skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a government agency in the early 90s. We had drafts people. One of the big issues was computer cad took longer and the drawings looked worse. Printing blueprint size was difficult. They drawing were on some wierd “vellum” like semi transparent material so they could make copies in the blueprint room which always smelled like ammonia.

Of course once you had edits the manual drawing speed advantage went away and plotting/printing tech soon caught up. One of the drafts people had a power eraser that would sound a round white eraser tip like a drill.
I don't think it's denial. I think most people simply do not care that much about life in general. Or maybe rather: most do not care that much about the continuation of the current form of civilization. Or even maybe risky: most want society to collapse eventually (not during our lifetime, because the transition would definitely suck, but eventually).
We already do massive geoengineering. That's what all that CO2 is doing! We're just doing it incompetently.
Why Piranesi? Seems more straight up fantasy.
floods, droughts and that kind of stuff.
I'll will not die on a 40c heat, but some may, and the consequences on other systems will also affect me.

The panama canal, the lake more specifically, is drying up because of this stuff. And ~40% of US cargo ships use it.
We're doomed. News like this drains my motivation to do anything at all, because it might all be for nothing anyway.
Simple Azure Ad SSO with AWS Cognito in React.js
I have been trying to implement Azure AD SSO with our web-application that currently is secured using AWS Cognito.

I found the documentation to be less than ideal and struggled to find a simple example that I could use to work out what I was doing wrong.

This is a simple example that others should be able to follow to set up their own Azure AD auth if using Cognito.
Human beings as a species surviving seems possible. The modern world economy surviving seems much less likely. And without a modern economy then much of the population will die.
What is it exactly for?
Reddit Doesn't Have to Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules
Well, the only significant difference between "funny spreadsheets" and ML models is the size of data you can feed them.
Or arrest them, convict them, and make them pickup garbage on weekends.
Huh? I'm not making any claims of writing perfect code. If you have a sane regular expression matcher, there are no catastrophic cases to avoid.

Regular expression libraries that don't use backtracking are available for many languages. Yes, some languages have bad libraries that use backtracking, too. But bad libraries will always exist, they aren't an excuse when there are more good libraries around then ever before.
> Oh, wait because it's full of pot head college students who don't get simple technology like Starlink and their news is from /r/antiwork

Attacking the people instead of the ideas isn't going to convince anyone that you're right.
Per-capita emissions of most developed nations like the US and Germany peaked in the 1970s and 80s. Some of the "improvement" has been the outsourcing of polluting industries, but we are also more efficient today than we were back then. Agriculture evolved a lot, buildings became a lot more energy efficient, waste management improved, etc.

Of course for decades this has been offset by population growth even in those nations. And that's not accounting for the parts of the world where populations exploded due to better agriculture, medicine and trade. If we had time to let it play out for another 200 years without climate issues we might be fine. Sadly we don't.
Insurers now refuse to release the name of the contracted doctor who made the denial.
> Trying to have an "engineering" there and not just messing with it to see what happens is beyond our capabilities.

That's what we're doing with the CO2 emissions though. So it's not beyond us, we just do it badly.
Hanna Richie is a reliable source, imo.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ev-fossil-cars-cli...
Is it not true, though? Is there some other language that has a list of banned (commonly used) functions[0] in a major project?

[0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
GDP isn’t a great measure here.

For example, while it’s #6 by GDP it’s #21 by GDP per capita.

The wealth is also very unevenly distributed, 1/7 are skipping meals due to poverty: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cost-of-livi...
"useful" means something that helps people.

Realistic examples of small, useful AI projects a junior dev could do in a sprint:

1) check for spelling/grammar mistakes on company website
2) summarise transcripts of zoom calls
3) scan codebase for misleading comments
4) generate mermaid diagrams from terraform
5) Scan Jira for near-duplicates on a backlog and add a label

None of these require data science teams to get involved.
Just finished it! It's so good.
Technological innovation improved our lives and reduced negative impact on humans, without improving the long term prospect environment wise.

Plastics are an example of this: it helps us first and formost, and the rest of the ecosystem is worse for it.

Acceleratibg that trend doesn't help IMHO.
I really don't see why. A browser is a browser to most people. If you really want ~spyware~Chrome, get yourself an Android.
Even Apple TV is pretty sluggish on my LG TV. And it sometimes makes my TV crash so I have to reboot it. It's maybe not as bad as the steaming pile of garbage that is Sky-Showtime, but it's got a ways to go before it's comparable to Netflix on my TV. Amazon Prime is pretty terrible on my TV too.
Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification? (2021)
Fun to see this on HN today; I just finished it last night, on a recommendation from a friend. It was great, and left me full of unfinished thoughts -- just what you want from a good SF yarn.

For folks who enjoyed the ideas in it I can heartily recommend qntm's short story Lena (https://qntm.org/lena), which explores some of the same ideas but with a hefty dollop of (implied, but all the more intense for it) psychological horror.
I just finished it. It's extraordinary. It's awesome. It goes way beyond ideas I'd seen half assedly developed before.
Nazi Germany was at war with the US.
Speechmatics.com in London and Cambridge, UK. We build audio and language models that perform the most accurate speech recognition available.

https://www.speechmatics.com/company/careers/roles
I'm going to call on Cunningham's law here... (I'm not sure if I am right or wrong but I think I'm right and hopefully someone can correct me)

I don't think starlink needs GPS as much as the starlink service is a form of GPS. The base station sees several satellites and the satellites know where they are and so the base station can triangulate where you are, and the whole system requires this precision location mechanism to work, so the 2 way communication is a form of Global Positioning without relying on external GPS data.

Perhaps the base station is also able to use GPS but the starlink communication is also able to do exactly what GPS does so "fake GPS" would do nothing to conceal the base station's location and probably make initialization hard or impossible.
> I'm assuming this is because their media is extra transparent or their intelligence extra leaky.

No, there is nothing extra transparent about the general media in the Netherlands. And because they seem to cater for readers with a short average attention span, the articles are generally short and, unfortunately, too often lacking depth and perspective.

As an illustration, the NOS (https://nos.nl) which has nothing of the quality of, for instance, their German counterparts. (Their cycling, ice-skating and football coverage is excellent though)

Also, the modern Dutch are not a nation of philosophers, and that shows in they way they think (or do not think) about problems.

This might also explain why these intelligence drama/failures come up more often. They will generally not hesitate a single instant to clearly (for foreigners, it is often felt as "bluntly") tell you what is on their mind, and perhaps some employees didn't hesitate to express loudly the complaints she or he might have had about certain law-braking approaches.
> So I doubt there's any market for teaching these basics...

While working through the idea, the most challenging aspect for me has been how to describe the value of it, even though I know what the value of it is.

I think there are parallels, like no longer knowing what is going on under the hood of your car, which has its own anxieties.

Paradoxically I think it is non-programmers who are more interested in the kind of "history lessons" of it -- like, how did we end up here, 10,000 feet view stuff. And perhaps just a small amount of that would stop people being bamboozled by copy-and-paste nonsense in proposals, quotes, project plans etc.

It strikes me as interesting to think about, that if you were to go back in time and ask someone twenty years ago if they knew much about the web, those people, who might be from diverse non-technical fields, might be able to tell you quite a lot they'd gleaned about how it actually works. Because the books on the web then taught you how it worked. Surprising people used to know about domain names and FTP servers.

But nowadays, the knowledge is much higher-level, and in a way that leads people into believing things only have complex dependencies, like React or serverless designs or Cloudflare.

It's like the web needs its own Raspberry Pi movement.
all I know is they better keep that black pepper flowing across the ocean to my plate or war could break out
Is degrowth even enough to save the planet from warming? Imagine 95% of people on earth magically disappeared. Have we already emitted enough co2 that the atmosphere will continue to warm for a long time even without those people’s new emissions?
I truly agree. What's the point of learning JS when the Internet might collapse in the next 3 years?

Not sci-fi. Center of Spain is in severe drought at this early point of the year. People can't take showers. What will next year be?
Obviously what Russia will do is send a spacecraft to bump some of the starlink satellites to point upwards towards space, and then launch satellites in higher orbit to bounce the signal to anywhere in Russia, bypassing the geo-fencing /s.
Spiral-shaped lens creates clear vision at a range of distances
now this is what i’m talking about…
ollama is extremely convenient wrapper around llamacpp.

they separate serving heavy weights from model definition and usage itself.

what that means is weights of some model, let's say mixtral are loaded on the server process (and kept in memory for 5m as default) and you interact with it by using modelfile (inspired by dockerfile) - all your modelfiles that inherit FROM mixtral will reuse those weights already loaded in memory, so you can instantly swap between different system prompts etc - those appear as normal models to use through cli or ui.

the effect is that you have very low latency, very good interface - for programming api and ui.

ps. it's not only for macs

open weight models + (llama.app) as ollama + ollama-webui = real openai.
Scientists just set a nuclear fusion record
Ukraine might economically collapse under the weight of the war machine of one the biggest military powers in the world.
You could do better than spinning classic Russian propaganda tropes of "Ukraine is the most corrupt country on Earth".
There is corruption in Ukraine, more than in the EU but about the same level as other non-EU countries like Moldova, Serbia, Kazakhstan etc.
I love old tech magazines
> You might not be able to avoid using your standard lib's regex, or your project's chosen regex dependency - based on team/company policy. So it's not as simple as "use a regex engine that doesn't has this flaw".

Well, yes, if someone forces you to use tools that have flaws, you need to learn about the flaws so you can work around them. Like when using a shoe as a hammer.

I'm not sure that proves anything about abstractions?

See also https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

> Because there are tons of factors that can affect your regex experience with unicode, normalization, different lower/upper case treatment, composite characters that don't match even though it looks like you typed the same character in your query, handling new unicode characters (ASCII 7/8 bit has been fixed for decades) and so on.

Thanks.
Like most media coverage, the article omits the primary cause of the recent acceleration in warming - desulphurization of ship fuel

“ the IMO2020 fuel change cut cloud tracks in key shipping lanes by half...this has a substantial effect on warming, concentrated in areas with heavy shipping activity like the North Atlantic. The reduction in reflective cloud cover over this region, plus an unrelated reduction in reflective airborne dust levels, can account for most of the warming observed in the North Atlantic”

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/low-sulfur-fuel-r...
> Incidentally, if someone gets mad about you running this sort of thing, you probably don't want to work there anyway.

If you do want to work there, though, maybe check the legal situation first...

I am almost certain, this counts as unauthorized processing of personal information. Just because you have access doesn't mean it's fair game to do whatever you like with it. Especially archiving, keeping a history or linking (external) data is not the intended use for such an interface. If you take the information home with you, e.g. on your work laptop, that may be a whole nother can of worms. May even count as business secrets you're exfiltrating.

At least in Europe, abusing such an interface likely would be illegal, certainly if you keep a copy/diff. Your employer may have to act against you, or become liable. Or they may use this misconduct later to conveniently terminate your contract (lol, especially, if you use your insights as leverage).

I presume the larger the network, the more likely this will get you in trouble. Conversely, collecting the data has little use otherwise.

How about you organize with your colleagues to voluntarily share employment information to gain collective leverage?
Because it wouldn't be just a 10 degree (not sure where this number is coming from) average increase. It's a 10 degree average as calculated across an entire world full of extremes.

A 10 degree average is a huge increase in energy in the system, and that energy will be expressed in all sorts of ways. It'll be colder in winter due to an erratic jetstream pulling cold air down further than ever before, hurricanes will be bigger because of all that extra energy, summer storms will have that much more potential and the clouds will be able to hold way more water before bursting. But also because the atmosphere can hold more water it'll rain less, leading to drought.

The whole system will be energized, and the energy won't be evenly distributed. Our natural disasters will be massive.
The last two sentences of the article were worth the whole read.
That's just wrong on so many levels. First of all, creating light is irrelevant to the problem at hand. Secondly, LEDs have made your statement outright false as there's no one who lives in a house that packs their home with light enough to spend that energy budget AND KEEPS THEM ON AT NIGHT. Because they would GO BLIND.

So that's just the light thing. 100% wrong.

Saying technology can't solve the problem is speculative, as technology is a moving target. You just can't know what problems it can solve until it's too late and the problems are already solved.
I don't want this to sound dismissive, but aren't we all "doomed" in the end anyway? How long does anything we do have an impact anyway? A generation? Two? Five? How many individual people have had an impact on the world five or more generations after they've died, as a percentage of the total population?

Were all those other people's lives meaningless?

I think you're grappling with a fundamental aspect of being mortal, not just one related to the climate.
If that moment ever comes, the damage will already be done. All those dim-witted web developers will only support Chrome, and your data will belong to Google. People who supported this have been useful idiots.
I really appreciate your comment. Won't lie... was really sad to see only two people responded when I returned to this haha But, your comment was helpful. I never thought to look in the public sector. I just always assumed they would not hire someone with a criminal background but after reading your comment and researching it a bit, it isn't out of the realm of possibility... so I'm going to dive in and see if I get any bites.
I've been reading on the topic recently and that is referred to as "criminal trespass". I want to put up signs that say "yes trespassing"
So is starlink military technology, and if yes, are its satellites military assets?

Ukraine has technology to shutdown this network!
To Santa of course
The previous ice age was 4 degrees below preindustrial. Just for scale.
Isn't this free intelligence? Monitor the communications from Russian locations and around Ukraine.
Rowan Atkinson is a notorious petrolhead: all of us petrolheads are in awe when we see his car collection.

My point is: petrolheads are probably harder to convince when it comes to switching to EVs.
I think the lead they are burying is the huge decline in the quality of TechCrunch and that it has become the same as any generic tech section, in any generic publication. It used to be my front page - but I don’t bother anymore.

The unique articles about startups are gone - replaced by a repackaging of press releases, the optimistic tone of supporting entrepreneurs has been replaced by the cynicism of writers that dislike the companies/technologies/founders they write about, etc.

If anything, this article shows many examples of other publications that are successful with just that kind of coverage, while TechCrunch has unfortunately made itself generic.
Yes. It's also pretty clear how to use delimited continuations in a pure setting without mutation.

I'm not quite sure you can make use of something like call/cc without having at least one mutable variable or side-effect somewhere?
AI is power hungry, AI will accelerate carbon emissions. Expected ICT projects by 2030, energy demand will be 20%. This paper was before AI. If this is revised with the AI demand growth projections, its quite possibly a lot more. If Sam Altman starts on his $7T chip plan, that alone will add 10 - 20%.

[1] Chasing Carbon: The Elusive Environmental
Footprint of Computing: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.02839.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310563
There is no such thing as "doomed". Humanity is not going to disappear. We can either do better or worse, and there really is no limit to the "worse" side.
Climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against conservative writers
Spoofing is a big topic in the GNSS world (which is the broader set of satellite constellations like GPS). There's a lot of stuff happening to prevent spoofing. One of those things is using digital signatures that you can use to authenticate the signal. Another thing is using signals from multiple satellite constellations and correlating those. And of course the way these things work you need to talk 3-5 satellites from each network at least to be able to reliably interpolate the position. Even older networks, like GPS, change over time as satellites get replaced and software is updated.

The advantage Starlink has is that there are a lot more satellites that are also in a much lower orbit. There has been some talk about using their satellites for positioning. I think they look at that as a bit of a low value market so far.
I think Youtube's policy on purchased content[1] is somewhat reasonable. I still disagree with the word 'Buy', when they don't offer a way to download the content, but it's probably the best we'll see from any major marketplace short of buying physical media.

> 7.2 Removal or Unavailability of Content
> For purchased content: (a) if the content becomes removed or unavailable during the first five years after your purchase, you will be entitled to a refund or a reasonable replacement; or (b) if the content becomes removed or unavailable following such five year period, and you are not able to download a copy of the affected content before it becomes unavailable (if applicable), then we may, at our option, offer you either a reasonable replacement of the content or a full or partial refund of the price of the content.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice
The way you've set this up, your students could be too late to claim admin and have their instance hijacked. Very insecure. Would highly recommend you make them use an SSH key from git-bash; it's no more technical than anything you already have.
Sure but for a brief period we created an awful lot of shareholder value.

In all seriousness, I expect the next century to be devastating. We will start to see massive climate-related migration and the resulting genocide and death as a result. Famine, war, natural disasters, that sort of thing.

Here's how I think the ultra-wealthy will shape the world: massive depopulation with people essentially reduced to indentured serfdom with employment largely being maintenance of massive estates. Any kind of class mobility will essentially be gone. That is the future so many are (unwittingly or not) working towards.
True. Yet I think the idea is sound — if a publisher / rights holder refuses to put a work into print or make it available, they should not be able to keep it away from the public. Copyright is a benefit given to authors & publishers, but is too-often used to suppress works due to content or retire works that can be replaced in the catalog by more profitable offerings.
As a data scientist, there’s basically 0 data science involved in building a small tool out of the api or high level model interfaces.
I have been really impressed with SvelteKit in my production SaaS for about a year now! You can make any type of static/dynamic/combination site, the dev experience is really good, and it feels like it elegantly bridges the front-and-backend (getting data from the back-end, form submission) which is something I've wanted since I started in 2011.

My SaaS uses SvelteKit, SQLite and Sequelize, but I would probably try Drizzle if I was starting today.
There's no hope simply through technology either. No technology in sight can address this issue, and certainly not in this time frame. And climate change is only one symptom, and maybe not the most worrying on. The root cause is constant growth in a finite world. It can't work.
Not sure we are talking about the same book here. It's certainly quite twisted, with people taking out death contracts that allow them to die painfully (but they are ressurected by the godlike AI every time). There's also torture and other unsavoury things.

To me, this was not unnecessary, but quite fundamental to the story. Everyone was trapped by the AI who would not let anyone come to harm without their permission anyway, and nobody could die. Various people tried to push back against these constraints in creative but disturbing ways.