skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm no climate expert, but last I checked China/India/the rest of SEA and the largest ships generate a large majority of non-natural carbon emissions.

I think it's because USA keep sending them money to make these emissions for them.
Me too. And I think I learned of it from a previous HN thread and is an example of successful book finding serendipity.

It was a short audiobook and I found it fun and entertaining look at the near future in a way that I hadn’t read before. What if immortality/bio hacking made you 20% bigger every time it reset you to 25 years old. I wonder if there will be more physical signs of wealth and immortality and we’re sort of starting to see that in 60-year-old Bezos seems healthier than 40-year-old Bezos.

I’ll also add that I’m not a Noir or detective fan and almost didn’t read it because of that aspect. But I’m glad I did.
“In the end lawyers saved humanity from an all powerful AI.”
My guess is that we’ll muddle through somewhere halfway between A and B. Sustained enlightenment seems unlikely, unless we start genetic-engineering our brains to behave more constructively. (Messing with our brains that way is quite prone to go the destructive route, of course.)
Without being a biologist my gut feeling is that our biggest immediate self-destruct risk is biological weapons like engineered viruses and the like.

Once you start tinkering with the stuff you are made off while you have not controlled primal behaviors that were conditioned during eras of near zero technological competence the writing is on the wall.

In a sense the nuclear era episode was a benign rehearsal granted to us by the Universe: Here is a black box (nuclear phenomena) that you can discover, use and self-destruct if you want, but it is quite hard to play with. Not so with genetic engineering.
This is a conspiracy theory. In the absence of evidence, it’s just a distraction from the topic of this thread.
Also used as a plot point in the most recent season of Der Pass / Pagan Peak.
Just an itsy bitsy little bit of copyright infringement :)
>As a security geek, and someone who's written on how passwords should be considered harmful. Github is wrong here. If I'm not willing to participate in this security "upgrade", it will not meaningful increase my security.

You must neither be a "security geek" nor "someone who's written on how passwords should be considered harmful"

As an actual security geek, and one who has written on how to choose good passwords, I can assure you your worries are completely unfounded, and campaigning against 2fa is stupid at best
>>"If you do allow that, the many many affected industries have catastrophic problems."

That is the problem.
Technically, AI should be allowed to 'read' content, it isn't hidden, and it gets mixed with other content in a 'brain' like thing.

AI and Humans can both spit out a new product that is 'similar' and thus be sued on that similarity.

But it can also produce endless similar variations at low cost and fast.

It is the ease of creating new similar products.

You could just as well prompt the AI "make a Taylor Swift song, but different enough to avoid a lawsuit".

Think this is an entirely new problem that needs a new law beyond copywrite. Copywrite is not the correct law to us for fighting this. Copywrite law doesn't ban someone from reading the source altogether.
fatigue being chronic fatigue in this case. it is well documented and quite extensively reported ( i also know a lot of cases)

in 90% of cases there were more than one symptoms reported (six on average)
Or, just use the hydrogen as-is

Or, just use the solar electricity as-is.

I understand the energy storage aspect here but it comes at a high cost.

One battery breakthrough will obsolete this entire process. Lots of time and money is being devoted to new battery technology --- very little to this.

This effectively looks like a long shot effort to salvage the internal combustion engine.
And Nature is still trying to whitewash its own reputation for publishing a very high visibility paper on superconduction that they had to retract.
Not to mention half a century of repression and misery across the eastern bloc, often including straight up genocide.
>which the press is now framing as “trying to hide the use of copyrighted data”

Yea, now I can't read the paper and talk about it to other people it seems.

The Right to Read was a prophecy I guess?
Currently reading that. It's interesting. Love the detail.
Douglas Adams is pretty similar to Pratchett, humour wise.
This is so eerily similar to a concept I've been thinking about for years. I want to base it off equations not functions though. Bidirectional value propagation. Figuring out how to make that work always stumped me.
Everyone here mentions the handpresso but the picopresso is a better design IMO:

https://www.wacaco.com/collections/picopresso
Does unpoly try to solve the same problem and how does their approach differ compared to htmx?

Curious to hear thoughts, I haven't done web in a while, so understanding your thoughts might help understanding the whole thing better.
> There is not much difference between a $100 pump machine and the expensive cafe machine except that the expensive one has metal water jackets to keep everything warm

i couldn't disagree more. there are many many differences between a cheap (100$ is cheap) machine and an expensive one. first of all, what is important is the pressure at the portafilter, not on the pump, you would say that those are the same, but they are not. second, it's important for that pressure to be stable.

other things that are important:

- temperature stability. even small things like a colder portafilter chan affect this, but what's most important is to control a fixed temperature and deliver that across the entire process.

- the quality of the filter basket (a precision filter from companies like IMS & co). this helps with consistent extraction and minimises the chance for channelling to occur.

- having a way to do a pre-infusion

- being able to change the temperature and pressure in order to accommodate various kinds of coffee and tastes

- etc (i can go on for ages with differences, like dual vs single boiler, milk vs no milk, rotary vs vibration pump etc). it's like saying a ferrari and a ford are the same because both of them have 4 wheels.

yes, you can make espresso without any of those, but saying there are no differences is not true. with skill and an expensive machine you can do a great espresso (or buy a Decent, you can do that without the skill if you don't want mess with changing variables, but still the output is great. with skill, the sky is the limit)
Wordpress alternative for developers. Built with React.js, and 100% open-source.

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> One thing about Spinoza I find incredible is his description of how god must be a substance that permeates all nature […]

Standard Thomas Aquinas (and Aristotle?): [Gg]od is Being itself. Do a search for the term ipsum esse subsistens.
Fully agree. Especially regarding the dialoge. Although it is an interesting concept.
Right - so you are saying a newspaper is not equivalent to papyrus. Fine. But there must be a material that we can prepare and burn that is. You have to reliably prove the methodology.

I remember when tvs weren't on for 24 hours - and there would be literal white noise being broadcast - it looked like lots of black and white dots moving. If you wanted and paid attention you could spot whatever you wanted on the screen - eg a red squirrel moving from left to right.

Why should viewing a red squirrel be discounted but finding 'ancient texts' be valid? Well, if you have a methodology that can read burnt newspapers (or a modern equivalent) and the text is correct - then you have a strong case.

If its just a case of 'trust the machine and its interpretation' well, I will trust my interpretation - that the machine is spotting red squirrels.
You can go back much further in time than 1600s with corpses in prehistory found buried with their hands and legs tied. We dont know exactly why but the fear that the dead may rise may be a thing.
Pretty epic.

I was working for a webhosting company, and someone asked me to rush a change just before leaving. Instead of updating 1500 A records, I updated about 50k. Someone senior managed to turn off the cron though, so what I actually lost was the delta of changes between last backup and my SQL.

I was in the room for this though: https://www.theregister.com/2008/08/28/flexiscale_outage/
As a lifelong sufferer of too-bright LEDs, these semi-translucent stickers [1] dramatically improved my vibes. One layer is rarely enough for the insane blues, but they can be applied on top of each other and stick quite well to most materials.

10/10

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DY1ZHKS?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...
I think older spring was fine, but many people complain about xml configuration as a big one. And, like you said, it took time to setup. Spring Boot today with modern Java is a really nice backend environment to work in.
This is a fair question on the surface, but one thing that occurs to me — given the sheer number of similar-looking things people put out, people may not have the time to exhaustively compare their offering with others. You often only discover differentiation by diving deep into each framework/lib etc, and if you dive into every Twitter-amplified new framework/package then you would never have time build your own thing.

So I guess what is a builder to do? Probably focus on practical use cases, show adoption and let these speak for themselves?
That's not exactly what emacs does: if ~/.config/emacs isn't there, then it will default to creating ~/.emacs.d/ and ~/.emacs, even if the XDG env vars are set. Basically, emacs supports XDG config if you really want it to, but it's not the default way of using emacs. And of course, it only uses ~/.config/emacs, none of the other XDG folders. If you download a package from MELPA, that's still going to .config/emacs, as far as I know.
The fact it isn't just legal in 90% of the world shows how out of touch most "democratic" governments are.
I'm quite certain they conducted FEA on the Titan DSV's hull. And look how that turned out.
I'd settle for regular evidence: a nice paper from a reputable lab that replicates the findings of the original team. Extraordinary evidence would be required for non standard model physics or aliens or something like that.
I'm not the one that is biased here. Think about it.

Both video content and text content are still content. The writer or creator has the ability to lie and deceive and produce bad things regardless of the format of the content.

The bias is in people thinking books are better for no logical reason.

As for the research and effort required to read a book. I agree. Watching videos is passive and less effort. I mentioned this in my original comment. But I stated that this extra "effort" leads to bias. It leads you to perceive what you read as "good" simply because you spent more effort on it. When you spend more effort on something.your bias towards it increases by a huge amount.

Right and you caught on to this fact. You stated your disagreement and I respect that.

Overall you're saying books are better because they force your mind to be more active?

But I countered this with saying that the extra activity leads to bias.

You countered that with just reading a large spectrum of books. Which further entrenched my point. Books lead to bias which has the weakness of forcing the reader to consume a spectrum of topics to avoid bias.
> Everything is fine until you realise the person that had 2FA for your organisation’s github admin account left the company six months ago and has deleted their 2FA key.

What "organization" only has one person with access to the repositories?

These hypotheticals become goofier with each iteration
REBCO was a bigger deal for fusion than LK99 would have been. We can't make tokamaks smaller, the magnetic forces would rip them apart.
The WHO said about 1 in 10 infections produces Long Covid earlier this year. About 25% are severely ill with it. Since the beginning of the pandemic at least 50 different studies of prevalence have been done and many show around 1 in 5 so this isn't a new finding just a particularly large study. Perhaps more concerning is the CDC and NIH studies looking at repeated infections showing that subsequent infections increase the risk, far from gaining immunity people seem to be damaged by every infection and their chance of Long Covid goes up with each infection.

Economically inactive people is growing fast in all of the western nations. Its a disease that is going to have a massive impact in the decades to come and we have no idea how many are unable to catch it. We have no treatments, no understanding of its process and there is little in the way of research funding going forward and most nations have done nothing at all.
I was wondering how to organise a project, it is only to show minimal code to try things...

* So I was thinking to create branches from 0 to do some work on it.

* Other approach I was thiking is everything in master/main but different folders.

They are meant to be small scripts or structures so I don't see a big reason for having different repositories
> Maybe we'll come back to those kind of practices

We already have to pay respects to the WHO God so religious beliefs may come back in strength
Still isn't going to work.

>material requiring lab crystallization

How are you going to string a crystals between towers? The material properties are all wrong for this application.
Unfortunately we'll have 9 justices who know little about copyright law and nothing about tech to tell us what the law really is.
I use three solutions depending on the circumstance.

1/ kapton tape ( the orange/yellow semi transparent tape you find on battery packs and cable assemblies).

This not only reduces the light level, it can make it more green. Multiple layers for very bright leds.

2/ black vinyl wrap for LEDs that have no useful purpose.

3/ replacement LEDs and resistors for non SMD stuff that it is cheap enough to hack.
So sad there is still no static metaprogramming. I've switched my career from a Flutter mobile dev over to backend, and there are still no updates on this an utterly important feature for Dart. This could've eliminated so much sickening codegen.
10 year old docs would reference the newly developed SSH options?
Every device with LED indicators, after subsequent product iterations and software updates is destined to illuminate the entire room or car it's placed into.
> The XM4s have a red LED.

That's most certainly a massive improvement.

It's great hardware, they are so close to have the perfect product, but they are ruining it with these small annoying things. Get rid of the loud voice, of the bright led and of the tactile interface that both hard to use and triggers at inappropriate times and I'm sold!
(IANAL) I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but I don't think so. Since LLM is not a person in the legal term it really doesn't matter what the difference is. There may be virtually no difference but I imagine the discussion would still be academic. For example: animals aren't granted rights just because they are in some instances similar or in other instances even identical to humans. Primates aren't allowed to walk everywhere humans can just because they posses the ability to walk on two legs.

In my view the biggest issue to raise is the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use). The most spectacular example of damage would be stackoverflow, thought stackoverflow content is not copyrighted. I think there is little doubt that LLM's drive attention from original sources. That might be deemed damaging, especially in the long run.
I think I have about seven of those simultaneously.

But the classification instinct is strong in some people, which is how we end up with systems like MBTI and, worse, why people buy into them.
> XDG, like systemd, likes to believe it's universal but it's not.

In XDG's favour, we can say that it is just a written convention that people are free to follow or not on a per-program and per-user basis. It is not a cancerous growth that tries to borg the whole system.
I got Sonoff wall switches wall switches a while back. But apparently someone thought it was a good idea to put Blue LEDs in them which glows all the time, even when the lights are off (albeit more dimly), with no way to disable it. Plus a blue Wi-Fi status LED, which you can turn off, but it will blink all the time anyway if it can't access the internet (which I've blocked it from, since a light switch has no damn business doing that). I ended up covering it in electrical tape (had to cover the whole thing, since the white plastic would spread the light.

In hindsight, it would have been better to put a Shelly puck behind the normal switch. Would have let me keep physical buttons too, instead of the annoying touch buttons.
Guess you're allowed to not like something

...but not wanting to use something that demonstrably makes you more secure (and is practically cost-free) does not make you look good
Why is it almost any time I see someone citing a YouTube source they are wrong?
> Sure, those statements (just use an existing library) are what you'll do in practice especially as a beginner

The more code you write, the more you have to maintain. Sure, of course there are times where you need to re-implement something from scratch. But those times are rare (or should be). Making something from scratch without strong justification is a strong signal, just not a positive one.

Now, as you point out, "when would you write x from scratch" is a great question to ask someone. I am vary wary of people that are willing to overspend innovation tokens. But thats a design/systems/culture question, not a coding question.

the signal I want from a coding test is the following:

o Can they demonstrate and understanding of the programming language?

o Do they create readable code?

o Do they ask questions?

o Do they follow the style of the programme they are modifying?

o Do they say "I don't know"?

o Do they push back on weird or silly requirements?

all of those things make working with someone much easier. None of those questions require "implement algorithm that only exist in Computer Science courses". They can all be answered by something like:

"here is a program that fetches a json document, but it breaks often, please make it more reliable"

That is far more realistic, and more likely to what they'll be doing.

The dirty little secret about most coding jobs is that actually, the important thing is getting something functional and stable for the business, so it can make money. Then after that its responding to feature/bug requests. As a programmer, your job is to convert business logic into computer logic. 99% of the time, this doesn't mean making artisan libraries that improve some tiny metric by 20x.
But a business can (at least in the US)?
That doesn't sound correct... My understanding was that only quite recent appliances allow a mix of greater than about 30%, and networks can't be operated with a high mix without big upgrades (for 100% hydrogen I believe you need all the compressors to be about three times bigger than a natural gas network, so even getting over 50% H2 with the existing infrastructure doesn't sound right).

All in all I'm convinced it's just not worth doing for residential when you look at the challenges and the terrible efficiency. Since the majority of appliances aren't 'hydrogen ready', it's better to just electrify.
Embracing Defeat by John Dower. The history of Japan's defeat in World War II is well known, but less known is how Japan transformed from a quasi-theocratic military dictatorship to the liberal democracy it is today. This book looks at the events, both cultural and political, that were occurring during the American occupation and how the Japanese adjusted to their defeat and created a new vision of the Japanese nation.
Trusting? I trust the scientific method, and part of that is criticism of the results. I pointed out a possible correlate not taking into acount in the paper.
It's the tech way of recipe blogs
Use of AI Is Seeping into Academic Journals–and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
> The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends.

I think the opening of that book stuck in my head as that is how digital beings and digital identity WILL BE DONE. It makes so much sense to me.

Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it.

Neal Stephenson’s “Fall; or, Dodge on Hell” goes into this a bit with the PURDAH but I think it’s more hand waving and tied to “the body has some unknowable thing that can be captured in a digital mind version.”
Sad to say, Wayland just isn't ready for prime time. Like Achilles and the tortoise, it's just not achievable for X to ever be overtaken.
Not entirely true:

> Dittmann could not find an emergency brake in the corridor and had not noticed that there was an emergency brake handle in his own compartment.

The learning from that should maybe instead be to keep non-technical management out of engineering decisions. The Wikipedia article fails to mention there was a specific manager who pushed the new wheel design into production and then went on to have a long successful career.
I was recently very pleased to find pre-cut "LED light dimming stickers" on Amazon.

My family enjoyed a half hour early evening "search and stick" mission to attenuate our home's luminous loudmouths.
DF64 is $350. Haven’t tried it myself (I have a Sette), but if I was buying now I’d go for DF64, flat burr is nice.
My working theory is that viruses like COVID trigger autoimmune reactions because of ACE2 binding which causes immune cells to attack the thyroid and cause hypothyroidism leading to fatigue.
I think the driver and software resources have been very messy. There are different versions, hardware revisions, different QAT generations... and at first glance is very confusing to know how you can run certain accelerations.

For example, the Zstandard plugin has this requirements:

Hardware Requirements
Intel® 4xxx (Intel® QuickAssist Technology Gen 4)
Software Requirements
ZSTD* library of version 1.5.4+
Intel® QAT Driver for Linux* Hardware v2.0

What's Gen 4? (I later found that means '4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors'. But not any Gen4, you have to find one with QAT included, and the product matrix is huge.)

What's the v2.0 of the hardware? (I'm not completely sure about that)

Does it automatically accelerate zlib and openssllib calls, or do you have to patch them? (I think you have to patch them)

I think they're stabilizing the API from now on, but it's not as simple as buying a CPU or one of the older PCIe cards, and loading the driver.
I think there is a major qualitative difference between generative AI and search engines.

Search engines index the web and point you at other people's work, along the way showing perhaps too much of that content (thus "stealing" users from the target webpage). But they don't reshuffle existing content into something apparently new and original.

The "malicious" case for generative AI is that it sucks in copyrighted work (vs. indexing it), rehashes and produces something that is supposedly original, but really a sophisticated rehash of copyrighted work.
Yes, and I never said it was nonexistent, a point which I explicitly mentioned at the end of my post. I merely said that the effect size might be enhanced due to return to work initiatives.
Why would you intentionally not want to be more secure?