skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't accurate at all. Books have been written since the early and mid-20th century about the effects of a technocratic society and the limits of growth, and those analysis and predictions have certainly come to fruition in various ways.

What is scary about the climate and the environment is that they are highly dynamic systems. If anyone has studied dynamical systems, there are certainly points where everything is "fine" and then boom, a sudden critical point is hit and things go off the rails. The worry is that we seem to be constantly teetering on a critical point. Or we are simply in slow motion destruction. Or both.

Take any closed ecosystem (which the Earth is) and imagine doing to it what we do to the Earth. Is it any surprise things are going off the rails? Resources are not infinite and almost none of them are mined/gathered without major consequences to the environment.

Have you watched any documentaries? Animals and plants are struggling heavily in a myriad of ways and just flat going extinct at increasing rates. Glaciers are going away. Oceans are poisoned and hypoxic. Animals and even humans are filled with microplastics. Technology and capitalism is ripping society apart in a way in which a certain class of people have their thumbs over everyone else. There are literally plastic rocks being formed. Weather events are getting more extreme. Wildfires are increasing.

> objectively, none of those "whats coming" have happened

Search for any of those things and please tell me you still feel this way. Even something specific as a search for "birds filled with plastic" will show that this is not true. Does this look like things have not objectively happened with the climate? https://www.greenmatters.com/weather-and-global-warming/pict...
Ever watch a documentary called “Everything is a remix”? It might change your mind on the subject and let you enjoy the originals and the adaptations too.
yeah... I think we need something simple like Hare... but with memory safety
It’s a cudgel.

Apple has an iMessage for Business service. You can use it to chat directly to representatives of enrolled businesses. Right from iMessage.

Google wants to use that and the DMA to create precedents that they can use against Apple in their quest to get access to iMessage.

It’s fairly transparent, IMHO.
I think that a qualifying factor is if the citizenry is not in a state of distress (homeless, unemployed, unfed, without medical care, etc.)
Ask HN: Do Startups recruit Freshers? If yes, best/legit place to apply?
I wish to join a startup rather than a well-established company. I know about YCombinator jobs, other than that what are the best sources to find startup positions(especially for a fresher)and the best way to pitch?
"I have a proof for this conjecture, but the last person to swipe into the library filled up all of the margins with doodles."
Forget the consultants, the amount of fraud AI is enabling and will enable on a massive scale makes crypto look like a drop in the bucket.
Imo it could work like 24/7 gyms: classic operation during normal hours, video&card access for any other time. May as well add some extrafee for access during night
Yes and?

That is a challenge, that Ferrocene alongside plenty of other companies, including those that tried to push C++ as a safer C, have to deal with.

There have been safer languages on that domain, like Ada, which for various reasons did not take off as expected, and it wasn't only due to compiler prices.

Dealing with human psicology from folks that aren't even willing to update themselves beyond the toolchains used 30 years ago even though more recent ones are available, it is a challenge, moreso when the newcomers need a full rewrite, instead of updating the compiler version.

I am on the Ferrocene side, just like I enjoy the surviving 7 Ada vendors are still around, PTC, Aicas and microEJ keep selling their Real Time Java, or that Astrobe its Oberon compiler, MIKROE their mikroBasic and mikroPascal compilers.

The more that challege the status quo, the better.
The Scientists Who Want to Edit and Delete Your Memories
The actual truck that collect those glasses pass between 2 to 4am. What does it do? It lift the glass collection tank and let the glass fall into the truck bed. So yes I don't think anyone cares that someone if binning some glassware one hour before the truck will do that same noise at much higher scale.
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, so they can't just like.. stop you from writing valid JS. Generally speaking, any valid JS is valid TypeScript. It's not invalid to write that, so TS won't do anything to stop you from doing so. However, fortunately linters exist for the exact reason of catching these sort of "gotchas" or "probably not what you were intending" kind of situations.
This is part of a wider strategy that also includes the QUACs people were talking about earlier:

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

I'm not sure what to think about this strategy.

On one hand they do seem to be trying to put together a unified coherent system.

On the other there's a lot of experts saying they're making a hash of it.
I don't live in the US, but if I receive an emvelope with my name and address on it I am allowed to read it.

And if in that envelope it says I opened a bank account, I am allowed to close it or at least ask the bank wtf they are doing.

Now I'd always argue for not acting destructively and be nice to people, e.g. assume they made a mistake and help them fix it. But if you are confusing my inbox with your own, you shouldn't be surprised if I read your mail. Mail that might expose other people's secrets.
most significant internet growth was in the 2000s. It's not like some magical growth threshold crossed in 2010s, More and more of this audience was born internet-native too. It seems to be a cultural shift instead
They soon will be toast ... they rushed out their training wheel robot AI cars (knowing they were crap) to try and kill it / win the market in the same fashion Uber did. Fake it before you make it is never an ethos to be used in this tech realm. At least they got their robot training wheel cars off the road before killing an innocent life like Uber did. Unfortunately, a pedestrian was mangled because oh we forgot to think about what to do when a person is lodged underneath the car yet no worry we will push out a software update and keep learning with every person who is hurt (why i detest this tech cause innocent people have and will continued to be harmed all in the name of technological progress and making tech folks/investors richer).

Cruise is now doing layoffs (some employees will bring out the daggers) and hiring PR folks when they should and will throw in the towel https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/11/08/crisis-...
Thanks. Yes that's in the works
Linux kernel by its nature was designed to be taken away, source code ripped off and massaged into anything with a CPU to run a custom modification of it.

There are lots of stuff running a "Linux kernel" that have little to no resemblance to a default build from upstream.
Seems more like a crutch in that sense, then. If you can’t ride without it, it hasn’t trained you anything.
The site was rife with perverts, Neo-Nazi propaganda, CSAM distribution, and honeypot operations. I think people are idealizing what it was in recent years, believing it was the same fun as in the early 2010s. It was an absolute shitshow.

The owner acts like Omegle was about innocent curious internet explorers asking cute questions and spreading knowledge. Bull shit. I never met a professor on Omegle. The most common encounter is a pervert who quickly ends the chat. I probably would have needed to sink 300+ hours on the platform in order to meet one. And by the time I would have met this professor, I would most likely have gained nothing from the exchange. Therefore, in my experience, I have found such innocent encounters to be the exception. By far. There is no corner on the internet where that happens organically. Even on HN, where comments are verbose and technical, it's only because of the perceived clout and proximity to VC money. The open connectedness of the internet has little to do with it.

If you access Tor, which is considered the peak of anonymous interconnectedness, you will also find a draught of intellectual activity. I would love to find intellectual discussions occurring on Tor, if anyone knows one please let me know the onion address. (Pro-tip: it's an impossible quest.) Instead all you will find are CSAM, scams, and honeypots.

I have found that my life has gotten immeasurably better since I generally stopped using the internet. The reddit API lockdown woke me up and I realized pretty much everything on the internet is garbage. Even HN is of lower quality than before, with the average post being a flex of one's social status rather than a helpful tip from one hacker to another.

Fuck all this noise. The internet is so full of low quality social content that it is overall not worth using for social connection.
Copilot for Docs
The one I was thinking of was slavery in the US, and the technological innovation in the south vs the north.

A better example might be the low price of labour-intensive hand-picked fruit (particularly berries) in the US and the correspondingly low agricultural automation. It's not that machines don't exist, or that berry picking is going to prevent the next Facebook, it's that they aren't cost effective in the short to mid term even when longer term investment would eventually improve the whole industry. This is really hard to measure and I don't have any good sources for either side of the argument right now.

I also want to make a distinction between skilled and unskilled migration. I don't think skilled migration is harmful to the social fabric in an enduring way, nor migration with the same proportion of skilled and unskilled labour as the host country.
Given the investment involved (installing and using an app), I'd recommend trying yourself and drawing your own conclusions, rather than treating one person's experience as gospel
Yes, on the logical level, the quoted passage is redundant: for the reason you indicate, either "a reader does not steal" or "a thief does not read" suffices by itself -- at least if stealing a book one time makes you a thief (as opposed to thieves' being defined as people who steal habitually).
Write Code Without the Keyboard
It happens all the time, no tech required, any time someone is foreclosed on.

I agree it's wiser to avoid such situations but a lot of people end up delegating this kind of responsibility. If enough of them end up burning their own fingers, that could go badly for a provider. Even if frivolous lawsuits weren't a thing, a spate of ignorant but angry social media posts could be very damaging.

Again, I'm not saying I necessarily have a solution or that hardware owners should have hurdles placed in their way. I'm just pointing out that in some ways the provider may be damned in one way if they do and damned in another way if they don't.

I suppose the IoT sub-sector will end up in similar proportions to other, older tech: Some vendors, analogous to e.g., Red Hat or Linode, will specialize in catering to enthusiasts / power-users and have fairly noncommittal / at-your-own-risk / no-warranty license agreements. However, if the past is any indication, most people will end up doing a lot of business in walled-garden analogs of Apple or Facebook.
It's not an excuse. Visual Studio is multiple gigabytes. Yes they should make it smaller but unless that happens it would be stupid to include it by default. Waste of space.
Here's an example of how the rolling shutter effects bike race photo finishes,

https://inrng.com/2012/04/photo-finish-camera/
Most users will never need a compiler. If they need it, it's a download away.

Life jackets are hopefully never needed, but when they are needed, the crew can't go to the warehouse and get them. Big difference.
> But now visit any small village in Castilla; most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil.

Same in small white villages in Andalucía. That is because they are populated mostly by old people that spend their day in front of their TV and barely want to walk anywhere. But once every 30 minutes whole village is woken up by the local teenager, the scream of his moped echoing in all the narrow streets. And if some people are talking you bet they are all shouting at each other.
As discussed elsewhere in the thread, it seems that this would be the number two reason, the number one being trying to be the only service that can profit from in-garage deliveries.
Considering that this happened last Saturday, and today is Thursday, i.e, it has only been five days (more like four, since it's still early morning, local time, on Thursday) I find it extremely unlikely that all books have been returned by now — surely someone needs a week to get through a book?
My guess: when they wrote the article, they hadn’t all been returned and it read “To date, only half of the books have been returned” or similar. Then it was updated clumsily with s/only half/all/ rather than redoing the sentence.
If you leave your wallet on the ground in a park in SF, the chances you’ll get it back are probably pretty high. If you leave it in your locked car, your car will probably get broken into.

Thieves are strategic. They’re not looking around in parks for lost wallets, nor are they going to libraries hoping they can lift a bunch of unattended books.
And here's what's really going on with photos like this,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_finish#Strip_photography
"Chinese Room Automation"
We once visited the MAMCO museum, in Geneva, all on our own, opening every door, manually turning on the lights in every room we entered, etc. I think we stayed over an hour without meeting any staff or triggering any alarm.
It's all baked into the premiums.
> This isn't about capitalism.

How is unconstrained growth at all costs not part of this?

> Wealthy nations are seeing reductions in total CO2 emissions

Because they are off shored, are they not? And developing countries are increasingly using fossil fuels because of their adoption of capitalism and of technologies (i.e., customers) from developed countries, are they not?
Lol, read the news, my dude:

Binance has let go 1000 people in summer and just again 100 in Sept.
The financial performance looks quite alright to me, specially when looking at GCP 3rd place, and regular issues to stay relevant to big enterprises.

When not AWS, it is Azure, so the performance isn't that bad to start with.

Also AWS and GCP aren't running cloud instances of game consoles (which also use a variation of Windows), GCP one (Stadia) powered by Linux was a failure, nor are they running an AI service being used by millions of folks around the globe.

Not bad.
Wifi tends to have issues with packet drop. Not an issue for YouTube, but in online gaming this matters.

Another issue is in high density situations, like in apartment buildings where everyone has their own wifi, or typical flats or condos in European cities. There just aren't that many wifi channels, and if you have multiple people on the same channel say goodbye to your speed
More realistically: Hamas is actually trying to kill Palestinians, forcing people to stay under Israeli bombs, shooting them if they don't.

It's not really a shortage of space.

And yes, that would mean Israel is the biggest ally of Gazan civilians, despite the obvious.
with what's going on righ now, I understood that you can spout any foolish nonsense as long as you have enough money to supress anyone who dares to challenge you with logical reasoning.
they can ship a compiler that isn't a giant pile of shit then

there are free ones
I get a flashback of the yellow printed dots. Smells a privacy threat to me. I wonder if that fingerprinting can be disabled.
The internet's not great, but unless you live in an elite city with a well-paying job, you're not going to find better interactions outside.
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Hi Folks, After being inspired by Wordle I wanted to create a game with numbers such that it does not have any language barriers. Do try Dicele and let me know your views.
As a Spaniard who has lived in California for the last five years, this is what I miss most about being back in Spain. However, the ability to go without using a car unless I'm leaving the city—managing a month or more on just my bike and feet—definitely makes up for it.
it might be a download away, or it might be permanently unavailable
Does anyone know if Phaser.js would work in Sciter now? That would be pretty sweet.

Would also love to see some first party native APIs for stuff like push notifications/sharing etc.
Yeah, it kinda reads the same as "Thus far, all the books have been returned." Like.. so... just say "Fortunately, all the books have been returned." .. There aren't any more on the way or anything! hahah
Oh, does it work for desktop?
All the more so when the value of the observation depends so much on the timeframe involved and the article does not explicitly state when the event happened. Sure, the article is dated 9th November 2023 and it is referring to something that happened on All Saints Day — which hopefully the reader will know is 1st November. But was it 1st November 2023 or 1st November 2003?

It was indeed 2023. Was it so hard to say "Over the following week, all the books were returned.? Not only does it provide more information, but it even makes the story more compelling that the uninformative and useless "to date"!
I just don’t understand the line, “To date, all the books have been returned.”

Are they still expecting tomorrow that some of these books will no longer have been returned?
Funny that you and others on here don't seem to realize that literally everybody who uses the internet has the exact same data entry problem all the time. Blame it on "old software", but how about the entire internet?

copying (or in most cases even worse: re-typing) form data from one location on the screen into yet another webform.

Username, password, email address, physical address, credit card info etc etc.

Some extensions try to help with data entry, but none of them work properly and consistently enough to really help. Even consistently filling just username and pw is too much to ask.

It's my number 1 frustration when using the internet (worse than ads) and I find it mind-blowing that this hasn't been solved yet with or without LLMs.

I would pay a montly fee for any software that solves this once and for all and it sounds like it's coming (and I'm already paying their monthly fee).
hiking is an interesting one to choose. wherever I've gone hiking, I've come across garbage which had to have been left by a fellow hiker. or a bear, I suppose. but which is to say, that effort level bar isn't high enough.
It's very common in C

while((buf = resultofstreamingoperation() != null) {

}

The ` != null ` is redundant here but you can imagine where it'd be required.
Also car usage is way lower
The librarian's name is Elf.
We had some years of kind-of stability in the world with no significant big wars. But with recent events the world is feeling like "it is burning". Just because we got accustomed to the more peacefull live.

So, I wouldn't say its like "we always thought that". Its more like we had a good short phase and now its back to normal. Or maybe the good phase is the normal and the pendulum swings back?
A nanotubes coating (like VB) might have better range as it operates differently: from my understanding the coating “traps” light as in a maze, it does not “just” try to limit reflection.
Some of them were already on OmeTV, so I imagine that’s where most will move.
You should get a job at Microsoft and fix it.
" We can expect 48% of the energy from renewable electricity to be lost in conversion to liquid fuels, using the average value for drop-in diesel technologies from our previous economic modeling work. To compound the problem, according to various studies 70% of the energy in those fuels will be lost when they are combusted in internal combustion engines, for a total efficiency of 16% for the e-fuels pathway. Therefore, the vast majority of the energy from the sun or wind is lost. In contrast, the majority of energy used by electric vehicles actually goes to powering the wheels, losing only 10% in charging and 20% by the motor and for a total efficiency of 72%."

https://theicct.org/e-fuels-wont-save-the-internal-combustio...

There is lots of (paywalled) proper economic analysis of current methods of Electrofuel generation from atmospheric carbon, the summary is that the current processes cost multiple times more than similar fossil fuels, with the main cost factor being the cost of electrolyzed hydrogen per kg, and captured atmospheric carbon cost per kg, and all of that comes down to the cost of the energy consumed during the process.

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2021/11/18/how-much-wi...

Edit: other than any research, the main indicator (for me) is that nobody hasn't yet offered renewables based liquid hydrogen or atmospheric carbon Electrofuel at nearly viable prices for today's world. If the technology was energy efficient, these fuels would be flooding the market already even at 2x the price, but the cost of producing these is currently 5x or higher. That's why the first target for such fuels is commercial aviation and sea transportation where the cost of fuel can be absorbed less painfully.
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Nice. I know Open Interpreter are trying to get Selenium automated to natural language control and quite a few other projects are also popping up on HN lately. The vimium approach is a lot lighter so looks promising. One way or another the as-published world wide web is turning into its own dynamic API overlay server. Ingest all the Sources!
https://docs.rs/arc-swap/latest/arc_swap/ Is a basic rcu mechanism that doesn’t have the exotic requirements of urcu (but probably not as efficient). If you make the interior nodes of your data structure Arc (assuming they are large or expensive enough to warrant it), then updating is relatively fast. Of course you also want to be careful here to batch as many changes at once if you’re doing this at all frequently.

But ultimately I don’t recall anything special about the runtime semantics the first time I came across this technique which if I recall correctly came from the brilliant folk at Azul Systems for their JVM. You just need a way to atomically adjust certain nodes. And if I recall correctly Azul’s supported N concurrent writers that were all wait free (ie every thread participated in forward progress)
While I love ridiculous specs as much as anyone, let's remember that 1/80,000th of a second is.. nuts and as far as I can find there's only one flash unit that can even do that, the profoto pro-11, which is a $20k proposition before you even buy the damn camera. And you will get very, very far from its maximum output for that kind of duration.

So it's very cool, yes, but unless you have a ton of money to spend and a very very good reason to need such extreme speed.. you're never gonna use it.

I am certainly looking at my trusty but aging a7sii with an increasingly contemptuous eye, though...
Why call out Christians? That is most religions, including Judaism and Islam.
even if you are, quality interactions don't just fall in your lap.
Here's a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20151228083734/http://omegle.com...
Only badly made cities, where authorities do not care about noise, are loud. And the irony is that most of the noise comes from people living outside of the cities, bringin their cars outside in the typical egoism of the modern suburbanite and rural inhabitants.

It is like people who complain about public teansports who are usually the ones actively participating in ruining it for everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8