skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the leaks show that some models and data were ignored that show cooling then you can imply that they were hiding cooling.

You can also imply that their warming models and data reconstructions were not very accurate. Either way many climate scientists have a history of shadiness, just look at all the Dr Mann lawsuits pending.
Yeah, but that’s Emacs, they are known to keep compatibility with some odd Sun box running SunOS a greybeard contributor just won’t let go of.

But other modern codebases will want more modern syscalls without fallbacks and compromises (see those atomic file operations which solve some nasty vulnerabilities for an example).
How are you going to convince Asia and Africa to stop their economic growth? How are you going to convince Americans to stop driving Ford F150s? How are you going to convince Europeans to stop doing vacations that involves long-distance flights to exotic faraway countries?

Geoengineering is the only solution.
After two years at Cognitect (pre-nubank), I can say that his talks are more subdued than his usual way of speaking (in slack, at least). He's not as mild-mannered as he appears.
I want everyone to be able to live in a well insulated flat powered by renewable energy walking and biking distance from their daily needs, and with public transport (and rarely-needed EV share) for the rest. Combined with a low meat low dairy diet and less disposable consumer junk it seems like we could get a long ways with an arguably better quality of life. Maybe work half time too.
Sure. But it’s a lot easier to pay back your investment in product development if you can amortise it over 50.000.000 GPUs instead of 50.000 GPUs. Same for ironing out the bugs in your software.

Getting paid a small yearly salary for every one of your products may look really nice but the size of the market makes it a precarious business.
Nvidia never needs to make a GPU again.
Pretty close in 2022, but third quarter 2023 gaming revenue decreased 51% from previous year and data center revenue increased 31%, so it may be helpful to use up-to-date figures. I couldn't find profit breadowns by sector but I would be surprised if gaming even came close to datacenter profit-wise.

* https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...
Excuse a bit of hyperbole.
More like: there's a "missing middle" with respect to BMI which is common irl but underrepresented in media
I have heard traffic reporting in Portland call 26 “the sunset” and 84 “The Banfield” though. So it’s not completely unheard of.
It's really frustrating that I had to work really hard, study the right things, and get lucky to be able to afford to live somewhere my direct emissions are minimal. More people should be able to afford to live car free in well insulated homes.
Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P
Prog is still alive and well. My favourites of recent years both come from the same come back band, Pure Reason Revolution.

https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/eupnea

https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/above-cirrus

And their first album remains a classic masterpiece:

https://purereasonrevolution.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-thi...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200...
The two theories for the origins of Indo-European languages
If it's just sitting there, why not have it earn money for you? (vast.ai/etc)
Basically just two zones for English ? Seems improbable in reality.
> That is just an objectively wrong worldview—that Punk was just fashion and a mostly dull, amateur genre.

It was dull and amateurish and "not very good" if you take "good" to mean the intricate, virtuoso, polished mainstream music that punk forcefully rejected.

Also "smartest genre of music" is a stretch. You'd have to justify that in dimensions beyond music, like its impact on society/culture. The pinnacle of musical achievement cannot be 3-chord music.
Consider me a policy maker.

I want to know what the costs[1] of ignoring are likely to be so I can be sure it's worth the pain to ban non-electric cars in 10 years, ram through nuclear power plants while gutting safety regs so we can get them built in less than a decade and try and threaten India and China into reducing CO2 emissions. What do you tell me?

[1] In $, convert other units like lives into dollars as need be and be sure to value lives from different cultures at 0.1x as thats the expressed preferences of the population based on chatitable giving figures.
This is a redherring; Amazon and Apple are happier on ARM. Nvidia may have been blocked from buying them outright but are free to still make them.
Kind of a vapid piece overall but I do agree with the thesis. Whatever the limits of generative AI may be, or what adjunct and different technologies may come, I think the future will see something similar to the steam shovel or drill when it comes to AI and other “knowledge” enhancing tech. John Henry managed to beat the steam drill at a great expense, but it didn’t reduce the number of people laboring on tunnels - it just changed the skill set from a strong back to a strong engineering ability.
> each release of CentOS Stream is a frozen Fedora release

This is the current state. Why should IBM maintain rolling updates into Fedora ("rawhide"), then cut a Fedora release, then bless a Fedora release as Centos Stream, then backport from rawhide to Centos Stream as needed until they decide to cut a RHEL branch? If I were an exec at IBM, that would seem like a lot of extra releng salary that could be better spent directly on core product (which is RHEL which comes from Centos Stream) or billable hours. Someone's bonus can go up a few bills by eliminating a line item while improving efficiency.

Why should IBM continue paying for rawhide -> fedora release -> centos stream -> rhel ? How long until the fedora release step is put out to pasture then eventually culled?
I'm using Quad 9 and getting the same results. Who is the right DNS provider?
Mark Zuckerberg will lose his fortune within 20 years. Watch.
Jon Hall was essentially Linus Torvalds' agent in the 90s. While at DEC, he got Linus to the right places and meet the right people, so that his "hobby, nothing big or professional" OS entered the trajectory to become what we know today.

I'm about 30 years younger than Jon Hall, so I couldn't be familiar with his accomplishments other than by oral/written accounts. Since he hasn't written big hit books I could read or software I could use (alright alright, Linux for Dummies), I constantly saw people calling him a legend but never understood why. I finally asked around in the Linux kernel community, and was explained the extent of his contribution: he was Linus' mentor in a way. When they met in 1994, Linus was a 25 yo student and Jon a 44 yo DEC marketing manager. I like to think of their conversation as something like "Listen to me kid, this is what you gonna do".

With this in mind, a line in Jon Hall's wikipedia bio stands out: It was during his time with Digital that he initially became interested in Linux and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital's Alpha platform.. Another one in his linkedin work history reflects this view: Senior Marketing Manager, DEC, 1983-1998: In 1994 met Linus Torvalds, recognized commercial value of Linux, obtained funding for port of Linux to 64-bit Alpha processor, opening up a billion dollar line of Linux-based High Performance Computing Super Computers.

WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddog/
Agreed. The general principle is (and it's a hard balance, of course, to avoid just slapdash work): don't do work up front you might not need. You will make your current work take longer than it should, which you will (correctly) be blamed for, and any time you save in the future you won't get the credit for.

This isn't a cynical statement; it's just my experience. Use it to your advantage!
Also mentioned: "ML and MY have received travel expenses and compensation following presentations at P&G."

It's worth noting that P&G sells an electronic smart home fragrance diffuser.
When I sent the first libgit.a/.dll patch at around 2007, there was a huge outcry, as it was certainly not needed. With cygwin we didnt have hard links, and with a shared lib we could bring down the package size by factor 10.
Control vs. Acceptance
> The point is to remove certain well-known sites

Like pinterest.

Goddamn pinterest.

Just the amount of times i've used "-pinterest" in search is staggering.
And ozone for that matter
Maybe we should also ask our selves, why is Tesla's EPA range so high in comparison to all others?

I recall reading over and over in car reviews how the other EVs had low EPA estimates and during tests got an avarage above the EPA range. Why is that?
Related recent blog post from same author:

Try the Last Internet Kermit Server
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009329
Who's building that well insulated flat and where is the insulation coming from?

I sometimes worry that the pyramid of infrastructure and labour required to create that flat is not scalable
it's because the graveyards and charnel houses were overflowing with rotting bodies, and there were people were walking around with weeping, infected sores (buboes) -- it really stank!
You cant terraform apply I guess!
But modern OSes added support for a luxury we call hotplugging. Would that work smoothly back in the day?

I’m not negating your experience and share the same sentiments, but there is also a bit of undeniable progress modern OSes made.

One such bit is high DPI and mixed DPI support (theoretically should be easy peasy with Display PostScript, but somehow I don’t think it would pan out well in practice).
Where are they paying to rent out my GPU so that it covers the electricity and the wear?
But why is the Tesla EPA range so high when all other EVs have such conservative EPA ranges?
Yeah. I feel like Western cinema right now could use a movement like the Pinky movies of 80's/90's Japan - cheap, titillating, often thoughtful art movies that were also basically softcore pornography.
>> There are more than 1.46 billion active iPhone users worldwide as of 2023. [1]

That number is wrong.

The most recent reported Active iPhone user was from 2021 at 1B pass mark. And it took Apple more than 2 years to gain from 900M to 1B. I would not be surprised if Apple now has 1.1B Active iPhone user, but an extra 460M unit would be equal if not more than the total unit shipped since the announcement of 1B active user.

Apple also has over 2B Active Devices Number which include everything from iPhone, iPad to Apple TV.
2 Starbucks lattes i think?

Elsewhere the lattes are much cheaper though.

Common problem with a lot of SaaS offerings.

I made a Kagi account when they had a free tier, thinking I'll test and then decide on paying or not. Then they dropped the free tier and with the # of trial searches limited, I'd need to make a conscious effort to use it to test instead of just trying it when DDG fails me, which was the initial plan. Somehow that's not very enticing.

And I'm in the demographic that would indeed block pinterest and w3schools. It's just that my lattes aren't $12 each...

Edit: Btw @freediver, you should turn this top blocked list into a public indepth report every 3 months or so. Just like Backblaze does that hard drive reliability thing. It would be great for your marketing.
Could Ethereum help stop museums from hoarding stolen artifacts?
> With a Bayes factor you compare the marginal likelihood. You have to account for the weight of the parameters according to the priors. With a likelihood ratio, you pick the best parameters and take the ratio of those likelihoods.

Yeah, that's the difference that I mentioned. And seems very different from whatever "it put the probability of 0% at 1 and everything else at 0" is supposed to refer to.

> This means a model used in a Bayes factor must be able to make predictions that follow probability axioms. Models in likelihood ratios don’t have this restriction.

Models in likehood ratios absolutely have to follow probability axioms, otherwise it would make no sense to apply probability axioms to study them.
What to look for in a code review (2015)
Why would I accept that there's this doomsday barreling towards us at high speed, and the only way to avoid it is economic devastation and serfdom for my grandchildren?

That sounds an awful lot like a long con.

Most rational people have arrived at the very reasonable conclusion that the more extreme the danger is, the more justified we are in attempting cutting edge countermeasures. So when the response we get back is "oh no, you can't do that, anything but that!"... the more it sounds like it was a grift all along.

This requires no conspiracy, by the way. Large groups of people can subconsciously coordinate in these ways without even realizing they're doing it. Just takes a bit of groupthink and a small dab of neuroticism.
> What many aren't capable of is accepting the conclusion that we all have to change the way we live and quite possibly even the way we organize society in order to mitigate the irreperable problems our way of living has already caused

That's because this has never actually been shown. So many people think it has, but almost none have ever seen an actual attempt at a QALY calculation for no climate change mitigation. If you've actually seen one I'd love you to link it!

Mostly it's lots of handwaving, but attempting to quantify things is actually important so we can know what measures are worthwhile (e.g. if climate change was an existential risk this century then threatening with nukes any country emitting CO2 would be reasonable).
Please don’t waste time on this! You’re all doing such good work and I’d much rather not see it wasted on indulging some techno-anarchist nerds
Getting dithering on some is an acceptable compromise compared to getting dithering on all of them or some displays flat out refusing to work, but that’s just my opinion.
If you feel bad about this, perhaps go and find some Just stop oil protesters and take out your frustration on them. Perhaps drag them around by their hair, or kick them in the heads. It's easy, they're sitting on the floor, so it's low hanging fruit.
Job Location: Leaf Space Headquarters in Lomazzo (Italy).
I do Not use my ISP's DNS!

I'm reticent to disclose my current DNS provider,

given that I am able to access archive.is and many are not at this point of time.
I'd love to see a website where, if you are a verified buyer of a product, you can throw a virtual brick through a corporation's window, and there is a "brick count" top list
I guess it should be pretty easy to confirm or debunk.
Wouldn't everything heavier than Iron be older? IIRC, gold for example is generated when stars go supernova, which implies all gold on Earth existed before the solar system formed.
It provides a null hypothesis. You can compare two hypotheses without any of them designating absence of effect. You don't have to have "the null hypothesis" in some philosophical sense to do a t-test and whatnot.
And pray tell, how does one acquire this Monero that you're defending with religious fervor? By linking your credit card to some "currency" exchange that may or may not already be under investigation for fraud?
Or it could be Albanian.
> However a plus on the console side is that I can actually still own my games instead of licensing them (if you buy physical).

LOL, LMAO even.

Sweet summer child, wait until you actually find out.
The problem with making unreasonable demands for data in response to casual discussions is that it is usually done when the person strongly disagrees with the statement. For that reason, it is implicitly a counter argument, and a hypocritical one: "Your opinion differs from mine, so you must provide data to back up yours!". None of the available options can be considered default, so any outcome is equally "grand" and subject to same requirements. Opposing without having a standpoint could happen in a peer review for a paper, but that is not what this is.

Your response is more reasonable, and is also more out in the open about the alternate belief (of course equally without data). Nothing wrong with disagreeing - only about making up unbalanced burdens of proof in casual discussions.
There’s no facts here just rumors.
"Stop eating nice food" is a nonstarter, as is "give up personal all weather mobility", have these as a policy positions and we'll get 3 degrees rises as those would be a smaller quality of life decrease for the average American.
Generating WebAssembly with LDC
Does it have to be a sweet smell or do all smells provide some benefit?

My bedroom usually smells of farts; my own farts, my girlfriend's farts and my dog's farts.

I wouldn't mind it so much if I knew it was helping me keep dementia at bay.
Office 365 + Maxima + LTspice + VSCode + Photoshop + Lightroom + TeX/LaTeX mostly.

LTspice, Maxima and O365 are horrible on macos.
Thats why heroin is such a perfect product.
Funny thing is, people are buying Apple products because the alternative is Google, and why are you paying for Kagi, because you trust Google?
> huge shrinking of the habitable region of the planet.

How big? 1%? 10%? 50%?

This matters.
Sorry, I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning.
Ah - yes. Looks exactly the same sort of thing!
Not just Google, they use Bing and Yandex(?, might be something else) too, I think.
Anecdotally when searching for Python standard lib docs on Google, python.org is never at the top. I think this is because they have a single page titled "Built-in types" instead of dedicated pages titled e.g. "str.split".

Above python.org I get links to w3schools.com, programiz.com, python-reference.readthedocs.io (some inofficial project abandoned 2015), geeksforgeeks.org, codegree.de and freecodecamp.org.
Yes, came here to say this as well.
I think that most people use more than one keyboard, at home, work, public computers, on a laptop etc.
Many of them will have a QWERTY (or the local variant) layout.
In that case you can use your super duper specialised layout on one keyboard, but every time you change to a different system you have to use the old layout again. For me that was more hassle than benefit.

Also, most people don’t even touch type, does not mean they don’t like a nice keyboard.
I remember using this to transfer files with BBS... zmodem was more popular but kermit could take advantage of full duplex so you could upload some files while downloading others at the same time. I had no idea it was still a thing.
Reducing Haskell parallel build times using semaphores
Coordination problems are really really really hard. You shouldn't be dismissive about them.
WASI: WebAssembly System Interface
Our Aussie data scientist does it at the front of data as well, so if comes out 'dartah'
Born in '73 myself. I've always had a soft spot for the Voyager probes for the same reason.
You are right. But good luck convincing those billions to voluntarily reduce their living standards. I fear change will have to come involuntarily.
Got to convince Nigeria that they shouldn't expect any further quality of life increase. Good luck.
> but public transport is better (cheaper to maintain) compared to car infra when accounting nr of passengers transported

Is that true on a like for like basis? E.g. a car goes to my house. A bus needs the same road that cars do.
"But it would still probably take two decades"

Two decades is a lot of time. Transistors or airplanes got to a useful form much faster, in a less wealthy world with many fewer engineers.
Can you recommend such library?

I had fun with Ramda but I experienced some perf hits when doing big pipe/map/reduces on large data structures
IMHO: The difficulty - as with most things - is in the questions and in the perspective which forms them. A healthy relationship is not about 19 year old beauty or being lucky to fuck them. It's not about objectifying them as bonuses in my life.

It is about seeing them for who they are - completely independently of me - and caring for that person, whether or not they suit me at that particular time - richer or poorer, sickness and health, etc. We need to have that compassion for others; we need others to care for us in that way; we love other people. Lovemaking is, to varying degrees at different times, an outgrowth of that - IMHO lovemaking won't last otherwise.

> Can I find someone that doesn't just say "wtf am I doing here" if times get tough for health or financial or just plain old age? I'm not sure.

IME, the answer depends on me more than on them. When Sinead O'Connor died, I listened to some songs and (while the singing is impressive) I thought the perspective is immature: The narrator makes it all about what the other person is doing; someone with experience in healty relationships realizes it's about what they themself does and perceives and feels. We get what we give.

> I think it's human nature

I wish I could ban these stylishly defeatist comments. Human nature is to hunt and gather food, be illiterate and ignorant, and die at (30?) - if you survive past childhood. Human nature really is to learn and chose your own behavior and fate.
An 8GB card is not "coming out swinging". My 1070 I got on the cheap in 2016 has 8GB. Give me some fucking VRAM already.
...you will anyway (Brooks)

IMHO Write it once for the problem; again for the solution.

TFA stresses: finding out what you're building; finding the "unknown unknowns" (the things you don't even know you don't know, encountering those problems)

TFA doesn't say it this way, but I think the fun of throwaway-prototyping is your thoughts can focus uninterrupted on the problem, undistracted by secondary issues. You can hack-around tedious parts, now knowing they are there; and you can get absorbed in the genuinely tricky parts, unobscured (even if you don't succeed, you also know they are there). You're not expected to get it all right.

It's turning an unexperienced developer (on this problem) into an experienced one.

PS Somewhat disturbingly, Brooks went back on this according to this interview https://www.computerworld.com/article/2550685/the-grill--fre...

"you should plan to throw one away. You will anyway."
That was the first edition of The Mythical Man-Month. In the second edition, I say that was misguided! You ought to plan to continually iterate on it, not just build it, throw it away and start over. Some of the things I said in 1975 were wrong, and in the second edition, I correct them.
Did you forget a "/s" tag? Because that pretty much sounds like ten years of AMD history!
That's unfortunate. It would have cost way more before streaming.
It's the same with absolutely everything. How many people give money to charities, how many help them by volunteering. How many people actually take times in politics to get involved into parties, march the streets or leafleting. Etc.
And Human with AI will be more efficient than human without AI. So there will be need for less humans for a given task. Therefore AI will replace humans, just not all of them.
And that's not new. The same thing happened with softwares and with machines. The solution : produce more goods or services.
Until we have an energy crisis and we need to rationalize all this.
w3 schools was a good resource, but to me it often feels like fluff.
They are too expensive but it's slightly better if you consider it as a marginal cost on top of a PC you already have. Upgradability is the whole point of PCs really. You can keep a system going for many years by taking advantage of this. And a console isn't really a "fully functional system" when compared to a PC.
Possibly because of their paywall.
Literally sponsored by the makers of Febreze™. When the LK99 mania has subsided, I'm looking forward to this being replicated by disinterested parties.
We’re actually curating it to get closer to the situation. Or are you seeing humanity as a kind of god that can play with earth without impacting it existence on it ?