skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a European using terminology likely to resonate with the American readership. It's a government that spans and partially controls multiple countries. The analogy to the US government that spans and partially controls multiple states should be readily apparent.
I have no idea if this is right because I'm so non techie it actually hurts, but I think you were asking for this:https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr
Sorry I forgot, in AI $2Bn is preseed
I used it to write my wedding vows
My point exactly. Our current civilization isn't sustainable anyway, with or without climate change.
It's the heads I win, tails you lose investment model
I suspect there are two issues here put together in a possibly misleading way: 1) it is not surprising that the juvenile Gorgosaurus would have fed on the smaller animals, for fairly obvious reasons that have nothing to do with what the adults would have fed on; 2) the small animals would not be an adequate diet for adults.

If this is the case, then it seems odd for the latter to be used as a justification for the former, but when people are talking extemporaneously, it is not uncommon for them to jump from one topic to another without completing the former.

As an example of how larger predators often ignore small prey, consider how some hummingbird species seek out nesting sites close to those of hawks:

https://www.audubon.org/news/why-hawk-hummingbirds-best-frie...
COM, the interface, is not the same as the conglomeration of Windows APIs.

A web-dev example might be that CSS, the language design, is not the same as the ever-growing and inconsistent set of properties that the browser uses to style documents.
Article is talking about a fungicide. Not an insecticide.

> The new study exposed honeybees to two treatments: the isolated active ingredients in the fungicide Pristine, which is used to control fungal diseases in almonds and other crops, and the whole Pristine formulation, including inert ingredients. The results were quite surprising: The whole formulation impaired honeybees’ memory, while the active ingredients alone did not.
My student life has been an awful boring existence because of number 2. There was nothing more frustrating than going to school. A few sentences were enough for me to understand concepts that were explained during several weeks.
For most applications, yes. They are only encrypted in transit via HTTPS, but they are readable to Google/Apple.

It's possible to E2EE push notifications, but you need custom application logic.
I use them in my editor with my plugin https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim
Slouching towards a 2 Degree-Plus World
This is a call to action from the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome published the original Limits to Growth. Limits to Growth was a dynamic systems model which showed that collapse will happen as we hit physical limits of the planet.

There has been a recent re-calibration of the Limits to Growth model and it doesn't look good.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13442?af=R
Extra points for the awesome demo GIF!
Could you elucidate and source this? (Because it makes no sense to me. Fair use is allowed by most jurisdictions’ legal systems, but in practice not allowed by YouTube because they grant way too much power to copyright holders. Meanwhile, I find no grounds on which YouTube could legally or practically prevent or even hinder reusing public domain resources. Again, they’ve granted way too much power to people that claim to hold copyright on things, but really that’s just “putting anything on YouTube is risky”.)
This post is a terrible failure of imagination that would make one stop language development as C because it was so much better than Assembly.

If you have no problems with Git, then I’m happy for you. I certainly have problems with Git, eg its inability to handle large repositories meaningfully (enjoy a Chromium checkout!), the arcane CLI commands, the shut-your-eyes-and-hope of moving commits between branches and other sharp edges.

That Git has been as resilient as it has is largely a function of being written by Torvalds and GitHub network effects. It isn’t for lack of better/as good features found in other VCS methodologies.
At least as of a few years ago, AT&T still owned most of the core network in the US and leased it out to other ISPs. The government has a direct pipe into AT&T which allowed (still does?) them to sniff everything regardless of ISP since AT&T almost certainly owned the underlying pipe.
Also when those very rich people start buying properties/coast/islands from people who "had different priorities" in couple of decades, the latter will have to rethink their strategy of letting go and not developing their biggest talents. But its going to be too late for that by then.
No, I mean selinux. And when I was using Linux, selinux got in the way basically immediately.
>I'm more of a fundamentalist (need to think of a better term)

"I tend to focus more on the fundamentals".
Ex-Uber CSO Sullivan on why he 'had to get over' shock of data breach conviction
> Climate change is going to suck, but I focus on the fact that we've been fighting against really horrifically bad reasoning skills. Climate change is really basic chemistry; if we can't get people to agree on that how are we ever going to solve problems with any actual complexity?

Dollars.

People’s livelihoods depend on not understanding, so they don’t. We must incentivize understanding and propose a workable solution, which is basically a way to manufacture gasoline, diesel and natural gas out of literally thin air, because transitioning to electric everything is not happening due to natural resources constraints (thinking of mining primarily).
I think the nomenclature could have been better, and less technical people would use it. Calling it commit when it’s essentially a save is good start . Yes I know it isn’t exactly the same as saving but who cares.
That’s what it already does though. We get a total fuel figure in the flight deck (FOB) and a figure for how much the engines have used (FU - measures flow in the pylons). Add the two together and if the resulting number isn’t what the flight started with then there’s a leak.

The challenge is knowing where the leak is.
The amount of context needed would require quite a bit of novel R&D that doesn't exist on the horizon yet. I think it's more realistic that it'll be a mixture of real & fake in the interim (e.g. the LLM will record important game state changes / information & then use that as context but it'll still forget a bunch of things you'd expect a human to).
The book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", is handy is you are Bugs Bunny and your are cornered by pack a dogs in New York. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFFqbr27Vc&t=148s )
A comapny should be showing you their best face to get you to join. It's a two way street.

If they're this messed up just setting up an interview cycle, it will not be any better once you start working there. In fact, it usually gets worse.
Seems like especially for the last year or so, there have been a significant amount of interest in single-language oriented (instead of a single core library w/N language bindings, winking at a particular one) TUI libraries that are getting better and better (potentially because some of them were able to attract VC money). Two of them off top of my head is Textual (by textualize.io) for Python and BubbleTea (by charm.sh) for Go.
You start by operating as though this sort of bullshit is not correct. Since the beginning of recorded history, people have thought that they were at the end of human growth. Despite that, people operating as though their future will be brighter have defied their predictions.
Coupled with the concern that once you’re charging users money for a product, you are also liable for sketchy things they do with it. Not so much when you post a torrent link on twitter that happens to have model weights.
Why would it be a dubious valuation scheme? I guess if an investor is looking at just revenue, or only looking at one area of their business finances, maybe? Otherwise it seems like the loss in funds would be weighed against the increase in revenue and wouldn't distort earnings.
I also manually upgraded yesterday (bad luck, just a few hours after the update) and just now reverted to the previous kernel. Not sure this was the right thing to do but didn't want to take any chances
> Climate change is going to suck, but I focus on the fact that we've been fighting against really horrifically bad reasoning skills.

Whereas exerting effort to antagonize a portion of the public despite knowing what the consequences of that are (they will dig in even harder) is something other than bad reasoning.

This planet is an exhibition of unrealized mass delusion, fuelled by mass specialized education, which further amplifies the phenomenon.

> Climate change is really basic chemistry...

It is also an extremely complex metaphysical phenomenon (watch out for that word "is", it is a doozy - also: it underlies most everything in our "reality").

Have you ever read any history of science, of times before we knew far less than we do now? How likely do you think it is that we have everything about causality figured out now, despite humanity (mostly) only studying the physical realm (while laughing at and calling names of those who do otherwise, some of whom actually recognize the folly in the current Streetlight Effect approach)?

> ...if we can't get people to agree on that how are we ever going to solve problems with any actual complexity?

Well, we always have the option of pulling the most powerful toolset in our arsenal out of storage: philosophy. Well, at least in theory we have this option (it is physically possible, but it may not be metaphysically possible).

> Climate change denial is associated with a ton of other ideological issues that cause a lot of people a lot of harm, today, in first world countries. Not all of them are as scientifically definitive, but they share a pattern of people expressing opinion as fact.

All ideologues state opinions as fact - take your comment for example. Even worse: doing so is a strongly enforced cultural norm - doing otherwise "is" "being pedantic".

> I feel like painful mitigation efforts are too grand to even think about.

The grandness is surely a problem, but our lack of capabilities in general thinking abilities is an even bigger problem in my view (a self-reinforcing problem, which makes it extremely possible to even realize).

> So for me the mitigations are less about dealing with climate change and more about hoping climate change deniers just how reprehensibly they've handled this entire thing.

Are you familiar with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation

To add to the controversy, I will add this gem: why during these conversations is the question of the degree to which our "democracy" is illusion[1] so rarely mentioned? It is (or at least could be) the primary coordinating force of humans, and human coordination is a pre-requisite for solving if we're going to address this problem - why is it that people are not able to care about such things? What is it about the system we live in that makes it not possible for people who are experts in systems analysis to analyze as a system?

Will we now stick with convention and see an exhibition of 2023 memetics in response to this "hot take" of mine?

[1] I would like to hope that we've moved past the binary question of is it an illusion by this point.
Are these technical university level courses you are talking about? If so, you should just be taking higher level courses.
Standard tinfoil hatter stuff - it is impossible to prove the government is not monitoring everything. From there you can build any theory - one being the government finds out you are doing something illegal, and then they go back and find legal ways to prove it.

Has this happened - probably. Does it happen a lot - probably not. But none of that matters - the uncertainty is enough to build a whole online community that believes hard.
To me, "Could there be something better than git?" is not the important question.

What matters is if git is good enough.

Or more specifically, is if git good enough for X when X is something that is actually being done.

I mean, git is good enough for my very minimal needs and the needs of people with much more sophisticated needs than mine (e.g. the Linux team). And since I know more about git than any other VCS (in part because there are better resources for learning git than any other VCS) learning another VCS for the sake of learning another VCS wouldn't help me get anything done.

None of that means git is good enough for your needs, but statistically, it probably is good enough for your needs because statistically, most difficulties with git are related to training and knowledge since the mathematics underpinning git are (to the best of my understanding) sound.

Which also implies (not accidentally) that being better than git requires better resources for learning the new VCS than git has, and that's a very tall order.

Good luck.
Understand that the papers emphasize they are not predictions, but illustrating complex relationships. (Or at least trying to illustrate complex relationships based on what we know of them right now). There is very little we as an individual level can do about whether or not full scale technological advancement occurs enough to reach steady state of equilibrium on a global level. It’s very important cognitively to realistically assess your personal ability to influence or not influence a global phenomenon.

Personally? I want to make sure my local community is strong. Even if no collapse occurs, a strong community is good. But if anything happens, a strong community is great. I do food coops (I buy a share of a farms crops ahead of the growing season, so the farmer shares the harvest with me. Sometimes I also pitch in to pack the shares for others in the coop!). I donate to community food availability(not just food kitchens but also paying way more for pay-what-you-can produce). I attend community events like cleanups, town halls, etc.

Most of us in tech are lucky enough to be able to work from the neighborhoods where we live, and be able to step out for the occasional chore. We inherently have more time to directly benefit our neediest. Why not take advantage?
Don't Donald Jr. and Eric count? ;)
If the alternative to the check list is reading the full documentation, that's one thing. But in my experience -- as a Software Engineer, and random dude on the Internet -- the alternative is usually no check list or documentation.
I think there is a significant difference between “I don’t think they were right,” which is a real, meaningful criticism, and “this is impenetrable nonsense,” which is a surface level criticism.
Yeah, the demand side consists solely of those that think they will be supply side.
The problem is that for 99.99% of the people engaged in the debate over if git is good or not and should be replaced the correct answer for them is "stop fighting it and just learn git" because there's nothing better. They need to stop thinking about how git sucks because that is literally getting in the way of their career goals and is self-sabotage.

And if anyone seriously wants to try to replace git they need to understand how git works first at the level of an advanced expert first anyway. At that point, you can have the discussion about how to make git, with better LFS/monorepo support, with a more pleasant UI/UX, etc.
> its inability to handle large repositories meaningfully

Out of curiousity, what other SCM tools can pull this off better?
> C ABI library protocols, and offered stdio and socket interfaces to them, then suddenly the landscape of possibilities in software composition would be way broader.

I think it would have reduced composition in practice. Part of what you get out of "text as the universal interface" is tools that never heard of each other being able to work together. Because there's only a couple types: string, maybe number depending on the context, list (strings separated by spaces or newlines) and record (single line of a csv/tsv file), things can be kinda coerced into working together.

You could get this with a type system... if you restrict yourself to at the most advanced List<String>, Map<String, String>, but you've lost ~80% of your type system value. As soon as anyone defines a custom struct, only tools that have heard of that type (which, in practice, end up being tools specifically made to work with it) can use it. Just using text with a few conventions is a really high utility point on the pareto curve for basically zero work.

I could see some benefit in getting a system defined Path/URL type, but you'd really need to have a culture of sticking to built in types, and a system that offers types to cover basically every use-case.
Forward Laplacian: Computational Framework for NN-Based Variational Monte Carlo
> Dare to dream! I can't think of any "reasonably" likely scenario how that could come about, but maybe I lack imagination.

Its definitely unlikely in the near future, though it will die eventually and likely will happen quickly. I don't see many ways that happens soon, though depending how serious UN member states actually consider the war in Gaza, they could walk away seeing either how useless the UN is when one state can veto or when it becomes clear that a UN without teeth is only useful during times of peace.
LtG - Limit to Growth -- re: Worldwide growth rates
I'm trying to solve the part of the problem that generates the output, the argparse part would not be that hard to write.

https://github.com/blooop/bencher/tree/main
The answer can be found in the first word of the statement.
> we've been fighting against really horrifically bad reasoning skills

> A lot of issues come down to leaving people alone to make their own decisions

Stupid people still have a sense of right and wrong. I would suggest you are hoping for things that many people find wrong while reframing the conversation to discredit them.
As an outside observer who is a little closer to it I think that's not really the dynamic. The states that are deeply conservative have a significant minority who are not conservative. The spread of conservative and liberal views also seems much much wider than you'd think - i.e. many conservative republican voters I've met seem to have little interest in LGBT issues at all or are supportive. They're fiscally conservative. And many people who are otherwise liberal do want to see less immigration.
I feel like git is poorly thought out. If a group of dedicated smart people set out to build a version control system, I doubt they would end up with git.
what if positive feedback loops are on short timescales (1k years) and negative feedback loops are on geologic timescales (1 million years)? then for current human purposes the negative feedback loops may as well not exist.
Yes it is. I don't like Tailwind but the book is great for devs.
Your last paragraph seems to be missing a verb: "more about hoping climate change deniers just how reprehensibly they've handled this entire thing".

I guess denial is a tough shell, some people even manage to be world leaders even if they deny reality all the way. We are some funny irrational apes aren't we...
I'm sharing this partly because it seems to be freely available on archive.org. It's also freely shared on the author's website: http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/index.html

This book has a really nice and simple summary of how graph coloring register allocation works.

It also has an overview of the basics of type checking, as well as the basics of data-flow analysis and optimizations, including: common subexpression elimination, index check elimination, function inlining, and tail call elimination.

Those are only sections of the book. There are also sections about syntax analysis, parsing, and symbol tables. I'm just pointing out what seemed like the "best" or "most interesting" parts of the book in my opinion.
Agreed. This is the kind of agreements that are needed for Brazilian rain forests

The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-simple-economics-of-sav...

But it's a bit complicated because if you just buy plots then cattle farming will buy different plots. So you need to setup an incentive structure to pay dividends for sitting on undeveloped rain forest
No they didn’t because until the loan is repaid you can’t use whatever gold you put up for other purposes can you. What became tangible is what you used the loan for , that is what can be taxed.
Few good teachers...few good engineers? 10x cough cough...
DURF is useful to distinguish it from a Deep Underground Military Base, or DUMB.
One does not need to be a $lang programmer to use a CLI tool written in $lang.
Which part is nonsense?

‘Oil will soon run out’ is questionable only in the ‘soon’ part and the rest follows pretty easily: there is no modern farming without oil. Source: ask a farmer, or read some Wikipedia.

One could hope for a transition to electric farming equipment and supply chains but you won’t be able to create artificial fertilizers without natural gas at scale.
git still has issues with lots of files. I downloaded the sec Edgar database as files and I thought it would be nice way to store and watch changes.

Nope.

So slow. It does not like millions of files. And all my tooling that does a “quick” git status locked up the terminal, vs code, etc.
Here's a free book:

https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...
Really dumb headline. It almost certainly means that Microsoft would sell its gaming unit to another company.
Anyone has example of products that made large use of LLM API that could make economics sense to use self-hosted model (Mistral, LLAMA)?
it’s a “mistry” ;)
> An unofficial third party client breaks an established network of trust

I think this is key. The problem is the security of iMessage as a protocol is dependent on trust between client (implementations). Which is actually not that great from a security perspective.

I don’t mean that there are necessarily vulnerabilities in the protocol (there very well may be), but that the protocol is not something that Apple is willing to depend upon to uphold their desired security guarantees.
Right now they’re shoveling “potential”. LLMs demonstrate capabilities we haven’t seen before, so there’s high uncertainty about the eventual impact. The pace of progress makes it _seem_ like an LLM “killer app” could appear any day and creating a sense of FOMO.
That's fair given it's 50 times more difficult to use their model
Is there any reason to take this more seriously than garden variety malthusianism?
> this sort of "it's over, there's only doom ahead" is, IMO, counterproductive and hurts the efforts to help the environment more than it helps.

Says who? We've been parroting the opposite message ("there's still time! go solar! electric cars!") is CLEARLY not working.

I'm a climate change doomer, in that I'm certain our children will live in a very different world than us, and there's a real (10%+?) chance of total environmental collapse in our lifetimes. The positive feedback loops are inescapable.

The science is the science...who are we to lie to people hoping that the lie somehow inspires mass coordinated change?
Influenced by, but i think Cybertruck is more in a vehicle design class of its own being aligned with the brutalism ideas of the period.

The stainless steel is serving the appearance, feel, shape, and the structure; it is to cars what concrete was to brutalist buildings.
Permit nightmare: One S.F. homeowner's 'absurd' journey to build small balcony
Suggesting a look at this hack of mine for web apps
https://github.com/livetheoogway/python-uime
Yeah back before I switched to Godot for my game dev dabbling I was keeping an eye on info about the upgrade to a more modern version of .NET, but I got less and less interested and saw Godot 4 was going to have .NET 6 out the gate so just switched (and all of this was before Unity went full idiot which fully removed any interest I have in going back).