, because one of the #1 emotional factors that leads to continued maladaptive substance use is shame. Society has progressed quite a bit towards supporting and celebrating people who struggle with drugs/alcohol. I don't think society has done the same with cannabis. Attitudes are closer to "they're just lazy and it's not even addictive so what's their problem?".
Already in production:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1124478_world-s-largest...

"Marking that trip around 20 times a day, Kuhn Schweitz says the eDumper produces 200 kwh of surplus energy every day, or 77 megawatt-hours a year. A typical dump truck uses between 11,000 and 22,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year. "

They have to discharge the surplus :)
Seriously, if there any organization that has done more to advance the web, IDK who it is.
I've been addicted to thc for much of my adult life. I know people who smoke much more than I ever did. I'd use every day, only after work, but I never didn't use it after work. I was using it as a crutch, I used it as a cure-all, I used it as a social lubricant. As mentioned in the article, I used it for anxiety, and the anxiety got worse.

I tried to quit a bunch of times, some more successfully than others. But quitting is really hard. I'd successfully exhaust my supply, but there's always bowl- and grinder-scrapings. After a night or two of smoking tar and dust, "fuck it", I'd find some more.

My #1 excuse was always sleep. Weed is the best sleep aid I've ever found. Quitting usually went fine until I wanted to go to bed. Several hours into a sleepless night, desperation sets in.

Eventually, I found a hack in LSD when I first had the determination to use it without mixing THC. I slept like a baby. No cravings the next day, or the next. I started dreaming again, after years of sleeping like a corpse and waking up exhausted.

I've since started and stopped a few times. Picked it back up to be social (and, hey, it's fun!), the habit-driving insomnia comes back with a vengeance. Stopping with LSD seems to work reliably for me. I only allow myself a hit of LSD per year, so that's how often I excuse a social session. But the last couple of times, I haven't needed the LSD. It seems that I finally kicked the compulsion. Although, I don't trust that enough to make it a more regular habit.

Edit reply to jrflowers:

No, I do not take acid to sleep. Taking it once allows me to quit thc cold turkey. I take it first thing in the morning, so I'm hungry for dinner and sleepy for bedtime. Last thing I need is a new habit.

Edit reply to gvedem (an hour and a half later I'm still "posting too fast" to make a second comment):

I bought the acid from a friend. I am aware that "one tab" is not a standardized dose and that adjacent tabs on a sheet can have significant discrepancy. But "one tab" is what I took.
I’ve tried Archivebox (using docker compose) several times, and every single time it just stops.

I import around 3k bookmarks, it starts archiving them. Immediately some archival methods fail (usually screenshot and pdf), and after archiving a few hundred bookmarks it never continues to archive the rest. I‘ve let it sit and do its thing for several days, it never manages to get through all of them (or even a sizable minority).

Different machines, different filesystems, different networks. No idea what‘s wrong.
Yeah, this sounds like a Catch-22 of substance use: If you deny you have a problem, that proves the problem exists. If you affirm you have a problem, that's also proof the problem exists.

> There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

-- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Or if you prefer the Monty Python version [0]:

> "Will you please listen!? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? HONESTLY!"

> "Only the true Messiah denies his divinity!"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HB7zqP9QNo
Provide some empirical studies to back up your claim.

What you're saying sounds like the "Appeal to Nature" fallacy.
"I smoke cannabis 8 times a day.”
Can we put this LARPing scam artist out of the conversation? They are setting up a bitcoin wallet to, "raise money" to post a video of their admitted non-replication (They didn't use the original replication steps at all), but still superconducting result using kitchen cookware?

Also they spend more time promoting bizarre Soviet propaganda, furry porn, and LARPing than science.

Please, can we stop taking this seriously?
He used marked cards and other speciality decks like stripper decks on occasion.
Exactly .. looks like the author don't really have experience in the possible capabilities of a good CDN network and more so in designing the software architecture in a way to take advantage of a good CDN network.
It's almost routine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monumen...
I find it amusing that television makers haven't started demanding a share of revenue on TV shows that have ads that they display. /s
The raw educational attainment/income numbers suffer from severe selection bias. As but one example somebody with impaired intelligence is both probably not going to attend college, nor do economically well. But the fact he doesn't have a degree is obviously not the issue there. The question we want to ask ourselves is how would a person of at least average intelligence, motivated to work/learn, and so on do with vs without college.

So, for instance, how does a tradesman compare? The median income for somebody with a BS, employed full time, is $69k [1]. The median income for a plumber is $60k. [2] That's already pretty close, especially once you factor in 4 years of extra earnings vs 6 figures of debt. The BS may overcome the hole relatively late in their career, but again - it's close. However, there's a big catch: those numbers included STEM degrees. Remove STEM degrees and this isn't even close anymore.

I'm not arguing everybody should be a plumber, or anything of the sort. I am saying that college is a decision that should not be taken lightly, especially if somebody is not going to pursue STEM.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/emp/chart-unemployment-earnings-educatio...

[2] - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...
Schema-based sharding comes to PostgreSQL with Citus
That's great but isn't the real question about what goes in /path/to/my/failure_alert?
Name an activity that causes no effects whatsoever on an organism's physiology.
A wildly airborne spreading invasive food crop with nice yellow flowers sounds kind of ... great? Why do we consider dandelions weeds?
I don't really know where it went wrong with the real theories. But, when I imagine quantized gravity in my head, I don't imagine having a carrier particle (graviton).

Rather, it feels like gravity is special and the chunks of spacetime themselves are carrying information about the gravitational field.

My imagination is odd because it's based on how I would write a distributed game server. (It doesn't make sense to simulate gravity pairs between every single pair of particles. This isn't just slow, it doesn't scale if the universe expands. But it makes sense to precalculate gravity field as a chunked map and then update one chunk at a time.) (You can ask the same about light/EM but light hits only some of the things and can cause complex local interactions at the scale of electron orbits. When gravity changes, it's very macroscopic instead. So I wanted to treat them differently)
Neonicotinoids aren't likely to be ingested by insects that don't eat crops (such as mosquito's), aren't they?
I need to correct myself. It should have said Hackernews instead of YC. And it is really the comments here that reflect a cultural shift which i think is interesting.
I agree with BBC being the first major English media, but German broadcasters have been doing it for a while now: https://zdf.social/about and https://ard.social/about
Well yeah that’s what I mean about thinking critically.
> One of our lead engineers setup an NX monorepo. We deploy an API to AWS and our front-end to vercel.

I don't understand where the complexity is in your setup that you're unhappy with.
I'm talking about IPv6-only instances needing to access IPv4. Github is the big example.

Network load balancers (NLB) are for other protocols.
> They want robust appliances, but they will buy the 199.99 ones

That's unfair for many people. Not only do robust appliances cost significantly more, you also need to figure out which significantly more expensive model is also robust. You can't easily sample and replace a fridge when it's not the ideal one.

> found the same: people say the want more leg room or other comfort, but when it's the time to pay, most end up choosing the cheapest ticket.

There's nothing weird about it. Premium economy on the flight to my family is 2-3x the price on an already expensive flight. For my parents that's effectively equivalent to choosing: "visit once a year, or every 3 years".

This view of customers are the problem, they don't spend enough feels really bad - a disconnect of what people can realistically spend money on. There's many who need to consciously save for a few months to buy the $199 appliance.
I wish I understood IPv6 as well as IPv4, even with NAT. I have an OVH server I've moved most of my personal stuff to, running ProxMox, but it was easier for me to setup a virtual nic with a natted ipv4 block for internal services than it was to figure out how to use my massive ipv6 block.

I mean, I get AAAA records, but does anyone have a good primer on ipv6? Another on ipv6 with docker would be nice too.
Michael Nielsen is a treasure
Just because they will below sea level doesn't mean they will all die. That's a bit ludicrous. Even more ludicrous are your nrs 4-5 meters, will get to that.

Whole of Holland is below sea level at the moment. Yet we are miraculously sitil alive.

To take it further, in a 100 years every house in Holland that's here now will still be standing.

Now certain countries don't have the skills that the Dutch have, and we should help them. But this isn't something that will come unexpected, so we have the time to do so. Half of Dubai was created out of the sea.

But, even then 4-5 meters is too much. Worst case is less then 1m. Till now we got 20cm. Expectance by Dutch gov. is this between another 20 and 86 cm in the next century: https://www.knmi.nl/kennis-en-datacentrum/uitleg/zeespiegels...

Back to the medical argument. Even if parts are flooded, which is terrible. Moving away is not the same as not being able to use your brain or dying.
Founder here. Docs where just updated to answer your question broadly (https://docs.isomeric.ai/api-reference/prompting)

In a nutshell you prompt the Isomeric LLM with the format of the data you want to see. This way you can completely control the output. We have support for even finer grained control through things like regular expressions too (https://docs.isomeric.ai/api-reference/prompting#pattern).

As for canvas. No, only text can currently be ingested.
Obviously it depends on the person but I did 3 years of an EE degree then switched to CS so I've experienced both

EE was definitely harder to me mainly just because engineering had you taking a lot more credits at once compared to science

And doing vector calc/electromagnetic field math is way harder than proofs IMO

Also debugging software is so much easier than hardware/circuits. The real world is so much messier compared to computers where stuff is cleanly true/false.

You can put together a circuit perfectly but it turns out some component you ordered was busted or the tolerance is wrong or something got fried accidentally and it can be really painful to track it down with a multi meter/oscilloscope.

Whereas that doesn't really happen in software. You don't have a program that works one day and then and then suddenly the next day "if statements" aren't working. So much more stuff can go wrong in the physical world.

My main job now is pretty high level C++ but I don't regret doing the EE part though because it forced me do a few courses in Verilog and there's no better way to really understand how a computer works than building a simple CPU on an FPGA
If 1000 people with geeky interests all try to make this stuff I would be surprised if one did not get lucky with the variations in their uncontrolled home lab environment and hit the perfect sequence for making a grain of it... unless the material does not exist; but honestly if you want to hear the opinion of some person on the internet, I think that it is real.
Submitted title was "Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670m after 7 years of drilling". I've reverted to the article title now, or rather a slightly rewritten version to omit the linkbait.

Our software did screw up the m->M thing. Sorry!
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Or something vaguely like that?
I work on a split team, Windows and macOS. We do straightforward Java work and most of the problems that we have are related to installing command-line software on Windows.

Installing Postgres, Redis, etc. on Windows is wildly complicated compared to on macOS or Linux.
Surely you mean 10cm?
Navigating IP Space Acquisition
Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride [YouTube]
Reaction wheels only saturate by absorbing external acceleration, though.

You can reorient as much as you want with a reaction wheel, and the only cost is electricity.
Founder here.

Good feedback. We're moving fast and onboarding for sure needs to be improved. We added a playground when you first login and expanded docs here: https://docs.isomeric.ai/api-reference/prompting
Build your own tool if there isn't one. I used to think it's impossible as I barely know web dev, but in 2023, with the help of ChatGPT, I managed to build my own private Goodreads alternative in less than two months.
You can play Basic games using exaequos.com: bwbasic /usr/games/basic/animal.bas for example
I don't understand, how do prediction markets create the environment for fraud?
https://databaseci.com/ is similar.

(Seems to be down though...not a good sign.)
When a new technology arrives, people have a tendency to try and use it in ways they are familiar with. Like trying to build buildings of steel the way they used to build with marble or wood. That’s not the best way to use new technology. You have to learn how to use it most effectively over time.
If they discovered a new source of coal, as large, clean and easy to mine as their best ever existing coal seams, they'd be financially better off putting solar PV over the top of it than mining the coal seam. So that problem should solve itself if they let the market do its thing and don't tilt it to help out coal mine owners.
See sebastiennight's parent comment above - I think they meant to reply to you.

Curious to see your response.
Every streaming device manufacturer does this. Roku demands a revenue cut if you want your app on Roku devices, last time I paid for something Amazon Video on my Apple TV Apple forced the transaction to go through Apple Pay and presumably took their cut there.

It’s the standard business model in this market: sell a streaming device at or below cost and then turn to the streaming services & tell them that if they want access to the XX million people who own your device they’re going to have to pay up. 30% seems to be the going rate.
German supermarket trials charging true climate cost of foods
MrBeast – #002|Relentless Podcast
You take acid to sleep?
dabbing all day and vaping oil is in no way comparable to caffeine, cannabis is way more addictive, side effects last longer than 3-4 days as well. People are extremely irritable having lost their main crutch for a month or longer. The fog doesn't lift for about a month. This article is talking about people actually addicted, not like they smoke once a day in the evenings or something.
I switched from Plaid to Stripe.. and then back to Plaid
Have you ever heard of Scientific Forestry? It was something documented in James C Scott's Seeing Like a State. Here's a long-form essay summerizing the ideas in the book: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

These forests were planted during the late colonial era by the French and German. The great naval powers at the time were running out of trees tall and straight enough to make masts. They cut down natural old-growth forests, and planted trees in a way that makes it easier to count. They grew better, and called it a success. However, that first generation grew well because they used up the nutrients banked by the natural forest. The subsequent generations did not grow as well.

So over the centuries or so of trying this, they tried things like, adding in insects, and measuring their rate of growth. But it all stems trying to force a complex system into something that is legible, but the results are its own folly.[1]

Frankly, our climate and global ecosystem is a complex, adaptive system [2][3][4], and to think that we can reduce solutions based on a single metric, such as atmospheric CO2 numbers, is a disaster in the making from our collective hubris.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-s-trees-are-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework#Complex

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
"Potheads", "get-out-of-jail-free", "degenerate", etc.

"Ever since it became legal I have friends who spend majority of their day high. Of course, when confronted"

Maybe you should quit interrogating your friends to prop up your own puritanical moralities. All I see when I read your post is how much you hate people who use weed.
The Keeling Curve is eye-opening for understanding our current versus (pre-)historical CO2 levels: https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/07/introducing-keeling-c...
That picture was a publicity stunt. Workplace safety back then was bad (as reported by the number of deaths), but not that bad.
Imagine it’s just the employee is having some giggles. :)
If THC was especially good at destroying mitochondria we'd be seeing lots of cannabis users with cases of necrotic tissue due to cells being unable to maintain their metabolism.
> Your home or office with a bunch of computers can be classified as a data center.

Only in the way that a plucked chicken is a man. (http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Featherless_biped)
> Ships don't care about weight. The cooling infrastructure or heavy steel tanks are possible.

Have you looked at how high the containers are stacked on a container ship? Space taken up by fuel is space that can't be sold.

Source: we partner with commercial shipping companies and spend time not just talking to the commercial people but on the ships themselves.