skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s setting up some maintenance nightmares down the road. Tree roots can break into sewage lines and water mains. I would not want to be around when that happens!
I think it's not meant to be an exhaustive list of things to do.

Instead, what if it's a mindset: Doing such things, and 1000 others, some of them vastly more important than others.

And you can add to the list (instead of just saying "it won't work").

E.g. high car gas taxes, so there'll be trains, buses and bike lanes instead for everyone.
It's what I do. I fix stuff --- and I know things.
I hate this so much, was registering for a new ISP the other day, they blocked paste in the password inputs and broke my password manger. Such an incredible bad decision from a security perspective.
I like the Format of the developer survey though, and I wish HN had one of its own.

@dang is this a possibility?
I’m not seeing the respect when someone points out real issues that human beings are having and you come in with “shove the manager’s propaganda up yours”.
Up North there are stacks of firewood everywhere and prepping for winter is an exercise in logistics. Also still many oil furnaces in active use.
I feel like 50k is quite large for a “rural” area. The places I’ve lived in or visited with that population felt very (sub)urban.
The massive blob called "The West" is just as improbable, as is its explanation consisting of "Mormons probably lol".
That's a bad definition of communism you're working with.
I don't think it specifically violates any accessibility regulations, but preventing pasting has always come across to me as an accessibility violation.
> there is no requirement to gather release forms from someone you happen to film in public

Right, the filming is fine -- it's the commercial distribution that's the problem. And I'm assuming those civil suits have existing and succeeded in the past?

So my question is still whether social media ought to be considered commercial distribution, since it's generally ad-supported. I mean, broadcast TV is entirely ad-supported too.

E.g. posting on Mastodon is fine because there are no ads, but posting on Facebook/YouTube is not, because they're monetized with ads.
Since this article makes an argument by starting with a non-peer reviewed survey, then stacking several layers of hypotheses on each other, I feel comfortable countering with an anecdote: the most productive company I ever worked for was fully remote from before covid. So, I guess that’s checkmate.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324
don't miss the prolific author's fascinating web archive hosted at columbia university:

homepage: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/

history of computing at columbia: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/

history of the genesis of kermit: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html#kermit

writings about the 1968 protests: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1968/index.html
Without modern, western, industrial technology 50% of all people die before reaching adulthood: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past

This is reproducible across time, geography and culture. It is the basic condition of humanity.

> I invite you to visit basically any place on Earth that is not Europe or North America. It's frankly a white/western superiority complex and technology is just a fig leaf over it, a fundamental belief that today's way of life is the only one worth living

I invite you to do the same, and ask the people you'd meet if they'd prefer if half their children died in their arms or if they'd prefer to live without electricity, or antibiotics, or fertilizer, or telecommunications, or vaccines, or, or, or....

> But under no configuration is modern life sustainable for 8 billion people, energy, living space, and raw materials wise, so this situation is going to keep drawing down the reservoir until there is a brutal correction.

If billions are going to die either way then instead of just giving up we should be trying everything in our power to improve our technology to increase the carrying capacity of the earth and escape another malthusian trap as we've done so many times in the past.

Unless of course you want billions to die.

As an aside, I'm very disturbed to realize this screed is coming from someone of your stature in the tech community.
Increased numbers of humans in the grizzlies habitat is likely to mean more human fatalities. Humans are to blame surely.
RIP, such a loss
It’s reasonable to be skeptical since past climate models (eg from 20 years ago) didn’t do great over the subsequent period. It could be that current ones are much better (but we won’t know for a while).
Sure, but more in the “I knocked the plank off the desk by accident while measuring it, by hitting it really hard with the ruler” sense, and less in the quantum physics is weird sense.
> casually joining a conversation about politics you never would have had online

Yes, what will surely improve my mental health is a workplace conversation about how I should be exterminated. Fantastic idea.
We absolutely do not. We have a responsibility to seek out the truth and act in the interest of the common good. Quite often this means NOT strongly or blindly advocating our own opinions when our knowledge is incomplete or motivated by self-interest. Many times our responsibility is to advocate someone else’s opinion or present multiple options.

I have many many opinions and very few of them would benefit from my strongest advocacy.
> The article is hard to follow for me, but if I understood it correctly, this is not true

You are right, I was missing some conditions. The higher order derivatives need to be zero as well.

> If you set velocity = velocity = 0, then the ball staying at the top is a valid solution, AND the ball rolling down the hill (in any direction) is also a valid solution.

It is a valid solution to the f=ma equation. It is not a valid trajectory in Newtonian physics because it violates other principles. It is a “gotcha” only if you think that Newton’s second law is the entirety of classical mechanics.

> If this sounds confusing (it did for me), look at the example at the end, it's possible to do the reverse - send the ball rolling up the hill with perfect velocity, such that it stops at the very top after time T.

This paragraph is confusing. And does not demonstrate much of anything, instead asserting facts that we are supposed to believe.

In the time-reversal “experiment”, where the particle comes from the rim towards the apex, it ends up at the apex with a non-zero fourth derivative, because of the pathological shape of the dome. It cannot stay on the apex for any length of time, even with a velocity of 0. It is completely different from a particle starting at rest on the apex.

> And if that is possible, the opposite is also possible because NM is time reversible.

It is not.
They're not equivalent.

:w will touch the file (update mtime) whether you've made changes or not

:x will only update mtime if the file contents are actually changed
What a wildly asinine reason to cut down trees. I sincerely hope this is apocryphal.
At least all the other species within Federation did the same, many of them before the Federation even existed or before humans did it, though many of them got Federation help after they developed the warp drive, thus eliminating the Prime Directive limit.

Then you have the species whose backstory is imperialism or fascism, that control many other species that only have lesser technology. In some episodes, but especially in the books that are considered canon, you can see them influencing (slowing or outright destroying) the development of sufficient technology of their vassals so they remain dependent on the masters.

But the masters themselves (Romulans, Cardassians, Klingons...) have the same post-scarcity economy as the Federation for their "full citizens".

What's interesting is the case of Bajor in DS9, which is developing the post-scarcity utopia after the Cardassians left them in ruins; with Federation help but not too much of it because they want to be independent.
There is a problem with Disney? You have a problem. No Internet? You have a problem. You live in a place where internet is slow? You have a problem. I do not understand why doscs are discontinued.

Recently I have bought ps5. I have no account, mostly play offline after installation. I forgot the times where games had no shops, clients, and you were able to play immediatly after installation.

I do not have a good internet connections. the fastest transfer is via disc
I remember once reading someone on Wall Street Oasis saying that Nobel prizes and Fields medals are nothing special (as a judge of intelligence) as the lure of money found in business is not there to attract the brightest into competing.
"Really, all science fiction is a subset of fantasy. "science fantasy" is just science fiction that isn't actually about the science, which is the bulk of the genre."

All fiction is fantasy. Fantasy is the root of all fiction. As soon as one starts to change reality, by lying about what someone said or thinking about what you could have said, that's fantasy.

All labels are either useful fuzzy groupings or non-useful groupings. "High fantasy" is a label that gets you works closer in some conceptual space to The Lord of the Rings than to The Manchurian Candidate. "Isekai" is a very definite label that applies to The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and does not apply to Space Quest, but it applies more to Space Quest than to most episodes of Star Trek (except The City On The Edge of Forever, which is definitely isekai, and some similar episodes.)

"Science fiction" is a marketing promise that if there are elves, there will be an evolutionary heritage for them and a reason that you don't notice them walking to your local pub (no guarantees about the walk back.) Spock is a kind of half-space-elf. The space elves split into two groups a long time ago -- the ones who subscribed to a rationalist approach, and the ones who had a religion based on passion.
I've never seen a worse-described project than WASI.

"Component model interfaces always support link-time interposition."

Like WTF does this mean? The repo tells me nothing and I've still yet to see a clear write-up about what WASI is. I click on "docs" folder and there's one file. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/docs/WitInWasi.... WTF is wit? This should be in a CONTRIBUTORS.md not in the docs folder. I click on "legacy" and I see preview0 and preview1, which are basically unreadable proto-specs. Wikipedia tells me WASI is a POSIX-like interface but with POSIX I know exactly where to look up the functions. Where's a single well-written WASI spec?

I'll be honest - this whole project feels like candy for architecture astronauts and goes against the spirit of WebAssembly. Looks at how well-written WebAssembly's goals are: https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/. Their spec is easy to find and easy to read. This is what I want from WASM. Whatever WASI is doing, I don't like it. And neither does AssemblyScript team apparently: https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html.
We make industrial centrifuges, most big centrifuge manufacturers have YouTube channels..Alfalaval, Flottweg, Heinkel, Andritz, Whirler, GEA, etc
> People like to make this "oh but you're in public so why can't I film you" argument and it's so strange to me that this is something people actively want - to not be allowed privacy from other peoples pictures and recordings.

I don’t find it at all surprising that there’s disagreement about this. You have two entirely reasonable and important principles that are butting up against each other. Personal freedom is important and so is personal privacy. Of course there’s going to be controversy and differences from place to place and culture to culture on where the dividing line should exist.
This is sad news. I have been using VIM since I don't know when and for no reason I have never made a donation to it and felt a lot of shame. Just made it to ICCF Holland few minutes ago. RIP Bram and thank you for VIM! :wq
‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’

Ignorance is bliss they say.
So to avoid maintenance every 40 or 50 years everyone should bake in the heat annually?

The roof over your head now will likely need to be replaced on a more frequent basis than trees will cause maintenance issues.
Not saying this is the case, but there was malware that would check to see if you had copied what looked to be a bitcoin account and replaced it with its own.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/new-malware-highjacks-your...

Something like that maybe?
The important difference though is that most security camera's aren't publicly posting the footage. I'd expect most people to be upset if a shop started live streaming everyone that went by the street.
graphics drivers are some of the most complex pieces of software running on any PC with lines of code running into millions easily. yes, driver issues are most definitely 'a thing' for all GPU manufacturers.
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his music account
ChatGpt is as original as us but cannot ever surpass us because it needs our feedback loop. It is a mirroring of sorts after all.

If it could become extremely creative, push the limits and make ideas so advanced that we can’t understand then it failed at the task so to speak. It always remix idea into larger idea sallads and get our upvotes downvotes. It is a great tool but a tool nonetheless.
Apple sells the Mac Mini.

Intel and numerous other companies sell NUCs.
CGNAT is not a problem. It is a necessity because there are more humans than IPv4 addresses.

The problem is deploying CGNAT without also providing IPv6 as an alternative.
Only the 8GB model. Hardware Unboxed latest gpu market update shows the 16GB model is selling for $50 above MSRP at $400 and the 8GB model for $280. You definitely shouldn't buy it at $400 since the 6700xt handily beats it and costs $330.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISiTHe89eA

The RX 7600 costs $270, has 8GB of VRAM and AV1 encoding, and outperforms the 8GB a770. So I really don't see an objective reason to buy the a770 aside from supporting a 3rd player in the gpu market (which is a good reason IMO).
Because it’s not that deep and the realm of the possible shifts differently for scientists and writers and the general public. For a lot of people science fiction is defined by tropes and trappings but not so much the possibilities. For instance when I was a kid Star Wars was still considered sci-fi because it had lasers and spaceships. For a lot of people that’s all sci-fi means. But language evolves and so does our understanding of what a genre should include.

Like my favorite novel accelerando is about the singularity, a concept many nerds were interested in about 20 years ago. These days we’ve all kind of accepted it’s a silly thing that doesn’t make sense but does that mean we should reclassify all of the fiction written around it as a concept as science fantasy? At one point tech has advanced to the point where they’re cloning humans so cheaply that politicians are cloning multiple versions of themselves to go campaigning. Does this impossible scenario make those books science fantasy, even though they get a lot of the science right elsewhere? Because if the answer is yes then we’d probably need to rename all sci-fi sections in bookstores to science fantasy because that’s the majority of what’s in them: fun shit with a veneer of science behind it.
> Anyone who's used Vim has seen evidence of Moolenaar's generosity. "Vim is Charityware," Moolenaar wrotes in its pioneering license. "You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda." Moolenaar pioneered the concept of charityware decades ago, and also helped to popularize its adoption.

Pioneered one of the most iconic pieces of software in history, and yet did not make a single dime from it. That is truly something to look up to.
A lot of people replied to you and stuff, but I don't agree with them all so I want to answer you personally.

I live in Tokyo. As I'm replying to you, I'm coming back from meeting my friends that live 13 miles away. This isn't uncommon. One of my best friends, I see her almost every week, lives 15 miles away from me.

Here's what I did: I cycled 5 minutes to the train station; I got on the train; I ran into a friend in the train, and we chatted the whole way; I got to the station, went to our meeting spot, and we hung out for hours, drank a bunch, had fun, until last train; then we all went back to the station, rode the train for 45 minutes, and now I'm home.

It wasn't raining today, but I hang out with my friends when it's raining too. We don't let that stop us. Take an umbrella or a raincoat or just walk for 5 minutes in the rain. It's not a big deal.

At the same time, I understand that this can feel very foreign to you. Our thoughts are molded by our environment. But I'm sure that if you lived in Tokyo you would also change your mind.

I don't know how to change your mind, but I can tell you that if you gave it a try you would change your mind. l

I'm not saying cars have no place, but they don't need to be the be all end all of transportation. There's very real negatives to cars, we're just blinded to them as long as we live in a car centric society.
maybe they think criminals are too stupid to put a varying timer to make keypress times seem natural.
"And if you personally cannot draw a perfectly sharp line assigning every event to one of two groups, then no line exists and everything must be in one or the other!"
MIB? Nice quote but in my experience I have observed both. I have seen multiple videos in the middle of BLM protesting and rioting where the crowd protects a cop to safety in the middle of cops dismembering protesters. And there was jan6 when they killed cops.

Depends on the person and the crowd! And their state of mind. A panicked crowd is ad irrational as a panicked individual, except their actions are amplified by their numbers. There are a few who act on their own and the masses who follow along because they think the crowd knows best.

I have been in traffic jams, get curious and take a random residential road trying to find a way out, and like 5-6+ cars follow me, even try to loose them and they follow me to a dead end street lol.
I don't have access to any so I can't ask to check, but are they able to complete basic math problems (numeric or word)? I know earlier ones would say like 5*7 was 96 etc
That's cool and all, but how do I get it to use a linker that understands those options I give to `wasm-ld` (`--allow-undefined`, `--export-all`, `--no-entry`)? As it is, I'm getting “error: unsupported linker arg: --allow-undefined” when I pass that with `-Wl,`.
True, but aren't there far more economical ways of doing it if you're an IT department? Running a full Windows VM with 4G to 8G of reserved memory seems incredibly wasteful if all you want to do is centralise the provisioning and management software and data.

Why not Chromebooks + web apps if you need some client-side hardware anyway?
> A city is not an ecosystem.

Maybe this is the problem. Humans like to pretend we are separate from the environment rather than a part of it, and the consequences of this lunacy are felt in every aspect of our lives, always to the negative.
If that becomes an issue, you can just stop using platforms like YouTube.
...or just drastically shorten the copyright terms to a few years, and watch it wherever and however after it's in public domain.
Speaking as someone with a health care worker in the family who just went on strike, I think this makes a lot of sense. When hospital workers go on strike, it often forces the hospital to go on diversion, leading to other hospitals taking on all new patients, who are usually in some form of medical crisis and have a higher chance of dying than stabilized patients already under care. Thus, it makes sense that a hospital which has workers that go on strike have a lower death rate on average.
Anecdotes I've heard from community members in Black neighborhoods confirms this, they've talked about how cops want better sightlines for following/shooting at running suspects (from the street or from the sky).
The problem is that absent technology we need to reach 0 carbon emissions. Not just what it was in 1950 or 1900 but actually 0. This implies a standard of living far worse than you suggest. And even at 0 it will take hundreds of years to undo current warming.

It’s not going to be politically feasible since 99% of people don’t want to live that way. Thus we have to pursue alternatives.
We're still trying to figure out the right balance between configurability and ease of use/maintenance.

The 7B version was a decent enough starting point in terms of what it can answer (and way fewer folks can run a 13B on their machine).

If you really want you can just replace the 7B model file with the 13B one under the ~/.cache/gpt4all directory on your device and it should just work.
Zimbu: Designing a Programming Language from Experience [video]
We're well into 'uncomfortable truth' territory on this subject, so you can expect namecalling and downvoting rather than discussion, nothing surprising but people don't like to hear that their life style isn't sustainable.

The majority of people around me would rather invest in holidays and luxury goods than sustainability and aim to increase their footprint rather than that they reduce it. I'm just as guilty because I too live in a wealthy country. And even though I bike when I can and have spent a small fortune on making this house less dependent on outside energy I make myself no illusions: I'm still a net negative on the environment, far in excess of any developing world denizen. All I have to do to have that reinforced is to look at our trash can, food bill and fuel bill for the times when we do drive. Each of those alone is probably well in excess of our 'proper' budget that would be sustainable.

And for the life of me without stopping all activity I have no idea how I can further reduce it, this is just the world I happen to live in. I guess I could not have had kids, I guess I could live in a tiny shack. But overall everybody in the developed world will increase the problem by virtue of being alive. That's not good news, but I don't have anything better.
I think the logical conclusion to all of this is that our own intelligence is not some kind of special magic. It’s easy to see it that way, and I think that will make people mostly incapable of accepting something as being AGI. I’m sure some folks will recognize it ahead of others, but most will fail to see it or it might be better to say many people will be incapable of seeing it.
Yeah, lots of amazing advances like Meta's image segmentation are getting overshadowed by LLMs.
The tree state is saved as snapshots. However, operations like merging (3-way merge) and rebase are certainly based on diffs/patches.

For example, consider the case of an interactive rebase where you delete a commit. If it was based on snapshots, only that commit should disappear. The changes introduced by that commit should remain in the subsequent snapshots/commits. However, that is not what happens. The change introduced by the commit disappears from all subsequent commits/snapshots. This means that all the subsequent snapshots are modified by subtracting the patch from the commit that was deleted.
An SF book published in the 1950s (I have forgotten title and author, sigh) featured a then-imagined supercomputer with

- 1M bits of storage

- A mile on a side

- Located in Buffalo, NY, and cooled by Niagra Falls (vacuum tubes, natch)

- Able to surveil every citizen in the nation for suspicious activity

No mention of clock speed, cache-line size, or instruction set. I guess SF writers aren't computer designers :-)
So plant small trees and invest in the future! The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, and the second best time is today.
Aren't grizzlies brown bears?