skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are, in principle, physical limits to infinite exponential growth

You're making a different argument now, probably without realizing. The original blog post starts by saying:

> I said to him, “economic growth cannot continue indefinitely,” just to see where things would go.

Re-reading the blog post I see that it's very confusing, because the physicist isn't retelling the story clearly and probably not thinking about his argument clearly. He uses the word "exponential" in the title of the blog post, but then his recounting of how the discussion begins doesn't involve that. The first time it comes up in his retelling, it's when the physicist starts conflating wealth with energy. So whilst you are talking about exponents they appear to be irrelevant to the argument.

Phrased another way, for as long as humanity can somehow improve its collective situation in some way the economy can grow.

But even if the economist had tried to defend unlimited exponential growth, it would only affect the time window within which economic claims are valid. Remember that we're talking about wealth, which isn't dependent on physical limits. There's no theoretical upper limit to wealth just like there's no theoretical upper limit to how big numbers can get. Or rather, to argue that there is a limit, you have to start making complex and highly speculative arguments about hypothetical limits to human ingenuity, potential and preferences which is why the counter-argument goes in the direction of talking about the Matrix.

Let's put that to one side. Just like the physics guy in the article you clearly think you're winning some meaningful points here, but you aren't. Like most fields of study, economics is the study of worlds that roughly resemble our own. This is so obvious that it doesn't normally need to be stated explicitly. Perhaps it's not obvious to people who research physics due to the unusually universal nature of physical claims. So the statements it makes are grounded in a set of axioms and contexts, one of which is when they say there are no limits to wealth they mean in practice, for a world and society somewhat like this one.

That's why to argue against this point you have to keep bringing up wholly theoretical societies, where we reached the limits of the universe or became brains-in-jars. If you want to talk about the economics of the Matrix then great! Go for it! It will make for intriguing science fiction, but not more. It is A-OK if our current definitions of terms like wealth and growth fail for hard sci-fi worlds.
> The problem was strategic leadership fell into the hands of idiots and they backed the Austrians without a clear strategy beyond 'our armies smash'.

Germany backing Austria-Hungary against Russia dates back to the Berlin conference, and back then, it was still Bismarck at the helm.
For the umphteenth time.

Go, be a socialist. Africa is waiting. 99.9% of people visiting this website is orders of magnitude more wealthy than average african citizen.

Eat the rich? You people are the rich. Set an example. Lead the way. Be the first communist to actually practice what they preach.
A look inside a Sharia Courtroom
What a great resource.

The way each font links to a page with screenshots of actual games only with the selected font replacing the real font is pretty amazing stuff!
Quick, someone is jaywalking, call the police!
Having everything behind a counter is fine if there is a clerk standing by to help you.
What’s the difference between a free-to-move camera and one on a preset track if they’re rendering at 100fps?
Sending a mockery video with one's own name takes some courage. Some criminal organizations could find where he lives and ring his bell.

The page went 404 while I was writing this comment.
The Next Frontier in Software Development: AI-Augmented Software Development
The first version of this I saw came from the webcomic in this reddit thread about a prime number that looks like a giraffe.

After one commenter showed off this technique, someone else found a minimal prime giraffe: 7.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7qpfls/does_there_exi...
At this point, I would not be at all surprised if this is a guerrilla tactic for accounts that have not logged in in a while to create engagement/MAU.
As sokoloff has pointed out, we don't disagree with one another. My comment was a criticism of those who portray workers' demands as a single massive increase, rather than a small yearly increase.
Your specific assertion was "Conversely the people who argue against growth never have any answers they want to elaborate on."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386379>

I gave multiple specific authors who have proposed plans. Yes, it's a number of titles; I assure you that's only the thinnest scraping of the broader literature. Or to put it plainly: there are many people who've had "answers they want to elaborate on" ... and you're now complaining that there are too many of them?

Tough to please.

I've asked you now three times who it is you're claiming has no answers.

I'm not exactly still waiting. But if you'd care to provide a response to that question I'd appreciate it.

I'm not asking for a thesis. Just a listing of who or what references you're pointing at.

Seems to be a considerable challenge for you to do so, just sayin'.
Ah, that's great, sounds like we are allies, for example when arguing for "let it crash" and other take aways from the Erlang error reporting philosophy in the Julia community.
Personal favourite is the compound word “Zeitlupe”.
What do you mean, my data is valuable
With compile_commands.json it's been possible for quite a while now.
Agreed, easily testable hypotheses like these have generally already been tested and should IMO be presented accompanied by their supporting evidence.

In this case it looks like there’s a bit, this was the first thing I found: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084208/
Did you ever check the price tag such switches come with? There is a reason why every product ever replaces good mechanical switch assemblies (maybe 10 € per piece) with simple momentary switches (0.02 € per piece) and it has nothing to do with UX
>Unless you are British, for them Napoleon is the devil.

I mean, Napoleon is the devil everywhere except France. It is not like the other countries would enjoy being attacked and pillaged by marching army.
I think he took the hint and removed the post.
Seems the comments about being illegal have gotten to the author, content not found 52 minutes from posting.
I thought for a second the title was missing a (1936).
Getting this on my second fb account, good to know it’s not just me
Versaille was either to harsh or too weak, exactly what you don't want. It also was the only realistic thing back than.

I just don't apply modern, post WW2 moral principles on going to war at WW1. Sure, the Austrian approach to the Serbian situation was just plain stupid, as was Germany backing them. Bit it was totally understandable from their point of view. After all, back then, before the trench warfare hell started, everybod still thought it would something like back during Napoleon's days and in 1870 or the Prussian-Austrian war (people tend to overlook the fact Germany and Austria were not always close allies), you send ypur army, besiege some cities, meet in an open field battle, or multiple, the winner takes what he wants and the looser, including the population, accepts the outcome for the time being. Rinse and repeat. Still war, still bad, bad far from the hellscape modern turned out to be. WW1 was a true watershed in history, one we tend to fail fully appreciate as it is overshadowed by WW2 in every aspect.
> 20 years before the modern smartphone (1996 -> 2016)

The first iPhone was released in 2007. You could argue that ”modern“ smartphones took a few more years, but definitely not until 2016.
Ah yes, a classic remote file inclusion exploit. Nothing new, but fun to see in the wild as of 2023.
Well, I am no member of law enforcement organisation, but I was really hoping to read that. Does anyone have a copy, by chance?
ARM Saved Apple [video]
A short video (25 minutes) about the start of Zinclair and Acorn, and how the ARM (RISC) CPU saved Apple.
You can get a LoRa transmitter/receiver for like $5 and setup your own network. Documentation and datasheets are freely available. They are really not printing money with that technology.

There isn't any opensource modulation scheme that comes even close to LoRa.
Well you have to fill in all your details in the form on italianauthority.it.gov.com.to . It will ask you to purchase an NFT, but don't worry, you will get it back at no charge.
Maglev add-on for normal trains [video]
Hasn't happened to me, it's not linked to a real FB account either.
Not sure it would qualify for 'public API', as you're self-hosting it, but I'd like to nominate ZeroMQ documantation[0]. To the point, with occasional comedic remark, lots of examples. Excellent.

[0]: https://zguide.zeromq.org/
The internet rarely forgets though

https://web.archive.org/web/20230907091046/https://www.elise...
My only complaint is that they used a generic font for the screen diagrams when they could have used something closer.

The font used in those displays is beautiful - modern and simple, very readable.
What's wrong with the Dosadi Experiment?

I remember enjoying reading it and finding the worldbuilding really interesting and the drama kept me reading. But I am a sucker for Frank Herbert so maybe I missed the flaws.
I just assumed someone was going through a database of known FB accounts and triggering the reset looking for people who accept.

It is strange that they appear to be able to avoid being blocked for bulk/frequent requests though. Seems like a big flaw.
Smarter blade feathering so can safely run through 85kph winds. Broke generation records. Neat! We need more of this.
Yeah, thing about Switzerland is that a lot of global companies are based there and market products and services globally that aren't swiss clocks, chocolates, dams in the alps, lederhosen, etc.

This particular company has multiple gravity battery designs that it's shopping globally and building the first industrial scale installation in China (checks map) some distance from Switzerland.

So, again, not everywhere is suitable for pumped hydroelectric and (obviously one would have hoped) it's okay to develop products for places that have no dams while living in a place that has dams.

Do you have a point to make?
> Having the code of the authorization layer mixed in with the application code itself can be very problematic. Most importantly, it creates a situation where we struggle to upgrade, add capabilities and monitor the code overall as it is replicated between different microservices.

My takeaway from this article is to avoid using microservices.
Yeah, I think the best way to phrase it is not "risk free" but "easily mitigatable risks with basic safety precautions and PPE". You just have to be disciplined about the precautions, and then even teenagers can do it safely.

> What exactly you think are hazards in 3D printing? And low-voltage electronics?

Fire (have your dry powder/kitchen fire blanket handy). Minor burns (hot-end, molten plastic, soldering iron, solder itself, hot components or PCBs). Not really more dangerous than cooking - I'd consider leaving a 3D printer unattended but if you leave a deep fat fryer unattended that can go very badly wrong.

Snipping off through-hole leads produces annoying metal fragments; if you're not already wearing glasses, wear eye protection.
I’ve seen that and the FB one in recent months.
> Because there is a limit to how valuable you are as an expert builder building.

That's rarely a thing. Most jobs pay is not correlated to the value it creates. Simple example is software development. Team of 10 can create product that generates millions every day, but their pay will not be correlated in any way with that revenue. Maybe a manager will get a bonus, but most of the money flows to the owners.
I don't care much about stars, they just mean someone thought it was vaguely interesting and probably forgot all about it.

Maybe they need an informal comment section. Comment sections are toilets, but also, having just random casual engagement with users would be interesting. People could say stuff they are too lazy to make into a proper feature request, and you could tell if people are actually using your app or just randomly starred.
I hope that the author Benjamin Sago is alright. It's always concerning when FOSS developers disappear for a while - even though it isn't uncommon.
Quantum erasure with causally disconnected choice (2013)
Don't know Erlang aside from high level understanding about the language (basically know what one who read about it, but never programmed in it, would). Why is this needed (or, at least why is it nice to have)?:

universal_server() ->
receive
{become, F} ->
F()
end.

I mean what purpose does it serve other than having F() directly? One could just directly spawn F on the remote machines, no?

(Perhaps that would need to have the code for F already on those remote vms, whereas this eg. also serializes and forwards F's code?)

I would understand the utility if this also handled some common boilerplate, but it seems to just wait for become F message and then doing F().
The better behavior is not much better: my french bank sends terms and conditions updates regularly. Each time it says you are very welcome to reject the new terms and you should simply let them know and they will simply close your account, no hard feelings. Heh.
Those are all pretty heavy reading. At the point I noticed L Ron Hubbard was a bit nuts, I had read only young-adult sci-fi and fantasy.
I have alias ls=exa in my config for almost two years now. It’s honestly great. I guess I’ll use eza from now
I guy I know self-published a book, and it was obvious more or less from the first page that he'd never actually read more than a handful of books in his life

Right at the start there's a scene with a bunch of people in a nightclub, and when describing someone he uses the phrase "with a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle" - a colloquial phrase in Ireland meaning someone looks sour (see https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Face%20like%...)

... but he misplaced a comma, and the sentence he actually wrote was

"Maria, of course, standing close by with a face like a bulldog, licking piss off a nettle."

Terrible book, but almost worth reading just for that image
I think the better question is why facebook sends mails from facebookmail.com and metamail.com? Any sensible person would expect those to be scams, but they are real.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1634546593478660
Author here. I did wrong. And I'm sorry I didn't stay on the right side of the law.

I advise against doing the thing I did. I know it can be found on archive.org.

I removed the post so people don't follow it for "guidance" on how to break the law. Sorry to everyone.

I wish I could remove this post from hacker news. It is a dark page for me today.
Send me your CV if you want. I don’t suck at getting jobs as a developer, and I used to be a recruiter. I’ll give it a look & let you know what I think.
To give additional context, turbo just removed TypeScript. Here is the rationale https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-701...

This is the PR to remove it https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971

This is the PR to merge it back (backlash?) https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/972

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37409348
Quite a lot of it is either coding in a different CAD app, or "closework" which tends to have you hunched up and peering at small things. And it's not very physical.
That's rot13. We used to use it a lot in the good old days, mainly as a way of obscuring spoilers in usenet posts, but sometimes just for fun.

I bet I'm not the only person here who can read it – rather haltingly – without decoding it first.
Could the signal bounce off airplanes as well, or is that effect not relevant in practice? (I think I've heard such stories before from radio amateurs...)
> self-managed work

My argument is that society has some needs that are unfulfillable if you simply expect that ordinary people will pick up the slack, because it's the kind of work that people find distasteful.

Consider when garbage collection worker unions go on strike, and garbage starts to pile up and up because it's no longer being hauled away. Surely people are motivated to solve that problem because having piles of trash everywhere is disgusting. Surely people would be respected by their neighbors for solving the problem. But does anyone lift a finger and say, I'm happy to volunteer my time taking my trash and my neighbors' trash to the dump so that our streets will be clean? Does anyone say, oh I wish I could do that for myself and my neighbors', and the only reason I'm not is because I respect the union's strike?

It's the same thing in companies, by the way. There's no such real thing as self-managed teams. Anywhere that tries, if you inspect the work put out by those teams, you will almost invariably find that people have cut corners on the aspects of the job which they think are boring or stupid or otherwise distasteful. It is incredibly rare to find people who have the integrity to not only have a standard but to hold themselves to that standard.
> It took a different Emperor, and chancellor and different treaties dor the Bismarck system to fail. And decades.

Bismarck left power in 1890, the Russian alliance officially died in 1891. That's not exactly a decade.
FYI: the "si=xxxxx" bit in the end of Youtube share urls is an unique identifier that points to your specific user account and most likely contains specific metadata on how and when it was shared.

You can, and should, remove it when sharing Youtube links.

For that link the correct format would be: https://youtu.be/HG6KA6V4T7w
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension for inserting review badge in Pull Request
I just arrived on Mars and probably triggered over twenty loads
Take off, land, take the subway, or even enter the house
It gives me the feeling of many scenes stitched together using loading
If no one could do bad things in the world, then there would be no free will. No free will, no genuine love. You'd love God and other people because you were programmed to do so.
It's basically a distributed RPC system. Your call is a message.
Really? Napoleon gave Europe his civil code, formed the various German noble ruled entities into modern, by its day, kingdoms and proto nations, some that do exist in some form till today.

He was ultra expensionist, and militarily very, very successful. And come on, every army back then pillaged when marching, including the various coallition armies. Heck, the German states, excluding Prussia, were actually really happy with Napoleon, until the wind changed after Napoleons defeat in Russia.

No idea why Brits are still but hurt by Napoleon, first they win, then they fight two world wars as close allies of France and they still don't like them because Napoleon came close to bring the Empire down centuries ago...
hey hn, supabase engineer and blogpost coauthor here.

we made our first experiments with HNSW index for vector search and noticed about 5 times better performance compared to IVF with high dimensional vectors, such as embedding-ada by OpenAI.

we haven’t included results for smaller models like gte-small (384d) just yet, but we’re currently running those benchmarks as i write this comment. in our smoke tests the difference in performance isn’t as pronounced, but it still appears promising, suggesting that switching to HNSW could be beneficial for the majority of use cases.

oh there have been improvements with IVF as well, with index building times decreasing by roughly half. So, if you’re considering sticking with IVF, it’s advisable to upgrade to the latest version for these enhancements.

you can find extended version of ann testing framework in the GitHub [0]. its just the original one with a lil bit of code for pgvector and vecs lib.

[0] https://github.com/egor-romanov/vector-db-benchmark/tree/fea...
> Instead of Balancing Russia and Austria going all in on Austria

That was already Bismarck's choice : he signed a secret deal aligning Germany with Austria in case of conflict, and jeopardized his relations with Russia at the Berlin conference.

> And then to start the War did the dumbest possible things and instantly made sure Britain was on the other side.

Britain would have been on the other side regardless, already in 1875, Britain and Russia were more likely to align with France if Germany sought a preventive war.
Until we have a definition of consciousness that allows us to determine whether something is conscious or not I don’t really see the point of debating the compatibility of determinism and consciousness (whatever that word is supposed to mean).
Royal Academy Terrorizing Critic of St Carlos of Oviedo
In 2022, two years after my last statements on the subject (in the aforementioned podcast), I began to receive a series of pressures and attempts to intimidate me to get a public apology, despite the fact that there was no objective basis to justify such a show of contrition. The events begin in my work environment and end with pressure from the RAC itself, which is why I expose them here.
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OpenSSL Announces OpenSSL 3.2 Alpha 1
I use unreal professionally. I would say that unreal is very opinionated in the way things are done. This is a good thing if you can stick to it and know how to leverage the systems in the way they were intended but makes it also makes it incredibly easy to shoot yourself in the foot by not adhering to the (sometimes unwritten) rules.
Way back, there was a lightning (1 hour?) game programming contest over at FlipCode[1] IIRC where someone had made a Flash-based Tamagotchi spoof called Tamagraniti or similar, where you had to take care of a rock.

The interface was exactly like the real deal, and like the real deal you could water it, try to feed it and even give it a pet pebble for company. All with the expected results.

I loved it and I regret not saving a copy of it.

[1]: https://flipcode.com/
This is not novel in any way, but its style and the way you can ask questions can definitely help shape your ideas and steer you towards topics to research further. If you are not overly familiar with these concepts I can see this being helpful and interesting.

Personally I tried to tease novel techniques for compression out of it. It got me curious and at least it forced me to learn more about the domain to explain why its ideas were wrong.

Maybe that's a thing: it's so confidently (sometimes subtly) incorrect that it may take effort to learn how it's wrong. This itself can be an interesting exercise that wasn't really possible before.
Sure. What I'm really talking about is the modern ensemble of
smartphone, social networks and app-centric economy. In 2007 they were
still mainly "just phones".

It would be nice to have a better fix on the historical location of
the smartphone vis a vis obsessive, anxious use, but my reading of
folks like Johann Hari and Tristan Harris puts it around 2013/15,
which tallies with my observations in London.
But it took until 1914 for war to break out, didn't it?
Elon Musk’s Impulses Transformed Twitter
Just yesterday, I found out that Simon Wilson's name is Simon Willison.
Geolocating Russia’s Disgraced General Surovikin
This feels like a very odd form of gatekeeping; if it's art, is it not also blacksmithing?

Not to mention there's a whole bunch of functional-practical middle ground. The sword/knife people produce objects with usable blades but aesthetic qualities. Then there's literal gatekeeping: wrought-iron gates and fencing are both practical and aesthetic. Traditional in the UK although a lot got unnecessarily scavenged during the war.