skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boosterism is the close partner of doomerism. If I were facing a bunch of boosters I'd probably sound a lot like Noah in comparison to how I sound now.

I read a lot of literature on the energy situation 20 years ago because I got concerned about this long before a lot of other people did and the assumption back then was that we needed at least 10x the energy storage than many people seem to think we need now. Newer literature doesn't confront the old literature and explain why it's different today, it just seems that people are more optimistic.

Sure batteries are around in the world but at 100x the cost and 1/100 times the scale. Could an exponential curve continue, yes it could. But "things that can't continue forever won't" and we are seeing that happen in the semiconductor industry right now where new generations of chips are not cheaper per transistor than old chips which will bring progress to an absolute halt.

What I see is a lot of quoting very low prices that are a bird in the bush not a bird in the hand and no mention of error bars or "the probability of this is 70%" or, more likely, "there are four events that have to happen to realize this that each have a 50% probability of occurring" so the result is that people react like they do when they get assaulted by a friend (soon to be ex-friend) who wants them to join Amway or by a crypto bro at a party. That is, people like Noah have to sound a bit less optimistic if they want to be taken seriously.
[In 2014] The Captain of the Port of Miami ordered Baluchi not to attempt to travel to Bermuda in his bubble. Baluchi tried again in 2016. [...]

And they sank his bubble as a hazard to navigation. "They shot, they sink my bubble," Baluchi told VICE. "No more bubble I have."
FAA grounds Starship until SpaceX takes 63 'corrective actions'
I actually agree with you, but there are too many applications using mainframes that shouldn't be. Processing FAFSA for instance.
Async is much older in other languages. It's new in Rust, and time will tell, but I don't see it playing out differently this time.

Btw, the turnaround time is longer with a database, which often forms the foundation of a system. NoSQL bandwagoning was so destructive in part because of how long it looked like a good idea each time. Same with ORMs.
Incidentally mescaline tends to be one of the exceptions from the "legalize all plant medicine" crowd. Apparently it's a lot of effort to cultivate peyote; there isn't much of it, and it's associated with tribal practices. People advocating for legalization tend to leave out peyote because they don't want people competing with tribal shaman for access to it.

I believe there's another source (S. Pedro cactus?) that doesn't have the tribal history, and is thus considered a reasonable alternative for legalization.
To me this kind of sounds like circular reasoning. Without function coloring there's no distinction that you need to know of.

Can you elaborate?
Yeah, I understand this reaction, but I feel like maybe you're limiting your scope of web app to "browser ui, native-library-consuming application". What I'm actually talking about is the WASI and wasm projects and the even more general idea of a compilation and/or execution of machine code for a specific CPU/OS/environment based on contracts within the system interface and the wasm binaries.

I know there aren't a lot of public examples of any of that, right now, so it's hard to be inclusive of that kind of thing when considering 'web apps'. Maybe I'm premature in being so loose with the term. But I do think this stuff is closer than a lot of people realize.
I’m wondering if they’ve considered less radical solutions? Something like adding a new thread-based front end to Postgres itself while keeping the processes, and then gradually fixing whatever makes that less than seamless.
"that uses athletes as chattel."

There is no shortage of people who want to play college football.
Many would play even with out a scholarship.
In Division 2 less than half the team is on scholarship. In Division 3 nobody gets scholarships.
They are almost never on TV and there is very little chance they will make the NFL.
Gallium nitride is a replacement for silicon in transistors, and you haven't heard anything because they've won. Any USB-C PD charger you see that provides more than 50W or so and isn't a gigantic brick is a GaN charger. Take a look at any reputable manufacturer's site and you'll find a section about how their chargers use gallium nitride transistors, e.g. https://www.belkin.com/products/product-resources/gan-charge..., https://www.anker.com/ganprime, etc.
95M tons is nickel, he says there's 22M tons of lithium. That's actually the 2021 number, 2022 is 26M tons, which is double the known reserves in 2010: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253739/lithium-reserves.... Of course this can't go on forever, but there's no reason to think growth will suddenly stop in the next few years. The very recent explosion in demand for lithium incentivizes search for more reserves. If we really can't find any more, then billions or trillions of dollars will be redirected to bring lithium extraction from seawater to commercial scale.
Wonder if the scummy feelings will fade in the future when the tech is better. I used to half-joke that I would end up happily married to a robot in the future, but I can't say I have any interest in the current wave of AI girlfriends.
Consider switching to Linux, I think you will see this trend a lot more.
Describes me. I love hard work—love it—if it’s making me sweat. Will go ‘till I puke, keep going, then tell you I had a great time afterward. Sports, physical labor, any of that. Just don’t ask me to run for the sake of running—there’s hardly a more-boring activity on the planet, to me.

Intellectual work is soul-crushing and makes me want to stop and do literally anything else within a couple hours, by contrast. And I’ve got some natural talent for it! I can’t imagine how intolerable it’d be otherwise.

But the painfully-boring leave-me-a-husk-by-EOD intellectual jobs pay better and don’t (necessarily) ruin your body by age 40, so I tappy-tappy at keyboards instead of building fences or whatever. Sigh.

Same goes for academics. Studying’s draining. Doing baseball (or whatever) drills is awesome.

But maybe I only feel that way because I’m American. I dunno.
"Enforceable" doesn't mean "infallible".

Yes, it is a hard problem. Legal justice is also a hard problem. My above point is that twitter can unilaterally take steps to enforce their policy, i.e. they do not need to lean on legal mechanisms.
Would you mind elaborating on your idea of the composite "agent"? I don't quite understand it, and it does not sound like what I think OP's metacircular evaluator is referring to.
It's not supposed to be a job. It's supposed to be secondary to education. Admittedly, it's getting away from that, but I would like to hold on as long as possible.
Even if we stopped all emissions tomorrow, we would probably need to do stuff like this because the CO2 level is already too high.
Exactly the "too cheap to meter" claims that were made about fission energy.

The problem is that though the marginal cost of the next watt-hour of electricity may be low you still have to pay the very real (and likely huge) costs of constructing and maintaining the reactors and generating plant. Investors will need to earn a return; the bonds payments will need to be made.
Hey procreate fans, I need your help. I have a broken iPad for an artist friend of mine. The screen’s busted, but it turns on. It’s under Apple Care plus. But I hesitate to use it, because they’ll replace the iPad, and procreate has made the horrible decision not to sync any of the art to iCloud, so my friend will lose all their artwork.

Is our best option to pay for a screen replacement? It’ll be hundreds of dollars, but that’s preferable to losing their procreate catalog.

I already lost some art of theirs when they were playing around on my iPad, which I was bummed about, so I’m not eager to repeat that experience.

EDIT: sorry, I should’ve posted this as a top level comment. I didn’t mean to intrude. I was just trying to salvage a year or so of work. Thank you everyone for your wonderful ideas.
Fusion (particularly DT fusion) is grossly overvalued as an energy source. It's been an element of the consensus futurology (which is why you see it as a trope in SF stories), but this placement is not deserved by its actual qualities.

Renewables make much more sense. At the experience curve for utility scale PV from 2010 to 2022, assuming that experience rate of 33.1% decline per doubling of cumulative deployment would continue, if the world were powered by PV the levelized cost of delivered power would fall to $0.003/kWh.
Zero is a stretch. I think they have largely failed to serve their purpose in the consumer device realm, beyond decent integration with BitLocker.

Despite the shortcomings, I think they are very useful devices from the perspective of running data centers. I consider it useless against evil maid attacks though.
Show HN: Self-Service UI for Scheduling Azure VM Start/Stop
The bigger fear is that he's premature.
There's another strategy possible here - technical blocking will prevent almost all scraping (proxies are damn expensive for hobbyists and hackers!). For people who go around these limitations, it will speak to their intent to bypass access limits and they can be taken down in a court.

Non-business-entities of course may escape judgement if they cannot be found or are in a place that doesn't enforce these kinds of laws. However, I bet Twitter's bigger fear is the US and EU commercial entities and generative AI - limiting access and then going after them in court will stop a lot of commercial enterprises.
Oh yeah, and even then:

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/kaust-spinout-wil...

We have not run out of any mineral ever and I don't believe we ever will.
Not so fast. I work in large scale renewable energy. While we do invest heavily in solar and batteries, battery storage is a much riskier proposition long term than just solar generation.

No single renewable is going "to win". The only way to make renewables work is if you use every one practical in a particular market. And even then oil, gas and coal aren't going to go away because some markets and use cases just require it.

Energy is complicated. Don't buy anyone's line where they promise you the moon.
A benefit of legalization is that you can have 1mg THC mints or whatever. Good luck finding that in any illegal market.
if you're writing Elixir code you'll find that most of the times the assignment is close to where you need the variable, so you usually end up writing something along the line of

var = if x, do: 200, else: 5
I didn't read the article because paywall.

My comments were from memory - I had heard about this bill earlier (but it was also only plant medicine then).
Any particular problems? Just linking to their policy is a bit confusing. You might consider submitting this as a question and linking to their policy in your summary.
> There's evidence that the earth is warming, but only if you squint a certain way.

Get real. I used to sympathize with global warming deniers. It's 2023. The debate has been had for 40 years and now things are literally catching fire. There is not room for debate anymore.
I thought they scrubbed their hourly non-updates, but they’s just buried a level, e.g.:

https://ca.issquareup.com/incidents/wyb09mlsvvpq
As long as the schools/networks/whoever are making boatloads of money, it is completely reasonable and fair that the athletes are also allowed to get their share (which should be in, my opinion, a pretty decent chunk of the total).

That being said, the sheer amount of money involved in CFB at all is, in my opinion, slowly ruining it and turning it into a worse version of the NFL. If I could wave a magic wand, no one involved would be making more than trivial amounts of money (relative to today).

Unfortunately, I also don't think there's anything to be done about it (neither I nor anyone else possesses such a magic wand). It would be possible to fix, but only if schools were willing to give up the revenue voluntarily, and they obviously aren't going to do that.
If your system cannot be decomposed away from shared mutable state, then you cannot avoid lifetime management and synchronization primitives.

Ultimately, it depends on your data model.
Athletes are not forced to be play sports. They are there because they want to be. If they don't want to do it without pay, no one is making them do it.
It may no longer be necessary for pins to exist for async implementation: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#method.new_c... (but the current async interface requires using them, so my point is definitely a whatifism).
> in the same way
The FAA doesn't answer to either of those agencies.

They have no motivation to factor NASA timelines into their prioritization unless the executive branch lights a fire under them, and the executive branch is deeply unfocused on technical details like this right now.
Just imagine what would happen if our enemies learned how to strap a gun to a truck!
Play single-player Ironsworn so you can DnD while you D&D.
Llama 2 is so censored it refuses to write a website about llamas
I've been stunned looking through crowdsourced prompt and "character card" examples for stable diffusion and llama.

Got a second 3090 so I could experiment with a few business ideas and work on a graphic novel with my kids.

It appears that the primary use case for both of these open source tools currently is NSFW, most of it underage and incestuous (the "step sister/brother/dad/mom" trend in porn is taken a "step" further, removing the all-important "step" part).
Boca Chica is just for testing, afaik.
God of the Gaps: How the Supernatural Explains What We Can’t
Ya I don't think Americans dislike hard academic work and STEM is not every single job. Most jobs don't even really require a bachelor's degree and I think most Americans are aware of that. There just isn't a need for everyone to get a PhD from an elite university in STEM, that's a recipe for disaster. I actually think what OP is saying is kind of an offensive and inaccurate view of Americans.
They basically ran one of the most beloved coaches in NCAA football - Jim Tressel at Ohio State - out of town. The reason? Because while these ghouls were profiting off of his players' NIL to the tune of millions per year, a couple of them had the gall to take a couple hundred bucks for themselves - and Tressel didn't do enough to "turn them in" proactively.
There are two issues. One is a false sense of security. You think that you have the same level of security of a full disk encryption, but you don't. On a full disk encryption only who knows the password can access your data. On this system the disk is automatically decrypted at boot, so any flaw in Windows that permits a privilege escalation done by that PC can give access to your data.

If somebody that wants your data steals your PC he will be likely to find a way to access your personal data. It's a protection against a casual thief that is probably not interested in your data and can't probably even figure out how to bypass the Windows password screen.

But if this doesn't make harm, why not have it? Because having disk encryption enabled by default to a user that doesn't know that is enabled by default is not necessary a good thing. Let's face it: users don't do backups. I know even companies that have all their data on a single server with no backups.

Now if the motherboard breaks and you don't have backup... you can't just take the disk out of that computer, connect to another PC and recover the data. You have lost your data!

But wait, you say Microsoft tought about that, indeed if you signed in with a Microsoft account you can recover your Bitlocker encryption key from the Microsoft portal... wait what? Exactly. No security at all! Microsoft knows your encryption keys and it stores it on their servers... again: false sense of security is worse than no security at all!

Finally, even if this system was 100% secure: do you trust the hardware? The same hardware produced by the same manufacturer of the products where nearly once in a year a big security flaw is discovered? The same hardware where we know that the NSA, and probably other government agencies, placed backdoors?

Whatever, typing a password when booting up the computer (that is once in a day) is such a big deal?
Good reason to always carry a bit of cash with you.

Yeah yeah, you’re losing $5 per $100 a year, but situations like this won’t affect you.

If visa or Mastercard go down, I could say ATMs being emptied out.
Right, we need grid-scale storage, and as you say we already have some deployed. So the challenge now is to deploy a lot more, which is certainly a big challenge, but we don't need to invent any new technology.
Read the data collection part:

```
2. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
2.1 Types of Data Collected
2.1.1 Personal Data
While interacting with the Services, You may provide certain personally identifiable information that could be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Your user name for the Services

Text or image prompts you input into the Services, or public chats you maintain on the service

Your IP address

Usage Data

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

Contact Information

Organizational Information like your company title

Your Email

Cookies

Other data that you elect to send to the Company
```
it is actually a fact as determined by a court of law

but your opinion that he is not is cute

I imagine such silly, reality-denying opinions accompany the same derangement that drives a very small, very loud minority of people to shriek hate and "hate!" at everyone who points out that elmu is a notorious liar
No, tokio does not require your Futures to be thread-safe.

Every executor (including tokio) provides a `spawn_local` function that spawns Futures on the current thread, so they don't need to be Send:

https://docs.rs/tokio/1.32.0/tokio/task/fn.spawn_local.html

I have used Rust async extensively, and it works great. I consider Rust's Future system to be superior to JS Promises.
I like this too.

I would also suggest looking into ringbuffers and LMAX Disruptor pattern.

There is also Red Planet Lab's Rama, which takes the data flow idea and uses it to scale.
there's no way you can convince me that if you're building a bot to scrape websites, you've never heard of robots.txt.
I've stopped using the sites as well.
> A safe async language must guarantee that threads will make progress.

You might be looking for parallelism, not concurrency.
Windows XP has a lot less bullshit than the recent versions. I'd definitely take it now over 10 or 11, behind a firewall/NAT of course. ;-)

Just needs a modernish browser and third-party terminal. cygwin tools or equivalent.
You don't even need other runtimes for this. Tokio includes a single-threaded runtime and tools for dealing with tasks that aren't thread safe, like LocalSet and spawn_local, that don't require the future to be Send.
Found this video of Alex Kunchevsky animating a butterfly in Dreams. If this is how the process actually works, then I could see Dreams being very popular. Simple and intuitive.

https://twitter.com/kunchevsky/status/1697439424311853252

Of course, I could also see edge cases where the simple & intuitive get in the way of what the artist actually wants to do. Will be interesting to see how it pans out in practice.
Every executor (including tokio) supports spawning Futures that aren't Send:

https://docs.rs/tokio/1.32.0/tokio/task/fn.spawn_local.html

There is a lot of misinformation in this thread, with people not knowing what they're talking about.
Why do you think this TOS is the same one Ukraine and other governments sign? Earlier Musk was expressly allowing Ukraine to use Starlink for military purposes, and from what i can tell is still fine with them using it just not in Crimea.
Even this TOS

Even this TOS doesn't say it is prohibited "However, Starlink is not designed or intended for use with or in offensive or defensive weaponry or other comparable end-uses. Custom modifications of the Starlink Kits or Services for military end-uses or military end-users may transform the items into products controlled under U.S. export control laws, specifically the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 C.F.R. §§ 120-130) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 C.F.R. §§ 730-774) requiring authorizations from the United States government for the export, support, or use outside the United States. " That just means they won't expressly support it and you need US governmental approval.
Oil prices has been swinging between 60-100 for the last 10 years. I think it's oil refineries are using OPEC excuse to increase the price.

The USA drills as much as we consume. We drill more oil compared to Saudis and Russia
I built a clone of this without the background removal: https://a.picoapps.xyz/argue-party?ref=hn
Because nature existing in a vaguely pre-human state is only a means to an end. Climate change is only a problem so far as the problems it creates get in the way of humans and their actual goals. Humanity first.
A lot of music teachers are like that. I personally consider it shitty. My friend's first violin teacher (when she was 10 years old) made her do empty string bowing for a year. Just pull and push bowing. Now, don't get me wrong, technique is extremely important, and a lot of teachers have "if you can't do it well, don't do it" mentality. But really these people miss music is also tons of fucking fun. For a 10 year old infant, you really need a better curriculum to motivate her than just perfecting empty bowing.

I tell people: you wanna play Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto? Go fucking play it. I mean you're not gonna play it well, even some world-class pianists can't, but if it gives you pleasure to try, and motivates you to play piano, that's fine. If you're gonna be a professional pianist, or you're a student at university, it's an entirely different matter. Some people are just hobbyists, or they want to be composers and learn piano to help compose (which is an extremely important core skill for a composer). Those people can just sit down and play whatever they want, along with things that are at their level that they can perfectly play.
Considering the popularity of NSFW roleplaying AI character prompts, I'm not surprised at this kind of development.
The summary of each app's privacy practices is easier to see at a glance using the App Store Labels: https://www.apple.com/privacy/labels/

In this case, you're referring to "Data Linked to You". "Data Linked to You" is based on the account you used to sign in to the News app + your activity within the news app - to create suggestions within the News app.

This does not allow Apple to track you from the News app e.g. access the IDFA of the device, sharing it with third parties or other apps.