skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that because its relative share is declining or because the absolute number is declining? The former indicates they are capturing as much of the new growth in devs, the latter there is an approaching problem.
I'm in my late 30s, and I've been hearing about climate change my whole life. It hasn't exactly been a secret.
You have a point, but I don't think you have the point you think you have. It seems like df(1) as a tool should be about showing you "free space, on things where the amount of free space might ever be a concern." (Otherwise you'd just use mount(1)!) So df(1) itself, should be filtering the mounts list for only devices capable of having free space.
> I don't mind the flat-earthers and the climate-skeptics and the crazy UFO tribe as long as I can hear different voices.

Will you still not mind when all the different voices are saying things just as false as those?

The fundamental problem is that generating false information is easier, faster, and cheaper than generating true information.

It used to be expensive to publish information once you generated it and the channels that could spread it both widely and quickly were particularly expensive and there weren't many of them. The more affordable channels were much slower.

It also used to be that long distance person to person communication was expensive. Most social communication was with people in your area.

Both of these did a good job of countering the ease, speed, and cost advantage generating misinformation has over generating accurate information.

Now neither of them holds. False information can easily completely swamp true information for people who are getting most of their information from their social media feeds, and that is a lot of people.
I would say the driverless cars are making the blockages, if they're not able to deal with this totally predictable light vandalism
The guy helping Meta, Google and Amazon prepare for new laws in Europe
I believe you but in the end I use it a lot more than my laptop despite its limitations and generally don’t want to try and do the things you’re talking about with it (I’d probably be sitting at my desk with my real computer if I wanted to).
> We require your email address to reduce spam

Huhh, what a coincidence, that's exactly the same reason why I'm not giving my email address to you (especially without a privacy policy on the website).
So a potential problem is that they are too low resolution? and that is something specific of full body MRI scans?

I still disagree with the "net harmful" argument if it relies on patient's psychology. People may overreact at first out of ignorance, but we learn to stop worrying after being generally exposed to a new thing
All I know about this subject is that human is already obsolete. Even stuff like CNN performs better than equations few years back then.

> Early weather forecasts were made by meteorologists, who laboriously constructed contour maps of temperature and other variables by hand, using experience and tradecraft to fill in between sparse observations

> However, the skill of computer forecasts has improved steadily over time, and modeling is now the primary approach for making operational weather forecasts.

from Nation Academy of Science (USA)
https://doi.org/10.17226/23650.
I first heard about Sin Eaters from a BBC Radio programme, part of their The Digital Human series. It's a fascinating topic, and as per a link in the parent article the last known of England's Sin Eaters died as recently as 1906.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096h775

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/shropshire/hi/people_and_places/...
One additional caveat worth considering... a lot of LLM computation is often memory bandwidth bound. The 4060 Ti is infamous for how deeply Nvidia cut the memory system. The 3060 Ti had a 256-bit bus that was capable of 448GB/s of memory bandwidth. The 4060 Ti has a paltry 128-bit bus that can only do 288GB/s, about 64% of the memory bandwidth of the previous generation.

For comparison, an RTX 3090 has 935GB/s of memory bandwidth. As the other person mentioned, that would likely be a much better card if you can find a used one for a reasonable price... but that's just my opinion.
The fact that climate science was evolving 40 years ago is used to discount all the articles from the 70s that said we were entering a new ice age, so it seems unfair to target Exxon by saying they perfectly understood the science when the New York Times et al gets off the hook by saying they didn’t.

• “The Earth’s Cooling Climate,” Science News, November 15, 1969.• “Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age,” Washington Post, January 11, 1970.• “Science: Another Ice Age?” Time Magazine, June 24, 1974.• “The Ice Age Cometh!” Science News, March 1, 1975.• “The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975.• “Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” New York Times, May 21, 1975.• “In the Grip of a New Ice Age?” International Wildlife July-August, 1975.• “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” New York Times, September 14, 1975.• “Variations in the Earth’s Orbit, Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” Science magazine, December 10, 1976.
Best part of fish is how little config is needed. I’m 41, married with kids. Old AF by some standards. I have zero patience with wasting my time configuring tooling.

zsh felt like it fought me every step of trying to configure it to be halfway decent. And a lot of zsh scripts out there aren’t exactly bulletproof. It shouldn’t matter, except for the fact that if you use the shell with any regularity you will inevitably bump into edge cases that weren’t handled well by a mishmash of user scripts whose provenance is mostly copy/paste with little understanding of why it is all needed.

Here’s my fish dotfiles:

https://github.com/mattgreen/dotfiles/tree/master/fish

It has a submodule based plugin system (loader in conf.d), an async git prompt, my aliases, and a few env vars set. It needs no maintenance because fish provides almost everything already.

The only thing I want from fish at this point is to make async prompts first-class. They are best handled by the shell, not user code, due to the state tracking.
I asked an LLM to translate a bash script to fish once and it just changed the shebang line... cracked me up.

Edited to add:

There's a program out there for translating bash to fish called babelfish. It's pretty good but not complete, so it won't work for all scripts. Worth checking out, though:

https://github.com/bouk/babelfish
Ooops, this should be marked as 2021. Can the mods fix this?
WinPython: Run Python, Spyder with SciPy on Any Windows PC
Making security keys quantum resilient
I mean, it's a polymer all right, so is starch, but the point is to use something watertight but still biodegradable. Other petroleum derivatives could be used as well, but I tend to think of beeswax as proven to be food-compatible, though I am not sure if this was rigorously tested.

I thought answers to my comment would rather focus on the low melting point, making it hard to use for hot beverages (though 60°C is high enough for drinks).

You are right of course, but the article mentioned PLA, IIRC? Reading more on this topic, it seems that PLA is biodegradable, but only in industrial, high temperature composters?
mRNA, Crispr-cas9, immune checkpoint inhibitors, etc.

Those are novel and at least with Crispr-cas9 one has been so universally recognized as novel that it resulted in the Nobel Prize at a much shorter delay than usual.
Can't they store it and sell it off in a leaner year?
I think you are right, the next 33 years are likely to be very different.

I would lean to them being even more dramatic, due to the opportunity to advance algorithms, not just resources.

On the more obvious side, most libraries are not yet taking full advantage of many known gradient optimization techniques. It’s been so much easier to just add data & processing that there is an overhangs of tools to still apply.

And large successful models are telling us important things.

For instance, it is clear that language models are learning a kind of logic of language similar to how we process thoughts, allowing highly disparate types information to be woven together sensibly.

At some point, identifying the nature of that processing could radically simplify language processing.

That is just one opportunity for radical architecture and algorithm advances, and it would be revolutionary.
Maybe i dont know, but i had already tried obsidian in the past and mostly clicked the video to see what i was missing.
In terms of biotech and medicine, we're still developing new stuff continuously. Computers being able to do machine learning are helping us push ahead where human manpower was once wasted on busywork.

You can live a full live with AIDS now, with little to no side effects, even with little to no infection risk. We have vaccines against various causes for cancer, and are vaccines for specific types of cancer are actually being tested.

We're in the human trial phase of rewriting a living person's DNA to solve genetic defects. So far they haven't been particularly successful, but the concept was mere theory just 20 years ago.

We were hit with a pandemic and had working vaccines in less than a year. Even with vaccine deniers, we've managed to overcome the deadly wave of the pandemic in record time.

Things that were mere theories two decades ago can now be done inexpensively in a small lab. We don't get to tinker with it, but medicine and its adjacent fields are rapidly developing.

Computer science has become rather boring, although languages that bring novel ideas to the mainstream like Rust are still somewhat exciting I suppose.
Last commit 3 years ago. Pull requests at least 2 years old
I admittedly didn’t, will give it a read now though!
Another "conspiracy theories are ok when they match my politics" story. Greenhouse effect is well known, the world runs on oil, none of us gave it up, some people with misplaced guilt (and no desire to do anything themselves) want to blame evil corporations.
I've always worked on teams where managers try to allow folks to play to their strengths, but ultimately folks can't entirely focus on just doing what they like to do. Otherwise you end up with unfair division of effort or some important things no one wants to do not getting done. Diversity of experience also allows you to better understand things which may make you more efficient overall. For instance, being forced to do some performance work will help you make better tradeoffs when doing design later.

I think the most important things are to voice your preferences to your management and try to pick projects that are in a stage of their lifecycle that have needs for your strengths. If you prefer creative work, find a project early in its lifecycle with less baggage to way you down. If you love hardcore debugging, find something which is growing aggressively. If you like maintenance, find a mature product to help steward.
The "new ice age" thing was never anywhere close to a mainstream thing in climate science. The idea that CO2 caused warming was already well-established, and the decade-scale cooling was correctly seen as just a temporary reversion.

A lot of that coverage was astroturfed by Exxon et al, precisely to muddy the waters. The media of course was happy to play along.
Linux capable, but what about drivers for GPU and other peripherals?
Safety Strategy
That might not be a bad thing.. but it could be.
Immoral Hazard – Making the incentives count
The exception would be standard essential patents, as far as I know.
I think I meant "the goal ought to be to never have to think about, let alone use, Javascript again."
Data doesn't physically exist. If you're in Mexico (or, for that matter, Africa, or outer space) with a radio transmitter, you can transmit a signal into the US. There is no physical object that crosses the border, not even a wire. There is no practical way to "search" or "detain" such data, because it's not an object, it's information. See also Radio Free Europe etc.

As a practical matter you also can't search data that comes in via terrestrial data networks because the bulk of it is encrypted and the links are too fast for realtime analysis anyway.

And as information, it also has First Amendment protection.

Since excluding information at the border is both un-American and a practical impossibility, there is no valid argument for information crossing the border to have reduced constitutional protection. Any state interest in excluding it cannot be served in that way or at all.
Has it been answered in the negative?
> And the symbol is not called the "switch symbol". It's called the Option Key Symbol, Unicode U2325. I doubt it's meant to imply "switching" of launching options.

It doesn't matter what it's called in Unicode, it is literally the symbol for an (open) switch in an electrical wiring diagram. It's trying to invoke that bit of adjacent-domain "visual jargon" to imply to people who are first-time computer users — but who have experience with electronics — what the key will do / what it is used for. It's a switch; it switches the function of other keys!

And it doesn't just switch the function of commands; it also switches the function of typing regular keys — i.e. it momentarily switches your keyboard layout to a second, alternative "page" of the same keyboard layout (which is essentially the same as the "Alt Gr" key in Windows.)
Seems rich to recommend the expensive reMarkable which doesn't even encourage external devs.

It seems people managed to jailbreak older versions but you will brick your device if it's too new...
How large is the overlap between the unbanked and people buying iPhones?
Once enough of a city's inhabitants become adversarial towards robotaxis, the technology is done for. Their only means of long-term success is if the people cooperatively tolerate their existence on the roads.

If you need a security guard in every vehicle to defend it, you have a driver.
I'm not sure the requirement of "can purchase Apple products at retail" quite aligns with "expanding credit to the unbanked". Premium luxury goods as a barrier to entry (especially when one is ineligible for carrier subsidies because they are unbanked) is a pretty high bar to clear.
We just saddle our children with private student loan debt.
I’m specifically referring to things like this:

> :tounge-sticking-out-emoji:

If you want to use emoji text like that when communicating about positive things, that’s one thing. Some people will find it grating, but that’s up to you. But if you use it to talk about negative things like bugs, that will piss people off. There’s a time and a place for emojis, and communicating bad news is definitely not one of them. It gives the very strong impression you don’t take bugs seriously.
fish has grown and evolved. i was referring to this:

Builtin commands should only be created when it cannot be avoided. echo, kill, printf and time are among the commands that fish does not implement internally since they can be provided as external commands. Several other commands that are commonly implemented as builtins and can not be implemented as external commands, including type, vared, pushd and popd are implemented as shellscript functions in fish.

if i remember correctly, this led to some useful commands that are builtin elsewhere to be external binaries shipped with fish. but since those where not actually tied to the fish shell they could run without it, and if they ended up on the global path be accessible from other shells.

the relevant text on the website has been changed, but it is referenced here:

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/612

the discussion also points out that this has changed over time
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If you're doing something novel, it is more or less impossible to estimate when it will be done. Progress will usually be slow, with bursts of extreme productivity after a breakthrough.
I think you're taking it too seriously. They're just great comics to curl up with on the couch.
I'm 59, and I'm selective about which new technologies I get excited about. One question I ask myself is, will I regret missing out on this or waiting for the next version?

I would have regretted missing out on microcomputers and programming.

I don't regret missing out on Windows Vista.

I get excited about technologies when I find a use for them. So far I haven't found a use for LLM's, but that could change, and there will always be the next version.
I'm with you. I want to buy things that don't need constant fiddling to keep them working. I want them to silently do their thing, supporting me in the background while I focus on mine.

But it's great knowing that I _could_ drop down a layer at any time. It makes me feel a lot more comfortable about relying on an ecosystem to know that it has redundancy in the support layer. For example, if Remarkable themselves go out of business, will I still have access to my documents? Will they still receive updates? Will I still be able to buy replacement parts?
Ask HN: I am no longer interested in coding, what should I do next?
I have coded for 10 years now and I feel like I peaked. I can keep on learning, but I feel there isn't really much point since I don't want to be the world's best programmer. I wanted to learn how to use a tool and I have achieved this goal. Right now, I am a tech lead for a B2B company and I quite enjoy the job because I get to interact with other teams. But as far as career goes, what are my next steps? I am interested in management, but was wondering if anyone that has been through this have any advice or suggestions.
Surprised no one is talking about reusable straws? I have some and they're nice.
How can students know what the teacher tells them is true?
Also: "punk" just means "aesthetic" now. The economic and political connotations have a long-term downtrend in mindshare.
Galaxy tab S with android is going into the right direction with the desktopextension function but as long as so many buy apple and it's completly unusable they will not adapt in any way.
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My guess is that it's just a problem solving body, for dodging US sanctions, etc. More power to them.
Fundamental problem of management is you would like to have an incentive structure for the impact of an individual BUT the most impactful people usually aren’t out highlighting their accomplishments, they’re in the background helping everyone else be successful.
I was kind of thinking the same thing, and that SOPS would be a good fit here because (as hacky as that mechanism is!) SOPS could be downloaded as a little static Go executable during `terraform init` just like providers are. `age`, too.

And yeah, a plugin interface would be great for lower coupling, and the provider interface seems like a model that could basically be copied here. :)
Precisely why I have not used Linux on my laptop/desktop since like 15 years ago. I love to tinker and troubleshoot but I prefer to to be getting paid for it.
Fish will match the string even so.
The switch symbol dates back to the very first international Lisa keyboards from 1983. They needed a language-independent symbol for the "Option" key in 1983, that's what someone chose, and it stuck.

Some other keyboard trivia:

- The 1983 Lisa used the Apple logo for its command key. The 1984 Mac used the cloverleaf symbol instead because Steve Jobs didn't like seeing so many Apple Logos in the main menus.

- The command key has been around since 1983, but is was never labelled "Command" on the US-English keyboard, nor was that key referred to as "Command" in the documentation. It just lore that this strange cloverleaf key was called "Command", and passed down through oral tradition. Apple finally labelled the key in the late 2000s.

- Apple has been very conservative about its keyboard layouts and symbols. The original Mac and Lisa had separate Enter and Return keys. The separate "Enter" key survived will into the 2000s iBook and Powerbook keyboards. It was finally removed with the MacBook in 2006.

- Likewise, the Apple Logo was added to the command key in 1986, for compatibility with the Apple II. It wasn't removed until the late 2000s.

- The Apple Extended Keyboard from 1987 was Apple's first keyboard to use a PC-style 104 key layout. This keyboard includes all of the PC-specific text such as Alt, Scroll Lock, Print Screen, etc. This is how the Option key came to be knows as "Alt" on non-US keyboards.
It looks cool but honestly I think it’s another one of those “looks cool but never gets to v1.0” projects, like Fallout 4: New Vegas. For ravynOS, the Windows 9x buttons mixed with macOS everything else is hard to look at.
> The Playstation 2 was as far away from the Atari 2600 as we are from the Playstation 2 today. One of these periods had a lot more change.

Yeah, from PS2 to now is a much bigger difference.

Of course you meant in relative terms, but in absolute terms the computation (and especially per watt) that you can do today is astonishing relative to in 2000. Software development on the 2600 had more in common with the PS2 than the PS2 does to today. (Writing assembler in Excel for the vector units was a thing on the PS2).

What has happened is we have completely lost sight of what all this is for, and ever more of the created resources get allocated to enabling fast pivots towards anything that looks like it might be worth doing.
Hacking, the act of using technology in ways the manufacturer or developer didn't intend, is inherently punk. The "man" is the company that puts blocks in place to keep you from doing what you want with the hardware you bought.
> none of us gave it up

huh? "electric cars" etc

> match my politics

climate transcend political parties.
I do, but they made it popular. I'd much rather CP/M had won, not some quick and dirty clone, but that's besides the point.

The “DOS for the 2020s” being anti-Microsoft and Apple makes no sense to me. Also, DOS was the mainstream, not some retro-cyberpunk thing. Again, makes no sense at all to me.
Re: Perl, I very much agree. I've mostly switched to Ruby and `grep -P` but Perl really does have a place. `perl -pie` is still the most expressive/powerful option in some cases. Even if not directly used much anymore, I think most people vastly underappreciate how much Perl affected it's successors. Even as historical significance it's worthy of admiration.
Does the same logic apply with Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic? Sometimes corporations are responsible for using massive budgets to push or displace narratives. The labeling of calls for corporate accountability away as conspiracy theory is probably the biggest conspiracy of our time.
The AMC series Halt And Catch Fire had the line: “Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.”
I've used IDEs and just plain ol vim. And I tells you, having an ide allowed me to debug problems my team thought undebuggable.

The reality is that rubymine costs 100/year for personal use, and I pay them with a smile because to me it is worth 10x that price. The reality is that ides can help you hide from bad package management. But package management is but such a tiny portion of code organization. And all editors let you find files by name or jump to definition. Some do it far better than others.

Watch someone use the latest jetbrains platform to see type annotation injection into typescript code. I've seen developers abandon vscode and others once they saw how smooth ides can be out of the box with the coolest features.

In any case. Just my take.
Plus the regex is more likely incorrect in the first attempt and needs to be fixed.
Hum are 380$ per year, which is a lot.
My blog based on Wordpress cost me less than 118$/year with backup and domain cost (VAT Included).
It seems more than a 3x cost per year, which seems a lot even considering the inflation in the next 100 years.