skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly it. You go with solutions that doesn't anger the car political class, like just building more rail vs. destroying car infra. You drag you're feet on maintaining the car infra. Traffic gets really bad, but man, the train is so much more convenient now, safe, clean and 3x faster than driving, your an idiot for driving man. You start running tearjerker ads about how an older person couldn't drive anymore, but now with a real transit system, they can still get around. Then people don't really drive that much and the car infra starts getting replaced by buildings because that makes more money, etc, etc.
Are entire VBA projects really that ubiquitous? As far as I can see, there are really two category of those: first are the huge proprietary plugins from large B2B companies that serve as a way to deeply integrate their products into Excel Spreadsheets, and the second are more like extremely customized tools built by the enthusiastic tinkerer of a non-technical team to make a complex and repetitive task easier.

If there's a third category, please enlighten me
"For the children..." is a huge red flag.
The real answer as pointed out in this document is simple - IT Security and Administrative policy in non-technology companies trends towards restriction and justification rather than permissiveness.

I work in a role that develops air gapped custom communications system, my title is engineer - and to that end I have a broad cross domain knowledge - including traditional system administration tasks. I have to go thru special justification to get local admin to install software our company makes. T

here appears to be a future that will prevent me from using a thumb drive to move our software and configurations from my work PC to our systems - when we ask IT for a solution, they tell us "us the approved file sharing mechanisms" - which are basically limited to OneDrive. On top of all of that, per the written policy, we regularly violate written policy - for example distributing software requires LOB executive permission - which in the context of our larger company would be CEO level - and this is just one glaring example.

IT is either clueless or doesn't care and no one outside of my LOB cares - or is aware - and nothing will change until security policy prevents a major project from delivering on time.
We will not be around long enough to compete with biology. It's unbelievable what it has managed to do on this planet when you look at it through all the transformations.
> Solar is great, wind is great, Hydro is great - what happens when these don't work? What will you use?

The chances of a simultaneous and extensive wind, solar, and hydro outage on a national grid scale is... fairly low.
or.. from 'Google AI Opportunity Agenda' published very recently, quote:

• Governments and the private sector have a critical role to play in investing in R&D and AI
infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, compute capacity, and data, to ensure that
researchers, technologists, and businesses have access to the tools needed to research,
build and deploy AI. While countries have been focused on national-level approaches to
this challenge, we should also think globally – and ensure that AI innovation is not the
domain of only the richest countries and richest cities and regions. Countries should
establish a Global Resource for AI Research (GRAIR).
• In addition to investing in AI infrastructure, policymakers must also adopt strategies
to enable researchers and innovators to convert ideas and data into new discoveries,
products and services. This will require advancing pro-innovation legal frameworks that
spur dynamism across the entire ecosystem.
• Finally, because AI is by its nature a cross-border technology, individual policy efforts
must be tethered to strong trade and investment policies that support trusted
international collaboration on AI, including cross-border data flows essential to AI
development and deployment.
...
we should ensure that academic researchers in a broader range of countries
globally, including in the developing world, have access to compute resources – to ensure that
they can help advance AI innovation and promote AI research. For this reason, governments should
come together to establish a Global Resource for AI Research (GRAIR) to ensure that we enable AI
research globally.
The GRAIR would serve as a shared AI research resource and clearinghouse to make compute,
data, and software resources available to academics, start-ups and small and medium enterprises
conducting AI development and research. Beyond providing technical resources, the GRAIR should
also provide support for countries at different levels of development to build up domestic AI
workforce capabilities, including application developers and researchers.
Yes, and they make roughly 20% of our electricity, and about 50% of our low-carbon electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...
Space travel was inevitably going to be disappointing without a way to break the light barrier. even a century ago we thought the sound barrier was impossible to penetrate, so at least we are making progress, albiet slow.

On the bright side, it is looking more and more like terraforming will be possible. Probably not in our lifetimes, but in a few centuries time (if humanity survives)
Leaving aside the question of whether a 3 meter tall rocket that breaks the sound barrier is a "model craft", that just says "The control signals are not considered codes or ciphers intended to obscure the meaning of the communication.". It's not completely unambiguous that SSH and other protocols qualify as "control signal" (they were not used to control the "craft" itself), nor whether they qualify as "telemetry" per 47 CFR § 97.217. This exception unambiguously gives a pass for control protocols that aren't obvious to observers on the frequency, but not necessarily for communication protocols that are actually encrypted.

Those statutes might provide the necessary exception but that's not unambiguous.
Is it no longer Maryland fried chicken if you dip it in buttermilk before dredging it in flour?
> With costs for solar/wind/storage dropping every year, isn't it time to give up on this pipe dream?

There is no beating the energy density of uranium.
Your birthday and zip code is almost enough to identify you. Every bit of entropy counts
Sure... but asking if a project is being maintained like in the first screenshot in the OP isn't being entitled or rude or even asking for work for free. I looked at the thread that the second screenshot comes from and I would honestly say the OP didn't reacted well to someone asking if there was a recommended active fork and then someone else reacted even worse to the OP's comment.

Honestly feel this reflects poorly on the OP more than anything else.
The thing about exponential deployment curves is that, at a certain point, posting charts that end 1 to 2 years in the past is like posting charts that end in 2000. Things are moving extremely rapidly now. https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carb...
Yet (from your own source) in 2020 and 2021, when so many people started working from home for the first time, per capita motor vehicle fatalities went up 7.1% and 10.5%, respectively; the worst two-year increase since 1945-1946. The rate then went down in 2022 as so many people returned to the office.

My own experience early in the pandemic was that daily 15 MPH traffic jams turned into empty highways that suddenly allowed unimpeded 65+ MPH travel. For someone who still had to go into the office quite a bit, it was lovely. But it seems that it also encouraged a lot of riskier, higher-speed driving.
There is a lot of space to store that small amount of product underground. Thats a non issue.
Would you want it done to you? I sure wouldn't.

Too bad it's probably going to be done to me anyway.
Last year I started another version for Mo(vies):

https://namogenmo.github.io/

I wanted to keep the anything-goes spirit, so “movie” is defined really loosely. Anyone is free to join me, there’s still time this month!
What an incredible bit of trivia. I had no idea that's how grep got its name. Thank you for sharing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU

Interesting intersection that had this problem (now fixed).
Reënters
Perhaps to be fair we should let men retire earlier or collect larger social security checks, so the average total paid out would be roughly equal?
I think they may be referring to WPF, it promised so much, and it was great - then it was just left to die, and Microsoft moved on to MAUI
Where are you going to get the uranium ore from to run this project? Where are the high-grade uranium ores that can be economically processed into the required ~200 tons of rods that each 1 GW nuclear power plant requires each year? Let's say we have 0.1% uranium ore, that means we need 1000 tons of ore for each ton of uranium. Huge energy costs, huge waste stream to get that one ton of uranium, by the way. And each 1 GW reactor needs 200 tons - per year. So that's 200,000 tons of ore per year.

Now, in comparison, a 1 GW coal-fired power plant needs to be fed with 3-4 million tons of coal per year (energy content of coal varies a bit, in relation to oxygen-based combustion at least).

And, a 1 GW reliable 24/7 solar/wind/storage system needs how many tons per year? (OK battery replacement is an issue... work it out yourself).
Immich is the perfect Google Photos replacement
Strangely enough, I once read a comment about a kid saying to himself that he will remember a specific but insignificant moment, and ever since then (maybe 8 years) I can recall saying to myself "I will remeber this".
Local LLM
> The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1. This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996.

> […]

> “The opioid epidemic, mental health, and chronic metabolic disease are certainly front and center in the data that we see here, explaining why there’s this widening life expectancy gap by gender, as well as the overall drop in life expectancy,” said Yan. Men have higher mortality rates from all three conditions compared to women.

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What precisely is causing Americans to die so much earlier than Europeans? I know obesity, healthcare access and gun violence play a factor, but is there anything else?
China and Russia regularly deliver nuclear plants (VVERs, Hualong One) roughly on time and budget.
Has anybody here completed this course?
I'm pretty sure ISRO costs around 10x per kg more than spacex on a falcon 9.

In theory starship could lower the costs 10x more.
if you give this a fair read, the logic is just simplistic. I don't read "bad actor" from this.
1. Burn out

2. Getting stuck on a boring project

3. Horrible culture fit

4. New exciting opportunity which consequently = more money
Despair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...
Suicide and overdoses
I still remember when I first discovered Blender. It was around the time Blender 2.8 had just been released with its new UI. At that point, some people still preferred using 2.7 because the new UI was too different for them. The first thing that blew my mind was the size of the download, which was around 50MB. I had expected to have to download much more than that, which is typical for creative, graphical applications. After using it for a while, I recognized how polished and powerful Blender is compared to other opensource projects I had used before such as GIMP. 3D is not my professional work, I use it as a hobby, and I've learned and created many 3D works that were only made possible because Blender is free. The community on YouTube and Stack Exchange is large and friendly as well. I just love Blender so much.
Because it's cheaper/easier than replatforming for many businesses and there are still people that know it and are hireable
Do the math however you'd like, but for one reason or other, poker games are the reason for foreclosure more of then than basketball games.
Testosterone causes risky behavior, statistically speaking.

It’s not dead men, it’s the car crashes that make insuring 18 year old males so expensive…in but one example…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
Did they find anything?
For each token, the model is run again from scratch on the sentence too, so any memory lasts just long enough to generate (a little less than) a word. The next word is generated by a model with a slightly different state because the last word is now in the past.
People dont deem to realize that dams are super expensive, dont last forever and can cause cataclismic failures when they break. Stuff that is much worse that nuclear failures. And lets not talk about the destruction of human and animal habitat to make dams in the first place...
The amount of spent fuel produced by US nuclear electric grid generation fits in a volume the footprint of a football field and less than 10 yards high: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-... We could easily do what Finland and other countries are already doing: bury nuclear waste in bedrock.

Using spent nuclear fuel as a terror weapon would be vastly less deadly than more conventional means. Think about the immense effort of planning and manpower to steal nuclear waste, weaponize it, and then deliver that weapon to a population center. Now think about all that planning and manpower going towards a more conventional attack, like flying a plane into a building or detonating a normal explosive bomb.

Nuclear waste can be deadly, but it's a slow killer. We regularly test our water supply for uranium not out of any fear of a dirty bomb, but because naturally occurring uranium is common enough that it's a problem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC359425/

In short, fears over nuclear waste are incredibly contrived.
Vacation time.
Are there binaries for ivm? If ivm is intended to make it easier to manage inko versions, having to install it via another language's toolchain (Rust) seems a bit onerous.

Edit: Oh I see, ivm itself relies on Cargo to build inko rather than downloading binaries.

Still, it would be nice if it didn't need another language's toolchain just to use Inko :(
Thank you. Yes, I did that. Also, while filling out the letter for my credit card company, I noticed a review from a buyer a few days ago claiming to have been scammed from the same seller. And what is Facebook doing about it? Absolutely nothing. The system is deeply flawed; it doesn't allow you to file claims simply because the item is marked as shipped.
Testosterone itself shortens life.

It's why bodybuilders die younger than any other athlete.
> Right now, inside you, are the very organisms that will begin to break down your body after you breathe your last. Carbon dioxide accumulates in your body, creating an acidic environment and rupturing cell walls, which release an enzyme that then digests the cells. The first stage of decomposition is autolysis, literally self-digestion, with the intestines and pancreas being the strongest actors. You carry your death with you everywhere you go. This turned out to be too much for Infinity Mushrooms.

I assume that 'acidic environment' is unsuitable for mushrooms bred for fingernail clippings etc
Intel Demos 8-Core, 528-Thread Piuma Chip with 1 TB/S Silicon Photonics
I admit that this post was unusually emotionally charged and I do not intend to make a habit of it.
Add in drug abuse, those are pretty huge (though gun violence isn't a real influencer here, just doesn't put up the numbers heart disease does).
China is building nuclear plants at a record pace. Are you saying they are full of shit and dont understand economics?
I love the fact that .NET and friends are open source, but my issue isn't with the licensing, it's with m$ funneling tons of resources on projects that (most likely) will end up being a dead end.

I'd also love if maui actually takes off since it does seem pretty neat, but until microsoft uses it for teams or any other of their clients, I'll pass.

They also aren't even targeting linux or web browsers, which doesn't really make this more compelling than Flutter.
Aside from risky behavior, are there chemical risks to taking TRT? I've begun considerations into taking it (late 30s)
Do you not understand what comes after zero? Yes, you can have a negative epoch and I’ll let you ponder what that signifies.
Sometimes it’s the only thing available in a very locked down enterprise or corporate environment and the pace of implementing something new is too slow.
I always felt like she downplayed her WW2 service, which is fine. The article does the same.

My Life in France was a fascinating book. At one point she describes dangling raw chickens out of her apartment window for three days before roasting. I guess we’d call that “dry aging” now but it repulses every fiber of my food safety being.

However, it did not stunt her growth or shorten her lifespan.
We have developed a few tools, we try open sourcing these when possible, the latest being:

## 1. Vacation tracker

I used to track vacations in a spreadsheet but I had a couple of incidents where I was waiting for team members to do a task, and, I even called them just to be told that they are taking time off.

We built a vacation tracker webapp that notifies a discord channel a week before the time-off period starts (same for holidays).

I have been willing to add a feature that notifies our customers when one of our devs will be off. The site is public/free in case anyone wants to give it a try.

Why not to use existing services? The apps I found had integrations with every messaging app but discord.

## 2. Webapp preview service

It was annoying to ask devs for demo videos when they submitted PRs, it was slow to run the code locally, then, we developed a heroku-like app to automatically deploy the code from PRs to a temporal url, including backend/frontend and its dependencies.

This has been very helpful for us, we started integrating it with a few customers who love it but we haven't had much time to scale our customers base.

We did not used existing tools due to the huge pricing while considering the amount of projects we work on and the number of people, also, most of the existing services depend on dockerized services while we rarely follow this approach.

## 3. Discord scammer kicker

While I wasn't the founder, there was a time where I was involved in cryptocurrency projects, there was a common scam back them, scammers would join the discord channels and rename his nick to match one from the project maintainers, messaging the community to try stealing their coins.

I created a simple discord bot that would kick out people with nicknames similar to the ones from the team.

There is a post about this at https://wiringbits.net/wiringbits/2020/07/06/writing-a-disco...

The number of bans was surprising, eventually, people stopped trying this approach.

## 4. A simple website to restart services

In short, a 20 lines of HTML + nginx (no js, no backend) that would ssh into VMs to execute pre-defined commands (mostly to restart services) so that non-technical people could execute these.

This is described in https://wiringbits.net/general/2022/10/15/super-simple-admin...
23andMe receives warning from Nasdaq over low stock price
Gigantic engineering mathematics calculation tools.
Microsoft employee here. There is a lot of momentum behind MAUI so I am optimistic.
"There's this one guy who doesn't really know how to program, but he made some software that benefits the company. This software is now so complex the original creator is in way over his head, but continues to work on the software anyways, and it'a a huge mess" is category 3. I've seen it happen multiple times.
Agreed. I’m running a Logitech Brio (4K) and while it’s not perfect it’s pretty decent to auto adjust for the lighting in most rooms.
I wonder if it could be swapped :)
I'm guess I'd be happy until I found out I shouldn't be in that situation. But what's an illusion, and when can we stop pulling back curtains? We are solid matter, but there's mostly empty space in our atoms. So we think and feel like we are solid, but we are nothing more than fluctuations in a quantum field as far as we can tell. Shall my subjective happiness be dashed on the off chance I'm actually just a passing fluctuation in the echo of the big bang instead of a human in the only reality there is?
What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model
On the contrary. You want politicians who will get elected and do the right thing, still knowing it will end their political career. The outcomes are what matter, not duration of tenure.

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” ― Leonard Bernstein
CarPlay is not an internet feature. It’s basically a screen mirror, and I plug my phone in via USB.
I'm fairly certain that if you wanted long distance encrypted communications, you could just grab a LoRa module today and send out some AES-encrypted stuff and no one will bother you.

Isn't the point of the Ham community supposed to be about low-tech solutions? I wouldn't quite say they are "preppers", but maybe "prepper-adjacent" ?

Leaving some radio frequencies for unencrypted communications or Morse code or whatever hams are doing was the point of the ham frequencies, right? For encryption, we've got like everything else (cell phones, WiFi, etc. etc.)
I agree, and I'll add this: these people are not exactly bored, they're just the type of people that see a problem, a solution, and got the time to connect them together. Now I think the best attitude toward that particular type of people is to encourage good practices instead of mocking or shutting it down
At age 54, I'm now in the final quarter of my life.

That assumption inspires me.

It discourages procrastination, and encourages me to let go of plans that probably won't happen, since I'm almost out of time.

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein
Is that the direct link though? I always thought it was the extra pressure on the heart due to the increased blood pumping requirement?
Better hurry up before Miami becomes uninhabitable!
True, but we already have quite a lot of them, and we’re not going to remove them all immediately.
It's the first two - 0.01% of us die to guns, which isn't nothing - but not enough to move averages significantly. Maybe also cars? I assume Americans drive more than most other countries.
Sounds more like a reason not to buy Rivian and Tesla to me
Lest someone assume the parent is a snide comment, Europeans tend to have significantly longer vacations.
Would you share how did you do the last two? I have done those too (explained a bit in another comment).
A proper example is probably "an apple is red" and "red is an apple".
> think most people writing on a public site realize their writing is public

"Anything you say in public can be overheard and used against you" is somewhat different from "everything you ever said in public will be analyzed and compiled into a case against you" are slightly different shades of grey I'd say.
Haha love the xlcd.

The cat and mouse won’t stop, just the floor of what is tolerated will keep rising.

I’m sure there’s people so far ahead in ai video for no reason other than to quietly get ahead and stay ahead.