skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Pixel owner, and the phone quality has been stellar IMO, but I would never use any phone that couldn't get security updates - zero days, and sometimes zero days that require no or very little user action, are too common with cell phones. Which is why I think the 7 year support announcement is great news.
Interesting, but IMO 'biblical flooding' by torrential rain from a vapor canopy could easily being caused by less cataclysmic events. Like the double whammy of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%C... end 2021/begin 2022, saturating the atmosphere with large amounts of water vapor, like described here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9285945/

One could argue that was responsible for the severity of the recent rain storms all over the world. Now imagine what could happen if that volcanic eruption had been VEI 7.

Or some 'smaller' asteroid, not even a dinosaur killer, impacting deep ocean and vaporizing it. (Which propably would cause some tsunamis, too.)
Vote for politicians who support carbon taxes and investing in climate resilience and infrastructure.

You can’t prepare for this as an individual. This is a global societal problem. The effects of climate change are predictable on a global scale but much less so on a local scale.
A while ago my wife was at home, ill. I wanted to call her, ask how she was doing. She didn't pick up. So I start looking at my Home Assistant dashboard and adguard:

Adguard logs say she read some news, Unifi integration agrees, lights suggest it was while in bed. Motion sensor in hallway suggests she went outside briefly. Recent short spike in full home power use use 2200W indicates she made tea then a spike in gas and bathroom humidity suggests she's having a shower right now.

The thought occurred to me that I could make a "wife status card" on the dashboard.

Guess who's not going to pump all that data to Google. (Btw, I turned of Adguard logs soon after this realization, it was eye opening though.)
Try being the assembly line worker, doing boring, repetitive, potentially dangerous tasks for eight hours.

At least the housewife's chores are varied and don't (typically) last all day.
Since language often describes the world, I think a good language model must include a world model
Just removing the object crushing a person could result in their death. You need medical professionals on hand to ensure that removing the object doesn't lead to untreated issues.
Yes, don't build your own CNC or plotter (from scratch). OpenBuilds has a good range of options and also a fairly active community of people adapting their platform for custom uses.
I did not only blame the unions for the current state of things. I merely stated that they stand in the way of one of the potential solutions to the current problem. I don't find the debate of whether there is a hypothetical world where giving them more power would help the state of our schools particularly interesting or compelling.

Private schools "work" because they get to expel anyone who doesn't pay enough money to outbalance any problems they cause. Public schools obviously cannot do this.

This is an interesting statement that tries to attribute a private schools success to a single cause. I find this unlikely in an area where there number of confounding variables is so high. I also don't see why I should take the cause as true. But let's put all of that aside for a moment and ask the entirely reasonable question: "Why exactly can't the public school expel problem students?" If as you say it's the secret to a private schools success maybe public schools should think about copying it.
> more distant parental relatedness

Erm, further apart genetically, not "further apart" in distance. Perhaps a title fix?
Climate science, by its nature, is a multidisciplinary field. It marries the knowledge from oceanography, meteorology, geology, and yes, even astrophysics to some extent—given that solar radiation is a key driver of Earth's climate. However, the core of climate science revolves around Earth's atmospheric processes and how they interact with various terrestrial and oceanic systems.

Astrophysics, on the other hand, is the study of celestial bodies and phenomena occurring far beyond Earth's atmosphere. While it's true that astrophysical phenomena like solar cycles and cosmic radiation can have an effect on Earth's climate, these are often secondary or tertiary influences when compared to more proximate factors like greenhouse gas emissions and albedo changes.

Thus, dismissing climate models as "junk science" for not heavily featuring astrophysics is akin to dismissing the expertise of a cardiac surgeon because they don't also perform neurosurgery.

Lastly, to borrow a Pascal's Wager argument form, what exactly is the cost of being wrong in either case, here? Do you know it? Can you calculate it with any certainty?

Note: Every paragraph but the last one was selected by me from a ChatGPT4 answer regarding this. I strongly believe in the potential of LLM's to massively, and one day hopefully automatically, refute disinformation
What you're experiencing and saying is actually completely right. Issues don't motivate people, and actions lead beliefs as much (or more) than vice versa

A paper on exactly this : https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abcd5a

My suggestions would be these:

* Think about where your food comes from, and how it is fertilised. Read about different modes of agriculture.

* Think about minimising your energy usage, especially fossil fuels. Look at heat pumps, cycling infrastructure, that kind of thing.

* Learn about alternatives for building and anything else. Building with straw bales is a particular favourite of mine because it can be done so simplistically by people with relatively little training.

* Find projects where other people are doing stuff and join in. See the above article - self-efficacy is a muscle, build it by exercising it.

A great source of inspiration: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Edit: also, we'll blow the 1.5C carbon budget in 8 years. Sorry - we'd have to cut emissions by 20% a year every year to avoid that. Plus sequestration of course.
keyword benevolent
> Additionally, I think it is actually better that they express the situation as-is (getting worse, faster) because the public isn’t going to change unless things are dire.

The public isn't going to change what?
Government has no obligation to do its job. Supreme court says so.
>> That is, how leporello handles a codebase that's partially written in freestyle JS and not the subset that leporello specify handles?

Leporello is based on the idea that you can have much more powerful dev experience (time-travel debugging, better debugger UX) if you adhere to functional code. Look at the recent news from Jetbrains [0]. They presented predictive debugger for their .NET IDE. They called it "a game changing look into the future" and it is actually a huge improvement of ergonomics. But with FP, you get predictive debugger for free. It is just a trivial consequence of not having data mutations. So inside the function, each name is binded to single immutable value.

If you have freestyle JS, then Leporello is not a good fit for you. It requires some buy-in from a developer. The good thing is that you still write plain vanilla javascript, without non-standart extensions that require some kind of transpilation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940937
I hate to point this out, but the cathedral thinking idea is just working on something you're likely not going to see finished. The original baggage is irrelevant to the metaphor. In fact, that's the point of metaphors - being able to take the core idea while understanding that the particulars are superfluous.
The book How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue is good, although very US-focused (if anyone knows a similar resource for the UK or Europe I'd love to know about it.)

The podcast Doomer Optimism has some gems too, although the episode quality varies wildly.

Tucker Max (who has been a guest on the DO podcast) wrote an article with his take on "doomer optimism". It doesn't mention climate change; it's more about the general topic of preparing for the comic chaotic times, and he veers a bit too far into COVID conspiracism which I'm sure will put a lot of people off, but much of the specific advice is hard to argue with (eg take 100% responsibility; reorient your life towards the local). https://www.tuckermax.com/doomer-optimism-what-i-see-coming-...

But I'd also love to read/hear more advice in this general topic. And I'd also like to meet people who are as interested in these topics as I am, so if anyone reading this lives in the London/Oxford M40 corridor, get in touch!
Safe, Secure, Anonymous, and Other Misleading Claims
Was pleased to see it was indeed inspired by the Spotify thing.
Puppy was what got me into Linux! An old laptop was struggling with Windows and Puppy just breathed the most amazing fresh and sprightly life into it. That was over 15 years ago and I've used Linux everyday since.
> The point of all the AML/KYC stuff isn't to prevent money laundering, but to replace a difficult-to-prosecute crime (money laundering) with an easy-to-prosecute crime (lying on bank forms).

Absolute nonsense. There was a time when like half of all Russian mafia lived in London fully in the open, and they only vacated the place when they started being kicked out through visa cancellations, not fraud charges.

This change changes really nothing in the fact that first world country governments don't want to prosecute those guys.

At most, they don't give a fuck, at worst, they are actively conniving.

And it's not that they are hard to prosecute at all. Anybody who can read some Russian can get a completely damning charge sheet with a few minutes googling on most of them, let alone British MI-6 analysts.

The crazy theory that you can somehow increase prosecution chances with "Al Capon charge" makes little sense if criminals whose offences are provable in 5 minutes without that are walking around. like nothing.

There are many accounts in the press of banks employees saying they send hundreds of suspicious activity reports for absolutely clear cut cases without any reaction. And they can't do anything on their own, as their paperwork is completely impeccable from the reporting standpoint.

Thinking rationally, it makes sense that a mafioso who is going to launder few billion $, will ensure that his paperwork looks more full, and accurate than that of a legit company. Few percents of such sums will hire legions of top lawyers to do the reporting.
Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?
“See, right here is the public record of how you were fooled into buying a worthless NFT. Then right here is where you converted USD into Crypto Bux so you could earn an impossible 25% interest rate… for a month… until Bux went to zero…
right here. See? Can’t be a scam! It’s all public!”
That seems to be a subset of static typing. Is there an example of this that does not involve non-static typing?
I really don't think the iPhone (or even Android) was the equivalent of the Kenbak-1 in terms of smartphones. There were "smartphones" before the iPhone.

IMO the iPhone was the 90s PC era where these things got a lot better and more ubiquitous and less fragmented.

And (also in my opinion) coincidentally 90s led into an the era where overly dominant OS vendor(s) were crushing the fun and freedom out of computing. Phones are harder to escape from that than with PCs though.
There's a chasm of difference between blatantly self-destructive life choices and forgetting that your profession is about making decisions based on multiple options.

Also you only half-quoted me.

It's "... and/or on drugs".

Also people being stupid doesn't mean that I don't consider anything they say. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
If proven true in court, I don't see how breaking-up Amazon would be the right remedy because doing so would increase costs to consumers through unnecessary inefficiencies and losses of economies of scale. Just forbid anti-competitive behavior and levy a sizable fine accordingly.
Which has led us to regress in terms of building GUI desktop apps. Remember the 2000s and 90s how you could make a somewhat native UI in Visual Basic 6 and Delphi, now you got to use an entire browser to get there.
The study was done in Japan, which in addition to the usual considerations about populations that may have a confounding bias with regard to educational attainment and cognitive performance, is magnified considering that we have a fairly homogeneous society generally averse to immigration, so finding subjects with geographically distant parentages within this population is going to yield a cohort that is unique in a lot of ways perhaps not accounted for in this model.

On the other hand, scientific data that seems to assert a positive correlation between finding a mate outside your local prefecture or even country, and smarter taller and more successful kids, could be an extremely sly way of trying to influence a reversal of Japan's abysmally declining birth rate.
That's a failure of the political class who are using it to score points at the expense of a lot of people's lives.

It's really quite gross.

Climate change is due to, and a threat to, the status quo, and those who have gained their societal positions on the back of this status quo will defend the righteousness of their status literally to the death.

And these folks typically have communication platforms that reach a long way and therefore muddy the waters, often with the sideline cheering of said politicians.
Thanks those are better terms. I remember doing a test where the camera photographs a ceramic plate with an almost perfectly black diagonal line to calculate the effective resolution, but I can't remember what it's called, maybe the diffraction limit. It's basically a measure of how blurry the image is, where a matched lens and sensor would look like a Bresenham line with no antialiasing.

TBH, I think that the scientific community has huge blind spots, mostly due to its own gatekeeping. Some of the things like this that seem to be a struggle remind me of the design-by-committee descent of web development. The brilliant academic work of the 1990s has been mostly replaced by nondeterministic async soup and build processes of such complexity that we have to be full stack developers just to get anything done. All the fault of private industry hoarding the wealth and avoiding any R&D that might risk its meal ticket. Starving the public of grants, much less reforms that are actively blocked like UBI. Now nobody ever seems to step back and examine problems from first principles anymore. That's all I was trying to do.

Edit: I found the term for calculating the effective resolution of a camera with a high-contrast diagonal line, it's "slanted edge modulation transfer function (MTF)":

https://harvestimaging.com/blog/?p=1328

https://www.strollswithmydog.com/the-slanted-edge-method/

https://www.eckop.com/resources/optical-testing/resolution-t...
Who are you and how are you listening to my internal monologue
Automerge is interesting as it's an op-based CRDT system vs state-based.. This should make use cases involving a central authority easier to work with but.. Their docs lack any detail useful to taking advantage of this haha.
I didn’t check the referenced document, but wouldn’t be easier to ask the authors what they intended? Ultimately the words are a representation of meaning in someone’s mind.
I don't update my phone every year but I also don't really want the progress of software or tech in general determined by the laggards.
> A new filing in California's suit against Amazon reveals that sellers live "in constant fear" of retaliation from Amazon if they allow their goods to be sold more cheaply elsewhere.

Tangential, but out of context quotes used in your sentence makes me think you're lying no matter what you're saying. Or else you would have kept it in context and used the whole quote.

Not to defend Amazon in the slightest. Just tired of seeing Breitbert quality clickbait OOC quotes everywhere.
Does anyone know if the coral reefs will migrate to cooler waters? Maybe that’s not feasible in a timely fashion given current locations and continental shelfs? Seems like humans could help them out in that case.
Code is logic. LLMs are expressed with logical syntax. I recommend meditating on this fact for some time and trying to understand its implications instead of buying into the hype about LLMs being world models.
> You can’t prepare for this as an individual. This is a global societal problem.

Why not both? "Climate resilience" will in large part be driven by individuals and communities working on a local scale. Support big-scale political initiatives where you can, but that doesn't mean you can't make a difference locally too.
Honestly, you should be preparing, emotionally and logistically, for your death, and the deaths of people, institutions, organizations and nations that you love. Buddhism is a useful tool in this regard. I recommend it.
I know there have been cases where companies seem to intentionally slow down old phones to encourage new sales, but it doesn't really even require an "evil" motive. By releasing new hardware yearly, they are dramatically increasing their workload by having to support every device. On top of that, there's the perverse incentive that spending the money to release timely, high-quality updates to previous-generation devices will actually have a negative impact on their bottom line by reducing new sales.
They already do, and in a very intuitive way - it is called a properly implemented brake pedal.

For example, on Teslas, hitting the brake pedal to the floor automatically overrides any other input and cuts off motor torque, and iirc they have quite a few redundant mechanisms to ensure that this actually happens. You can even press both the acceleration pedal and the brake pedal, and nothing will happen. It operates perfectly as expected, even if the car computer is rebooting/not working.
> If it was so good why did you stop?

This was maybe 14 years ago. I sold the netbook and started using Windows full time again. I was still in this middle state between using Linux and Windows - going back and forth between the two.

When I decided the leave Windows completely (Windows 10 spyware release summer/2015), I settled on a full-featured distro. I did some serious homework, a bit of distro-hopping and finally settled on Linux Mint Cinnamon.

You are right, sometimes (often) installing must have apps on Puppy was a challenge - this was a factor now that I was a full-time Linux user.

As a full time (still newbie user), I wanted access to every tool in the Linux world in the easiest way possible. I didn't want to hit a wall that might cause me to consider using Windows again.
Is there a general name to the way the data is compressed/serialized in SC2 Replays? Yesterday somebody was talking about other ways to serialize/pack data with borsh but not sure it's at all similar...
Is the SC1 broodwar replay format similar with byte-alignment and bit "packing"?
BTW I call the parsers "bitpacked" or "byte-aligned", but I'm not sure what the right name for them is...
Do you have any idea how that power compares to regular FM radio broadcasts, which are somewhat close in frequency?

Is this something a regular radio would detect, or is OP just trying to listen to a handheld radio half a continent away using a really sensitive receiver with the volume knob turned all the way up?
My son is 2.25 years old (and honestly, I absolutely can't wait until he is old enough to have conversations about science with me).

I won't hold back. I will certainly ask him if he is ready to discuss a topic that he will likely not like the truth of, and that I feel it is only fair to be honest with him, and that I am here to support him if it is upsetting.

At least, that's what I think now. When you see your own kid get upset, it is REALLY hard to stay the course.
>> The idea that you can use this small subset of the world to model the whole thing is what is incredibly suspect. No one has demonstrated this and there is no real reason to believe it can.

I agree and I don't think there's any kind of logic that can do that, but there is also no other formal system that can, so far. I'm not sure if you are suggesting there is?

>> But you won't beat logic on problems with clear definitions and unambiguous axioms. That is very cool but that is clearly not all of reality.

Certainly not. Logic is a set of powerful formalisms that we can use to solve certain kinds of problem - it's a form of maths, like geometry or calculus. I don't think anyone expects that geometry or calculus is going to solve every problem in existence and the same goes for logic.
That thread is about someone determining the cost basis of their crypto and suggesting they go with $0 as they can't reliably ascertain that number. How does that relate to lying on bank forms?
I read that as age-difference which is also false. It is genetic "difference", e.g. one paragraph from the abstract

"In each case, increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months’ less education"
Stablecoins (payments or store of value) are likely the largest non-trading activity today with $123B market cap and $30B in daily volume. You'll see a lot of volume around staking crypto / running validators. Tokenized treasury bonds and other real-world-assets like carbon credits are getting up there, so is credit investing with companies like Maple / Credix / Centrifuge.

The long tail of activities includes things like DAOs (remember Constitution DAO?), prediction markets, internet infrastructure (VPNs, Arweave, ENS), synthetic assets, and more.
Show HN: Neovim and tmux lookalike in HTML and CSS
Learned about vim's pretty cool TOhtml via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXeEhcOe-E and added a vim-lightline and tmux status bar, which I think looks cool.
When you want to read instead of straw man, let me know.

I neither said, nor implied any of your points 1-4.
What Spotify thing?
It feels like their fantasy sports platforms are pretty popular.
"benevolent" makes it kind of tautological... if it's benevolent then it'll make us better off by definition.

The real question is "can we make a benevolent AGI?", to which I strongly suspect the answer is "no".
Yeah, it seems like parental genetic distance in Japan would obviously just be a proxy for social mobility and "get up and go"-ness.
DIY Tinkerer Invents MacBook Tool That Breaks Apple’s Repair Locks
How much of that can be delivered at a price point that is acceptable to consumers?
> Sounds to me like Amazon has found a loophole in the law.

No, not necessarily. This is just what companies always do. As long as it looks like they're "trying" to comply, they don't get in big trouble. In the meantime, they get to make microadjustments to their policy and find out exactly how far they have to comply until they're legally in the clear.
A climate model approximation that could change the climate movement
Indeed, Apple compares on its website the iPhone 15 to the iPhone 12: "The A16 Bionic GPU is up to 40% faster than the GPU in iPhone 12" [1]. Maybe unsurprisingly, they don't use this comparison for the Pro line. r/iphone discussion here [2].

[1] https://www.apple.com/mt/iphone-15/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/16h13z3/why_are_the...
>This is a story of how the ‘Global Warming = Greenhouse Gases’ narrative came to be, and an inquiry into whether the real climate narrative should really be

‘Global Warming = Greenhouse Gases + Land Degradation affects Water Cycle’ .
Since this is in the context of tracing illicit funding, two items to throw in the pile for consideration:

1. Trading which is actually part of the laundering/tumbling process, to disguise the path of coins from initial shady transactions.

2. "Wash trading" (yet another cleaning-related term) where a self-trade is disguised as a real one in order to manipulate the market.
I read this as “the greater the age gap” at first.