skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very wise decision. We are far from done with learning from nature. As more and more of the DNA is unlocked it never ceases to amaze me how incredibly complex it all is and how many parts of the process interact with each others, sometimes across several levels of abstraction.
https://youtu.be/R2Hy6F_8n58

Notice how much force needs to be applied to move a real superconductor into a new pinned state
Assuming everything in the video is real, the only remaining question is: what is the actual temperature of that sample?

If all of this checks out, then it's a new era.
10 miles is fine, you can have friends everywhere and you can’t expect everyone you know to live in the same urban sprawl.

Use public transport, take a cab if you need to or use a car club (shared vehicles use less resources than owning a car), ride a bike, walk the 10 miles. Infrastructure helps to reduce personal car use.
> Why NSA? why not CIA?

Apparently because it runs NSA software (Apache Accumulo) that is hardly used by anyone else
It's not about religion, but about empathy and justice. Some people actually think that other forms of life on this planet have a right to exist, and there's no question at all that human life has been catastrophically bad for virtually every other form of life on this Earth. You can't just apply an energy patch and presto-reverso the carbon content in the atmosphere; we've managed to seriously disrupt global ecosystems and going nuclear doesn't fix that. We're gobbling this planet up, and there's just frankly too many of us to keep living at the standard of living we are.

> Personally, I would prefer to continue having electricity, heat, running water, sewage treatment, shipping, transportation, and the internet.

Incredibly tone deaf, frankly, when most past humans had none of those things and yet dealt with it, living actual full lives. We've basically forgotten what we are, what we came from, and believe we deserve Saturday morning cartoons.
> why would people work hard without personal upside?

Define "personal upside" because people work hard all the time absent a path to power, or even material benefit! Come to think of it, why do people have children?

Humans are social animals and they are deeply moved to work extremely hard for the sake of love, dignity, and respect alone. Contrary to the nonsense picture you paint, humans only lose touch with such desires in the face of hopelessness to realize them.
Companies, specially this ones with so much profit and high salaries, will eventually have to accept that there's no way around housing and politics.

It doesn't matter what you do. If moving to your place feels miserable you'll have churn.

Maybe Google can deal with this with some gymnastics for a while but if people around google employees keep getting poorer and more miserable, life for googlers will be miserable too, doesn't matter how many perks and colors their campus has.

I guess FAANG will eventually try to silo people in their campuses with their own housing, but either way it affects the bottom line of the economy, so you'll be affected in many ways.

Housing is not just another problem. Georgists, Piketty & critics, etc.

It will tank the west (and particularly europe).
>far fewer people

Also bluntly: how would we do that ethically without severely restricting reproductive rights or "cleansing" populations?
Absolutely. But I do find that this actually gotten somewhat better in recent years with distributors such as Limited Run Games and the like (even when I loath them sometimes for their FOMO tactics) have often made possible small runs of physical editions of games, that would likely not have seen a release otherwise.
‘The Body Keeps the Score’ offers uncertain science in the name of self-help
You're still able to share the source code. Red Hat simply decides not to give you new binaries, so you don't get new source code.

Why is this so difficult to understand?
"What to do" has lots of different layers. AI might be able to decide which ads to promote to individuals, but can it decide the weightings of the factors it takes into account to make that decision? Can it decide to promote ads to individuals in the first place?
That's the typical Deutsche Bahn experience. Haven't seen anything else for the 27 years I lived there
This reply is perfect, with "its super easy to setup CUPS with Proxmox" and the username matches and everything. No notes.
Difficult question, as people mean different things when they say state. One example might be a relatively simple AWS Lambda. Most people would say that's easily stateless.

But, what if that Lambda depends on a VPC with some specific networking config to allow it to connect to some partner company private network? And, it's difficult to recreate that VPC without service disruption for a variety of reasons that are out of your control. Well, now you have state because you need to track which existing VPC the Lambda needs if you tear the Lambda down and recreate it.
Just out of interest, what is there to stop anyone on earth starting communications with either Voyager, and potentially altering its parameters?
Consumer co-ops like REI and Costco are different kinds of entities than worker co-ops like your local leftist coffee shops and bakeries.
Anyone know what the effective angle of Voyagers transmitter is?

The centre of the signal was something like 69 million KM off to the side of earth. 20% of of earths orbital diameter.

I suppose the difference is the effective receive angle, and by turning up the power they could get it to respond.
> This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer still participating.

This is a bit of a philosophical question, for example, much of the (Lisp) code in current Emacs is from the 70s, but the GNU Emacs interpreter wasn't started until the mid 80s (also ... people weren't great at version control in the 70s, so there's not much actual development history).
> This is just the usual cookie banner.

I tried passing the link through google translate and it skipped the banners unfortunately. I have a feeling it wanted me to make an account though. I uninstalled Chrome on this laptop so I can't use the in-browser translate option.

> Point being that a lot of current-gen AAA games already benefit from more RAM, and this is not going to get better.

Point taken. Wasn't aware of that because I get the few AAA games I'm interested in on console anyway. Most are series that started on consoles so the company is likely to be more experienced on that platform.

Edit: and to be a bit snarky, I could argue that ports from console that don't take into account the amount of VRAM on common PC video cards are a case of crap console port.
What part of birthing billions of children into poverty was ethical again?
isnt Melatonin responsible for body development like puperty etc
Not sure they're talking about fry, there. With the vocal fry you can hear some serious hang time while the speaker grinds out that croaky noise. But this other thing sounds almost choked off, definitely not drawn out.
There appears to be a thriving secondary market for pre-enshittification Brother laser printers. I wonder if anybody maintains a list of the "good models?"
No, it's not a mistake.

The claim here was that "magnetic force decayed by 1/r³" which is the result of seeing a dipole ("two sources") from far away. Each pole decays by 1/r² and the net result (the combined effect of both poles on a test particle) is proportional to 1/r³

I would look at these:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/184211/why-does-...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/293310/why-does-...

And understand both electrostatic and magnetic dipoles in analogous terms.
>By default, consumers are their own best regulator. You buy only the bread that tastes good, and that shoes that fit, so the market will provide, etc.

This theory only holds if the consumers are fully informed about their options in the market - which isn't the case, else everyone would buy their printers & TVs at Costco.
Which bits are and aren't sustainable depends mostly on tech.

10x solar power and we get meet all current electricity demand in a climate friendly way; 10x lithium etc. mining and we can roll out electric vehicles much faster; 10x bioreactors makes… well, very little difference to ethical eco-meat, but mainly because it's still new and the kinks have yet to be worked out, but the principal still applies.

(Unfortunately, my point would still stand even if higher production only sped up disaster; the tragedy of the commons is because everyone is motivated to consume more than is sustainable given the size of the group).
You don't need triple digit dpi technology or a stacked paper feeder for shipping labels.

And I don't see why a dot matrix printer would be that hard to make.
The hardest part would be the ink ribbon, and compared to e.g. an inkjet head that's low tech (plastic foil ribbon coated with essentially laser toner).
Very cool article. It's a problem I knew kind of existed but never thought about formulating. I'm glad it's been at least called something since the 90s - this means maybe there's good stuff to read!

Bit annoying as I'm writing an event store in rust and now I want to make it bitemporal. But annoying in a good way.
This is probably a good starting point:

https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html

Genetic programming is a bit of a misnomer, evolutionary algorithms is probably a better name.
How sweet. All those poor, voiceless companies are no doubt touched by the concern.
What's so important about polyglot support? Isn't CUDA code similar to C?
Discarded medical devices found to have troves of information
The indies I like don't need a serious graphic card. A good bunch of them work just fine on a 2018 i3 mac mini with the integrated graphics decelerator...

Don't you need the 1000+ EUR cards to play AAAs at the same performance as a console? That is, twice the price of a console only for the video card.

Edit: and I need the PCs for work anyway.
> You sound like someone about to perform a triple bypass with a butter knife.

If climate change was a disease it wouldn't have an ICD number, no method of diagnostic in standard literature, let alone a treatment approved by the competent authority.

The recommended solutions would be to eat more healthy, more physical activity, and something to treat the symptoms.

There won't be a double-blind study for specific treatments of earth, so any kind of idea is equally valid.
Why y’all blocking alternativeto.net?
Why is everyone pretending that remote work is some drastic change? I remember back when I worked in an office, we communicated in the same channels, same frequencies (github, slack). The only new channel now is video calling, which simply replaces meeting rooms, same frequency too.
It most certainly was priced for the top.
I've used DDG for years before switching over to Kagi and I was accustomed to having to use the !s bang daily (and !g before I found out about !s). On Kagi I literally never use it, since it already incorporates Google search results and filters out a lot of crap.

I've also defined some custom bangs to search private Jira and Confluence instances with some default filters applied, because the default search on those instances was driving me insane. It took me a long time to convince myself to pay $10 a month for a search engine, but I've never looked back.

I'm currently experimenting with hostname rewrite rules.
He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
I'm not saying it's a magic fix, I'm saying it's a really hard problem that we can solve if we put the resources and brain power into it. But some people apparently think that even trying to solve the problem is pointless. Needless to say, I disagree.

>Incredibly tone deaf, frankly, when most past humans had none of those things and yet dealt with it, living actual full lives. We've basically forgotten what we are, what we came from, and believe we deserve Saturday morning cartoons.

We came from a history of mostly starving, struggling for survival, dying of infections, dying during childbirth, being illiterate, and having little shelter or comfort. I think this nostalgia for the past is a golden age fallacy that needs to die. Technology has vastly improved human life and taking it away is essentially a call for reducing the standard of living for everybody.
Local or global, principle is the same:

Civilization collapse = whenever the way a civilization is run, can't be sustained any longer.

Often worsened by a ruling elite only looking after themselves, while ignoring their societies' bigger problems. And sometimes (unexpected?) external events.

The "unsustainable" is pretty much a given right now.

So 'the ship has to be turned', quick.

Otherwise civilization collapse will (logically, inevitably) follow. Just like in past collapses. Only this time, global scale.

I prefer "turn ship around, quick" option over "widespread crop failures, chaos, wars, famine & other disasters".
For the most part I think it’ll mainly further Microsofts dominance in the office space. You can see this with the recent EU anti-trust and Teams, where it makes little sense for enterprise organisations to not chose Teams when they already have Office365 licenses. You see the same to some degree in RPA (robot process automation ) already. Why would your organisation shell out a couple of hundred thousand dollars for UIPath licensing when Power Automate is $15 a month and $250 for the big VM bots?

I think it’ll be the same with AI. GPT writes all our non secret documentation and it has a lot of options for use in non-programming automation as well. I know Microsoft is a major investor in it, but once those tools become basic Office365 tools then every other AI seller is going to become obsolete in many cases. It’ll be interesting to see how the world handles that dominance in the office space, because so far, we really haven’t.

So I think this is going to be much more a question of how we’re all going to be paying a Microsoft “tax” to use AI efficiently, than it’ll be about non-AI vs AI. I mean, you could probably use iSheets (or whatever the Apple Excel is called), Google Sheets, LibraOffice or similar, but I’ve never heard of an EU enterprise org that doesn’t use Microsoft Excel.
If on macos, highly recommending Dash for all your programming docs needs for any language. Real gem and a time saver.
I just a have a thought that in the very very distant future humanity will be able to do interstellar travels and they might detect and capture still travelling voyger 1 or 2 and learn what we was like back then tell to their kids the story about us. According to NASA - "It will take at least 40,000 years before either spacecraft approaches another star".
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As already pointed out by others

>The study was supported by Procter & Gamble.

Neat if true, but... I'm not holding my breath.

In seriousness though, I've come across decently plausible information in the past that suggests that the volatile chemicals given off by natural wood has calming effects.
Massive lack of power and equipment and no protocol documentation would be the first major hurdles I'd imagine.
do you mean detect your location or detect the fact that you're using a vpn?

because there are plenty of API that'll tell if you're using one

+if you have a huge database you can detect duplicate IPs
Stuff diamagnetic materials inside the body. It’s dead anyways
These three videos by EEVblog detail the ground based antennas and how it is contacted:

EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=586Zn1ct-QA

EEVblog 1547 (Part 2) - PINGing the Voyager 2 Space Probe!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUvzgZt1Vug

EEVblog 1547 (Part 3) - Tour of the NASA Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZz4EnhJBE
I might be misremembering, but I seem to recall geeksforgeeks being ok a few years ago. But I've started avoiding it because it seems like there's multiple nag screens in a row whenever I make the mistake of clicking. Seems a lot of people agree.

Is the issue here these sites aren't putting up the barriers to the crawlers, and are getting high ranking in all the results despite all the friction to normal users? It'd be nice if there were a way for a search engines to tell if paywalls / nag screens are a thing on sites and to demote them from the results accordingly.

It seems like it wouldn't be hard for them to tell, but maybe they don't want to de-rank sites with these patterns. But really, from the consumers' perspective, who wants these sites in the results? I'm all for subscribing to something if I use it repeatedly, but that doesn't describe 90% of the sites I visit and I don't have the money for 1000 subscriptions.

Maybe they could just have a filter to filter for free sites only. I don't know what the solution is, but having blocked domains while nice is just a band-aid.
That doesn't sound particularly valuable to me. If it's that valuable, why don't you convert it to USD and pay Kagi with that?
That is a very good question, but it is also the wrong question. The better one would be how are we collectively going to avoid nature doing it for us?

Because I don't know what the solution is but I do know that the alternative is going to be no fun at all. One possibility is that we all end up agreeing that we should at least try to reduce our numbers. My parents brought me up with 'replacement' numbers so that we'd end up with a steady population. I'm not so sure if that was wise. And I'm aware that there are many predictions out there that our numbers will eventually top out (they will, either because we do it ourselves, voluntarily or because our resources will run out, an exponentially expanding population in a fixed environment always ends in collapse).

But unless we manage to massively reduce our impact on the environment I don't see a way for the increased consumption and eventual survival of our societies as we know them today. In another comment someone offhandedly asked whether we should all want leisure yachts or not. The obvious answer to that is 'no'. But we probably also shouldn't all want vehicles and the ability to transport ourselves to the end of the world on a whim. Hard choices are ahead of us, the time for easy answers is long behind us.
I often see this sentiment regarding AI or automation and it seems to be predicated upon the belief that the amount of work is fixed.

I disagree with this premise, there is still a lot of work to do. We don't even have space elevators, nanobots, immortality drugs and all other manner of technologies yet, and just like every other technological innovation in history, I assume that we will reallocate people to do said work. Work expands to fill the time and space (and workforce) available.
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I live in a studio, so I usually smell whatever I had for dinner while I'm sleeping.

It probably couldn't hurt to get a diffuser and some oils. If it doesn't work, oh well. It's not going to hurt anything, and it's probably nicer than smelling onions. If it works by placebo, great! I'll take improved cognitive performance even if I'm tricked into it. And if it actually works, all the better!

It reminds me of another study I read years ago that claimed people who were full-time caregivers could reduce their cortisol levels back to the level of non-full-time-caregivers by stopping every three hours to take three slow, deep breaths. Even if the study was flawed, and it very well may have been, there's no risk to breaking for 60 seconds every 3 hours to take 3 deep breaths. Might as well try it!
Hi, thanks for the detailed response. These are some very interesting insights. I would love to know more:

Q) How do you currently manage your bookmarks?

Q) Why do you want these features?
This sounds eerily similar to a company town.[0] What's next, company scrip?[1]

> You load 16 tons, what do you get?

> Another day older and deeper in debt

> St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go

> I owe my soul to the company store

—Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons

Note: Yes, I'm aware scrip was outlawed in the US long ago but I suppose that's what lobbying is for.
It made me smile, and also made me consider enforcing Q∝ on all devs :)
> for them, it's not about solving problems, it's about atoning for the sins of humanity.

Never encountered that. Maybe it exists but it's extremely rare and irrelevant.

> putting a substantial portion of GDP into building nuclear reactors and removing carbon from the atmosphere

Spending lots of money, to produce lots of energy, to solve a problem we created by using too much energy...

What people don't get is that environmentalists just want to solve the problem in the most cost effective way, and that is to stop destroying the environment we live in.

> having electricity, heat, running water, sewage treatment, shipping, transportation, and the internet.

Where in the Paris Agreement did you read we shouldn't continue having those things?
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It will not be optional. You should think of protecting others. Also don’t drive - you might hit someone
A bit confused, sorry. Second sentence was a joke. But if the effect is real, it is a very strong claim and it does indeed deserve replication by people not financially vested in a positive result. And if it's cobblers, that also tells us something, but perhaps more about how science is funded, and how experiments are registered, and how result are communicated.
The key point is owning your own domain as well. Without that you are kickoffable by whoever owns the domain you are using.
I see all this as the evolution of language, because that's how ideas are preserved and replicated. Ideas evolve over time. They form an evolutionary system, moving much faster than biology. Humans and AI both rely on the corpus of language to learn and apply ideas.

We're no longer the only way ideas can replicate - LLMs have joined the party. Language gained a new mechanism for self-replication. We should focus less on humans vs AIs, and more on the language corpus itself, the true source of intelligence.

This corpus was built through experience, slowly and collaboratively, by billions of people in parallel. No single human could have done it alone - it's smarter than any one of us, the product of our collective work and luck.

When you train an LLM on it, the model becomes generally competent. But did the competence come from the model or the data? Should we obsess over architectures, or look to our datasets?
Alternatively, you're only willing to pay roughly the cost of a coffee per month for something you deem as a killer feature for everyday use.
Why is it not sustainable? Are you talking about fossil fuel usage? Because that can be solved if we had the technology to solve it, via carbon capture, geoengineering, etc, via the help of AI even.

The Earth is a massive planet relative to human scales, there are more abundant resources in it than we can use in a thousand lifetimes.