skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems as though we currently have the technology to make a major dent in the release of carbon into the atmosphere. Due to the negative third party externality of something affecting the entire planet, this is a rare case where there should be unanimous agreement wrt allowing our governments some authority to take action.

1.) All coal, oil, and gas power plants are phased out with nuclear power taking their place. In rare exceptions where it makes sense, solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric may be considered.

2.) Continued massive subsidies for purchasing electric vehicles. Large funding for public transit, and in the US, a serious reworking of the way that bidding on contracts, etc, occurs, such that construction of this nature can actually be accomplished

3.) All forests cut for agriculture must be replaced with at least 1:1 carbon sink

4.) All large shipping vessels are changed to nuclear
He specifically said in the post that he intends to work on next versions of Clojure. Hope we have many more talks to hear from him.
Probably https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685731177523449856
It's a device you use on each end of a corn pipeline.
Looking at the amount of traffic coming from
Non-US IPs would be a start. It was incredibly US centric back in the day.
When I was a kid, the seasons were that nice free thing, now I dread them all together. Summer is just too much, and I'm scared of the winter because I love snow, and if it stops, I won't cope well with that change, it will just be too sad.

I refuse to use the A/C and I'm just sitting here sweating profusely just typing.

I can't see humans surviving another 20 years unless we start making some very, very radical changes.
> Aside from that, it would be interesting to see how people would act if they had lifespans of a thousand years - knowing that what you'll do to the environment, you'll have to bear the burden of yourself.

How people would act? The masses would never change their way of thinking, meaning there would be no progress / change of culture as well as the danger of a bad culture persisting for millenias. At the same time you would see those in power conentrate even more power and it would be certainy power like you see in non-democratic countries, where one individual rules everyone, except that individual would never ever die. Imagine if Stalin has lived to this day. Now considering that, you would think that a 1984-like goverment with a supreme leader that lives for centuries would let the average person live forever in the first place?

> versus guaranteed doom

I would not call the death, complete absence of everything, following a life well lived, doom. Everything has an end. Of course if that happens too soon, that's a tragedy.

> No more passage of time, no more conscious thoughts or experiences, ever.

It's interesting to look at the opposite. If following death, there's no experience, no awareness, nothing. Then what is the now? what it means to be alive right now, to perceive and how is it different from the memories of the past and ideas of the future? It may sound far off, but in a way, we die every moment. And on a larger scale, the 8 y/o me, the 16 y/o me is no more, not in just terms of being made of different atoms, but in terms of identity. So you can also imagine that if a person lives thousands of years, they either experience many "deaths" over time or they live the same dull life for thousands of years - in which there was no point to live that long in the first place. I can share that fear though, but it would be more in the context of "you have x months / years" to live heard at a relatively young age with life feeling far from finished, but the longer I live and the more things I do and experience that I wanted to do and experience, I imagine the easier it is to come to terms and be grateful for what has happened already.

Don't have anything against what they are doing and heck, if I could easily afford it, maybe I would even sign up - one way ticket to see what the future would be like (vs. nothing like you said). But I don't think it's that important and if humanity reverse engineers the brain so that a person can live for thousands of year, or potentially infenitely (I think that would be the biggest challenge that goes far beyond just stopping death, I would not expect a brain to work for hundreds of years without serious modifications), if everyone has an access to it, it's like one of those things like an omni-intelligent AI, something you would think everyone would be better off if it was never developed.

I think it would be cool if aging was stopped (the prime years of adulthood are so short) but I'd wish there was some natural cap of say, 200 years max were the brain would just break down at the end and it would be very hard to make it work longer).
I once got a spoofed call from the number 666-2012. They told me I was going to hell with an obviously modulated voice. I just replied, "Finally!!" The person on the other end didn't know how to react to that. This was probably around 2009ish? After that time though, random calls were never fun like that.

They became predatory from then on out. I tried to play around at first, messing with them and such. Then it became relentless and the blocking never seemed to work. Then I just switched to letting random numbers go to VM. That seemed to have cut off about 50% of robocalls over time. Then eventually I got a pixel phone. Just the call screening alone is worth it. I may get 1 or 2 random numbers calling me a month now. And I usually don't even know they called unless I look at my call log.

I am happy that trend is starting to be picked up by other phone makers. Good on the FCC for clamping down on this stuff. It has been a long term problem and there is still a lot more of these people out there. I hope they learned a lot and can utilize this knowledge in the future to shut more people down.
The main measure pushed by the FCC under Ajit Pai (so he was not a total waste of oxygen) was SHAKEN/STIR, which is basically cryptographically signed Caller ID. Deploying this went amazingly rapidly by the standards of the telco industry, and specially considering how much legacy there is in the landline phone business where the switch makers Lucent and Nortel went bust 2 decades ago and obviously their software has not seen any updates in that long.
Who can do anything? Things cost money and money is usually already earmarked for other things. The labs that can engage with this have both some sort of a slush fund or another account appropriate to charge these fishing expeditions to, and also a post doc who somehow has plenty of time on their hands to drop everything they are doing and validate a dubious result.
Sounds like a co-dependence to me. There will be a day they no longer "have" her.
Years ago I wrote an oscilloscope-style monitor for an ATI load cell using ImGUI in the early days. This library would have been extremely useful. Kudos!

Screenshot: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/77752/5382993/9f6...
My comment had nothing to do about the money that Theranos raised, but about how the hype feels.

Theranos was sooooo hyped on HN early on, and now we know how it turned out. This feels like practically a carbon copy of that hype.
So we just wait for the next tipping point that will be the extinction of mammals.
I got settlement offers of $500 and $1000, the amounts of the advertised prizes, before going to court. In the first case I got the offer as soon as the consumer protection agency e-mailed the dealership. In the second case I got the offer as soon as they received formal notice of suit. Filing the reports took me about fifteen minutes. Filling out the notice of suit took me about an hour, most of which was research.

I took them to court because the settlement offers contained clauses I didn't like. I could have recovered the money with less work. Going to court took an afternoon, most of which was spent sitting in a waiting room.
This makes sense. Now, an interesting question to ask in relation to any crypto activity: who's taking the other side of the trade, and why? Who's trading dollars to bitcoin to pesos? I'm guessing the answer is "people who have some means of laundering pesos back to dollars at the official rate"?
No more, see SHAKEN/STIR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
Probably at least in part by design, as with everything else in MacWorld.. how is Apple well served by allowing a competing app store that's dominant in gaming?
I use email services which support U2F, such as yubikey. Thankfully that is supported in most environments today.
Yes and no. Obviously there are people in desperate circumstances but scamming applies to people in every social class. I can't believe how many successful business people know that invested indirectly in crypto through a "custodial" unregulated fund. Supposely they know that high returns are correlated with high risks.

In addition, Argentina entrepreneurs are very unique in the region not only in Web3 but also in computer security among other areas. The headquarters are obviously incorporated in a good jurisdiction to avoid the country madness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_electric_multiple_unit
It's an open-source privacy oriented and no bullshit interface to Twitter.
Also, if you get UDP completely right, do you need any other IP protocols? The whole point of UDP is programming directly to the datagram interface. Before IPv6 you could even disable the checksums.
I learned about the term Jovian from "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" The idea of somehow capturing ice giants and bringin them into the zone where they would melt to create water in the planets closer to the star is a stelar system is fascinating.

Also: the solar system would look completely different if Jupiter was not a thing.
The Rediscovery of Circadian Rhythms
Twitter account claiming fully floating LK99 pellet
Any hardware you know of that runs Linux? Does mobile mean LTE modem maybe?

A cheap mobile thin client with builtin LTE with drivers running Linux sounds like a dream come true, if it exists.
Rich Hickey's talks inspired me to explore Clojure and functional programming in college. That led to a part of my career where I got to help advance an FP language (F#). Can't say it was a raging success, but it wasn't a raging failure either. Really happy things worked out the way they did, though. I still look back at my senior project, written in Clojure, from time to time and find it elegant in a unique way.
Isn’t that those floaty spinning desk toys are?
If your relative ends up incapacitated, it won’t be a doctor who calls, it will be a social worker. They will leave a message. There are other situations that result in a person not being able to answer their phone: being asleep, being in a movie theater, being on an airplane, being in a tunnel, being on a camping trip, having a cell phone that malfunctioned, having a cell phone with a dead battery, being on another call when the call was received, being out of the country and using a local
SIM…
> Despite Rich Hickey’s retirement as a Nubank employee, his commitment to Clojure stays unwavering. Nubank also remains the prime corporate sponsor of Clojure, employing Alex Miller and Michael Fogus to continue developing the language under Rich’s guidance. The company will also continue to move forward in spreading the use of Datomic and making it free, with Stuart Halloway leading these efforts.
The "what will happen if..." modelling for that will be interesting...
Your second point is very interesting to me as someone born in 2000 who's only really known a world where this is true. It seems so distant and novel from where we are today.
Ah, that went right over my head.

There is one stereotype that he confirmed, though: it's common for drivers to keep two sets of driving logs, one real and one doctored, in order to be able to drive longer at a time than is legally allowed without getting caught.

This was quite a number of years ago, though. It's entirely possible that GPS is used to mitigate this these days. I don't know.
Not sure how you drew the conclusion. In western culture, a guy being chaste/virgin is considered a serious sin. Remember “40 year old virgin”?
Perhaps this post's title can be renamed to the project itself: "Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs".

- Project website: https://shishirpatil.github.io/gorilla/
Maybe you should get a subscription to Nature or Science journals and find it out.

The information is there and it’s literally not the conspiracy you hint at.
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FWIW the original announcements in 2020:

https://cognitect.com/blog/2020/07/23/Cognitect-Joins-Nubank

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926407

https://building.nubank.com.br/welcoming-cognitect-nubank/

Very interesting story!
> Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently, because asynchronous communication involves less frequent, but richer communication, meaning there is less time talking about the work and more time doing it, allowing the system to optimize for throughput and flow.

This whole thing seems to be what people struggle with about remote work. Communication is way, way more important, and being an effective communicator doubly so. There's nobody's desk to go stop by, so noting things down and making sure we understand each-other is vital to accomplishing anything.
So I can't give a hunch/conjecture from my observations?

Not very scientific... (snark semi-intended :P)
I don’t know what best means, but essential items are certainly not free. Once you include healthcare as an essential item, which has no upper limit, you can see the incentive to secure more resources. Can also throw in legal resources too in the event you get railroaded by the system.

The desire to compete for mates is also an element, and that one is built in by nature.
Steve Blank's "Customer Development Process" as described in The Four Steps To The Epiphany.[1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...
I agree, it could use more of the easy details, however, I don't have much issue with 10^-2 Pa, since standard atmospheric pressure is 101,325 Pa, so 0.1 Pa (10^-2 Pa, or 1.45x10^-6 psi) is definitely understood as a vacuum, but you're correct, why not just add "vacuum" for thoroughness.

I know mercury gauges use to have a 0 to 30 scale sometimes (not 0 to -30), and that was confusing!
Exploring the Human Psyche Through AI
I have to assume that charlatans have long since figured out how to select social media names that insinuate a relationship to a well known organization, when in fact no such relationship exists.
use: slotAssignment: 'manual'
Poaching the copyright of so many sites
What confuses me about OpenAI is that, after poaching the copyright of so many sites to train their model, they expect those who use "GPT" in their product names to comply. They did this for Craiyon.com (their new name now), and unfortunately, I expect to see more of this legal hunting.
I'm glad that Reddit has finally asked for a piece of the cake and demanded a profit for their APIs and content.

The biggest hurdle that AI will face won't be a technical one, but rather copyright laws and EU guidelines. https://voricicalculator.com/
Offices or galleries. I imagine a fair number of businesses would be willing to pay for Guggenheim approved art, and though making it accessible to the public may be difficult they could allow scheduled viewings.
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One dinosaur museum near Central Park is enough, methinks.
Probably why hot takes outside of the field is physics in this instance are ignored.

My hot take rebuttal?

There has been no multi billion dollar investment into LK-99.

If scientists around the world took to Twitter and all tested and sought to disproved Theranos's claim all at once BEFORE Theranos became a juggernaut of fraud, I think there would be a more apt comparison.

To history's credit there were a few scientist who stood up and said that Theranos's claim was not possible.

So far the there is a lot of hype and social media energy, but not the same levels of fraud and deception going on here. If anything the science has started to point towards the likelihood there may be something to the claims in the original LK-99 papers.
Dating market... That sounds a bit like a potential problem to me, treating dating as a market place one competes in.
This is interesting to hear. I've always found that Overdrive does live up to its reputation of being a library focused company. The books aren't cheaper on Cloudlibrary or Axis360 and Overdrive offers the best user experience by a mile, even with all the warts on Libby. They are generally responsive to issues and supportive of concerns (they provided us a ton of data related to the McMillan boycott, for example). That may be in their self interest, but that's how this is supposed to work, right? They make money, we serve our customers. None of that seems sinister so I'm curious what else is going on behind the scenes.
OK but I wasn't speaking to you. It's not surprising to me, that out of maybe hundreds of people reading our conversation, there was one using Steamdeck in an unusual way. But I imagine andybak wasn't, the argument being, the chance of him doing so is very low, because that's not how most people use Steamdecks, or from another perspective, I imagine most people commenting on Hackernews do so from a laptop or a desktop, and a mobile phone on the third place.
“Whatever you would use C for but better” roughly

I’m not really convinced because in Andrew’s livestreams he’s actively uncovered significant stdlib bugs that he is aware of and tables for later.

Hopefully those will all be gone by 1.0, but I doubt it. For now, I cannot consider it a viable alternative to anything for production software. I do hope it will be some day, because it’s a nice language, even if it has a few syntactic warts :)

that said... I feel safer choosing C89 or C99 for certain things due to its extremely wide availability and longevity.

It’s great for it to have competitors, but C and C++ are more like standards and less like one tool with a handful of people working on it.
> It normally refers to people extracting money for things far beyond their actual value.

That's not what "rent-seeking" means at all.

Rent-seeking is extracting wealth from a system without creating anything. It's a term meant to differentiate profiting via productivity/adding value (eg. manufacturing a better product and outcompeting others) and profiting via extracting value from others without adding anything (eg. buying out all of the manufacturers of a product and leveraging your monopoly position to jack up prices).

Amazon haven't created any value here - they own enough of a stock of a scarce, in-demand resource that they can charge a great deal for it. It's the definition of rent-seeking.
Similar situation here in NY, the ash trees are pretty much wiped out:

https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7253.html

These were some of the most common trees around until this damn bugs got here. The emerald ash borer (EAB) (Agrilus planipennis) is an invasive beetle from Asia that infests and kills North American ash species (Fraxinus sp.) including green, white, black and blue ash. All of New York's native ash trees are susceptible to EAB.
> that 85% of all property crime is committed by less than 600 individuals.

I’d like to know how an organization that claims they cannot find/arrest the suspects in nearly any property crime can also claim with such certainty that they know exactly who commits these crimes.

Doesn’t really make sense, does it?
I've thought the same thing. Our society is a superorganism with growth and consumption as its only goal.

"No raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood."
I think Hammock Driven Development[0] deserves a spot in the classics!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Not a sin, just odd.
You're quibbling over whether Covid-19 killed a million people or there were merely a million excess deaths attributable to Covid-19.

It was a big deal.
When my doctor calls, I cannot get a call back through their system, I've tried, and I don't have a list of their outgoing numbers.
That's true, but they could definitely make it more difficult than it is today.
He Fixed Twitter [video]
We're not, and don't think there's a physicist in the world who wouldn't advice tempering expectations at this point. Yes it would be exciting if it's the real deal, but it's also far from the first candidate we've seen and so far they've never been replicated.
This is a quite biased view.

As a non-Chinese scientist, I can attest that there is intense pressure to publish as many papers as possible pretty much everywhere, and this leads to a problem of bad research across the world.

China may be among the worst offenders in this respect, but the particular thing the OP is asking about doesn't strike me as a Chinese-specific thing at all. I see non-Chinese scientists rushing half-baked results to arXiv all the time.
What I wonder if the cooling requirement drops how much easier it is to get to break-even.
“This is between 10C and 20C above what is normal for this time of year in parts of Chile and Argentina”

Excuse the language, but it would appear that we are in a bit of a jam.
I googled it. At the bottom is Frontier Nursing University with a 15-18 month degree in "ethics & health policy," an irony too delicious to pass up.

https://blog.thegradcafe.com/easiest-phds/

But the people with the most PhDs are centimillionaires who just donate to a school in exchange for an honorary doctorate. Shouldn't take any real work. And since you don't care about ethics, you could probably work out a "PhD now, pay later" arrangement with a big enough promise.
Who is going to be the first to sell a rock of this on eBay?
All hype cycles look like this. If Theranos was the last one you witnessed, I envy your ability to unplug.
A feature that was considered a key component of how libraries knew there was interest in a title existed. Then the feature was removed and a worse version was put behind an extra paywall. (Note that libraries are already paying for this product.)

Note that again, libraries are already paying for the product. This is not "free."
Internal stress in one direction.
> No. There is absolutely no evidence that switching economic systems will magically solve global warming.

The thing about being the most successful at something is that you both get all the praise for the results and all the criticism for the “externalities“. Welcome to the real world.

I mean you could inject any other real-world-existing thing instead of the economic system, like industrialization. It doesn't change what I said by one iota.
I think Rust and Zig are very different in principals and shouldn’t really be compared. It’s almost like comparing C and Ada.
You make it sound as if they aren’t literally the biggest investors in green tech.
Unless you are still in the IE world (which is challenging when using WCs), use one `append` instead of multiple `appendChild`
Yeah, the first thing I do with every single Audible purchase I make is strip the DRM. In fact, the Audible app is so bad that I don't even use it. I use BookPlayer (iOS) instead. It's much better.
Usually, there will be a disclaimer saying the date is non-binding and can change at any time. Same as with deliveries.

My experience as well is that you can refund them at anytime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant:

> However, in the 1990s, it became known that Uranus and Neptune are really a distinct class of giant planets, being composed mainly of heavier volatile substances (which are referred to as "ices"). For this reason, Uranus and Neptune are now often classified in the separate category of ice giants.[2]

I guess there's a distinction I wasn't aware of.

Edit: I had this comment written, but I guess I waited too long to submit.
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