skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Speaking of underrated works from cyberpunk authors, you may be interested in William Gibson's non-fiction essay collection Distrust That Particular Flavor. My hot take: I think Gibson's non-fiction is much stronger than his fiction.

EDIT: Ooh, that collection includes Disneyland with the Death Penalty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...
Yep. That's pretty much exactly my process for the sections.

Read Abstract.

Look over Methods.

Skim Conclusions.

And finally take a closer look at the Supplementary data (which is usually where I end up very happy or dissatisfied with the researchers)
I’m sure patches are welcome :)
Reuters' coverage is equally terse: https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-authorities-search...
All your points have been defeated.

1. You said this icon problem suggests bad process control. Turns out Tesla's process control isn't worse than Porsche's process control, and Porsche produces the highest quality cars. In fact, it is better because Tesla fixed the problem and Porsche couldn't.

2. You said Tesla was forced. Turns out no manufacturer was forced to fix this.

End of debate.
When I used VSE some years ago there was some weird behavior around reversing a fragment of a clip on the timeline.

I placed a clip, cropped it down to interesting fragment but when I tried to make it play backwards another fragment of the clip showed. Like if the reverse operation was performed before the cropping, not after.

I even thought about investigating it but never got around to it. Maybe it's fixed already by someone else?
You know that the code compiled using future version of java won' work in older versions..rt? I would like to know if any other programming language does that kind of thing.

Of course, but what surprises me is the lack of backwards compatibility -- future JVMs refusing the run old code. I get that you have to deprecate old unsafe APIs sometimes, but it feels silly that I need three different Java versions for different Android projects.

They are creating native binaries just like Go or any other AOT languages with GCs. Graal native images are as fast or faster than Go. Also it contains a REPL, that's why bigger size. So for CLI tooling as a developer using pkl, you won't see any difference if it's written in java + kotlin or golang.

That's good! I thought you needed Java to run it.

I figured I should give it a proper try, so I just downloaded it. 105MB!! They're not kidding when they say it's big. I also checked bun (47.7MB) and esbuild (9.8MB) for comparison.

pkl does seem to start up pretty fast, though. 1.6s on the first run (presumably just the time needed to cache that big binary) and ~100ms thereafter.
It is, now Oracle lawyers will sent a letter with a settlement proposition for only 800k$ to your company for accessing the web page /s
Vocational School
Yeah doing more of the thing that screwed everything up is usually the best solution. /s
> So why should it be possible to buy assets and not obligations then?

If the sale was at an honest, market price, what would be the problem? The seller is fairly compensated and can use the money received to service any obligation.

Bankruptcy has something called "clawback" where sales or payments by debtors within some time window before the declaration can potentially be "clawed back". There are defense against this, included the mentioned time limits. So one approach in splitting up a company is not leaving the debt burdened part too burdened, so it doesn't immediately fail.

There have been a bunch of clawback cases filed in the FTX crypto exchange bankruptcy.
Those people should be educated how to create and then (re)use bookmarks/favorites. It's a better tool than searching the same domain every day or multiple times per day.
It’s not an easy read, but Blindsight by Peter Watts has some equally unique and compelling synthesis of scientific concepts into a big concept plot.
If you pay $200 a month you should be able to use it everywhere in the Americas and south of the Sahara. No India, China or Pakistan though
That's not an option though, is it? Not for those already affected.
Oh dear, the enshitification of another unconscionable, immoral
misadventure has begun. What will we do without a network of
non-consensual private surveillance of public spaces that preys on
peoples' fear and mutual distrust?
This is magical thinking
Same. The view changing every time I click is very disorienting. and have to zoom back out after every click
But power users are a minuscule market, compared to non-power (weak?) users. That's the problem.
The Feed Conversation Rate for fish is between 1.0 and 2.0kg of feed to produce 1kg of fish. For salmon this is 1.2 to 1.5kg. They are replacing the wild fish with alternatives and additives that are more sustainable.
I Took TripAdvisor's Harshest Reviewers Out and Reviewed Them
I've moved everything to ASP.Net Core Blazor. I've been developing web apps on Microsoft's stack since Wrox's ASP 3.0 book. It's always been a pleasure.
Ridiculed by whom? We've seen many competitors try to make a streaming service and beyond Apple, they all provide a laggy experience even in the menus.

If you're going to emulate someone, it's not a bad idea to emulate who has the best results
There's some information about why that does not happen in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20211104234742.ao2qzqf...

In particular:

> The immediate goal is to be able to generate JITed code/LLVM-IR that doesn't
> contain any absolute pointer values. If the generated code doesn't change
> regardless of any of the other contents of ExprEvalStep, we can still cache
> the JIT optimization / code emission steps - which are the expensive bits.

A colleague is working on getting this patch into shape. So we might see some caching work get done after the relative pointer work is in.
New technologies have not helped yet. Just covered part of increased demand. So it doesn't seem like technology is going to save us.

It is all just distraction. Only way is one that will never happen: de-growth.
I liked the expansion of the ideas. I was bored a couple of times so it could be compressed a bit into maybe a novella half the size of the book, but a short story would have left me wanting.
That seems like fairly sober look at the issue. Interesting read.
Meh. The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee report itself doesn't mention him or the article:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5804/ldselect/ldenvc...

Rather, he's mentioned in referenced material provided by Green Alliance, an eco think tank:

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/124805/html...
You might want to read up on Jevons Paradox [1].

Also, be warned that the term "accelerationism" is being used by different parties, with quite opposing intentions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
If you didn’t mention this, I don’t think I would ever find out, that’s so cool!
Pretty sure OP was sarcastic, lots of people blindly copy big corporation tech even if they don't have big corporation problems and scale.
Paying for Truth: Information Elicitation Mechanisms
The UK is #6 globally in terms of GDP, and at least where I live in the south east there are Teslas everywhere I look.

I think this says more about the problem with averages.
"I don't know if this sign about a cliff ahead was right, so I'm gonna keep going pedal to the metal. Just in case..."
I would love to have an electric car, and my next one will most likely be electric.

But I notice that the article claims his article was "roundly debunked", but fails to actually link to any of that debunking.

Here's an article that does that. It's on the same site as Atkinson's article, even.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/fact-che...

I feel that Rowan may be in the wrong about the facts in the end, but I'm not surprised that he feels "duped" since so much of marketing is about hiding the things they don't want you to know, and he found all that stuff out. And it was a lot.

In the end, though, I do think they're already a net positive and that's just getting better with time and effort.
Problem with that in context of Starlink is the terminal needs to know its position relative to the satellite to communicate with it; spoof position, and you're likely to lose comms.
I don't know, tbh. One obvious advantage to me would be traffic analysis from each node. They own the internet; they own the traffic. :)
I'm sure there are reasons the implementation might not be easy, but conceptually this seems fixable. You just need a lower bound of "how bad can this plan be?" and that doesn't require completing the query, just observing that it's been running for a long time and/or used unreasonable amounts of resources.

Also, is the problem with the 50 join query that the planner screws it up, or that it's fundamentally doing too much?
DC Is Having a Crime Wave. The Centrist Political Class Is Freaking Out
Rootless Podman on an Apple M3 Pro
Except you already have one of those pieces of information -- where you are. Depending on how much privacy we are referring to, it's perfectly reasonable to regularly download the location of all busses in a city. This would locate you to a city, but then on-device you could figure out what you actually care about.

Same with the super market. It's _very_ reasonable to download an ad for one store. Even for multiples.

My argument is "It would likely only download what you look at and now the store knows what you looked.", IS one way to do it, but it does not have to be the way that it's done. If your argument is that you need 100% perfect privacy, and therefore need to download all the data in the world all the time, then that doesn't seem realistic.
Other than the foundation model providers it's kind of like an easier to read nicer to scroll through simplified mobile friendly catalog for HuggingFace model cards.
How so when lots of them are paid for with foreign cards?
The Most Scenic Train Rides Across the US
>The sad thing is that converting a petrol car to hydrogen is pretty doable so we could reuse our existing cars and save tons of money if hydrogen were the focus now.

how so? aren't current hydrogen cars basically electric cars with hydrogen merely powering its generator?
Yes and they know where you are
>“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”
Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.
“But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship’s peanut."
Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down.
“So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances."
The crowd seemed a little uncertain about this for a second or two until someone pointed out how much this would increase the value of the leaves in their pockets whereupon they let out whoops of delight and gave the management consultant a standing ovation. The accountants among them looked forward to a profitable autumn aloft and it got an appreciative round from the crowd.

- The Restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams
Instead of obtaining the enemy coordinates or sniffing their transmissions you're suggesting to waste ammo on shooting down 5000+ LEO satellites?
I've driven electric cars and really think they are superior to petrol ones in almost every way. The thing that is not there yet is the whole ecosystem around them. From the Closed loop Supply Chain to get the batteries made and recycled to the recharging points.

Having said that I don't think any of those will evolve if we don't invest on electric cars, because demand drives the supply. So it isn't "f*ck EVs, I'll keep my petrol car" and more like, we have these gaps that we need to think how to solve.

It is not an unsolvable problem, there are just deep pocketed players fighting for us to solve them reeeeal slow...
> Also, if I had to guess, proxies that show global warming to be bad are widely publicised, whilst proxies that show global warming not to occur are ignored.

You are mixing categories. One is about the observable universe, ie. "does global warming happen"? The other one is a value judgement, ie. "is global warming bad?"
I adapted to that by associating my intention with the destination. Works fine if I don't forget to do it.
No, that is a different project. Judging from the github link, that was released in 2016. The reddit link is from 2018. Also see here,

http://eyeandtea.com/

and in particular,

http://eyeandtea.com/crxoop/v2/ch01/03

for the documentation of CrxOop. It is just the OOP part of what you see here

http://eyeandtea.com/crxcmp
They clearly should have gone with HAL if the Bard branding wasn't working out.
I don't know of any software that does regional pricing, except Netflix. The reason I've heard is because of fraud, people using VPNs to get it cheaper.
JavaScript (react/nextjs/eleventh) if it's a small project and I want to get it up and running quickly.

CSS or SCSS depending on complexity

If it's something that needs logins or more common features I'll usually switch to rails it just gets all the tedious stuff out of the way!
A Tragic American Toy Story
> Specify a minimum duration available as part of the buy button and all other text using the term "buy" or "license"? E.g. "Buy for 5 years" or "License now (min. 10 years guaranteed)"

Why not till the end of life of the customer plus 95 years?

Seems reasonable.
Compared to the Adobe suite, Resolve is considered incredibly lightweight and oversimplified. And don't get me started on AVID^^
The Yanukovych bailout?
My problem with these two articles is neither provide sufficient detail to learn anything meaningful.

Are there any good resources from trillion dollar globocorps that get down into the weeds?
For web PHP.

PHP has many stable frameworks if you are in to that and if you don't want to use a framework you can run vanilla PHP without a problem.

Dependency management is done these days with composer and it is easy add a dependency, like framework or library, from composer.

PHP has has lot of good tooling like IDEs, linters, testing etc.

Here is a short intro to PHP I wrote a few years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25222509
I mean, if you want to go down that route, why assume that the expansion of mercury in a glass tube is a good proxy for atmospheric temperature?

Sometimes it feels hotter or colder than the mercury would indicate, after all.

QED, it is impossible to determine if the climate is changing.
Yes. I was not talking about Starlink at all.
Thanks for the rec, but my issue is less with the book and more with the author. And his non-existent editor.
I had an old boss with a Powershell script that auto-ran each morning and did a diff with the employee list in Outlook or something (can't remember what)to see who got terminated or left. I think it was the only sure fire way to know.
Egan’s Diaspora is a strong book that I’d definitely recommend to hardcore sci-fi lovers.
I have never seen Russian being describe as the ultimate boogeyman while in America but I am also realistic. Russia is after all a mob run state and makes no qualms with public assassinations. There are fairly well documented instances of their operations. I am not scared of them, look at the massive failure their military is but I also am aware that they are an outlier to world stability.
I don't think games have any problems with build systems or libc. Source I am working in gamedev for some time. I simply do not see your stated 3x-5x difference. Would love to be proven wrong.
Why can't humanity survive an increase in 10 degrees? I understand polar bears or other animals that need specific levels of Ice or vegetation in specific areas, but humans are an extremely adaptive species.

Edit: I'm getting a lot of responses. It seems like there is a general misunderstanding of what happened during the previous ice age. Humans existed during the previous ice age and humanity survived a major increase in temperature. Obviously any tribe or culture that needed to be able to walk across the bearing straight didn't survive, but humanity did. And without any modern technology.

I get that an unknown future is scary, but just giving into the gloom and doom isn't productive. We need to increase out technologies for many reasons, not just climate change and we can survive and thrive, even if the world will be different that doesn't mean it will be terrible.
I'm not sure how direct democracy is going to fix car theft? It would seem a problem best dealt with by experts in the field.
Dealing with very complex and large systems is hard, probably harder than our knowledge will be capable of this century, even if we keep accelerating.

That is the world system, climate, life, cycles, feedback loops, and many other things that we probably are not aware yet (just check the number of recent discoveries to have a hint) as a very complex and interrelated system. Trying to have an "engineering" there and not just messing with it to see what happens is beyond our capabilities. And our side of messing with it so far has not been preservation or austerity or whatever, just is making profits, and avoid putting a finger on that.

Then you have the human system, that is also complex, interrelated and fragile in ways that the many big powers that mess with it doesn't understand. That is not something that you can control in a directed way neither.

So you have an accelerating car, a cliff, and a lot of inertia you are not trying to register, and a lot of fragile things inside packed in unsafe ways. No matter the damage that does to start to stop right now, it won't be anything similar to what it will cause to crash, or to try to manoeuvre desperately when you are close enough. With all the consequences on a very complex system that something as dramatic will cause (that, as complex is it, can't be put a safe upper bound)

But somewhat you suggest that we keep accelerating that surely that cliff can be jumped over because we will be so fast that we will be flying, or it is not so deep and we will keep going safely on the other side. Is a nice bet for a basically suicidal individual, but not for a civilization with a lot of people that want to have a meaning for their life.
With instrumentation across the globe at naval timekeeping stations of the various European empires - much of which persisted for a hundred years and thus overlapped with later instruments and broader coverage which allowed for levelling and blending.

It's essentially a "construct your baseline" problem faced in many domains, the Fifth and other IPCC reports:

This IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C uses the reference period 1850–1900 to represent pre-industrial temperature.

This is the earliest period with near-global observations and is the reference period used as an approximation of preindustrial temperatures in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

~ IPCC FAQ: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/SR15_FAQ_Low_Res.pdf

and naturally there are many papers that consider alternate baselines, data quality, proxies, etc. eg:

Estimating Changes in Global Temperature since the Preindustrial Period (2017)

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/98/9/bams-d-...

^^ Discussed in brief: https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2017/defining-pre-industr...
270M are very tractable even on CPUs.
Specifically the fossil repo is a sqlite database.

I have a cron script stashing whatever is currently in an obsidian vault into a fossil repo. There's a fossil addremove command that makes that very easy. Thus distributed backups of said vault.
Checks out. Personally, all my major life decisions are driven by asking, "What would Mr. Bean do?"
Training LLMs for Reasoning Through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
Musk, Elon Musk, Agent double oh four twenty.
The crux of Atkinson's argument seems to be that the upfront emissions from the manufacturing process, and shorter lifespan of electric vehicles, does not make up for the reduction in tailpipe emissions.

Is this true? I know that the Tesla Impact report [0] refutes this, stating

> "While EVs today still emit more greenhouse gases during the manufacturing phase, including emissions from the supply chain, it takes less than two years' worth of driving before the total emissions from an EV fall below that of a comparable ICE vehicle."

but it's hardly an unbiased source.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2022-tesla-impact-report-hig...

EDIT:

Since posting, found some of the sources that were linked by the guardian follow-up refuting Atkinson's claim:

- The IPCC Mitigation of Climate Change report [1]

- The ECIU "Energy price shock and the transition to electric vehicles" Report [2]

- Ricardo Energy & Environment report to the UK Dept of Transport [3]

- Carbonbrief factcheck article [4]

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/

[2] https://eciu.net/analysis/reports/2022/global-momentum-the-e...

[3] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[4] https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-...
There are plenty of companies that sell you physical media. Even analog format like vinyl and cassettes.

GoG (good old games) sells you games without DRM. There are others like that, too. Some companies, like id, open source many of their works.

You can buy DRM free music and videos.
Yes. Stupid autocorrect.
If humans can survive in Australia, Humanity surely will survive the climate change.
There are also real cons from this war, also for the U.S (such as - higher commodity prices, tighter alliance between Russia, Iran, China and North Korea and the possibility of severe world instability), let alone the devastation in Ukraine.
Just saying, calling this 'an investment' doesn't sound like good terminology to me, it makes it seem like everyone gains and this is a situation we need to make permanent.
Yes, citizens can form companies and clubs and cooperatives.
I agree, except I am pretty sure de-growth will happen, it just will not be under voluntary or controlled conditions.
NASA's Juno probe sees active volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io
I guess at some point we will start geoengineering which will either work or kill a lot of people.
A week or so seems fine to me. Gives you a chance to wrap things up and transfer stuff.
Hono, Bun and SQLite are soo boring - I love it.
I don't like the word "drastic" here. It's very much less drastic than what we are already doing. In fact, it's much less drastic.

I like to say: There is no longer a choice of playing God or not, only a choice of playing a competent or incompetent God.
Hehe fun!

Yeah, delimited continuations have much saner semantics than undelimited ones. Partly because they’re always well defined
This won't work simply due to induced demand.

We spend something like 2000x less energy per unit of light now than we did burning whale fat in the 1800s and all the energy saved energy simply goes into producing more light.

Hoping for technology to solve this mess is the same as hoping that adding an additional lane to a congested highway will solve traffic. It won't.
I've been curious as a Brit living thought the mess that was the brexit vote and implementation, how the Swiss would have dealt with such a matter? I'm told they have better systems and wouldn't have done it like we did but I'm not sure quite how.
Did monster black holes or galaxies come first?
It's great classical sci-fi. Reminds me of Lem, Watts, Dukaj. Ideas and science matters more than special effects, action and characters.