skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A city is not an ecosystem.

A city is an ecosystem, and we desperately need to treat them as one rather than try an obliterate all signed of none human life.

> not room in the soil

Not true in any sense, yes there are services under the ground but that is a tiny amount of usage. Roots can cause problems for hard surfaces, but the answers to that is more turf and planting, exactly as the article is proposing.

> also implies giving up car space.

Also only a good outcome, we need less cars stationary on streets using up valuable space.
Clearly you should be using the excess methane for heat.
Fuck, reading all these comments i kind of feel we should have told him before he died how much we appreciated him…. :…(

Like there should be an open source lifetime achievement award or something. Like the academy awards.
Bios Post Code Reader with the Raspberry Pi Pico
I have absolutely seen an LLM combine language in novel ways. With prompting they will create outputs that are entirely novel with concepts intermingled in new ways. It's nonsense when compared to observed reality, but it is novel nonetheless.
When people die during a surgery they die immidiately, but when their lives get extended after a surgery, it only happens years later.
Obviously, if you want to build cities that are actually pleasant to be in, the first thing to do is remove cars and make things more comfortable for pedestrians.

To me most of the USA is just a dystopian hellscape where you cannot live without a car, and there is no city centre to speak of as you need to drive between points of interest that are spread around along massive motorways.
My hybrid experience:

I got to the office to do meetings with people that are at home.

I ditched the hybrid and now 2 days of week I go to an Coworking/incubator space where I have the social and "out of house" needs.
Yeah, I was about to recommend Diaspora just before I spotted your comment.
Agreed. But remember there are lots of people in the apple ecosystem who try to bully people into it. There are people out there who won't associate with people who are green, they only want blue bubbles on their screen.
How about 'Fatal car crash renews debate over how many cars are too many'
yes i think WEI would decimate thread threads on the open internet.

pushing alternate browseroids is something to be considered
"Is it really necessary to spell out that a civilization capable of building a FTL starship is also capable of building a sufficient defensive technology?"

We have had ICBMs for a long time, yet no sufficient defensive technology as of yet.

Beyond the fact that using them would lead to MAD, that is.
> Neither can the vast majority of humans

Many can and do.
Fascinating. While 2 is indeed a rare quantity/cardinality, "2-ness" is a ubiquitous quality of digital systems.
Looks like I swapped the terms. Thanks.
Yeah I'm so depressed inner city office real estate is losing value, we must return fellow programmers:)
From the bear's perspective, perhaps there are too many humans encroaching on its habitat.
More of this propaganda? Remote work exposes issues that were previously covered up by being in person.

Society has become increasingly alienating and lonely, going into an office is just a way of papering over that.

Companies haven’t built strong cultures around communicating and mentorship, going into an office is just a way of masking that.

Personally I have worked with and felt camaraderie on distributed teams with people I’ve never met in person. I know it’s possible, but it requires doing things differently than business as usual.
I've had no issue getting any episode of anything. You might just be looking in the wrong places.
In an idealized situation though, why would the ball not stay at rest?
As a long time vim user. Thank you and RIP, Bram Moolenaar.
> - Hard fantasy: Mistborn series

How do you square that when Mistborn become scifi?
They clearly don't want our money anyway.
> Fossil is a recent git alternative

It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005.

> Merge conflicts aren’t first class

Another DVCS where conflicts are first class is Pijul. It also has a solid theoretical foundation, which it inherited (and expanded upon) from its predecessor, Darcs.
https://archive.is/XiDZH
Only animal and animal products have cholesterol. Or did you maybe mean the oils that are extracted? Cholesterol ≠ Lipids.
Star Wars is science fantasy but refreshingly Andor is more sci fi. May be why I liked it so much.
honestly the LLM stuff is pretty neat but im way more excited about how good ML has gotten for things like signal processing and superresolution.
The police thing, have a link?
SoftBank sues social media startup it invested in, alleging it faked user number
And such a genius name too: like Vi improved, but also vim, as in vim and vigor, a fantastic word to have as your companion programming.
Sure Jan.
> No one thinks that the French government is going to require that browsers block Pornhub, Reddit’s gone-wild subs, or Xvideos

Very wrong! France is currently deciding whether to ban five porn sites, including Pornhub, Xvideos, and XHamster.[0]

The new law mentioned in TFA has already passed one chamber of parliament unanimously, and will be passed later this year.[1] It won't just require phishing sites to be blocked by browsers. It'll also require porn sites to authenticate users through government websites (think OpenID but with the tax-filing website or national health insurance website, to check if age > 18), and block porn sites that don't comply (without needing a judge's permission).

It doesn't stop there. The new law requires sites that allow "foreign propaganda" (Russia Today, Sputnik) to be blocked. And though it's not directly relevant here, the law also criminalizes "online contempt" and hate speech, which includes "threats and intimidation against elected officials", and gives the government the right to legally require platforms to ban such people, and to legally punish these platforms if the person finds a way to circumvent the ban.[2][3]

Note that the French government can already block pirate sites (and does, including Sci-Hub and Libgen) without a judge's permission.[4] This isn't done in the browser itself, but all the above will be, and there's no doubt that this will be too eventually.

[0]: https://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/by-the-web/4045390-202307...

[1]: https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2023/07/06/le-senat-vo...

[2]: https://www.vie-publique.fr/loi/289345-securiser-et-reguler-...

[3]: https://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/by-the-web/4044754-202307...

[4]: https://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/piratage-sur-inter...
Never said it was the only issue. Reading comprehension.
Yes exactly, I don’t care. I want to write code and not constantly spend time thinking about the structure and semantics of my version control system.

I understand different projects have different requirements for version control, but as someone who does not work on massive codebases with a huge amount of collaborators I enjoy that the GUI I use somewhat hides the complexity I don’t want to engage with.
Cover surfaces with this ARPA-E funded material https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/passive-radi...

Not only does it reflect heat (what metals do), it’s designed to emit heat energy (what metals don’t do) in the atmospheres IR window so that they are actually cooling as well.
It's weird that so many other species in Star Trek also have replicators, antimatter, transporters, warp drive, etc. But somehow only humans managed to create a post-scarcity utopia out of it.
Yep. Warhammer 40k and the Event Horizon are what made me fall in love with the genre.
>Are there no local taxes which can cover this?

There are monthly, local taxes, yes. Payable by all residents.

Are they enough? Nothing is ever enough.
I agree, I linked some stuff in my response to the other comment
AMD only got one for the 286 because IBM wanted a second source supply for their IBM PC's and things got murky when the i386 came around and AMD needed to compete.

There were some copying and I think they settled with AMD licensing the Intel FSB for $$$ (they switched to DEC Alpha bus protocol when the AMD Athlon 64 bit era came around).

With the AMD 64 they licensed it back to Intel when it became clear that Itanuim was dead as it was so slow and Microsoft forced Intel's hand by releasing a version for Windows Server.

The market is big enough for both.
Sounds like more fuel to provoke corporate into removing remote work
Hybrid work was always a nice balance (having been fully-remote & on-premise). But ‘hybrid’ could mean a lot of things. Meeting up once a week, quarter, or annually for some teams & projects are enough to build that missing trust. Sometimes it’s just grabbing lunch with folks. But also, many of us, myself included, need to do better jobs integrating into the community & meeting our neighbors instead of relying so much on the workplace for socializing. I still find cafés an ideal location just because that reset & stimulation of fellow patrons or even the staff is enough to recharge & shake the funk that is easy to get stuck in if limited to just your own home where it’s too easy not to stop. Coworking spaces, labeled as such or impromptu, can help break it up too.
Same here. Best of both worlds.

Pre-pandemic I usually worked in open offices, and always found them horrible.

I found it insane the first job I had that companies preferred me to work in an open plan office, whereas I could do hobby coding without any distractions at home.
While many surely do their best, nobody supports a family on 20k/yr in the US.
There's another post currently on the front of HN about beavers helping prevent wildfires by just doing beaver things.

Maybe it's people who should stop spreading to every corner of the planet.

Oh right, excuse the fuck outta me this is HN, I forgot we're not allowed to question the orthodoxy that humans deserve to build a world-spanning metropolis because manifest destiny.
> then that plus time reversal necessarily entails non-determinism.

No. Generally speaking in the "Platonic ideal", we assume that if we reversed time, the particle would move from rest in a deterministic way, that there's only one solution for its movement. The surprising part here is that there are multiple valid solutions. Which takes a very-specially designed "dome" to demonstrate -- which is very surprising indeed.

> It's actually very challenging to stop things from moving without friction.

No it's not. All it takes is a billiard ball in motion hitting another billiard ball at rest. The first billiard ball will now have stopped moving. Which is kind of the canonical example of how we expect things to be deterministically reversible.
https://archive.is/xvbgU
I agree with everything in this post and the thing that gets me the most is broken back buttons on ecommerce sits.
Income tax should be abolished completely, since it is immoral. Government should derive their tax income from taxing corporations. And the best way to avoid any "tax optimization" schemes is to tax revenue, not profit. You run a business? 1-5% of your revenue goes to IRS, and you can do whatever you want with the rest. This would also have a nice side effect of reducing cost of accounting services since without tax avoidance schemes 90% of accounting work goes away.
It takes a while for mergers to result in solid directional change.
Sir, this is a thread for people who feel they are very smart to talk about how they feel.
I've since switched to Neovim, but only for the LSP, virtually using it like I would with Vim. Can't imagine working without it, and probably won't enjoy programming as much if not for Vim. Thank you and RIP, Bram.
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot
Why are you helping them? It’s their fault for being cheapasses while using an expensive phone. It’s like a BMW owner complaining about the price of premium gas.
Wait till people start getting cancelled and impoverished by having their AI accounts closed. Sure, they're still free, but they won't be able to get a job.
That was hilarious. The best comedy is that which rings true
Well, that's the thing. Scala is powerful and gives freedom, so it is really hit or miss.

A good Scala codebase is a pleasure to work with and is sooo much better than the best Java codebase could possibly be. But a bad Scala codebase can be horrible and be confusing to a point where you'd wish that Scala wouldn't give this freedom to developers at all.

Pick your poison I guess.
> Remember when the superiority of man was his ability to create art?

Nope. Are you straw manning here, or was that really a thing?
> Not a lawyer, but is this actually the case?

Generally, no, they have a license, generally a broad, perpetual, non-exclusive license per the conditions attached to use of the site. not ownership. OTOH:

> I thought the core of section 230 was about exactly that - that a site operator does not constitute a "publisher" for everything that is written on their site, if the site is just a "dumb" software that displays content written by the site's users - and therefore can't be made liable for anything written in user-generated content in the way they would be for editoral content.

This is wrong on multiple levels; it specifically does not require that it be ”dumb” (neutral) software, which would have made them a distributor not a publisher under the law without Section 230; it specifically is to allow site operators (and other users) to do things that shape which content is presented without being subject to liability as a publisher.

But that's about liability, not ownership.

> (... this doesn't even touch on the situation where that content contains intellectual property or PII.)

If its not IP, no one has ownership ; ownership of content only applies to IP of some kind.
I was remote before the pandemic, when there would be frequent in person team events and company gatherings. This was great.

Then in the pandemic, isolation. Not great, but temporary.

Now companies are cutting costs so there's no in person gathering, no team get together. Being remote is painful. I'm doing it because I'm used to it and can cope with it for a while, plus I work with people I know from previous jobs. But I can't wait until I can meet in person again and do a more "meet once per quarter" model...
Does anyone know what the utility of sending humans in space is, beyond what you can do with probes? Every time I read about a human space program I am struck by what seems like a massive amount of risk on part of the human to do something that can be done with a probe if a little bit more investment is made automating these systems. I know some people have an interest in learning how to perform habitable space flight , but I just don’t see the point of that or even a space colony. The human is a terrible earth animal to go into space. We need expensive environmental controls, we are quite large, and space is amazingly hostile outside the magnetosphere. You have Apollo astronauts reporting seeing flashes; thats from space based radiation hitting their retinas after leaving the protection of the magnetosphere. That same radiation is bombarding their DNA. We report significantly higher levels of cancer from flight attendants, imagine the rates from regular astronauts if human space flight becomes a routine practice. And for what exactly, pride, ego, I’m not sure, because I can’t imagine a situation where you need a human hand in outer space and not a mechanical one.
I feel very grateful for having had the opportunity during covid to work remotely for American companies. My salary suddenly skyrocketed 5x, the job was interesting and I had a lot of autonomy. But increasingly I am feeling like I miss the routine of going to work, meeting people and working together. I don't know what to do now, though, since I will have to sacrifice a lot of income if I want to find a hybrid or in-office job.
That's what we're currently building now for AI. It takes vast investment to get there but the foundation blocks of LLMs make the target in sight.
Obviously all the introverts would rather work from home. Do remember though, humans are social animals. Hybrid is best in my opinion.
It's Disney. Someone will buy it.
> There is no such thing as a printer that will only run the "reject third-party ink" program. There is no such thing as a phone that will only run the "reject third-party apps" program. There are only laws, like the Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that make writing and distributing those programs a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine (for a first offense).

This framing is horribly wrong, and Doctorow's characterization of computers being intrinsically open to unrestricted computation is outright dangerous. He goes on to fill in a lot of nuance which kind of walks things back, but his narrative still revolves around the war on general purpose computing being primarily about fending off legislative mandates by government.

The DMCA certainly does create a chilling effect on researching and releasing vulnerabilities in trusted computing / digital restrictions management, including a chilling effect of other companies attempting adversarial interoperability. But at the core of it, the reason we don't see more exploits to get around "secure" boot and the like is precisely because these technical restrictions seem to mostly work. We did have a nice introductory period where people were finding logic bugs in chains of trust and whatnot, but those seem to have mostly calmed down as the code/logic gets reused for new devices with those bugs fixed.

So unfortunately, the real threat to freedom posed by remote attestation is indeed itself part of the physical "reality" of computational complexity plus the economics of electronics manufacturing. Governments don't need to mandate its use to have businesses slowly nudge people towards it, just as they have been successfully nudging people with CAPTCHAs/blocks for using less surveillable IPs and more secure browsers (eg resistFingerprinting = true).

Ultimately, it's going to take positive political action to prevent this looming societal threat - either active legislation prohibiting it and/or reworking the standards group to respect user freedom. Essentially - either baking in manufacturer known/controlled attestation/signing keys needs to be prohibited, or TPMs need to have a suitable maintenance mode that allows importing/exporting all embedded keys.
The handwriting on those notes is legit.
I’ve worked with C# for 15ish years and it’s easily the language I hate working with the most. I understand the love it gets, I really do, but as soon as you step out of its basics and need to do something extra it becomes such a shit show of wasted hours. I still have nightmares from the 1-2 version where you basically had to build your own ASP to do anything reasonably with it, but those days have been gone for at least a decade and it’s not fair to compare with that. Even after 4.5 hit, however, you’d have to extend things to make them work the way you want, and as soon as you did that, some of the magic sometimes break.

I did some extensive AD work with it back before Runbooks and Powershell became the obvious way to do that, and while it was easy to do simple things, setting up something to admin a bunch of school devices meant rewriting a lot of the basic library because Microsoft only ever include the minimum. Which is where things got odd, because you’d expect something like filtering to work the same regardless of which AD attribute you were filtering, right? Well yeah, that’s not how the extra extended attributes work. Maybe Microsoft of the day never imagined you’d need more than the standard extended attributes, but there was just no foundation to get anything of the official AD packages to work with them back then.

In more modern days things are basically the same. We currently have an API that uses OData, and since that’s mainly a Microsoft thing on the server side as most other people went with GraphQL or are still doing special Rest endpoints, we like it on the client side. The server side has been an actual shot show though. Because despite the EntityFramework and OData libraries both being official Microsoft libraries (they even worked together better than they do now at one point) they just won’t play nice. In OData you have a “patch” functionality which basically lets you update changes in objects without doing anything yourself but since the EF and OData model builders don’t work the same way, not even for the exact same annotations, well, it doesn’t work until you rewrite half of it. And the “fun” doesn’t stop there because while .Net has UUIDv4 GUIDs they aren’t actually following the specification for UUIDv4, meaning that any GUID you generate won’t pass any non-Microsoft checks. And to make things even better, if you ever need to extend objects in your JSON in a way that improves on the OData efficiency then they will no longer be forwarded as camelCase JSON but instead as PascalCase for a reason we still have been able to figure out despite working with actual Microsoft developers on the issue…

Like I said. C# is really great for things that GPT can basically generate for you, but I’ve probably wasted at least a year of my life trying to figure out why some part of it wasn’t working the way it was supposed to in some obscure edge case. I’ve worked with a lot of languages and C# is the only one that has this “feature”.
Who's Jan?
You're wrong. Covax is a bandaid. If I cut your arm off, and then offer to pay for half the price of the treatment, that doesn't absolve me of guilt.

And you're wrong about the vaccines too. They were mostly developed with public money, private companies just profited off them.
https://archive.is/ZIRz2
here's hoping he had a .swp
Not saying anything we didn't already know.

But you'll always have some hippie developers on hackernews who believe remote is the future religiously.
> It’s time to admit that remote work doesn’t work. WFH Friday is a four-day work week. Full WFH is a two-day workweek. When people are not in the office, every interaction has to be planned in advance. And that means a lot of information-sharing doesn’t happen. Remote is a great lifestyle, not a way to build a great company

If you're starting an article with a strong, absolute, data-devoid, and highly opinion-based quote from an executive (not an engineer or direct manager), then I'm not going to take much stock in your writing.

Look, I'm not saying remote is better or worse. But I will say that as an engineer, a hybrid model works excellent for my personal productivity. If anything, I spend more hours focused when I'm at home or at my local coffee shop. I am fully aware that I am missing social interaction, serendipitous productive conversation, yada yada, when I'm not in the office. I am aware that my company might be more productive if we were all in-person. But statements like this?

> Full WFH is a two-day workweek.

Yeah, fuck off. Why are we trusting executives' opinions on day-to-day lives of their line workers anyway? Their work is different: it's largely based on connections and debates and presentations and deal-making. My work is centered around focused writing and refinement of code and prose. Obviously our ideal work environments might differ.

Also, tangentially, every image in this article seems to be a stock photo of someone stressed out in an office :)
He didn't predict the specifics, like fracking. If he knew that it would become economical, good on him for knowing more. But that's a matter of geology and petroleum science; it couldn't be predicted purely from the economics.

I point it out only to say "somebody will do something to fix climate change, so don't worry about it" is not a sound position either. The economics predict there will be reactions, but they include a lot of suffering. Dealing with it sooner rather than later will reduce the suffering, and we've already lost a lot of time.