skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investing in restoration of the natural world would be a convenient and prudent way to continue those dividends through the peak. By then some changes to the social order will start to kick in and we cannot predict how those will play out. That's for them to navigate.
I was intending to post a comment about foreign words imported into English in my long reply to jcranmer's point about same but the post ended up too long to do so. As I mentioned, I'm thinking of posting an addendum. Some points are likely to be controversial but I intend to explain why.
It would cost them a lot of money and have no impact on CO2 levels. Chinese and Indians will not magnanimously sacrifice their money to lower their CO2, and if they don't then it doesn't matter.
Well that will never work, see the remark about the UK - also it effectively removes any small country from any decision making, and the EU consists of mostly 'small' countries.
NIR: Nim Intermediate Representation
And a Jerry Pournelle column in every issue.
> But why is happiness later better than happiness now?

When you work on something you love, you don't see it as a burden, though sometimes it might objectively be a burden. There's no trade-off between happiness now and happiness later in that case.

Perhaps part of it is whether one has the disposition to find happiness in things that are hard work. Perception matters. If changing diapers and looking after infants and toddlers in general is your idea of a bad time, it shouldn't surprise if you then find that you have a bad time doing it. On the other hand if you see changing diapers and all that as incidental to a great adventure, then you're going to be happy to do those chores, and very happy overall.

> IMO the journey is more important than the end.

The journey to where? To death. There's no other end. Therefore we must enjoy the journey -- make it fulfilling, joyful, enjoyable. But how? We are not all born into great wealth, so most of us have to work hard some of the time in order to have great fun the rest of the time. If we see downtime-enabling hard work as a serious burden, we're not likely to enjoy the journey.

Parenting is like that, and like many creative activities it is intrinsically rewarding. In any creative endeavor, your creations may outlast you, and that may make the endeavor more meaningful than a more hedonistic life. Parenting is a creative endeavor; the knowledge that you'll be remembered long after you're gone is part of the reward of parenting, but the love of parenting while you're doing it is much greater still.
"Smart people can be wrong when they lack domain knowledge."
Do you know her background?

"Steady-state economies can exist with debt—it’s how ancient non-imperial economies worked"

Yes sure. An economy like the Amish can. But we talk here not about a market economy but about capitalism that basically starts with the industrial revolution. The giant pre-financing of production.

"As for energy, look up energy intensity of GDP. It’s falling."

Energy intensity of Which GDP? That of the US? Sure. Do you know why?
I actually read an article from a professor from a well known University (might have been MIT) that claimed the same. What he did not take into account is that the US has been outsourcing energy hungry production in the last decades. (The article appeared before the re-shoring of production in the US started). I send him a statistic showing, how the energy intensity of the US sank, while China's increased. I asked him if this contradicts his thesis. Unfortunately he did not reply.

Here, Gail also mentions this:

Why does world energy intensity remain flat, while energy intensity for many individual countries has been decreasing?

We are dealing with a large number of countries with very different energy intensities. The big issue would seem to be outsourcing of heavy manufacturing. This makes the energy intensity of the country losing the manufacturing look better. Outsourcing transfers manufacturing to a country with a much higher energy intensity, so even with the new manufacturing, its ratio can still look better (lower). It is hard to measure the overall impact of outsourcing, except by looking at world total energy intensities rather than individual country amounts.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/11/15/is-it-really-possible-...
this article is idiotic.
The Segway, at least originally, had considerable redundancy in the control system. I think they had four gyros and four accelerometers arranged in a tetrahedron. If you have four set up that way, you can get out info for all three principal axes, plus an error value that indicates sensor trouble. So failure can be detected quickly.

Does the one-wheel have that?
All those charts are showing older x86 CPUs (on worse nodes), and don't contain any Zen 4 CPUs.
My father was born into a world in which he had to practice subsistence farming if he didn't go to school. His was the first generation for which school was an option, and as a child he traveled 20 km by foot to the school and back, daily. My grandfather lost both parents since childhood, as back then hospitals were places where people went to die. He later fought in WW2, and lost his land to communists. During those years, he also witnessed the soviet-induced famine.

We are literally living humanity’s best years. Children today basically get sad for not having enough time to play Roblox. How sad is it that they have schoolwork to do instead of subsistence farming? And we get sad over climate change while stuffing our faces with cheap and delicious food while the AC is on.
Surprised he didn't refer to stack PR based systems like Gerrit for reference.

I have never tried those apps that build a top GitHub. I remember Facebook's sapling has a web client as well that does stack reviews.
I question the motives of people who wax philosophic about this subject matter. Of all the gray areas of the law - one thing any normal person would find revolting is someone's attraction to minors.
Now I've opened the door to people who will say "it's ok in X country because minors are 8 and younger" or some shit.
Only on HN would this be controversial, what is it about this? Not the first time this debate has happened here with a similar refrain "but no actual children were harmed!". Ok, if you ignore how this source material is generated, predatory behaviors these people exhibit otherwise.
It's a severe for of antisocial deviant depraved behavior - normalized here on HN.
> Has the War on Drugs ever been curtailed?

Yes. US enforcement of the drug trade is waaaay more lax than it has been in the past. The last time I remember reading about federal enforcement against state legal weed enterprises was toward’s the end of Bush’s term which is now 13 years ago. Social attitudes have also drastically shifted. Several places have already started decriminalizing magic mushrooms and weed is legal in most states and it’s more a question of when it will stop being illegal federally.

> Is anyone trying to curtail police power?

Yes. There was the whole defund the police movement, there’s constantly lawsuits about the police, there’s been actual legitimate prosecutions (albeit rare) against police (which is a step up from it never happening ever even if laughably insufficient given the amount of outrage that needed to be generated). Just because you may not be paying attention doesn’t mean stuff doesn’t change.

> How are they infringing on your rights in a way that you can just not use them?

I’d recommend brushing up on economics textbooks and how monopolies disrupt the market. Specifically, there are the two most common ways:

1. Lower prices when a real competitor pops up that runs more efficiently to drive them out of the market, raise prices back up once they’re gone.

Lots of examples like this, not sure about Google itself. Eg look at what Amazon did to kill diapers.com even though that company was disrupting the market in a profitable way (ie Amazon couldn’t actually compete but instead used their pocketbook and shady business tactics to outmaneuver them and force them into selling themselves to Amazon ).

2. Leverage your majority/monopoly position to retain that position. The government’s position with this case is that having a majority position in the market means they’re able to retain that majority regardless of any external competition.

In all cases, Google is harming me by causing hire prices in the market and inefficiencies in the marketplace. Google is also big enough that this gets magnified by quite a bit and seeps into other areas beyond search.

Also, the “you can just not use them” argument is pretty tired and requires willful blindness. That argument has always been trotted out as monopolies always had “competitors”. That doesn’t alter that large businesses can have lots of negative impact just because of their size.
>Zero-emissions long-distance aviation is absolutely possible... Provided you're not in a hurry. Solar Airship One will take 20 days to fly all the way around the equator, some 40,000 km (~25,000 miles), in a single zero-emissions hop.
> the company can use the fact that they paid for your training to void the money on your CPF for the year

can they? I did not know that. Are you sure of this? The law seems to clearly say no: https://www.editions-tissot.fr/droit-travail/content.aspx?id...
None of those MMOs can handle thousands of players on the screen at once.
Show HN: Navigate a website by clicking your fingers and saying a link name
I definitely do abstract shapes more often, but I thought but and I could do some lighting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot#/media/File:Utah_t... Play with the Utah teapot and then try to do the same thing mentally. Like imagine where the shadows are supposed to go and then see if you are right.

For colors imagine something corny like like a laser scan passing over, and then try to imagine different colors or laser.
What it seems like they really need is some general black-box testing time to try and better identify what is going on, along with looking at logs from devices of users who had the problem.

A screened room with a few devices and a simulator seems like a good resource to have, and it's a reasonable thing to procure at a center or two if they don't have it. It just costs several tens of thousands, not $10k.

It seems like at this point 911 usually works on Pixel, and there's probably even good unit test and automated integration test of a lot of the components-- prearranged test calls with a given carrier's 911 impl isn't likely to fix it. But "usually" isn't good enough: Google needs to actually figure out what's going on, no matter what.
If they don’t go bankrupt!
IIUC, he's referring to a workflow that Gerrit implements 1-to-1, isn't he?
I bought one, thought I mastered it, ended up in the ER, sold it. Onewheels require a full face helmet and pads. Even under ideal conditions, the device can fail of function different than expected causing the rider harm. I was riding mine off a 2-3 inch curb, which was on a familiar path I took daily, when the nose slammed and I flew off fracturing my rest. The sensation of a OW is amazing at low and high speeds, but the risk isn't worth the reward.
Discord is just burning VC money.

Telegram doesnt even have that.

Its based in UAE, with a mere legal presence in Germany, their official explanation is that durov is financing it sincd its beginning in 2014, how? From his VK money.

This could've been believable, if telegram worked like WhatsApp with Minimum storage requirements, but its totally the opposite with huge hosting xosts and no clear funing source.
To be honest, I really like existing tools and workflows and I don't really want that to change.

> Open a DAW from the year 2000 and it’s highly likely you’ll recognise the vast majority of the features — both functionally and visually — from any DAW you might use today.

This assertion that "old is bad" really, really needs to die. Change for the sake of change is bad. I don't see why all these new innovations can't be baked into existing workflows in a natural and intuitive fashion.

But then, in some cases, do I really want them? Like generative AI for music. I'm not sure but leaning towards no.
Some BigCo places have "returnship" programs, I'd apply to a few of those for a next job back in the workforce, then try to move on from there.
wait, what exactly gives you the impression that Fetterman isn't all there?

this is an interview he gave within the last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldqgtCYMs0
I think that there is such a groundswell of articles about 'consciousness', right now, is because of the surge in AI and GPT.

If this is true.
>"state arising from the physical processes"

Then nothing prevents silicon from eventually also being 'conscious'.

Carbon or Silicon, they are both a physical processes. Electrical potentials.

So the section of population that just can't abide that AI could be 'conscious' are finding all these more esoteric arguments about the universe being 'consciousness', quantum something or other, etc... To find 'some spark' in the human, some metaphysical argument, to keep us special.
Ignoring his recent stupidity West is a rap artist who has never glorified gang culture, violence, homophobia and has much lower misogynistic tones in his work than the average rapper.

In the genre of rap claiming his music is offensive is asinine his last 3 albums didn't even have curse words.

Read the lyrics https://genius.com/Kanye-west-power-lyrics
https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/psychology-is-ok
Not just bankruptcy, as there are other, less drastic kinds of write-offs that commonly occur.
> Just provision 10x more solar then. Intermittency solved.

For my country (France) IIRC it would require something like 30x more solar to cope with clouds + low light during winter. Take UK or northern Europe and you'd need 50x.

> And yes, it’s still cheaper than say, nuclear even if you provision 10x

What are you smoking? Also it would generate about 100 times more wastes (not talking about high activity waste of course, in which case it would be like a million time more waste)
if everyone does that, then were will the training come from?

a friend of mine had the same problem with hiring junior developers. by the time they had enough experience so that he could make a profit from their work, they left for higher paying jobs. he barely broke even most of the time so he ended up closing his business because it wasn't viable.
I think he meant telegram premium, not the app.
Its widespread for the wrong reasons, many people think its secure, its not, its one of the worst.
It basically has no encryption at all.
There are two mentions of Gerrit in the article. Granted neither goes into detail, but both reference it as prior art on the topic.
With that attitude, nobody is going to do anything.
Hollow-Core Optical Fibers for Telecommunications and Data Transmission
Feels like "what is the future of the word processor" but with some weird expectation that you're expecting to see leaps and bounds.

Look, FWIW, my favorite music making "stack" is

- Fruityloops (as in, sure I'll use FL Studio but it was pretty much solid for me when it was called that)

- Sony ACID. Still unbeatable to me for quickly layering/previewing multiple tracks of loops

- Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition. Still much nicer than Audacity. I don't know why Audacity remains so popular, it's way clunkier than the above

Ableton/Bitwig are also fun to play with and I could see them being indispensable for some, but what more do people need that you couldn't theoretically get "incrementally" or "with plugins?"
You can also do things like live VM migration, where the K8s nodes get transferred to a different Proxmox node without interruption.

Arguably niche, but if you have a small cluster (I have 3 physical nodes in my Proxmox cluster at home), it's sometimes nice to be able to just shift everything to do maintenance without having to worry about losing quorum or disrupting workloads.
Easy. Have someone go to the other room. OBE yourself into that room and see how many fingers they're holding up. Confirm if you were correct.
DAWs should be rebuilt from the ground up, component by component, feature by feature, in 3D for XR(VR/MR/AR) where ultimately you can see the waveform as it is --- a 3D object , and interact with it like a sculpture or a Theremin experience. 2D screens, Keyboards, and a mouse are not the best fit.
You literally wrote

> It would just require the raw data from a variety of pharmacokinetic trials, some in-depth experiments on human liver and gastric membranes, and some simulation of the physics of how different drugs diffuse into the bloodstream and across membranes. This would be difficult, but not impossible, and would not require any huge scientific advances.
Extremely impressive, the world needs more such projects!
https://thestoddardfirm.com/product-liability/onewheel/

> Once the device senses that it is getting dangerously close to these limits, it shuts off. This wouldn’t be a big problem on a regular motorized scooter, moped, or other comparable device, but the Onewheel has self-balancing technology that requires power. Instead of simply cutting off additional forward momentum and letting the user coast to a stop, the board lurches violently forward into the ground as soon as the motor stops, according to the reports of injured users.
These examples come up a lot. It's important to note that this isn't actually fully representative of the base Llama 2 model - it's greatly exaggerated by the Llama 2 default system prompt, which is this:

You are a helpful, respectful and honest
assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while
being safe. Your answers should not include any
harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or
illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are
socially unbiased and positive in nature.

If a question does not make any sense, or is not
factually coherent, explain why instead of answering
something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a
question, please don't share false information.

If you change that system prompt when you run Llama and it will be much less likely to tell you not to kill a Linux process or whatever.
I've been using Reaper as a digital mixer for live streams and recording podcasts. Great way to set up virtual channel strips for everyone and do proper mix-minus so we don't have to rely on software echo cancelation. Works a treat with netjack2 on Linux.
I work on maths using pencil and paper. I only use TeX for typesetting. Only a tiny fraction of my scribbles would ever get typeset, and it's usually going to be completely rewritten in the process anyway. I recommend just learning TeX for typesetting maths. It's simply the best tool.
I've known Dug Song for 25 years. I was at MHacks in 2013 getting tips for a hackathon I would later host in Detroit with the State of Michigan's CIO called Code Michigan. Dug Song was the keynote speaker at that one as well.

I remember when Duo Security was Dug, his cofounder Jon Oberheide and two employees who had their desks pushed together in the Tech Brewery in Ann Arbor. Now its a part of Cisco. How has ten years gone by that quickly?

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/04/how-ann-arbors-...
Vanilla PHP or Framework?
If you are PHP developer and need to start a new project...

Do you go for vanilla PHP or do you use a framework like Laravel? Why?
Wait what? I mean I agree about being able to fractionally run it out (I spilled at full speed when i first rode one of these and came out mostly fine because of a decade of skating) but there's no way that these are more dangerous than bikes or scooters. There are way more ways to get tangled/impaled (not usually literally, but more ways to have crash force concentrated in a smaller area) when crashing a bike/scooter.
What is the ongoing cost of the price of ink?
Interesting... I will mainly always remember "My Best Friend" (1999) [1] and "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" [2]. Mainly this scene in the later [3].

What writings do you recommend from Herzog?

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200849/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071691/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9uqPeIYMik
> economy like the Amish can. But we talk here not about a market economy but about capitalism that basically starts with the industrial revolution. The giant pre-financing of production.

What’s the difference? Steady state is steady state. Debt doesn’t require growth to be sustainable. It does require decay, but jubilees are a crude solution compared with bankruptcy.

In any case, you see why the article is riddled with errors. Foundational arguments, like debt is incompatible with steady-state, have exceptions. And that is before we recognise that restructuring exists.

> Energy intensity of Which GDP? That of the US?

Of the world [1].

> while China's increased

It’s been falling since 2006 [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity
There have been long periods of time with low winds / overcast weather though, severely limiting the effectiveness of solar and wind power generation over weeks.

https://theconversation.com/what-europes-exceptionally-low-w...
Say you have photographic memory, you take a big heavy book and read its contents end to end, converting written thought into conscious thought. How is this reaction balanced, if at all? Do thoughts have a mass? Are they able to be expanded infinitely without constraint? Are they even bound by laws like conservation of energy?
Nothing that stops parasites from being tasty or nutritious! Unless it's tapeworms!
When a philosophy has enough proofs and credibility, it becomes a science. Also, I do not think you can call logician philosophers. Lewis Carroll wouldn't.

Agree that the gatekeeping is a bit much, but doesn't warranted a swipe imho.
>> Notwithstanding these facts, the government went all in on renewables and cutting down on emissions -- despite it not making any sense -- because it's a popular measure across all age groups.

> Another interesting statement, should it not make sense for a government to do what it's citizens want?

"and now we have one the highest energy prices in all of Europe."

'want' is an evolving metric. I'm sure they want low energy prices now.
Wow. There must be some interesting coupling between the coding and the constellation/modulation.
> mangle your raw images, specially if you want to dd/tar them back to the original machine

dd back to the original media is no problem with stuff post-pended; dd will complain that there's an extra block at the end, but other than that, all's good.

> The goal is to preserve the data back and forth, not to ruin it.

A big part of the point of this change is to prevent you from attaching devices "wrong" in ways that are likely to cause the emulated environment to corrupt them. You can't do that in RAM, and it's better if it is in the same file.
6.7% per 1000km is .65% per 100km which is almost exactly 1% per 100miles, as GP said.

So it's just off by a factor two if you compare with DC.
Yeah it seems like what others see as a simulation , you can also see that as just the limit of what we currently know. Like, there are things we don't know. In one hundred years, we will find out more and that will now be part of our base reality.
Just because there are things we don't know doesn't mean they're part of some objective outside reality. They're just not discovered yet.
It's over for decels.
This was two+ months ago might have been 13B chat model judging from what I was looking into it for.
"Vaccines cause autism" is old and tired, but sodas are fashionable bad guys, so "sodas cause autism" is cool.
We built 12 hydro power plants in the 1950s. That's not really what the OP is talking about, but a trend in the early 2000s of overbuilding wind at prices that didn't make sense for the next 20 years, and hardly make sense now, 20 years later. Building solar now (which is as much responsible for current results as anything else) also makes financial sense.
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