skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that is not the question I was answering at all. And I don’t appreciate you attempting to put words in my mouth.

You keep attempting to frame some sort of argument that the ‘sin’ is wealth or not, and the discussion is about if it is okay to take wealth or not.

I’m only interested in if someone is doing something identifiably harmful to others or not, and how to ensure someone is following the rules or not. And if the outcome works.

These are not the same thing, though there is overlap.

That you seem to think they are the same thing - with no evidence, and without addressing it - seems to actually be the crux of the problem, no?

If someone is ‘bad’ because they have wealth, the only available ‘good’ solution is to not have wealth. That is crabs in a bucket, and destructive.

If someone is ‘bad’ because they are breaking a rule or harming someone, the ‘good’ solution is for them to follow the rule or to stop harming someone.

That can actually make things better, assuming those rules or lack of harm actually works or produces wealth, because people can do that and be wealthy. There is incentive to produce and be more.

The big challenge right now is if you actually follow the rules, apparently you get screwed. Following the rules doesn't produce much wealth. Or at least that is the direction things are going.

And if you have wealth, especially if you follow the rules, you’ll be hounded and be at a significant disadvantage. Unless you don’t play by the rules.

Notably, this has always been the case to some degree.

The issue is the corruption, and the rules that are penalizing things either based on attributes someone cannot change, or encouraging things that destroy wealth, instead of encouraging people to change to be more successful by doing what society needs.

Now, perhaps the issue is that no one knows what 'the right thing' is, or what society actually needs in a sustainable way. In which case, actually talking about that might be helpful!

Or no one is willing or able to agree on some reasonable degree of potential harm. Everything has to be perfect (which is impossible).

We can only get to those discussions if we first face the actual argument we're even having though.
And as always, Goodhart's law applies: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

While the concept of cyclomatic complexity can be a somehow useful guideline, I've seen way too many CI/CD pipelines enforcing CC goals, which then usually results in an un-untangleable middleware and module mess where any piece of core logic is scattered over 102 code points in 34 modules — instead of just residing in a single, well readable and commented main function that would neatly self-explain a whole complex task in three screens that might have a CC of 20.
Aren't you exactly describing Elon's proclaimed plans for a mars colony? Not a tiny lab like NASA would build, but an industrial base with thousands of inhabitants.

Is his plan realistic? Hard to tell. It's far beyond anything we have ever done, and financing such a plan is going to be challenging to say the least. And technologically we are also decades out. So I guess he better hurry up. But that's a different goal post that the one I set, a plan doesn't have to be easy or have probable success in order to be better than the other bunker plans.
If Apple wants it to replace the Mac they need to give me a terminal and get the hell out of my way so I can run whatever software I want.

So long as Apple is content in foisting all complexity and freedom to the Mac, this will never be more than a really nice iPad replacement for consuming content.
A video call on a company account isn't ironclad but, unless you're discussing something actually illegal, it's probably good enough for most purposes. Maybe not as good as personal cell phones or in-person, but a lot better than anything written--especially on company systems.
I think of Zendegi quite often when I think about the debates surrounding digital companions, etc. I don't think the book had great commercial success.
PEBCAK, "Problem exists between chair and keyboard"
>Why is this "propaganda", and not fact? Why is it so hard to believe that the Russians don't want what they consider hostile parties on their borders? We would do the exact same thing.

I am from eastern Europe, we do not want to sacrifice our lives to invade Russia and loot their shit, we begged to enter in NATO to ensure our survival from Russia, from our history and large number of Russian invasion we understand better why we wanted it then some Westerners. Again we have no fucking intention to still Russian land or their toilets.

>What, in your opinion, is the reason?

I thin it is easy to understand, Putin grabbed Crimea in a genius move, the Western Europe were surprised and too dependent on Russia to do anything about it, the retards shoot down an airplane with civilians and EU did nothing.

And here all it starts, Putin got his ass kissed so hard by his minions that now he thought he can do again a genius blitz attack in Ukraine, Zelensky will run, the old people will pull out the communist flags and portraits of Putin and all will be glorious. Basically Putin was misinformed and stupid enough to think he can win in 3 days or 2 weeks whatever makes Rusky feel better.

And why would Putin want to grab land, steal crap? It is a Russian thing, they like to control, steal, invade etc. They always cry that they lost their sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and they accuse us Eastern Europeans of beeing Rusofobs and brainwashed by CIA.

The final plan was probably to grab as many territories as possible before this countries enter EU and NATO, this is why Ruzzia is supporting anti-EU groups in their neighbors to delay things so his army can invade.

When some Rusky or tanky will tell you that Ruzzia is just afraid of beeing invaded, use your brain and remember that Ruzzia has nuclear weapons so nobody will invade them, the danger for them is the diea that ex-USSR cuntries are prospering in EU and NATO, this idea makes itharder to keep the new generation under contrl so extreme measures were taken to brainwsh them.
> Egan’s prose, characterisation and plotting are often weak

I sort of agree, but personally I like the rawness of it. For a similarly unrefined yet intellectually stimulating writing, check out Gregory Benford who used to be a professor of physics.
Quantum Entanglement doesn't act instantaneously
I have discovered a similar thing from the ancient Vedic scriptures - https://open.substack.com/pub/vedicphysics/p/faster-than-the...
Though there is a discrepancy right now in the 2 discoveries, hopefully we'll get to the truth soon!
Hmmm....couldn't you argue it the other way as well? I mean, a hallucination isn't just an incomplete fact present in the input set--it is a claim which wasn't in the input set.

That's not what we'd expect from a lossy compressor; we would expect incomplete or missing answers, but we wouldn't expect it to give us claims which were not in the input set.
can you elaborate? rust iterators seem quite capable of streaming in the fashion you suggest.
You're asking about Spotify, but the situation is the same with Apple Music (the streaming service, not the purchase-digital-files thing).

I have an enormous ripped collection of digital music from my similarly enormous collection of CDs. Just managing that is a hassle, especially when it comes to curating the subset of things on my phone -- and on my wife's phone.

I initially signed up for Apple Music MOSTLY to give my wife easy access to whatever she wanted on her phone without requiring her to go to the office, plug her phone into the media computer, etc. And honestly, for $12-15 a month, I'll make that deal. It's a good deal for ME, too.

The other fun thing about at least the Apple offering here is that they have a "matching" service built in, so if you have some random local bands in your iTunes library, YOU CAN STILL ACCESS THOSE VIA APPLE MUSIC because AM will upload them into their cloud and allow you to access them because you have them in your local library. This is super cool; I don't think anyone else does this.

And yes, finally, the new music discovery thing is pretty great, too. I credit access to an all-you-can-eat music service with helping me stay curious and interested in discovering new music in my 50s. If I read an article about some random band, and think "gee, I wonder what they sound like?", well, I can play it right now. That's powerful.
Man uses shovel to divert river
We are wired to try to solve by addition, not by subtraction, for a complex system that we destabilized by adding something, adding even more things is the road to even more destabilization and emergent (usually very destructive) behaviours. That is a useful heuristic on how to deal with things we don't understand fully, it won't go back to the old normal, but have better odds to not worsen a lot things by our new actions. So, to keep pressing the pedal till somewhat, magically, it solves itself is probably the wrong approach.

Maybe there is no right approach, maybe there is no solution if you factor not just the planet but the human system that made things this way and keep worsening it. But even as token measure try to move in the right direction is more meaningful than doing it in the wrong one, you are not isolated, more people may follow what you do in either direction.

And about the cost/damage of trying the "right" approach in the short term, it probably will be far cheaper than taking the wrong one in a bit longer term. Not caring about the long term is to make sure to have a near enough time limit, essentially a suicidal approach.
I always wonder how much societal progress has been thwarted by internal warring factions like this.
Entombed with Pygame
A simple pygame clone of the Atari 2600 game 'Entombed'
Egan's short stories are great. Luminous is an excellent collection. I've never been huge fan of his long form novels, and will remember forever the sex scene in one of them that ends with a cramped testicle. Why Greg, why?
CO2's half life is 120 years. So, yes, a long time, in human lifetimes. But not all that long in civilization timelines.
Difficult, very difficult on deed. As with most corporate and whize collar crime, the investigation rate is extremely low. That being said, worker councils and unions. The former has to involved in these things, if the exist. The latter pushes for the former.

That is valid for Germany.
You want us to agree that "Good UX _could_ be about making things worse"?

I can agree that many things actually do get worse, but I'm arguing against the implicit connection "this thing has some power and it is complex. The only way to make it nicer to use - easier, simpler, more approachable, less mental effort - involves removing or restricting the power, always and necessarily".

Take a piece of metal, flatten and grind the end, and use it as a flathead screwdriver and a small knife. Now you say "that's my powerful and useful multitool, don't you dare dumb it down for idiots or you'll remove my power!". It makes a poor knife because the blade has to be small enough to fit in a screwhead and keeps being blunted by using it as a screwdriver, and it makes a poor screwdriver because the blade is thin holding a knife edge which makes it weak and brittle, and it's a poor tool because you're trying to grip a small slippery piece of metal. Put a rubberised large grippy handle on it, it's improved - easier to hold, less likely for your grip to slip and end up hurting yourself or damaging what you are working on, and looks more visibly like a tool to someone coming in afresh if they're looking for a screwdriver - and the same power. Split it into a knife and a screwdriver, each can be better at their task - stronger screwdriver blade, bigger sharper knife blade, custom shaped handles for turning vs slicing - that's easier to use, easier to learn, and overall more powerful.

Yes someone could round off the end for 'safety for normal people' and that would remove the power, but we can't agree that's ever "good design". Particularly I won't agree "consumer stuff is all about dumbing down the experience so that an idiot can do the thing" --> "any change which improves ease of use or convenience or comfort necessarily rounds off the power" (not necessarily true) or "only idiots want or need tools to be easier to use" (not true).
reinventing Unix, poorly.
Atkinson's very first argument is just citing a Volvo report which has basic math errors in it.[0] Not a great start folks.

He then says (no citation) that EV batteries "last only upward of" 10 years, the strange phrasing because British tabloids are shy about actually telling a provable lie. Atkinson knows EV batteries last longer than 10 years, but he wants to make it sound like they don't.

He trots out the usual parade of distractions: solid state batteries, hydrogen, and (least practical of all) e-fuel. The obvious implication is that we shouldn't invest in workable EVs now, instead better to wait for some (supposedly) perfect technology someday in the future. Classic 'kick the can down the road.'

Using older cars longer sounds good, but eventually it's like an old fridge: more expensive to operate (and dirtier) than replacing it with a newer model. Atkinson never mentions the fraction of pollution that comes from operation vs manufacturing, conveniently pretending the manufacturing is all that matters.

He also gives an extremely silly argument that confuses using a car for three years and "selling it on" (ie reselling it used) with junking a car after three years.

All in all, I expected more from a nation-duping article.

[0] https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1332464525602410498
it’s kind of a matter of scope. you’ve got a team, at least a couple developers, rewriting a microservice that really needs an overhaul for performance? go for it.

you’re a solo developer rewriting the fundamental application your company sells and depends on for revenue? yeah, maybe not so much. (actually there’s no maybe about it. don’t do this.)
I did test that and like I said, it was strictly worse - went from something like a 2 hour runtime to 5+ hours. Random disk access and not being able to take advantage of the disk cache really is that bad.

Streaming results doesn't mean anything if the total runtime is that much worse, it just means the overall system will take hours longer to complete. And the good version doesn't need to continuously run CLUSTER, the correlation just has to be high enough for it to be the better choice, so we settled on running it once a week - only takes like 2 minutes to run the CLUSTER.

You should be thinking of it the other way around: my final 10 minute result was the ideal situation I wanted, but when circumstances were bad for it, the postgres query planner was smart enough to tell it wouldn't work and switch to the 2-hour plan instead of blindly following the original plan and taking 5 hours.
I went in eyes wide open to buying the AVP, I knew it was essentially a dev kit++ and that the chances of me returning it would be high. I’ve written extensively on my blog about my experience with it and why I’m going to return it the summary is this:

I can’t be productive in it. If you can be productive on an iPad then you can probably be productive in this (with an external keyboard) but I can’t work natively on the AVP. I tried Mac Virtual Display quite a bit and it’s just blurry. It’s not close to 4K, my 2K screens blow it out of the water. It’s just not good enough to use as an external monitor replacement.

It’s an amazing device, the best I’ve seen, and I’ll buy a future iteration of it but this version is not good enough for the price.
The temperature is a metric of energy in the system. 10 degrees means a significantly more energy in the system. This energy manifests as weather events. No infrastructure in any climate will be left standing with that change. We already see extreme events increasing.

And, lookup wet bulb temperature.

Humans usually regulate their internal body temperature by sweating, but above the wet-bulb temperature, we can no longer cool down this way, leading our body temperature to rise steadily. This essentially marks a limit to human adaptability to extreme heat – if we cannot escape the conditions, our body’s core can rise beyond the survivable range and organs can start failing: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need...
You thought they would feed internal user data handling policy to a public facing LLM?
And a debunking by the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/fact-che...
Yes! We all knew this was going to ripen into a massive security problem, however overnight was quicker than expected.

MS in a nutshell:

Ready, fire, aim!

Users:

"Immediately, there was a problem."
It's less about being more or less trustworthy and more about spheres of competence. Judges are experts on the laws that are written, but they cannot be experts in all the areas Congress requires regulation.

People are not interchangeable: if you take a financial regulatory expert from SEC and move them to FDA and ask them to regulate drug adjuvants, you're not going to get great results. Dropping Chevron would put judges in the position of being experts in all the fields where Congress requires regulation.
HTTP3 doesn't have the same chicken-or-egg problem as IPv6. It runs over UDP. IPv6 is a full protocol rev which takes a lot longer to accomplish. Once a large multi-vendor network is deployed revving the base protocol is really hard.
I didn't call it our back-up planet, I called it Elon's back up planet.

Humanity will survive climate change. Our society may not, and that's what people try to insure against with bunkers or space colonies. To achieve that goal, the bunker or colony only has to be stable for a couple decades, maybe a century if you include the wish for a better life for their children.
Looks really interesting but its a shame that it's primarily built around text only. There has been a lot of research around multi-modal LLMs, any plans to support those?
Did any of this:

Make my nextflix better? How about cheaper? Did it deliver better content? Is this the work product of 2000 engineers focused on delivering me the worst content in the best way possible? What exactly am I getting for my 12, 20 ... wait what the hell is netflix charging now for their garbage content...

1000? 2000?d engineers at netflix and this is the article we get, this is their flex?

I am underwhelmed.
Article is bullshit to the level I flag it.

As far as we know entanglement acts instantly. To summarize the result. Chinese researchers set a low limit for the speed of quantum entanglement to be about 10,000 times the speed of light. There is no upper limit as far as we know.

>Of course, this violates relativity in the sense that nothing can travel faster than light.

No it does not. As long as only correlation is instant, there is no limit for the speed. Causality travels at the speed of light at maximum as usual.

>Even then, a ton of work is being done in this field and a growing number of physicists believe we’ll achieve faster-than-light communication by cleverly using quantum entanglement to our advantage.

This is not true.
The US itself doesn't even allow ukraine to use their weapons for deep strikes.

The US intentionally did not deliver the long range version of ATACAMS.

I also think its questionable that a business person can influence a war. But you know, it was actually in favor of ukraine.
You might ask a lot of people in minorities etc if this is an overreaction to "banter".

I have not been on the end of this being a white male.
It also has the most insane backwards compatibility.
The panels themselves are usually made from aluminum U profile and close to the edge there is a substantial amount of trapped air if the panel is at a bad angle. Given that most panels are at a bad angle this will cause the top edge cells to all be over temp and since they're all in series that drops the efficiency of the whole panel. So the cross members certainly don't help but the panel construction itself could do with some more ventilation near the top. I wonder if cutting some slots in the top members would drop the cell temperature in a way that it would show up on a measurement, this is pretty easy to test.
Computer bad. Phone bad. But small airplane screen? Small airplane screen novel and good.
Well hey, if you sell stuff that gets used in a war you're gonna have one both sides pissed at you. Only way to avoid would be to geofence the entire region and nope out on the whole thing.
If Putin called Musk stupid, it would make Russia look bad. SpaceX is far more capable than Russia's rocket industry so for Russians to save any face, they must say Musk and SpaceX are very good at what they do.

What else would they say, "We're being beaten by idiots"?
The air near the top is 100% trapped, there is no way for it to escape and it's the hottest air under the panel. Overlap with the cells is anywhere from 1/2" to 1.5" so that's a sizeable fraction of the cells. Probably close to 25 to 30% or so.
Standard internet Watts warning that the Rift novels have random sexual torture just in case you prefer to avoid that
That scene is from Permutation City. I thought it was a nice metaphor for that character’s strained relationship with his corporeal self.
Show HN: Every "Launch HN" Ranked
Sharing another weekend project here - every "Launch HN" post ever made, coloured according to how many points they received.

Code: https://github.com/JoshElgar/HNLaunches

Data: https://github.com/JoshElgar/HNLaunches/blob/main/src/app/da...
The aristocratic desktop (part 1) (2008)
Maybe I'm optimistic (for a certain value of optimistic) but I feel we would do mass geoengineering and/or start serious international emission control, enforced by war if necessary, before we get to that.
I don't understand how you can scale the connections physically. It is easy when you have just a few cells, but how would you even do it with 3000?
At that point, the bigger risk is that someone repeats something to someone that you wish they hadn't. But I've had that happen with an in-person conversation.
The onus isn't on me to disprove that 99% of cat users don't care about concatenation, but here's a non-comprehensive list of projects using cat to concatenate files:

OpenSSL, Curl, Git, Linux, Gettext, NodeJS, zstd, GCC, FFmpeg, OpenJDK, Pyenv

I think users, upstream developers, and downstream packagers of these software will all be upset if cat ceased to concatenate.

Example:

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egith...
And as an extra bonus they slow the heat exchange with the outside air so it works as insulation both in summer and in winter.
Asking it to write code for a react notes project and it's giving me the same response, bizarre and embarrassing.
Right, yes, especially the last Rifter book made me wonder a bit about the sanity of the author.
Not 100%. Some are basically CSPRNGs that iterate with every successful unlock; if you capture the “play” from a key AND block the car from getting the signal, you get a replay attack you can only use once. And which desyncs the key with the car, making it useless until a dealer re-pairs them.
Sounds like aphantasia:

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