skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you expect corporations or government to just Do The Right Thing

It's not just corporations or government. Any system of organizing multiple human beings that depends on an unbroken chain of Good People Doing The Right Thing is bound to fail, and fail much sooner rather than later. This happens all the time in nonprofit organizations, civil societies, and what have you.

Individual people can be expected to Do The Right Thing, even at personal cost, sometimes. We've all helped strangers change a flat tire even when it's uncomfortably hot outside. But I'm sure we've all also just driven by someone on the side of the road, because we were in a rush to get somewhere.

Over time, and in groups, people can only be expected to operate based on the incentives and disincentives that are presented to them. (Hence your "regulation or continual threat".)
Yeah, looks like it works that way mostly - based on the examples written up in "How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time" by M Ridley (https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Innovation-Works-Matt-Ridley/dp...). Having done some R&D myself I tend to think of re-search as "repeated search for something that works" these days. Luck (or lack of) plays a big role too, the circumstances and the personalities of the actors involved likewise. Another book on a similar theme (but for medicine specifically) that I really enjoyed reading is "Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century" by MA Mayers (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Happy-Accidents-Serendipity-Breakth...).
I don't know about those orgs but as someone who has attended some rallies and plan to attend more, I'll tell you this, the minute you do something to help improve the situation, the better you will feel.

Whether it's planting trees, raising awareness, install ting your own solar, it will all make you feel better.

Currently I'm rebuilding a roof on my property, hopefully out of recycled lumber and plan to put a decent sized solar array on top.
> Yes you can on the android emulator. The biggest issue is compu arch in that case.

I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?

> Yes you can for the most part

You can't statically link glibc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/3392

glibc can break stuff: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/valve-dev-understandab...

I had binaries break because the newer version if openssl was put under a slightly different name.
Rich changed my whole career, I owe him a big debt!
This reminded me of the difference between mass and weight.

Weight is the thing we can directly measure as the masses of the earth and the object interact together.

So if you imagine the scale to be a simple spring and a calibration scale of spring compression distance mapped to known weights then it’s pretty simple to see that the stack of objects act on the spring all the same despite the magnetic effect between them.

The masses are being attracted towards the earth, and the spring is the thing stopping them, when they are at rest sat atop the scale the spring compression is balancing the weight force of the masses gravitational attraction.

The foundations of a maglev train track obviously must be able to support the train tracks and the train on top of it, even if the electromagnets are engaged and the train is levitating.
Metabase security incident post-mortem: July 2023
I completely agree; the same thing happened to me with me and my wife. The risk of marrying/pairing off early is that you can grow apart in your 20's, but the reward is that you can grow together in a way that I think is harder to do later in life. I feel that my wife and I grew from two individuals into one partnership in a way that we couldn't have replicated if we met later in life.
Oh.. The poor juniors.

Instead of properly adapting the onboarding and mentoring to the remote setting let's romanticize the good old ways that imho sucked.

Let's cherrypick and pretend everything is fine.
We went from offices to cubicles to open space and nobody stopped to think if it was a good idea. Wr transformed the office from a place where work actually is done to a placr where we "socialize". Work? Do that on your own time.
Oh, there's still hope. Just a tough battle and a coin-toss chance of making it.

I feel that I'm in good hands. If I was rich, I'd maybe get better care from some more expensive hands but there's no guarantee.
For context here: This guy is a right-wing nutjob who spews Russian propaganda. Ensuring cash is mandated in the constitution ensures that there is always a good money laundering and bribing method available, especially for the Russian mob and spy agencies, which Vienna is crawling with for years: https://www.businessinsider.com/vienna-crawling-russian-spie...
I love(d) PicoLisp. I have run Windows, Linux (many flavors on many machines), and MacOS, but my working OS is Windows, and I could not get the x64 PicoLisp running on Windows back then without using Cygwin or MinGW. I can run it on WSL[1], however, it still requires a POSIX environment. Is there a way to compile a Windows binary without the POSIX required for a working PicoLisp environment?

I know it switched to an LLVM-IR base, but I don't know enough about the POSIX dependencies and creating a Windows binary.

I love PicoLisp's succinctness (I program in J and APL, learning BQN), practicality with a Prolog and built-in database. It has certainly been around for a while like me; I've been programming since 1978.

[Edit/Add] I really liked Shen[2], a Lisp built on Kλ, a small Lisp of 46 or so functions, which allows Shen to be ported to many platforms and other languages. Shen also has a Prolog, pattern matching, optional lazy evaluation and static type checking, and more. For me, it is between Shen and PicoLisp to displace my use of SBCL.

[1] https://picolisp.com/wiki/?WSL

[2] https://shenlanguage.org/index.html
Comcast, CenturyLink fail to derail Utah community-owned gigabit fiber network
They are measuring voltage, not resistance (the resistance is computed). It's impossible to measure resistance without current and some voltage across the resistance, and while the parasitic effects are small the resistance we're talking about (and hence the voltage across that resistance) is so small that second order effects introduced by the probe wires can have a real effect, for instance if the probe wires have a higher resistance that makes them more susceptible to electric fields, which in turn would show up as a voltage. So this is anything but trivial.
i’m very grateful to rich for clojure, cognitect’s libraries/tooling, and datomic. all of these have been well maintained, stable, and backwards compatible over the years.

although he’s no longer working on datomic, i really hope cognitect values growing it. it feels like such an improvement over sql to work with.
They are metaphorically in disbelief, but in actuality they are not in disbelief? Yeah I guess I understand the climate deniers too.

EDIT: Be cause I wrote the above in anger

Scientists have been sounding the alarm for as long as I have lived. They have consistently used the most optimistic scenarios and we have constantly done worse than that. Climate Deniers want to deny because the reality is an inconvenience to their ways of life. The costs of climate denial are diffuse; they can't be directly traced back to me. The benefits are acute and wholly captured by me. Add on to this that contribution toward climate change is disproportionately done by wealthier people and you get the most powerful people, who benefit the most from climate denial, trying to get others to deny with them.
find the social outside of work?
Work has always been work for me and nothing more, not really looking for socialising.

In fairness I've been fully remote for 10 years but I see friends during the day for coffees, lunch, exercise. And then multiple sports clubs in the evenings
While diploma mills are probably the easiest, I would generally recommend an executive PHD from a reputable school as this is something that will go on your resume.

Many PhD candidates fail to complete the dissertation, and executive PhD programs generally are a lot less stringent in this regard and are designed to make sure you actually finish and designed to be completed on a part time basis. However, you can still get the degree from a reputable university and have a good result.
Nah. The most beautiful women I've ever had the pleasure of meeting were unremarkable in photos, but in-person radiated an ineffable energy that made it impossible to keep my eyes off of them. When a couple of octogenarians look at each other and describe each other as attractive, that energy is what they're talking about. Framing attractiveness as mostly objective belies inexperience.
If for some reason most humans thought the Earth was flat, the idea would still be antiquated.
I miss the days where I could forget to charge my plastic nokia for 5 days, drop it out a 3rd story window onto concrete and have it run over by a car and there _might_ be a scratch on it while I T9'd out a message without looking. On the other hand I can wear a watch that could out-compete a desktop computer I had in the 90's.
That is what gaming on Mac is nowadays: paying today’s prices to play last decades’ games with last year’s performance.
My understanding is that the Nissan CVTs weren't outfitted with a large enough radiator, and that the resulting overheating is what tended to kill them. I don't think there's anything inherent about their design besides the insufficiently large radiator that would cause failures more frequently than non-CVTs.
Yeah and online censorship in the EU is only about going after child pornography.

Do you believe in a lot of fairy tales too?
Anime cat girls contribution to this memetic superconductor conversation 5% smart sounding commentary, 5% test result and 90% cancer.
Maybe.

A better explanation for the slowness of the national laboratories is they their word will be taken more definitively on this issue than anyone else.

They are the ones with reputations and have to answer to critics in the private sector, amateur sector, and in Congress.

I think their slowness is an encouraging sign, it means LK99 isn't easily debunked.
My goto is to speak a non-english language that most people where I live should know. If they don't understand, I hang up. It's a very simple heuristic that allows me to answer important calls while filtering out 99% of scammers.
Send your DMs when people are on "busy" status anyway. They can respond later. That's the huge advantage of remote work. Async communication is so much more efficient. If you're watching the clock, there's something wrong.
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Part of this may have been due to the Hunga Tonga eruption which injected an tremendous amount of water vapor into the upper atmosphere

https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/1685971656198545408

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unpr...
Need to add 100x bytes of padding operations to slow it down
Probably not, given the amount of wild speculations here
make your own term then dude; please don't bikeshed about it on orangesite
Hunga Tonga eruption or whatever it's called..
Please add support for open-source LLMs from Hugging Face :)
Did you even read the page you linked? Or are you just trying to make a snarky comeback without understanding the fallacy at hand?
The bark beetle is not an invasive species in Central Europe though. The main reason is climate change (the last decade was increasingly hotter, drier and 'stormier') combined with a man-made tree mono culture (which goes back a few hundred years).
I, too, found it fascinating how every initial reply dodged giving the Chinese credit. Instead, all of them tried every way to paint their publications in a negative light.

Surely, most tech workers have encountered working with highly competent technical coworkers from China? Or that Chinese students in America tend to perform well above average academically?

Why should anyone be surprised that China performs exceedingly well in sciences?
Then might I recommend Torrents and libgen.is

You can cover most of your materials that way. No sense in paying $$$$ for shit DRM crap that's not even a sale.
I had this issue and the only way I could solve it was moving to a primarily in-office company. This was the best thing I ever did for my mental health.

Not trying to start a big debate over the whole issue, but just sharing that I felt very similarly to you ("massively affecting my mental health") and that it was solved by doing the obvious: going back to the office.

No amount of socializing outside of work or hobbies or 1:1s during the workday sufficed for me.
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Somehow this reminded me of Joel Spolsky, who apparently is still blogging.
Love Windmill so much. It's blazing fast, super easier to try it out locally with docker-compose, and Ruben and his team are shipping new features / fixing bugs every day, and the product only gets better.
There are a couple dozen free days a year as well for IL residents. They aren’t at all convenient but we’ve still arranged time off work and taken groups there on school break days.
Not really the case anymore. If you set up Apple Game Porting Toolkit, or download one of the several GUIs for it.
The proper solution to this problem is to render the message as the user will see it and then analyze it using computer vision, running OCR to extract the text and identifying deceptive elements like brands. We built a prototype to detect brand impersonations at scale in this manner and it worked, but the GPU cost was prohibitive (on a billion messages a month) and there were lots of false positives.

If anyone is keen to learn more, reach out to me at ksimpson at mailchannels.com. We would like to open source this but don’t have the time to do it properly. If anyone is interested, please reach out to me.
I have a great social life outside of work and still felt the same as GP during the remote work day. And I'm pretty reserved at work, not known for bothering people incessantly.
I'm not what you're asking for, but almost certainly closer to 3 than 15. If it's the real deal, I imagine we have industrial capacity to make a superconducting material within 5 years. The required supplies are readily available, and while production of this particular material seems difficult, there's like a whole new field of materials to find, with very strong incentives. China would love to lead the world in a new branch of material science.
Zephyr (small footprint realtime OS) supported boards
Hey, I'm pretty big into privacy myself. Firefox all the way, 100%. Totally feel you that it's awful.

As much as I'd love it though, I don't think it's reasonably to expect everyone else to care as much as we do. There's plenty of other issues that matter too that I'm glad other people are out there caring about on my behalf. Eg. I know being vegan is better but its a big annoying change and I haven't been able to do it yet.

I'm mostly concerned with all the rhetroic here that's trying to paint firefox as unsympathetic when they are clearly the people fighting on our side. If you don't personally care enough to switch to FF, or use Graphene OS, or run Linux etc. I get that, but pleeease don't also try to discourage other people too, y'know?

(& ofc the real solution is through policy and getting an American version of GDPR/California Privacy act, getting courts to stop the NSA etc. Being preachy online is counterproductive to getting broad support and the mission overall imo)
> Here in Europe, I have the feeling the vast majority of people consider it unnecessary. The vibe I get is "The system works, so why not let the government handle and control everything.".

> I wouldn't be surprised if that is a golbal phenomena and holds steady throughout time.

Come to the east of EU/Europe and you'll see a completely opposite vibe. No wonder, people in their 40s still remember communism. And the older people sometimes think communism was still better - however bad it was - than whatever we have now.
This has nothing to do with the FDA.

The Montreal Accords, a treaty signed by the US, banned CFCs. They had a clear exemption for inhalers, as long as they were necessary.

GSK invented a new delivery method. They patented this method. The existence of method made the Montreal Accords now ban CFC based inhalers.

The FDA approved the new method (makes sense).

It seems like you have an issue with the USPTO or maybe the diplomats who negotiated the Montreal Accords. The FDA wasn't stopping anyone from making generics. Although maybe once a product can no longer be legally sold it is also unapproved. It doesn't really matter which is the case, they weren't the driving force.
We've been using windmill for our internal tooling and dashboards and its been great! Genuinely excited to see GPT-4 integration, we'll definitely give it a go.

Some things we've done with windmill so far:

* Slack bots / alerts from scheduled jobs -> All sourced in one location
* One source of truth for connectors (google drive / sheets, slack, postgres database aggs)
* Complex ATS flows (We load our applicants through a windmill task that runs LLMs to parse against a rubric we made, scores then get pushed back into the ATS system as an AI review, then that job reports to slack which helps us prioritize)
* Dashboards (Though I'll admit a bit of sharp-edges here on the UI builder) running complex python + pandas tasks that pull from postgres and run dashboards for us with pretty VEGAlite plots
* Job orchestration -- (though this is partially on hold) we have prototyped orchestrating some of our large workloads, data pipelines, etc. in a few different ways. (we run spark jobs and ray jobs on distributed clusters, and have been trying to use windmill to orchestrate and schedule these, with alerts)

Additionally, windmill made running and tracking these things (like the ATS system) accessible to my "low"-technical co-founder, who regularly will hop in and run the job or browse through error logs of previous runs.

Last, I found some bugs, reported in their discord and I heard back from rubenf very quickly and fixes went in rapidly too! Huge shoutout to the great work the windmill team is doing.
The issue with free cheap energy such as fusion isn't its direct byproducts, but its impact on society.

It will fuel an economic growth without precedent, which in turn will increase the consumption of material goods, which in turn will increase the extraction of natural resources. Those resources will become rarer and more difficult to extract, thus leading to more destructive extraction strategies.

Energy puts a cap to our ability to destroy the planet in order to satisfy our material needs. To top it all off, everyone around here loves to build new stuff, but finding ways to get rid of it without creating waste isn't as trendy.

I don't believe one second that our civilization is capable of controlling itself. And don't tell me about multi-planetary scenarios or whatnot. They are neither realistic (regardless of the energy availability) nor desirable.
like uric acid in water? https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Perspiration
Prompt Helper has been pretty helpful for repeated prompts on ChatGPT https://prompt-helper.xyz/
Wasn’t that about 146 million tons of water? It’s a lot in one go, but the atmosphere has about 2.5% water vapour, which is a total of ~ 1.3e17 kg.
Remote work and async comms means that latency tends to be high. Latency issues can be overcome by not stopping to wait at each decision point.

For example, low latency this is ok: “do you want to go to dinner or a movie?” Movie. ”Do you want to see Barbie or Oppenheimer?” Oppenheimer. “Do you want to go at 6:00, 7:00, or 8:00?” 8:00.

Instead for high latency, this will cut down on a lot of dead time in back and forth: “Do you want to dinner or see a movie? If you want dinner do you prefer to go to Il Capricio (Italian) or Sushi Go 55? I can make reservations at 6, 6:30, or 7. If you’d rather see a movie, do you want to see Barbie or Oppenheimer? Barbie is at 6:15, 7:20, and 8:15. Oppenheimer is at 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00.” Let’s do Oppenheimer at 8

It’s more work up front and any unchosen paths are “wasted effort”, but for work there’s usually value in fully exploring the alternate paths anyway.
I came across this hypothesis a few years ago and thought it was an interesting possibility, but that there wasn't any data that really supported it. In light of the data of the last few months I honestly can't think of a hypothesis that better explains what is going on with ocean temperature, especially in regions that should be in winter right now.

https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-...

It's a really long article and has been updated continuously for 3 years as new data has been coming in, but I think it really explains how this warming is being driven from the crust and bottom of the ocean up, and not via atmospheric warming. It also has an interesting proposal for the linkage between this observed warming and the variance of Earth's rotation, as well as the long observed weakening of the magnetic field.
The fact that bad people commit crimes with cash doesn't mean that there isn't a public interest in keeping cash widely available as a means of transaction. I don't suppose many HN readers would be in favor of banning encryption just because the internet is crawling with criminals and child pornographers using encrypted communication.
To be fair, any form of human organization that is not commerce-based is heavy on the Faccism scale. It matters very little if it's communist or something else.

But then, there are many ways to organize a society while keeping it commerce-based... Or maybe we manage to finally crack that nut some day and make a post-scarcity society. But on the short term "manage resources globally" heavily implies an anti-humane dictatorship.
For the non-english speakers: "disbelief" has two meanings:

1. actually not believing something

2. astonishment/amazement

Climatologists believe the temperature anomaly, and are astonished by it.

Hope that clears up some of the confusion.
I can assure you, people running robocall scams out of Nigeria and Morocco could care less about the ease-of-incorporation in the territories where their victims are located.
Ideas of human sexuality are ones shaped and formed by the culture they are within, which can change even in short timelines.

Unless you like the idea that the warlord gets all the women and you get nothing?
Like half of the tech industry is made up of "rational" libertarian types who Dunning-Kruger themselves into everything they can.
I don’t think there is a good solution here. I realized that I must have a 90th-95th percentile memory when compared to my coworkers, but it frankly doesn’t matter if I write things in chat or a long form document, it’s often lost to much of my team.

I have come to realize the best path forward is likely pair programming/working meetings (remotely) because writing things down and repeatedly referencing them doesn’t stick
> There is a healthy body fat % range but it is all very dependent on someone's activity and consumption.

The amount of body fat being detrimental doesn't change if you just exercise more or eat healthier. It's still bad by itself. You might have a better life expectancy than someone who is a sedentary lump at the same body fat, but that isn't saying much. Hence, again, BMI is a gut check. If you're at BMI=27, you almost certainly need to lose weight. Period.
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