skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just stop the bleeding.

Is that enough? AFAIK all paths forward to avoid the worst outcomes includes becoming net negative ASAP.

That's stopping the addition of 37,000,000,000 tonnes of CO2 anually.

For context, a modern CCS captures some thousands of tonne, which is a comparatively tiny, tiny number.

Unless magic happens in the next decade, it appears that geoengineering is something we can't avoid, sans the suffering and death of billions.

I'd love to be wrong here.
Fedora is used for the WSL 2 VM that enables Podman on Windows. I think it'll stick around at least in this format for a while.
great, I can save space I don't need to save at the top of the keyboard and then get to do meta key acrobatics to press function keys!
Interestingly, at least British and Australian people tend to make the 'R' sound when the word ends in a vowel sound (e.g. "dater" instead of "data").
Starting small doesn't work if you have a nonlinear system. In nonlinear systems, the magnitude of a perturbance isn't linearly related to the absorbed effect.

So in the worst case: small input, giant irreversible effect.
i mean...FUCK california.
If it turns into a controlled steady state, does it still fit the medical definition of cancer?
Because its about looks.

They also use stupid "aviation" connectors on USB cables and all sorts of things, its just aesthetics.
The Arc A770 came out in the time of the 30x0 series, so it would be more fair to say that it is slower than a higher end card one generation older than it. That isn't an uncommon occurrence. For instance, the 2070s are often faster than the 3060s, and the A770 was supposed to be roughly aiming for 3060 performance.

Overall, I'd call it close enough in performance that I'd be interested in giving it a try. On the work side, I worry more about being bitten by lack of CUDA (although I like the look of SYCL that Intel/Kronos push as an alternative), and on the gaming side, I worry more about how if DX10/DX11 titles will ever really get sorted out. Still, when I get a desktop that supports Resizable BAR, I will likely put an Intel GPU in that machine to give it a try.
Nah, I think I just dislike humans behaving like pigs. There must be some strong correlation between buying large buttery bags of popcorn and manners on the table. I would also be annoyed if I was sitting next to people like that in a restaurant talking and chewing with their mouth full, eating with their hands or dropping utensils on the plate, but the proximity in the theater and the length of the movie makes it so much worse (those XL bags and large sodas can last two hours). I rarely go to the theaters in the US anymore for that reason, people in general are just gross, perhaps in other countries is different.
I think porn sites are already filtered by Google. Kagi doesn't have it's own search, it is just layer over Google search.
American mainstream consumers have weird preferences, I would guess?

It's perfectly possible to buy decent chocolate in the US. Eg Lindt and Ritter Sport seem to be widely available. (They are far from the best chocolate, they are just decent-enough brands that I remembered at the top of my head, and could verify with a quick web search are available in the US.)

How toxic is that meat actually? What are your sources? How do you know it's more of a problem in the US than in Germany? (Americans like to complain about their products. But we get American beef here in Singapore, and it's generally ok. Typically not as good as the Japanese or even Australian stuff, but good enough.)

> [...] nor health clinics where you can simply declare yourself in need of large amounts of highly addictive opiate painkillers in order to receive a prescription.

The stories I heard are rather the opposite: the political and regulatory backlash against the alleged 'opioid epidemic' has been so bad, that it's hard for people who legitimately need painkillers to get a prescription.

I suspect the US is a big country, so both accusations can be true at the same time. Even if the problem is tiny in relative terms, because of the size of the country, in absolute terms you will find plenty of cases of both failure modes.
I don’t know much about Python, but from searching up WSGI, this sounds quite similar to the Web Application Interface [https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai].
At least for the bbc, the government isn't directly involved in the editorial. They have to resort to appointing their friends director general & threatening to abolish the licence fee to try to get what they want.
> * Gradually pull out visually awkward chunks of code and put them into functions with no arguments at the top of the file.

I have seen scientific code written in this manner written in both Python and Fortran.
This may be some intuitive way to start off, and even complete the task at hand.

But for people trying to read, understand, and realistically, debug your code, this complicates things.

Because each no-argument function can only work via its side effects.
Your script becomes a succession of state transitions, and to understand it, you have to keep the intended state after each step in your head.

And in case of a mistake, you can't even call these functions individually via passing their intended arguments using the REPL. You have to set up all the state beforehand manually, call your no-arg function, observe the state afterwards. Which becomes more awkward the further down you are in your script, since all your dependencies are implicit and possibly even completely undocumented.
Can Intel refuse to sell such license to nVidia or ask for much higher fees than other companies? If nVidia bought one of those companies, would that allow them to produce x86 chips at will?
Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue payouts on time
Yeah, the pandemic where rich countries had developed economies capable of producing such vaccines, which they then donated massively to poorer countries [1] or sold to other countries at reduced price. If these companies did not exist, or if they had no profit motive, no one would have had vaccines.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covax-donations
Sure, but they will never be in the same state, which can even be used as a source of entropy: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-015-2287-7
Urgh no thanks.

But I would be curious if a dog at that age is better or worse for the immune system.
w3schools garnered a reputation for stating outright wrong facts. I think they rectified that part, but I think the way they break down information is still far inferior to MDN on basically every topic.
Absolutely. Now all we need is politicians and their constituents around the globe to get on board with this.

Again with the George Carlin quotes though (watch the clip “it’s a big club”) most governments are not _that_ interested in a deeply educated general population, _or_ birth control. Where are we going to get all of our obedient little workers from?

So not holding my breath :)
Dunno but at least on Glider client, you can block from the username menu.
>Science doesn't really tell us what happens to your consciousness after death.

There are a lot of things science doesn't currently tell us. That doesn't mean every possible alternative is equally reasonable.

Either consciousness is physical or non-physical. If it's physical, then everything we know about the brain and the laws of physics suggests that it can't survive the death of the brain. If it's non-physical, then it must still interact with the quantum fields of physics. Otherwise, how would we have any experience of physical reality? The slogan in these situations is "show me the equations". If you're claiming that there is a non-physical substance that interacts with quantum fields, there should be equations governing these interactions. Until these equations have been provided and confirmed to predict the results of experiments, why should we believe in it?

>Death is ultimately a natural part of life

This is the naturalistic fallacy. Just because something is natural does not automatically make it good. If 100 years on this rock is better than 25, why wouldn't 1000 years be better than 100?
> And the top is where the big money is.

But the bottom is where volume and profits are. If the PC market has shown us anything, it’s that only producing for the top of the market gets you outcompeted.
The other essential talk I usually recommend is “beyond PEP8” by Raymond Hettinger.

Its was one of those things that was always on my mind, but couldn’t express it well to my peers, before encountering this talk. Plus its about both python and java, so increases the chances to be heeded by non-fp people.

A lot of programmers I’ve worked with either don’t want to learn well the environment they are working in, thus repeating stuff that doesn’t fit well, or over-engineer abstractions to force their environment to behave the way they like, and both approaches can leave the codebase in shambles.
Do you intentionally ignore advice that's constantly posted here and elsewhere to NEVER take local events that go against the trends as evidence against the trends, or you're just new here and on any discussion of this topic and just didn't know that?

Even parts of Antartica are currently cooling down, that's very well known and even expected according to climate models. But no, that's not evidence against global warming.
It is slightly amusing how the text says multiple times that the spacecraft "remains on its expected trajectory". Were they anticipating autonomous course changes?
I think it might be more understandable if you could block individual subreddits, I found experience to vary greatly depending on your topic since the moderation isn't uniform.
If like to know too. I learned python in jupyter notebooks. It makes experimenting and incremental development much easier (IMO) provided you remember to account for the current state of the notebook, which sometimes has me pulling my hair out.
Im already always much afraid when I have to remotely reboot a workstation and delighted being able to ssh into it again soon later, though the worst case here is not as bad as with this most far away remote machine, thus amazed by your confidence and calmness ;)
It is better than it was, but I'd still much prefer to see the mdn, it's much better.
Yes, I'm buying it in spray form.
Mostly Facebook groups, from what I’ve seen.
Korbut Flip
You wrote: "By default, consumers are their own best regulator. You buy only the bread that tastes good"

Demonstrably not true. Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum :

> In the Victorian era, alum was used along with other substances like plaster of Paris to adulterate certain food products, particularly bread. It was used to make lower-grade flour appear whiter, allowing the producers to spend less on whiter flour. Because it retains water, it would make the bread heavier, meaning that merchants could charge more for it in their shops. The amount of alum present in each loaf of bread could reach levels that would be toxic to humans and cause chronic diarrhea, which could lead to death in young children.[26]

Or https://www.geriwalton.com/food-and-drink-adulteration-in-17...

> ... by the early 1800s, the practice of adulteration had become so common, nineteenth century people developed a taste for fraudulent substances in their food and drink and often did not realize anything was wrong with what they were ingesting until it was too late.

quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bread :

> [Bread adulteration] gradually came to an end with government action, such as the 1860 and 1899 Food Adulteration Acts in Britain.[29] America had a more difficult time ending these processes of adulteration, however, as various states had varying policies regarding bread making.

The free market could not resolve the problem.
Using atomics is easier than warp operations (using warp shuffle for example), but warp shuffle is quite fast.

I guess if determinism is so important implementations can be changed, it is just maybe not that high priority.
Interesting read. I've thought about this for a while.

My woes with the site is that my connection to any of the clearnet domains seem to get black holed, or completely blocked by Cloudflare while using Tor. The onion site works fine for viewing, but to archive pages I need to complete the extremely difficult Cloudflare CAPTCHA.
> The director blinked. “Well, do something, so we can change it!”

Related, but maybe distinct...

I don't know how common it is among choreographers, but a methodological tool of at least one modern dance choreographer, working on a new piece, is to have a session with the dancers, and have them individually improvise a particular part, under some direction. Then she'll do things like, "Oo, everyone try what Jane is doing."
Insanely silly headline, the building cannot be a surprise or news the planning burdens in CA are non trivial and Google employs enough people it makes sense.

What's the enticement? $99. So it's a $99 hotel room which the company gets.. from payroll. I doubt it recoups profit but probably a tax side means the capex and opex to run the joint isn't a complete loss.

I expect in due course to see Googlers release news of the tailgate stupidities and the set of house rules which get creatively ignored and modified
A modest proposal: load up all the geoengineering-of-bust onto Falcon Heavies and ship them to Mars as a pilot project
Did you see the new Curious King and Arete Edition roman numeral editions that were teased this week?
Password manager + something you are/something you have. Cookies solve the problem for me after the first login + remember me option.

It's going to take time but people are going to have to get used to needing n+2 things to log into their accounts (username + password + MFA).
From my experience with Clojure, and how it changed my thinking:

1. I stopped thinking about OOP, classes, “patterns”, frameworks, and mostly think about what data flows through the program, how it’s (they’re?) transformed and stored. It’s a much clearer view of a system, I think.

2. I started being very conservative about mutable state. I keep mutable parts few and mostly on the top level, and compose program logic from practically pure functions. It helps with debugging issues immensely, and fewer issues arise because pieces can’t interact unpredictably.

3. I stopped caring about types/shape of data inside modules, and spec the hell out of it on module boundaries. IMO static typing is too strict for the former use case, and too loose for the latter. It allows more flexibility in implementation without actual breaking changes.

4. I now enjoy developing in REPL, updating a running program, adding features in real time. It feels so natural.
really fun:
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/globalmap

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/alabama-10
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/new-york-9
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/connecticut-8
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/massachusetts-9
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/nebraska-3

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/scotland-14
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/northern-ireland-6
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/wales-7

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/fiji-3

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/uruguay-1
Also the high-status dialect of American English until the 1950s was nonrhotic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
Especially since HNers mostly are the top top top earners in the world, having unsustainable lifestyles. No one likes to accept it can't be like this forever.
The software is much simpler on Voyager so there’s not a lot to go wrong and there are a shitload of failsafes that have to go wrong before the vehicle stops working. For example on some stuff I’ve worked on and the Mars rovers there are multiple boot chips per flight computer and multiple flight computers per vehicle, and even if both are dead you can do some basic tasks just using a micro controller on the radio.
Trouble is that in many cases the food industry has rebased what was once the normal product as 'premium' and charges a higher price for it. A good example is bacon.

No food manufacturer us going to sell the 'normal' product as just that and label the cheaper one as somehow inferior.

On a side note, it irks me that a certain brand of mayonnaise (made by a global chemicals company), which calls itself 'real mayonnaise' lists its top two ingredients as vegetable (not olive) oil and water. Not exactly a classic start to how the original was made.
How does this website overcome paywalls?
Are the fractions ongoing efforts or did you drop it?

re-reads for me:

Diamond Age (4) (I'm an educator),
Cryptonomicon (2),
Baroc cycle (2)

However i plan to re-read Anathem in paralell with my second re-read of Russels A History of Western Philosophy. Really looking forward to this one.
not too shocking. older people retain deep memory and they are often triggered by smell, music and other sensory inputs.
Idiomatic JavaScript doesn’t use currying. If you add it to your code base, you are now siloing your project to folks that understand currying which has two problems: 1) hiring Joe Schmo to add/maintain will be harder 2) folks that understand currying will almost certainly be more happy & productive in a language that has currying by default & is idiomatic.

For instance, the audience that sees fp-ts as a necessary, useful library to code in a manner they find most appropriate will find JavaScript/TypeScript ergonomics verbose, hard to read, and require someone with functional programming experience (see the verbosity according to their docs of TypeScript+fp-ts vs. PureScript: https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/guides/purescript.html). That audience would be better suited doing compiled option such as the aforementioned PureScript, or js_of_ocaml, ReScript, derw, Idris, GHC.js/whatever the new GHC compiler JS output is, or similar option. These languages will have the idioms of fp-ts without the heavy reliance on singularly library most of the TypeScript community doesn’t understand that bloats their code bases without requiring the safety (someone can just call .value on a Maybe/Option breaking the safety). (This is not a knock against fp-ts which is a marvel in & of itself, but the audience doesn’t line up with the idioms of the average TypeScript project).
> The top-ranked sources really show Kagi's current demographic. It obviously is attractive to programmers and IT professionals.

And specifically, American programmers and IT professionals.
I think I've stayed there while visiting the Mountain View offices for training. They were nice accomodations but felt a bit strange to be in a hotel operated by my employer. I got to expense it then but I doubt people staying there for RTO will get the chance.
I don't think I've ever bitten into a pear or plum with "unappetizingly soft or gristly bits".
Kagi search is brilliant in this aspect. There used to be a similar service [0] not too long ago that blocked many spam sites from the search results.

[0] http://millionshort.com/
The genetic programming scene kind of evolved into NEAT, HyperNEAT and ES-HyperNEAT as a meta learning concept.

Connections between layers/nodes are serialized as genes of agents with phenotypes and dominant/recessive markers, and an observing CPPN learns to categorize agents into different traits to find more efficient breeding mechanisms.

It's a strong concept, and AFAIK it's still used a lot in the robotics world where you have to guarantee behaviors and have to be able to reproduce behaviors due to safety regulations.

There was a nice intro video into the underlying base concept which is called NEAT by a youtuber named SethBling [2]

[1] http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/ESHyperNEAT/

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44
I started using Kagi specifically because of more accurate results in Polish comparing to other search engine.

A teraz jestem płacącym użytkownikiem, już chyba z pół roku :)
It's subtle and so difficult to see the differences at smaller scales. If you're going to provision a handful of EC2 instances, all the tools work fine.

I think HCL is an under appreciated aspect of Terraform. It was kinda awful for a while, but it's gotten a lot better and much easier to work with. It hits a sweet spot between data languages like JSON and YAML and fully-general programming languages like Python.

Take CloudFormation. The "native" language is JSON, and they've added YAML support for better ergonomics. But JSON is just not expressive enough. You end up with "pseudoparameters" and "function calls" layered on top. Attribute names doubling as type declarations, deeply nested layers of structure and incredible amounts of repetitious complexity just to be able to express all the details need to handle even moderate amounts of infrastructure.

So, ok, AWS recognizes this and they provide CDK so you can wring out all the repetion using a real programming language - pick your favourite one, a bunch are supported. That helps some, but now you've got the worst of both worlds. It's not "just JSON" anymore. You need a full programming environment. The CDK, let's say the Python version, has to run on the right interpreter. It has a lot of package dependencies, and you'll probably want to run it in a virtualenv, or maybe a container. And it's got the full power of Python, so you might have sources of non-determinism that give you subtle errors and bugs. Maybe it's daylight saving gotchas or hidden dependencies on data that it pulls in from the net. This can sound paranoid, but these things do start to bite if you have enough scale and enough time.

And then, all that Python code is just a front end to the JSON, so you get some insulation from it, but sometimes you're going to have to reason about the JSON it's producing.

HCL, despite its warts, avoids the problems with these extremes. It's enough of a programming language that you can just use named, typed variables to deal with configuration, instead of all the { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["ObjectName", "AttName"] } nonsense that CloudFormation will put you through. And the ability to create modules that can call each other is sooo important for wringing out all the repetition that these configurations seem to generate.

On the other hand, it's not fully general, so you don't have to deal with things like loops, recursion, and so on. This lack of power in the language enables more power in the tools. Things like the plan/apply distinction, automatically tracking dependencies between resources, targeting specific resources, move blocks etc. would be difficult or impossible with a language as powerful as Python.

HCL isn't the only language in this space - see CUE and Dhall, for example - but it's undoubtedly the most widely used. And it makes a real difference in practice.
The untold history of today’s Russian-speaking hackers
Great suggestion! With internet-accessible code blocks this should be doable soon, but we love the idea of a "first class" block for social APIs.
The century old central media establishment stopped pushing a single dialect decades ago. There's no accepted dialect.
The contract can not remove your legal rights, but can ask you to give them up in exchange for something. For example, I can not prohibit you from driving you own car, but if I rent it from you, and later you just take it back while my rental term still in effect, it would be a breach of contract, despite the car being legally yours. And if I learn that you never intended to let me drive the car, but still pretended to rent if out, then if would be fraud. Same, my employer can not prevent me from exercising my right you free speech, but some of it - eg disclosing trade secrets - may get me fired and sued for damages. Because by signing employment contract I agreed to give up exercise of some rights - like use if my time and some of my speech - in exchange for the salary. If I didn't I could speak of any secrets and they couldn't do a thing.

Contract is a meeting of minds honestly intending to perform. If you did not have the good faith intention to perform the contract, it's not just sneaky, it's fraudulent.