skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "nothing matters the world is doomed soon"

What you're describing is people experiencing grief. I'm what you would call an "extreme doomer", and did feel this way about a decade ago when I first realized the dire situation we are in.

But your first reaction is not the end. Waking up and accepting our state, and the despair that came with it, was the first stage in a long process of learning to live, and be comfortable in the world the way it is.

What you are suggesting is that we just ignore grief and pretend nothing is happening. I suppose this is just the denial stage of grieving, but it's worth recognizing that the people you know feeling this way are working through a process.

Pretending that someone isn't dead isn't a long term solution to accepting loss, even if it means in the short term you are in a dark place emotionally. It's unfortunately it upsets you to see people experiencing this, but those people, given enough time, might be in a better place to help you when you finally have to let go of denial.
>>>"...increasing use of on-off toggles instead of checkboxes"

One of the most egregiously angering thing to me is toggles that self un-toggle:

"Disconnecting Bluetooth Until Tomorrow"

WHAT?

I literally just commanded the device to turn something off which required me to pick it up, unlock it with a biometric identification, navigate to the settings containing the option I want to control with my physical hands, look at the screen, read the results for the object I want. Make the decision to turn a thing off. Do so by physically touching the device and adjusting the setting - not the Device says

"Oh you want that off? More than for just a little bit? Well, I'll have you know that we use your Bluetooth radio for a lot of our data tracking systems, so its important to us that its on - so we've coded your device's operating system to only allow you to turn off your Bluetooth radio temporarily so you feel like you're in control of it. Why? Because Fuck You Thats Why. Now go back to browsing reddit"
Yeah I've had a similar issue with the Anki-like system Wanikani uses for learning Japanese Kanji. I can keep up for some time, but as soon as I get busy with something else, I get overwhelmed by the piling up reviews. It has been very effective for the ones I learned when I was able to keep up though.

Recently a friend got me into Duolingo with him, I've been managing to maintain a streak on it because if I'm too busy I can atleast just do a quick "lesson" before midnight, but I don't really find it to be very effective for learning unless you're coming from literally zero starting knowledge.

I already know the basic vocabulary (especially phonetically) and sentence structure, so it's too slow. I usually just do the first handful of lessons and have figured out the kanji enough to just jump ahead to the test to unlock the next unit.
Spent a fair bit of time watching that one last night, thanks. I can definitely see why computer scientists were entranced by Conway's Game of Life.
I disagree, strongly.

I think the next phase will be people like me, not climate change deniers but climate change doomers.

The US could go carbon neutral tomorrow and it wouldnt make a dent because of China, India and Russia. 3 Billion people pumping pollution into the the air like their is no tomorrow vs. a couple hundred million reducing their footprint isn't going to make a lick of difference. I think people have always had a hard time understanding things at scale, especially a global scale.

The ONLY answer, live your life like there's no tomorrow because chances are is there isn't going to be.
It’s all automated; not you’re not really wasting an actual persons time.
But, as the article says, it's a byproduct of refining, not the reason for the refining, right?

That means the propane will be released and burnt whether people buy it or not. It's better for the environment to use it for a productive purpose rather than flare it off uselessly at the refinery or NG well.

And if we ever do reduce production of oil and natural gas, then a bigger share of propane would be biofuel.
> Currently IPv6 does not allow you to simply do away with public IPv4 adderesses.

You make a great point, but I would stress that the problem is not posed by IPv6 but by major ISPs with a global presence, such as Vodafone, which unexplainably have been dragging their feet on IPv6 support.
Nice try - I was referring to open source projects like the Linux kernel which has thousands of contributors across the world.

It's absolutely not limited to three people teams.
Anki is awesome. I used it for a couple of years to improve my English vocabulary but I ended up using spreadsheets like airtable because of few reasons:

1) Import/export is limited when I want to create a batch of flashcards from the list (from ChatGPT for example)

2) It's hard to stick to it and do it everyday. I wish it showed some progress in motivating way. This is why we use TODO lists after all. We human beings love to see the progress. I wish it also included some sticky effect of Pop It Game or Bubble Wrap.

So I just created an Airtable table with few fields:
Word,
Translation,
Days,
Repeat (function field "DATEADD(Edited, Days, 'days')"), - used for filtering,
Attachment,
Edited_at (automatic field).

"Days" is "Single select": 1, 4, 10, 25, 55, 90, 200 days. I set this field with number of days I want to repeat flashcard in.

Sounds cumbersome but it's not. I see the progress - less rows in the table after every click. It's far from ideal anyway and it's not an actual SSR of course but it works for me. And because of some reason it's easier to stick to.

Anyway, Anki is great for most of the cases.
You can transfer as many requests in parallel with HTTP/1.1 as you like by simply establishing more TCP connections to the server. The problem is that browsers traditionally limited the number of concurrent connections per server to 3. There’s also a speed penalty incurred with new connections to a host since initial TCP window sizes start out small, but it’s unclear whether that initial speed penalty significantly degrades the user experience.

The fact that anyone running wrk or hey can coerce a web server to produce hundreds of thousands of RPS and saturate 100Gb links with plain old HTTP/1.1 with connection reuse and parallel threads (assuming of course that your load tester, server, and network are powerful enough) ought to be enough to convince anyone that the protocol is more than capable.

But whether it’s the best one for the real world of thousands of different consumer device agents, flaky networks with huge throughput and latency and error/drop rates, etc. is a different question indeed, and these newer protocols may in fact provide better overall user experiences. Protocols that work well under perfect conditions may not be the right ones for imperfect conditions.
In order to be politically acceptable, a carbon tax should be phased in gradually and coupled with a reduction in income tax so as to make it revenue neutral. That way it can't be framed as just another government tax grab.
Or even good old hosts or whatever.
It's finding a way to input the external costs of consumption of emissive products into their final price(s). In reality, a gallon of gas causes significantly more damage than the price paid at the pump - it was like $16/gallon when I saw a figure for it around 2010. Imagine how much differently a world with $20/gallon gas would look. There'd probably be massive pressures from all corners to move away from oil.
Nice screenshots of embedded street view containers
Importance of Cursive Handwriting over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom
Well, I bought a "hybrid smartwatch" from them. Because I hate the plastic toy look of most other options, and as a bonus please wake me up when the apple watch battery lasts a week.

It sounded good in theory: normal watch with the background e-ink that will show your notifications and step count and heart rate and whatever. More of a fancy fitness band but that was good enough to start with. The battery even lasted 2 weeks.

Unfortunately the eink was almost unreadable unless directly in the sun. It had a light you could turn on by tapping the watch but it was weak. Need I mention the software to configure it was pretty limited? Especially in the part where you configured what notifications to get and what not?

But that's not the main problem. The main problem is either the glass front wasn't tight enough or it had humidity under it from the factory. So every time it got cold and humid it fogged up. That never happened to me with any other traditional watch, no matter how cheap it was.

And one day... in about 2 years and some change... it just died on me.

Waiting a few years and then checking hybrid watches again. Maybe this market niche will survive.
This is a good suggestion, but careful with the default rulesets. We turned on AWS WAF (in our case, the motivation was just SOC 2 compliance).

There were a few overzealous rules that subtly broke parts of our app.

There were request body rules that did things like block requests that contained "localhost" in the request body. There was also a rule that blocked requests without a User-Agent header, which we were not previously requiring on API requests, so we broke our entire API for a few users until we figured that out.
I had surgery and the pharmacy didn't want to fill my real legit oxycodone prescription until after they'd talked to someone at the OR. We overcompensating and went too far the other way.
The video is already 1 day old. Where is the DOOM port?
It's only 2.5 bill. In the grand scheme, not that much. Or, are you saying that product line now goes to zero? I don't know how much they are making out of that line.
Updates as the other commenter says. Also isolation technology like docker containers, chroots, bsd jails, protections that systemd offers, or virtual machines. While not perfect, it means that the attackers must have the ability to chain exploits in order to break out of the compromised application to the rest of the host system.
“Why good content” … doesn’t have (a) date posted, (b) author by line, or (c) clear navigation because you want to read more.

I always enjoy Dan’s post, but above also drives me crazy.
> My ability to read and instantly formulate logic substantially improved as I got older through practice

I’d argue that is more intelligent.
People generally get smarter as they age (up to a point)

That’s why IQ is relative to your peers. A child with a high IQ may still not be as intelligent as an adult with an average IQ
This is the only valid way of using windows, I guess
That’s what I do. Creation is difficult on mobile, easy on desktop and review is easy on mobile but difficult on desktop.
Yes, for that type of thing you can use stainless steel pans/pots.
> so there's an implied total complexity as well as an "generating" one.

Dessalles's algorithmic simplicity theory of (cognitive) relevance is formulated in these terms.

>Situations are relevant to human beings when they appear simpler to
describe than to generate

The discrepancy between generation complexity

>the complexity (minimal description) of all parameters that have to be set for the situation s to exist in the "world"

i.e, the "pixels"

and description complexity

> the length of the shortest available description of s (that makes s unique)

i.e. the mandelbrot formula

is named Unexpectedness in this framework.

https://telecom-paris.hal.science/hal-03814119/document

https://simplicitytheory.telecom-paris.fr/

Dessalles published a paper in 2022, Unexpectedness and Bayes’ Rule

https://cifma.github.io/Papers-2021/CIFMA_2021_paper_13.pdf

>A great number of methods and of accounts of rationality consider at their foundations some form of Bayesian inference. Yet, Bayes’ rule, because it relies upon probability theory, requires specific axioms to hold (e.g. a measurable space of events). This short document hypothesizes that Bayes’ rule can be seen as a specific instance of a more general inferential template, that can be expressed also in terms of algorithmic complexities, namely through the measure of unexpectedness proposed by Simplicity Theory.

Maybe there is a way to plug this into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot fractal someone mentioned above.
Oh, right you are, somehow I completely mixed that up. Thanks for clarifying.
We don't need new design on the front end, we could use more small features on the existing site. For years, I've been collecting a list of stuff I'd like to see. Most of it can all be built with a browser extension. It is really too bad that `Refined Hacker News` was poorly coded, and now abandoned. Some day, I'd love to resurrect it.
I really don’t want to criticize anyone or their hard work, and appreciate both curl and OpenSSL as a long time user. That said, I personally find it disappointing that in 2024 major new modules are being written in C. Especially so given that a) existing Quic modules written in Rust exist, and b) there’s a precedent for including Rust code in Curl.

Of course there are legacy reasons for maintaining existing codebases, but what is it going to take to shift away from using C for greenfield projects?
Those articles are not related to that claim. Of course. But surely you don't think mining lithium with giant gas powered machines and then shaking it into a separator with more gas powered machines, and then hauling it across the ocean with more gas powered machines is carbon neutral, do you? If you do, let me know, I'll go ahead and help you find those articles that do support that claim. My assumption is that you don't actually need my help for that.
Most of them are probably bots running without the knowledge of the IP owner. There’s little benefit to sharing those IPs with anyone other than the provider who owns them.
> too much blithering before they get to the actual terms

Thank you!

That's my biggest gripe with news today, broadly speaking.

People keep telling me they prefer reading a "story", but I just want the news, not the first chapter of a mediocre novel.
Related, hardbool, it seems gcc can automatically handle this soon.

https://blog.adacore.com/adacore-enhances-gcc-security-with-... and https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Type-Attributes.ht...
No, it is not AI generated, but took about a week to produce.

If the content irritates you so much, please ignore it.
Wouldn't this be the same or greater if the fence is grounded?
At least it's an ethos!
The crux of the problem is this;

The people that believe in climate change don’t understand how to solve the problem. And the people that know how to solve the problem don’t really consider it a problem worth solving at this point.
Did you watch the video? What you say is like saying: "It doesn't matter if something bad happens to me as long as it doesn't outright kill me."
Marginal tax on income is far higher than 45% in many cases. For starters there's national insurance, but then there's also extra tax for people earning between about 50 and 60k pushing marginal tax for many above 60%, even 70% (and that's assuming they didn't go to university)

A graduate with 3 kids on 55k, with their employer spending £1138 on a bonus, gets

* £138 on NI (employer)

* £20 on NI (employee)

* £90 graduate tax (student loan payments which in the UK are income based)

* £400 income tax

* £290 child tax (the uk government give one parent about £1k a child per year, but then takes it away for those earning between 50 and 60k. Two parents can earn 50k each and receive the full amount, but a single parent on 60k gets nothing)

Leaving them with just £200, or 17.5% of the money their company spent on them.

For those of us earning 150k, who have paid off that student loan, have been fully taxed for the kids, get to keep about half of that £1138.
Not the most important, it is just symptomatic.
That about:config setting is a halfway okay solution for a single app, it loses vertical space however, which is my premium. Optimally I would like a way to (in all applications which has this problem) to _simply show me_ what is a UI widget/button and what part is "inert" draggable window chrome, like this older screen shot where the distinction is unambiguous and clear:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Se6i0.png
> if you write the cards yourself

I'd go so far to say it's almost an requirement. Unless you have a high quality deck made specifically for the book/course/material you have.

Sadly most of the publicly available Anki are IMHO not of that quality.
And it woulda worked too if not for that pesky red stapler!
These attackers don't have inexhaustible resources.
> and only use Apple products.

I use only Apple products (desktop, laptop, phone, ipad), but I've never seriously considered the watch. Battery life less than a day? Come on...
It just shows how much of a disaster/uphill battle/impossible experiment (take your pick of which) "windows on arm" is.

A absolutely core piece of technology (I personally use edge/ff because I like to support the smaller options) but chrome is core on Windows.
> and get attention

Attention is what is needed in attention (political) economy, sure, but I do wonder why they've chosen (classical) art specifically? I kind of miss the big witty stunts done by the Yes Men and alike.
I’m curious, how did you manage to get a child into Anki and make them self sufficient on it? Kudos to you
I'm not sure this will ever be a solved problem. If it's in your threat model to worry about such things, you necessarily need to have your own servers, in a secured physical location you control. No amount of attestation and auditing will allow you to overcome that sort of threat. For the most part, I believe audit logs and severely restricted permissions provided to employees greatly disincentive the chances of an inside job occurring successfully.
When you put it that way, it kind of undermines the snark towards web developers. Of course things are inconsistent, no one is in charge to say “this is the way the platform does it.”

There are lots of other design sins this doesn’t excuse (low contrast, for instance), but expecting conventions to be as consistent as on a desktop OS feels naive.
She is typically a very "anti-establishment" accessible science educator. When she talks about climate change she puts the onus on herself to actually make the arguments rather than just "pushing the consensus." This is very important. As somebody who is anti-academia myself, I am so annoyed at being told I am anti-science as well for being as such. Hearing the evidence laid out by somebody also willing to call out academia, but who does believe in climate change is WAY more effective than one more bludgeoning tool from a boot licking sycophant.

Want to have your discussion regarding "What to do?" regarding climate change? You need to stop treating people who want to know your arguments and see your data with respect first. Sabine is a great ACTUAL science educator and not merely a grifter, and (I suspect) just a modest honest person. She legit deserves clicking that subscribe button.
Especially wire service copy. It let editors cut articles at a more or less arbitrary point to fill the available space. Magazine articles by contrast weren't necessarily structured the same way.

A lot of people like to worship inverted pyramid as some Platonic ideal, but it was certainly not universally used outside of situations where there were some specific constraints.
There must be oil.
Maybe people aren't scared because they disagree with your wild, unscientific assertion that "the chances of humanity surviving are incredibly slim, IMO"
Don't expose your services publicly unless it is necessary. If you're self-hosting services that are meant to be accessed only by you then consider accessing them exclusively over a VPN like Wireguard (Tailscale is nice) and firewall everything else.
The MBA brainworms are trying to co-opt technical fields. Nonsense accreditation, get-rich-quick schemes laundered through misunderstood CS101 terminology.

If I was interviewing one of these people and checked their linkedin and saw it was full of blogspam, I would assume they're likely lying about their skillsets and ask them to explain any of their buzzwords.
> I can't think of any valid case where [no option] checked is part of a set of radio buttons. The user must be presented by a default

In a political vote, wouldn't that be untolerable bias?
That's a good point. I may briefly mention RAG-like systems and add some literature references on this, but I am bit hesitant to give general advice because it's heavily project-dependent in my opinion. It usually also comes down in what form the client has the data and whether referencing from a database or documentation is desired or not. The focus of chapter 6+7 is also instruction-finetuning and alignment rather than finetuning for knowledge. The latter goal is best achieved done via pretraining (as opposed to finetuning) imho.
In any case, I just read this interesting case study last week on Finetuning vs RAG that might come in handy: "RAG vs Fine-tuning: Pipelines, Tradeoffs, and a Case Study on Agriculture" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08406)
It’s not one crime, it’s all of them. The cost of enforcing one instance is more than the cost of all infractions, by all people. Enforcing such laws would turn the law into a farce.
Any Anki power users here have any anecdotes with FSRS?
sounds like the only difference between the Columbian Drug Cartels (cocaine producers and street pushers distribution network) and the American Drug Cartels (Big Pharma and pill mill distribution network) is the latter paid taxes
> what does fast forward and rewind do?

symbols in "traditional" media playback, the icon shown would traditionally be for fast reverse/forward. skip back/forward to the previous/next would had a vertical bar to the point of the triangle. some also go so far to differentiate skip/scanning where scanning uses two triangles while skip uses one triangle with the bar. not really sure what Apple has done to them though. i would almost expect them to be skip instead of the scan with Apple expecting you to use the playhead (in whatever format it is made available) for scanning.

the play button in Apple's use is typically action instead of state. so in this state, clicking it would start play, and then the button changes to the "pause" symbol (an = rotated 90°).

so this is a really good example of mixing usage.
Why do you say that? Most of the Midwest USA seems like it will do fine for the inevitable future.

More co2 means corn and soy will be growing better and better, warming temps increase our growing season. We have more than enough water. What am I missing?
1. It is stealing

2. Its a tiny amount of power

Both can be true. Taking a single grape at the supermarket is illegal but no one would arrest you for it.
Do you have that list somewhere you can share? I made an extension to be able to reply inline, I'd love to implement more in it.
Indeed, but neither do you.

Be very careful that fail2ban isn't actually exhausting your own resources faster than you believe you're exhausting the attackers' resources...

https://www.google.com/search?q=fail2ban+resource+usage