skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it's not. With the focus on anthropomorphic sources, it ignores other natural processes or discounts them completely. Having watched this "campaign"unfold for nearly 60 years, and watching it morph every time the predictions proved wrong, tells me that politics trumps science. What we see today is seldom science. Science isn't spearheaded by the types of Al Gore, Bill Nye, and Greta Thurnberg. Even Obama's climate guy was more skeptical than the pablum dispensed by the Guardian, Live Science, Scientific American, et. al. Follow the money.
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Yes - I FORGOT to mention that I run Control Plane. Feel free to reach out to me at doron at controlplane.com
Only espresso? So filter coffee does nothing?
Only to those unaware of who Alexandra Elbakyan is or to those that chose not to investigate.

For those aware the juxtaposition twixt { King of Men } | { Woman who created massive scientific paper archive } tends to dominate.

But sure, not everybody reads things the same way.
> Maybe this is just FUD

It is.
It's Japanese for river, presumably following the same naming logic as e.g. Flume.
Of course! It is a secret after all.
This is from their terms of service. Storing sensitive information in Simplenote is therefore a breach of ToS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Un...
:wq Bram, and thank you!
I love `/mirrors/kermit/archives`.

Kermit clients have been written for so many platforms.

But I notice some are missing here (or I can't find?) yet available in kermit's website here[0], such as mskermit and pckermit.

0. https://www.kermitproject.org/archive.html
With 20,000+ non-statw homicides in the US last year it's hardly a monopoly.
> When I create a commit, several things happen:

> my staged files disappear from my list of file changes

> a new commit is appended to my git log

> my branch ends up with a new head commit, diverging from its upstream

> If you create a commit from the command line, you see none of this.

Sure, if you're not using an addon like powerline-shell. If you do, all of those are immediately obvious.

I'd argue it's less "commandline bad" and more "stock commandline bad."
Can’t you just queue up a frame of sound and then play it?
That should be telling you that git is designed unintuitively, not that everyone else is wrong.
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Because the authors are Italian?
They could do that because Kazakhstan doesn’t make them much, if any, money. This amounted to cheap good will marketing.

If this were the EU or US, and Google risked losing access to that market, they would comply. Way too much money on the table.
But you were more cognitively in-shape than ever before!! Right??
Wow! Not sure I've even heard the phrase "fuzzy logic" since December 31, 1999. What did happen to it?
That is what makes it hard science fiction. Everything that didn't exist could have existed if someone rich tried to build it. Or at least it seems reasonable, it is possible that they didn't know something then and so it wouldn't work. In 20000 leagues under the sea he may not have correctly accounted for water pressure, and it seems like there was more space on the sub than is reasonable.
True, though I was talking about the AI workloads.
The actual process followed and the EPA's summary of the decision:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23863526-epa-hq-oppt...
> Which is more attractive, and by how much? What is the scale?

No scale, yet we have plenty of beauty contests, so I'd start there for an answer. Humans are regularly compared to others. We have different tastes but, socially, "beauty" is intended as an average.

Art studies could also point you in the direction of "objective beauty"
The emphasis on alleged Jewish and Asian over representation really strikes me as someone’s personal project. I don’t think they track who’s Jewish anymore at these schools. They certainly used to. Anonymous posters of demographic information with those emphases… leaves me with 4chan vibes.
Love this result, but I’m wary of drawing conclusions from single studies saying caffeinated or alcoholic beverages are good/bad for X health-related issue. Seems like conflicting results show up frequently.

But let’s hope this stands! Back to my coffee…
Right now with how the attempts are structured everything happens at the TLS level, which means anyone wanting to enforce that would require access to the SSL private key. ISPs and other actors already have the toola via DNS and IP blocking to enforce what they want.
I read the article and missed the ingredient name that is so toxic everyone gets cancer from it. What is the name of the new ingredient that was approved?
The law would actually push people towards freer browser. Browsers made by multinationals like Google, Apple and MS would have to obey, but other browsers could ignore it as long as they don’t have a presence in France.

So the law works against the push to DRM, not for it. Oh glorious unintended consequences.
If it was said about e.g. accounting it could come off as snobbery. Everyone knows that being a poet requires imagination, so no one is going to see it as anything other than a light-hearted joke.
Did a Stanford professor write this?
or, a lot harder, since your code can only draw a line a time, not work with the whole frame buffer!
>Unless a process or a piece of software is actively and visibly misbehaving, nobody refactors it.

Which kind of begs the question: "if a piece of software is not actively and visibly misbehaving, why does it need refactoring?"
Yes, because any form of social organization and collaboration, other than capitalism, must be fascism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are you learning German by any chance? I'm currently finishing development of spaced repetition, llm powered app for learning German vocabulary and I'm looking for feedback and early access users.
That's pretty bad - I don't think it's a good government pattern to move policing to corporations or the population. It messes quite badly with established principles such as innocent until proven guilty because corporations or individuals won't want to face the risk and it's also inefficient for each entity to figure out a process (and implement that badly).
They're getting free community testing of early software in Fedora.

I don't think you realize just how much RH focuses on releasing stable software. They have SLAs with government agencies, healthcare providers and they need to live up to them. This is why CentOS Stream is in fact more secure than RHEL because they spend so much time testing the patches that go into RHEL that CentOS Stream now gets them before RHEL. A reversal to the state of affairs with old CentOS.

It is also why they were so keen on killing any project that claims to be a RHEL clone, because they want their customers to know what they're downloading, and know what they're running. RHEL comes with guarantees.

Of course I'm the first to admit that most of their motivations to kill the CentOS source repo were financial. That doesn't change the fact that Red Hat is a very enterprise-minded company, and their perspective isn't always obvious to the rest of us.
What is the purpose of the mail.ru embedded link on the archive sites?
Well, one of those you mentioned would.
The EC is a stupid thing indeed, but since the ticket also includes local elections it probably should matter (e.g. I don't know if he's in your district but didn't George Santos come from NY?). But assuming normal elections, would you vote?

I'm not vegan. But my spouse is. As a result, I effectively hardly eat any meat at all. This impacted friends and family and created a cascading effect. It also impacted other people as she's relatively well known in our community and quite a few people changed their eating habits as a result.

Maybe it's from where I stand, but I see a lot more vegan eateries around these parts (not an American) and a lot more enthusiasm about it. I think this will cross a chasm at some point and even a little bit helps in that regard.
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>Not sure I agree with the premise that star trek has elements of science fantasy because the idea of humanity working together flawlessly is unrealistic.

It is, but the author didn't base their argument on that entirely. More so, Star Trek has never cared about science except as set-dressing for drama. People say Star Trek's warp drives are based on the Alcubierre drive but they really aren't - they don't behave the way an Alcubierre drive should. Along with all other Trek technology it's basically magic, nothing is bound by realistic physics. You have immortal, godlike beings like the Q, you have people coming back from the dead, psychic phenomena, time travel whose rules change with each episode. In the last episode of SNW, you had a weird space anomaly that made people sing like a musical.

I mean, you could put that in a D&D campaign and call it magic and it would work.

Really, all science fiction is a subset of fantasy. "science fantasy" is just science fiction that isn't actually about the science, which is the bulk of the genre.
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1. It was never confirmed OpenAI owns this domain.

2. It was never confirmed Elon Musk bought the domain either.

This is a BS article. All we know is ai.com was bought by "someone in the NFT space" for 11 million couple of years back. And the domain redirected to ChatGPT and now to x.ai. That's it.

I can register a domain and make it redirect to whatever, I can make it redirect to microsoft.com. It doesn't mean Microsoft bought my domain...
It sure was fantasy to believe star trek universe wouldn’t have currency. It’s the one thing that irked me about the st universe, and part of why I loved Quark. He allowed the show to explore some of the ramifications of a universe that clearly still has scarce resources that need to be allocated. He almost managed to convince me that the federation could exist as a centrally planned militocracy without money, by showing where economics breaks down at the edges of the federation.
The "everyone:1" ratio of internet criticism also has had an interesting effect on politics. Given the sheer amount of vitriol directed at politicians no sane person would run for election. A plausible base-case scenario is a group of socially disabled internet dwellers dedicate their life to hounding you for imagined wrongs. Let alone the pressure of making any decision in a situation where large groups of people are in conflict. As a result I think we'll see detectable pressure for only risk taking narcissists to run for public office. Even beyond what is usual for politics.

I don't think we have a choice about allowing roving internet mobs - the cost of forcibly breaking groups up would be too high. But as always, the more protections we have to slow action down in the real world the better. Mobs make decisions that are foolish, fast and often final.
remove/disable the stock camera, use a USB webcam

https://helpdesk.kentfieldschools.org/en/support/solutions/a...

https://athelp.sfsu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/360051867154-Using...

[disclaimer]

i am one of those who destroys integrated OEM cams by default, to replace with the peripheral version.
He got paid
Or weird missing functionality like some resources being impossible to tag from the stacks, or new services/options lagging months behind when TF implemented support for them.
Well, that may happen too, but you don't want to impair the victim city's ability to pay the ransom. But, I'm afraid, we'll just have to see which happens first.
I've used vim for everything going on my entire career now.

It started in my senior year as a CS student - in an operating systems course, we were introduced to a lot of linux stuff and the professor taught Vim as part of his course. At first I rebelled. I chose to develop most of my projects in eclipse/Java at that point and had developed an aversion to the command line. That, plus Vim's learning curve made me hate it at first.

Fast forward a year at my first job at an embedded systems shop writing in pure C, all the vets used vim and I saw how fast they were with it and it made me want to learn. I think my first "aha!" moment was when I accidentally entered visual mode and prepended several lines at once with a comment. After that I was hooked, and while I'm typically one of the only ones using pure vim on any team I'm on, inevitably after a year or so at the job people see how I use it and start asking about it.
You should install the Kagi browser extension and try out the Summarizer functionality on YouTube videos. I’ve found it pretty useful for videos that are needlessly filled with fluff.
not sure what you mean here.

Do you use the same security group for all of your instances?

i am usually creating a security group per group of related ec2 instances.
After a decade of failing, AMD and Intel don't have anyone to blame but themselves.

No proper drivers, OpenCL tooling always stuck in C mindset until it was too late for anyone to care for SPIR, no support for consumer cards, hardly any tooling, no library ecosystem,....
What AI will do is facilitate the creative process. Instead of painstakingly creating variations. AI will present us with ALL the variations. That, in a nutshell, is the power of generative AI.
This a bit of a false dichotomy: genetic algorithms need not forego of directed or local search (for example, memetic and hybrid algorithms mix gradient search with populations).

Also, you have to keep in mind, it is often very hard to frame problems in a way that makes linear regression or gradient descent practical.
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There are a plethora of studies showing how people who drink the highest amount of caffeine have the lowest incidence of Parkinsons, another protein misfolding disease.
The browser already has built-in controls to prevent the user from visiting "dangerous" sites, and to say that "browser or DNS or SPI" is mutually exclusive is to ignore the Defense in Depth strategy of using all methods in concert, to ensure that at least one will catch the bad requests.

In Chrome, it's called "Safe Browsing", and it's currently optional, Standard, or Enhanced.
Green should also include Zig, Elixir, Gleam, Crystal, Hare, Odin, Clojure.
Yeah, relate. It shows you that with some good software, you can make an impact.
Star Trek doesn't even show that. There is a fair share of human thieves, racketeers, slavers and other criminals.
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How could we trust this result and be sure it is not supported by the coffee industry?
I don't know how it works in the US but in the EU the working class pay a lot more tax, proportionally, than the rich:

In Spain if you work and you cost your company 26430 euros:

- The company pays 6430 for social security (calculated as a % of your salary, so this is effectively your tax even if on paper it's the company that pays it.)

- You pay 1270 for social security (on paper you pay it but the company gives it to the tax office directly)

- You pay 2338 for income tax (on paper you pay it but the company gives most of it to the tax office directly)

- You end up getting 16390 euros, or an effective tax rate of 38%.

This goes up if you pick a higher salary, obviously. If you work and you cost your company 67000 euros:

- The company pays 16300 for social security

- You pay 3101 for social security

- You pay 11582

- You end up getting 36016 euros, or an effective tax rate of 46%.

If you're a freelancer and you work for yourself it's more or less the same but there's also a fixed tax that while not being very high it's hard to deal with when you're earning 0 when starting out. In practice most people just risk it and don't report their activity at first for this reason.

But if you're truly rich, you don't work, you have assets that appreciate for you. Tax rate for capital gains is capped at 26% no matter how many millions you're earning.

This does not take into account that as a rich person you're going to be spending less of the money you earn than a poor person so you're paying less VAT (sales tax) as well.
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>That calculation, which was confirmed by the EPA, came out to 1.3 in 1, meaning every person exposed to it over the course of a full lifetime would be expected to get cancer.

That's not how probabilities work. The average person might be expected to get 1.3 cancers over their lifetime (assuming they don't die early), but that doesn't guarantee that every person exposed to it will get cancer.
As a former colleague, I remember one funny interaction with him. I was sitting in the same desk but on a different floor. One sleepy morning I tried to oust him from his desk and once I recognized him we ended up chatting few minutes about open source at Google and his involvement. Great person and as a Vim user forever grateful for his efforts.
The 6502 didn't need cache because its clock speed was slower than the DRAM connected to it. That made memory accesses very inexpensive.

The Apple II took advantage of the speed difference between CPU and DRAM and designed the video hardware to read from memory every other memory cycle, interleaved with CPU memory access.
Probably this post: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2017-07-08-Datomic-this...

> If you're new to Datomic, you probably have the same misconceptions as I did regarding the use of Datomic's historical features.

> bad news: you've probably over-estimated the usefulness of these features for implementing your own specific time travel. Unless you really know what you're doing, I recommend you don't use db.asOf(), db.history(), and :db/txInstant in your business logic code.

> good news: you've probably under-estimated the usefulness of these features for managing your entire system as a programmer.

>I believe the key to getting past this confusion is the distinction between event time (when things happened) and recording time (when your system learns they happened).
God bless you Mr. Moolenaar. VIM is the editor that built me, going on 20+ years now.

I only gave once several years ago to help children of Uganda. I will do again in his honor, https://iccf-holland.org/donate.html.

:wq
A wonderful idea if we could always know that the government was always a good actor acting in good faith.

Since that is impossible, this is not a wonderful idea.
I mean, "humans with AI" replaced "humans without AI" the moment AI was invented. Is that what passes for "insights" at HBR these days?
Likely cultural factors, but clearly this extends to other methods of processing coffee.
> It's insane that git occupies so much mental space considering it's a single-purpose tool.

No arguments here. What I meant is that it's very hard for me to understand what's happening behind the scenes unless I'm using the CLI. The tool is hard nevertheless.

> If midwit geeks weren't so vain and wanted to feel cool for using the same VCS as the Linux kernel, we could've been using something else.

The fact is, git won. I was personally into mercurial. The CLI was much more sane.

One of the biggest issue with git is that it uses both the snapshot model (for the storage format) and the diff/patch model (for many operations like merge and rebase). You have to know which of these applies to any operation for it to make sense.
Google Scholar shows hundreds of Genetic Programming papers published in 2023. If we expand with some years, several have hundreds of citations, so the field is seemingly alive and well. I hope to find some uses of it myself, just because I like the concept.
I would like to add to the beer funds of whoever did that.
Passing a law would be too much work.

Easier to just get it adopted as a W3C standard as with past DRM lockdowns.

That way all the browser manufacturers are just following orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
Still to this day when I start my daily vim session I see his personal message to donate to the children of Uganda. I've been seeing this message for well over 20 years, my entire career for sure. What an impact to have on IT, and on the world. You're forever remembered Bram.
I don't know if Bram's family has this thread or is reading it, but the extent to which his work has impacted the software development community is enormous.

Vim was one of the first pieces of software I learned when I switched to Linux in college. It was tricky at first, then it delighted me to no end. It remains a daily part of my life nearly 20 years later, and I'm still learning more about it every single year.

I can't count the number of times I wish I could drop out of insert mode in normal web browser text boxes.

Bram's insistence of donating his earnings to helping the children of Uganda is also incredibly selfless, and it's impossible to mention him without bringing this up [1].

We'll miss you Bram. We'll be learning from you for decades to come.

[1] https://www.vim.org/sponsor/faq.php
I get the impression that a significant percentage of people can't tell the difference between science fantasy and science fiction. Due to a lack of science education or understanding of technology or cognitive ability or who knows.
We already are performing geoengineering on the Earth, as you point out. We can't not do geoengineering anymore. Either we can continue the geoengineering we have been doing, or change the geoengineering to work towards some other goal, but there isn't an option where we don't do geoengineering. If you are driving a car towards what you think might be a cliff, you can't choose not to drive. You can continue driving the way you are, you can turn, you can brake, but you can't not drive.

Anything we choose to do will require geoengineering. We can continue dumping CO2 into the air, which is geoengineering. We can try to make our atmosphere more reflective, which is geoengineering. We can try to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, which is geoengineering. We can try to completely stop putting CO2 in the air, which is geoengineering. We need to change the state of Earth, which, pretty much by definition, is geoengineering.
No, it won't. Sadly most people doesn't have that tech expertise. And how you would run an open source browser in a walled garden like iOS or similar?
you are ignoring basic calculus, m f{x} is not politics.

you are making horrible assertions, that reveal a lack of contextual cues.
This is some extremely dishonest shit.

> The tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake damaged the electrical supply lines to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and wrecked safety infrastructure. An estimated 20,000 people were killed; another 6,000 were injured.

The implication being that those people were killed or injured by the nuclear accident, when in fact those deaths were almost entirely from the earthquake and tsunami; to date, there has been exactly one possible death due to radiation from the Fukushima meltdown, and even that we can’t confirm.

Yes, nuclear bombs are bad. But nuclear power is very, very good, and propaganda like this only serves to set us further back on the path to fighting global warming.
Looks normal to me:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=sputnikglobe....

Can you clarify what you mean?
What?

Google keeps passwords for websites and for Android apps in the same place, and you can view them both at https://passwords.google.com/
Now this is a bit random but many years ago I run into a Dutch couple running some kind of wildlife farm in Ghana. When they found out I was geekish they said a relative of theirs was big in the open source world. Turned out to be Bram.

I can't quite remember what the relationship was but since then every time I use vim (not often admittedly ) I think of this Dutch woman looking after a jumble of wild animals in the middle of nowhere...