skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may lend support to not-quite the-same-as-steel-framing, but vastly more benign compared to other strategies like aerosol seeding :

"Ocean iron fertilization (OIF), an ocean-based geoengineering technique, aims to increase the rate of atmospheric CO2 transfer to the deep ocean by stimulating the biological pump through the addition of iron (a key nutrient) to the surface of the ocean."

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R47172.pdf
Chinese scientists propose a new theory of sex determination
I think wires are getting crossed here on the "useful" or intrinsic value of land versus the market value. The GP was arguing that the land value is separate from outside considerations like amenities.

People argue this over things like gold as well. IMO at the end of the day its impossible to tease apart anything other than the total market value, and I think that's where you are at as well sticking to the land's total market value.
Also straight from the source:

https://pidp.net/pidp10.html
I am not kidding at all. We have that government library app sort of thing. It makes you wait for a digital copy. Like there's a line of people before you, just like in an old school library.

Why? Just use Genesis
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
I was surprised to see this in the news. I have a local community Facebook group and these outages have been communicated several times on the group before. Actually it's normally it's Tesco that seems to have an issue with the payment system going down across a store, but I'm sure Sainsbury has had the issue as well. I assumed therefore that it was only our store that was affected, but it seems like it was a global/countrywide issue. Would also be interested in seeing more details.
> what a nightmare internet is in Europe

I live in Europe; I don't experience this "nightmare". Would you care to expand?
Economics is called the dismal science for a reason.
I recommend the following podcast episode as a fascinating and fun to listen to anecdotal story of someone who "successfully" predicted the market:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/risk-return-the-jesse-...
I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
Hi HN, I’m Kapil from CodeRemote. I am building Rust developer productivity tooling to speed up your edit-compile-run cycle. While I love Rust for its runtime performance and safety (not to mention its sweet syntactic sugar), I have long been frustrated with the resultant compile times.

This frustration hit a tipping point a few months ago, as I was building on a sluggish framework that made heavy use of code generation. From the Rust/Cargo/Rustc books and Rust community’s blog posts, I picked up and applied most of the standard tricks to speed up builds — but with only marginal improvement. Continued frustration led to me profiling and analyzing compile times, and soon I landed at the Rustc (compiler) source code…

I modified the compiler and implemented procedural macro caching, which has considerably sped up incremental builds for projects with macro-heavy dependencies. My fork of the compiler is still private as I’m still thinking through the licensing model; but if you’re interested in trying it out, please hit the “sign up” at the bottom of the blog. I am packaging it into a build/development server for a few Rust dev teams, and have already shared it with a few self-hosters! In this blog post, I discuss in detail my macro caching implementation and results. I’d love to hear your thoughts, and I’m happy to talk further about my compiler modifications.
Indeed :) Same authors ... referring to each others :)
I don’t think this is strictly accurate. There’s nothing about cookies themselves that makes them a problem. It’s the way they are used. Needing to inform people you are using cookies for sessions is like needing to inform people you are using a fork to eat. The problem is that some people are using the fork to stab people, so now we require everyone to say how they’re going to use it in advance. Instead of just prohibiting stabbing people.
Arguably by your logic the emissions laws incentivize cheating, much as folks see the GDPR incentivizing annoying users -- to nag regulators to change the rules back in the company's favor.

It's a stretch though. I prefer more obvious analogies.
It's a modern HN thing, back in the day downvoting was reserved for really obviously off topic stuff, like spam. Now people use downvoting like on reddit, as an "I'm angry and I disagree" button
Apple do not track alert resulted in many people saying they don't want it. And of course, had impact on Meta's business.
So if websites presented cookie banners in a neutral way without dark patterns to make Reject difficult, "normies" would reject these, I'm sure.
>I want genuine autonomy over my life, not being a cog in a machine

So that's not the case for you now?
One structural problem with macroeconomics as a discipline is that if you really understand reality better than prevailing macroeconomic theory, you have many better opportunities than being a theorist or commentator. And the value of these opportunities depend on you not disclosing your insights.

Eg trading, investing, entrepreneurship, working as an in-house economist bound by NDAs.
> We need to operate society for the good of humanity, not for the benefit of 'the market' and 'profits'.

Good of humanity is a hard to achieve/track goal, so we traded that in for an easier to track metric called GDP without realizing and caring how severely and violently the backlash from Goodharts law will screw us over. All you see today is a result of that.
One of the things we fought for, for years after acquisition was to maintain a qualified staff of fulltime, highly paid support people who are capable of identifying and escalating issues like this with common sense.

This is a battle we slowly lost. It started with all of support being the original team, then went to 3-4 fulltime staff plus some contracts, to entirely contractors (as far as I’m aware).

This was a big sticking point for me. I told them I did not believe we should outsource support, but they did not believe we should have support for developer products at all, so I lost to that “compromise.” After that I volunteered myself to do the training of the support teams, which involved traveling to Manila, Japan and Mexico regularly. This did help but like support as whole, it was a losing battle and quality has declined over time.

Your experience is definitely expected and perhaps even by design. Sadly this is true across Google, if you want help you’d best know a Googler.
the kagi subscription is worth it. kagi is incredible. i learned about URL rewrites the other day. this feature will rewrite parts of URLs in search results with whatever you want, like "reddit.com" to "old.reddit.com". google would never offer something like this.
The site also shows how simple it could be, though - it respects the DNT flag: no cookie banner, no tracking in this case.
Chase.com does not work on Firefox.

Default setting disable all JS. With JS fully enabled. Still doesnt work.

Using ublock and privacy badger.

I will also say theres another browser that does not work. I believe it is mullwad

Happy FF user for about 10 years and I wouldn't change it even if I worked at chase
US does a really shitty job at regulating tech companies - esp privacy and abuse of data.

Perhaps because the big tech has captured the regulators with a lobby revolving door.

Look at how big a tantrum Apple is throwing regarding 3rd party app stores.

I’m glad EU is doing what it’s doing.

And the various data locality laws. Data is precious.

I wish US would impose stronger fines when data is misused or hacked into due to negligence.
If you buy a laptop and the OEM has pre-installed a keylogger then it is still a keylogger. Most people don't choos their Android keyboard but use whatever is the default on the device they bought.
Any fresh compilation time benchmarks and comparisons to LLVM?
> where your kids go to school

Is this something that's kept secret in European society?

If someone told me they knew where my kids went to school I wouldn't be surprised, it's sort of dependent on our address which is in the phone book.
Essentially all laws are difficult to enforce. If someone really won't follow the law, then it takes a lot of time and money to prosecute them. Society relies on most people voluntarily following most laws most of the time.
Probably the same way most laws end up. We see the unintended consequences, then revise the law to counter the consequences. Thus the cat/mouse game continues.

An idea could be that the tracking has to be opt-in AND the webpage cannot stop critical use of the page as part of the opt-in process.

Then another round of consequences.. rinse repeat...
> Note that this isn't a cookie law, it's also the EU's main anti-malware law. The principle is that no piece of third-party controlled software should write information to your computer/phone, or read info from it, over the Internet, without your prior informed consent

So it is a responsibility of the browser vendor to implement this.
Cookies banner are a response to the ePrivacy directive from 2002.
Customers are more informed. Savvy companies now only do essential tracking, so don't have to bother users. Or at least more will as enforcement catches on.
> Let me be more clear: individual programmers are improving AI for its intellectual amusement, but organizations use it for its disruptive powers. Two different groups of people, with a bit of an intersection.

That's clearer, but I still take issue with it. You can say the same about any software project or maybe even most work in general. As software engineers (I assume that's your profession too), we automate things that could have kept hundreds of people employed. There isn't that much different with AI - as long as there is money spent on the problem, there will be people willing to work on it, especially at the forefront of technolgy.

---

I agree with your second point. With that said, climate is way clearer distructive behavior, while also being more of a nuissance, a side effect of growth. AI has enormous potential and could, in the most optimistic outcomes, lead us to a utopia. Obviously, we all know that will not happen.

Also, the reason why AI progress will not be halted - we cannot allow our adversaries take the lead on this. It's really that simple.
You don't need a cookie banner for session cookie, not in eprivacy nor in gdpr, same applies for all cookies that are "strictly necessary" for the functionnal operation of the website on the technical level. Language selection cookie, "remember me" cookie, etc ... Are all perfectly fine.
I honestly wouldn't mind if the type of software where you talk to business users and implement their random thoughts to automate some banal business process goes away. It generally seems low value anyway.

We should still have software products however.
Is this a trial run for an April 1 article?
> What the EU is saying, you need my consent when you want to track me, profile me and sell my behavior off to ad companies.

Huh. I always thought that as soon as you use a long-term cookie that could technically be used for tracking, you have to get permission.

Which also means you have to get permission when someone logs in to your website. Though I guess the act of logging in could be seen as giving permission.

Anyway: I don't add cookie banners on my websites, and I don't use any tracking.
I bought a pill cutter for my mother and I spent 15 minutes marveling at the design of this little piece of plastic.
Do you have any profound insights or wisdom you've gained at your current age that you'd like to share?
It's crazy how censored the internet is too, you need a VPN to access even piracy adjacent sites in Germany. Unheard of that an ISP would block a website in the US without the FBI itself taking it down.
The context was very specific in this case. Like you are always required to present a banner when you use a cookie. But that is not the case.
In a recession in the 1800's a "discouraged worker" would be thrilled they could buy food.
I am a grandparent myself I just don't have any grand children nor children just yet.
> Your comment about Austrian economics never having been implemented reminds me of leftists who say communism has never been implemented so we can’t say communism doesn’t work

Maybe, however the difference being that there are many countries and regions that have claimed to be communist for over a century but none that have claimed to be adhering to Austrian Economics.
Bind is the only community platform that maps your customer data to your Discord. https://bind.ie/
Identify your members and automate role assignment based on their involvement with your product.
Greater sense of belonging for your members and conversion to your desired Call-to-Action.
The problem with economic models is that they remove almost all parameters except a few. But the removed parameters account for like 90% of the outcome.

That's the only way you can create models of something as complex as society. It's way more complex and chaotic than weather and still economists think they can predict months and years into the future.
Great work and an awesome write up.
We have also had that for many years in the US. Most people don’t bother though. It’s opt in vs opt out, difference between 5% and 95% participation.
The ultimate goal of an organization (and society) is to disrupt itself. Then the new order becomes an evolution of the old and thus it becomes a continuity.
If you want to get better at something, do that thing deliberately. So if you want t get better at interviewing, go on interviews. At the very least it will help you get more comfortable doing them, which means you present better.

But don't interview for jobs you don't want or it is a total waste of time for all concerned. It can't be that hard to find jobs you'd like, so interview for those, even if you don't have a hope of getting them.
> Any actual lawyer would tell you to slap it on there to stay protected.

Presumably, lawyers err on the side of caution? That doesn't mean they're right.
Even better, the AI was trained on code and answers that you contributed to Stack Exchange, Quora, etc., along with textbooks for which the authors did not grant permission and received no compensation.
I’m ok with library Sci-Hub, but less so with Library Genesis. Pirating books reduces the incentives for authors to write more books. Pirating academic articles won’t reduce academics’ incentives to write papers.
Chase.com does not work on Firefox.

Default setting disable all JS. With JS fully enabled. Still doesnt work.

Using ublock and privacy badger.

I will also say theres another browser that does not work. I believe it is mullwad

Happy FF user for about 10 years and I wouldn't change it even if I worked at chase

I refuse to use chrome and I use vivaldi, opera, brave , edge and mullvad as well. Each has a specific purpose.

But my only general browsing browser is FF.
> just listen to “Do Not Track” headers (it’s deprecated because companies did hate this)

It was my understanding that it is deprecated because it was completely disregarded and thus gave a false sense of safety from tracking and it was used by tracking company to do additional tracking.
This is affecting me on Minecraft Java Edition.
Why don't we just burn our trash? [video]
> AI seems antithetical to the hacker ethic

Don't make the mistake I do and think HN is populated predominantly by that type of hacker. This is, at the end of the day, a board for startups.

(Not to say none frequent this board, but they seem relatively rare these days)
I wish they said that. Unfortunately economists are usually keynsian and prefer to believe that war or burying money create wealth.
Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?
I logged into GameFAQs the other day, and noticed I'd created my account in 1999.

After some poking around my password manager, the only other account I could find still "in use" was an eBay account that I also created in 1999.

I felt a small sense of wonder at having still-functional accounts that are 25 years old.

What are your oldest accounts? What do they still do for you?
Folks see it wrong. Is not about human vs machine software development.

Is about allocating the brightest humans to the most productive activities.
It's illegal to retain user data without permission :)

... when it suits them.
"My future self is a thing that doesn’t exist."

You're referring to a thing that you claim doesn't exist. That's interesting.

Do we have proof for existence or existence? We could have an experiment where we attempt to measure the existence at that future time.

I'm worried that leads to a train of thought claiming that the future doesn't exist.
Yeah if it's contact sound there's not a great deal you can do unfortunately
A related concern, issue: Write a program to simulate the whole universe in full and fine detail.

We would likely do this work in time steps, i.e., some version of discrete time.

So, in the simulation there would be a timing, time synchronization, etc. issue: In simple terms would have to update the whole universe, the whole state, FULLY at each single step before could start the next step.

Or if don't write just one program, and instead have some string theory where everything is made of elementary strings, each string has its own clock, supply of energy, momentum, charge, mass, etc. That's a lot of clocks and makes the strings not very elementary.
> I mean it’s definitely a weaker argument than 2 years ago.

Is it? I see no evidence that machines are any closer to "thinking creatively" than they ever have been. We certainly have been developing our capacity for computation to a great extent, but it's not at all evident that statistical methods and creativity are the same thing.
> If lawyers are overreacting or companies cannot discern between essential tracking and non-essential then perhaps they are the incompetent ones.

If the EU is incapable of creating a law where it is unclear even to quite some lawyers where the boundary between allowed and forbidden is, the EU politicians are the incompetent ones.
I think I pretty clearly laid out how this "boogy man" has directly impacted my life. That's a reality that very much exists outside my head.
> Our lawyers told us otherwise.

Probably because they're not particularly technical people, and also because of the asymmetric incentives for them personally.

Tell someone to put a cookie banner up when they didn't need to: no consequences.

Tell someone not to put up a cookie banner up when they did need to: potentially big consequences for them and their career.
Seems to be a common tactic from a certain faction currently in power in the United States.
I have a 12900k and was transcoding video on it yesterday. It stays stable at ~4.5gHz indefinitely when working on all cores.
As someone who's lived in both the US and Europe during the past few years... GP is full of shit.
Because that would break compatibility. The way shadow stacks are implemented means they can be enabled in existing software without code changes.

If one were to design a modern ISA from scratch it would make sense though.
The HotSpot JVM is already multithreaded, they understand how to write thread-safe code (I'm not sure which JVM(s?) are reported to be impacted, HotSpot was the first I found a result for).
> There are many questions which economists can answer quite clearly.

Yes, and they always concern the past. Ask an economist about the future, and he'll show their actual value: zero.
The conclusion section at the end sums it up. Although the title is pretty clickbait for developers, the article targets website designers on the far side of artistic spectrum.
It's just that people just can't deal with existence proofs. In Math people seriously tried for ~180 years to prove that you don't need a single existence proof (which notably means you can't have real numbers, or calculus)

For Dark Matter we have existence proofs. It MUST exist, in some form, we just don't know what it is. It will take another century before we're at 180 years ...
For smaller economies modelling some months into the future is actually pretty decently possible. Of course, there could always be big events throwing everything in a new state.

There are also very very granular models.
And yet there isn't a lot of actual difference between Americans and EU citizens.

Sure lots of EU laws, practically speaking no difference at all.
Thanks. We acknowledge that an LLM cannot completely replace human expertise in decompilation, much like GPT-4 has not achieved true human-like intelligence. However, the aim of our llm4decompile project is to do something like GPT-4, and offer assistance and enhance productivity in the decompilation process.

As for test suites, it's one of our project's main challenges—figuring out which functions satisfy the expectations of reverse engineers, how to autonomously produce high-coverage test suites, and how to objectively qualify decompilation outcomes without relying solely on human judgment. Looking forward to your advices!
in other term, putting back the social word in the old term "socio-economy"
Just a heads up, the Amazon link from your site lands on the hardcopy version which there are only used copies of.
Yup:

> In 2003, the entire editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms resigned to start ACM Transactions on Algorithms with a different, lower-priced, not-for-profit publisher, at the suggestion of Journal of Algorithms founder Donald Knuth. The Journal of Algorithms continued under Elsevier with a new editorial board until October 2009, when it was discontinued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Resignation_of_editor...
>It is 20 lines of huge text with a navigation bar full of rendering errors so not that inviting for spending time on it.

From a self-proclaimed "webdesigner and developer" no less. Apparently he missed the memo on responsive design.
I am very grateful that we had a web with standards, and browsers with extensions.

I have adblockers and custom rules to block Twitter ads, YouTube comments, Reddit ads.

I can’t do any of these on mobile apps. It’s an entirely closed platform.

Imagine if the web was as closed as iOS and Android where apps dictate the experience you can have.

This makes me sad. We confused “bicycle for the mind” and built a “cage for the mind”
I absolutely disagree regarding handwriting, and maybe also on maintaining your own typewriter. The task of producing the written document, and I don't just mean the thoughts conveyed, but each stroke of each letter, was a creative act that many enjoyed. Increasingly, there is only a very small subset of enthusiasts that are "serious" about writing by hand. Most "normal" people don't see the value in it, because if you're getting the idea across, who cares? But I'd wager if you talked to a monk who had spent their life slaving away in a too dark room making reproductions of books OR writing new accounts, and showed them the printing press, they would lament that the human joy of putting those thoughts to paper was in and of itself approaching the divine, and an important aspect of what makes us human.

Of course I don't think you need to go that far back; the main thing that differentiates pre and post printing press is that post printing press, the emphasis is increasingly more on the value of the idea, and less on the act of putting it down.
Their privacy policy states they use Google reCAPTCHA, which requires disclosure.
I run 50mv undervolted 12500 which gives me about 20% lower consumption.
From the article:

> A full debug build of Cranelift itself using the Cranelift backend took 29.6 seconds on my computer, compared to 37.5 with LLVM (a reduction in wall-clock time of 20%)

That seems much smaller difference than what I would have expected
Sydney taxis are extortionate and often operate illegally around the airport, but also taxi plates in Australia costed $100,000’s (on the market, not sure how much when released by the government) and that investment got trashed by ride-share entry. From that perspective I’ve got some sympathy.