skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in some parts of the world and at least a year ago the chemtrail-cloud seeding ramped up considerably.

Dane Wiginton (https://www.instagram.com/DaneWigington) is the founder of GeoengineerWatch.org as a very deep resource.

They have a free documentary called "The Dimming" you can watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf78rEAJvhY

In the documentary it includes credible witness testimonies such as politicians including a previous Minister of Defense for Canada; multiple states in the US have ban the spraying now - with more to follow, and the testimony and data provided there will be arguably be the most recent.

Here's a video on a "comedy" show from 5 years ago - there is a more recent appearance but I can't find it - in attempt to make light of it, without having an actual discussion with critical thinking or debate so people can be enlightened with the actual problems and potential problems and harms it can cause, to keep them none the wiser - it's just propaganda while trying to minimize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOfm5xYgiK0

A few of the problems cloud seeding will cause:
- flooding in regions due to rain pattern changes
- drought in areas due to rain pattern changes
- cloud cover (amount of sun) changes crop yields
- this harms local economies of farmers, impacting smaller farming operations more who's risk isn't spread out - potentially forcing them to sell or go into savings or go bankrupt, etc.

There are also very serious concerns/claims made of what exactly they are spraying - which includes aluminium nanoparticles, which can/would mean:
- at a certain soil concentration of aluminium plants stop bearing fruit,
- aluminium is a fire accelerant and so forest fires will then 1) more easily catch, and 2) more easily-quickly spread due to their increased intensity

Of course discussion on this is heavily suppressed in the mainstream, instead of having deep-thorough conversation with actual experts to present their cases - the label of conspiracy theorists or the idea of "detached from reality" are people's knee-jerk reactions often; and where propaganda can convince them of the "save the planet" narrative, which could also be a cover story for those toeing the line following orders supporting potentially very nefarious plans - doing it blindly because they think they're helping fight "climate change."

There are plenty of accounts on social media that are keeping track of and posting daily of the cloud seeding operations: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNjAROPFs0/ - a couple testimonies.
You have to ignore a lot of things to make that comparison.
Can you guys elaborate? Do you feel like you’re some brain in a vat somewhere when this happens?
How were you able to take Psylocibin and be on an SSRI? I thought they diminished the effectiveness of the psychedelic.
Or if you have numbers that aren't integers to perform math on, you can use integers.

It's not a new problem, and it isn't specific to floats. Computers do discrete math. Always have, always will.
I've never heard a single bad word about Romania or its people, and I definitely have a lot more ties to Russia than you do. No idea where you read shit like this, but you should probably avoid those places from now on to keep your sanity.
So everyone is right?!

Thats the best kind of correct. ;-)
I know nothing about railguns, but if they are supposed to launch the projectiles with magnetic force then why do they need to impose any wear on its barrel at all? Couldn't you build a railgun where the projectile never even touches the barrel, being kept at the center by the same magnetic field that accelerates it? Or are we talking about the wear imposed by the magnetic field itself?
I 3d printed and built a rock tumbler that was effectively the same device as this, some time ago. I put O-rings on the wheels for grip instead of a rubber band on the jar :-P
Nothing is. Even aspirin has side effects for some people including headaches and chest pains.
This is why stuff like this doesn’t happen more often.

I played a 10-day game of tag in college. (Called Humans vs Zombie, “humans” were able to tagged by zombies any time that they were outside. We would start with ~150 humans, at the beginning, and by the end of the game only ~30 were not zombies.)

The amount of work that the core-team put in to run the game was insane: reserving space on campus, marketing it to students, defining and refining rules, communicating with campus security, negotiating with campus administration, dealing with rule violations, and more.

I think it’s a shame that it’s so much work to put together and play what is ultimately a very simple game with very little potential to harm anyone. But there are a lot of people who are scared and uncomfortable when other people start running around.
I was specifically thinking of its use in words like night, not sure what I was thinking when I used those examples... was just scanning the text quickly for some ch clusters and didn't think too much about the words!
This is not 90% of what's happening with LLMs. Everyone I saw using LLMs were requesting whole algorithms or even program boilerplate which doesn't contain much boilerplate but tons of logic.

Case in point: https://x.com/docsparse/status/1581461734665367554

This is not akin to copying a 2-line trick from SO.

On the other hand, the most significant part of code I copied from SO was using two iostream iterators to automatically tokenize an incoming string. 5-6 lines at most.

This block has a 10+ line comment on top of it not only explaining how it works, but it has a link to the original answer at SO.
Yeah, video games today have improved a lot compared to the 80s and 90s.
It's still theirs on the teacher's desk, and the kids knows they will get it back 40 minutes later.

This is pure defiance of authority, they know that have no business playing with their phones during class but they also know they can get away with it.

Whether this attitude is caused by true addiction or general disrespect for teachers is left a an exercise to the reader. A combination most likely.
Most computer scientists I know at that age don’t touch a computer any more and hang with grand kids. That’s not a value judgement - Knuth is impressive but as a human being most people choose their humanity over their careers in some way. Beyond being simply smart and productive knuth is also likely obsessive about his work and his life is warped around it. As long as that works for everyone that’s great. But most people don’t live that life.
One has to wonder if they trained it on the Father Ted episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfpi5oIFx-Q
>But exercise has very little effect on weight compared to diet. It's a known fact, even for the fans of counting calories.

It reduces the weight of all the fat you're carrying around. Even if exercise doesn't make you lighter it still makes you leaner.
> It's far easier to financially support fully open source software even though it might not happen as much as it should.

Sorry for nitpicking, but this is the only thing you've said that I actually disagree with.

It is a hell of a fight to convince a company (or even worse, a non-profit) to pay for something that they could get for $0 by self-hosting. Symbolic, one-time gestures are possible to fight for, but a reocurring, significant amount is just not. If your open source project offers anything back in return for payment, it's a much easier sell to make. It doesn't have to be complicated or introduce a lot of overhead, it just has to be something, even it's like a very rarely relied on line of support or a logo on the homepage. Same goes for premium features, you just have to strike that right balance, which I believe we both fully agree on. Your tool has to be useful as a free, standalone product, at least up to a certain scale. I have my grudges about where that line gets drawn sometimes, but I can't hold a grudge about the exististence of such a line. It doesn't stop me from testing out your product.

It is of course a shame that we don't have to go through any of this for any fully proprietary product. It is what it is, it's just a question of whether it's worth the per-user price. There are tons of companies out there that have used an open source product for years, never paid a single dime, and then switched to a proprietary, very expensive solution.

There's also a lot of us disgruntled sysadmin/DevOps/SRE people along the way, but our powers are limited. Make it a little bit easier for us by charging for something we can't otherwise get from your free version. It's mutually beneficial for everyone involved: we do our best to give you some money (in return for something), sometimes we're succesful, and then that success usually contributes back to the fully open sourced version being better in some ways.

Individual donations are fine, I do them as well (less consistently than I'd like to; far from nothing), but convincing just one single company to pay up beats the hell out of 100 individuals. It's a fixed, agreed upon sum, usually guaranteed for a period of time by some type of a contract. There's also only one processing fee involved. It is always gonna be difficult to find that first one, but if you pull it off, the odds of your open source project "succeeding" (however you define success) increases dramatically.
I said clickbait title : the title uses a present tense indicative mood verb, i.e., factual, then immediately in the first sentence switches to subjunctive "alternate possible future reality" mood.

it's total clickbait to announce something factual that is only a possible future.
I was the kid who no one thought was paying attention, until I read back the last 3-5 min of conversation to the Teacher.

I dont think you can enhance learning thru fear, there is no way that you get people to be more engaged and retain information presented in that environment.
Recent and related:

Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40188435 - April 2024 (38 comments)
This is insanely expensive by historic standards. $1000 worth of purchasing power back in medieval Europe would pay laborer wages for a year, not a day.
I think OP means how do we know that the brain tissue that is being used in the experiment is not conscious.

Here is a man that lived a normal life with 90% of his brain damaged, a large portion of that just completely missing.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-h...
I could see but I couldn’t move any muscles. It felt like five minutes but was probably less. It happened in an afternoon nap which is something I never did.

I was screaming internally for my girlfriend to notice me. I thought I was suddenly a quadriplegic or something and was panicking. Eventually my girlfriend noticed (she later said she noticed my deep, heavy breathing) and shook me and being shaken pulled me immediately out of it.
I suspect it would be better long-term for the government to let Boeing fail and be replaced with another American company or two. They’re definitely acting too big to fail.
Both of those had some kind of enforced content regulation and much easier way for parents to choose what their kids were exposed to. Yeah, precocious kids could find ways around rules sometimes, but those are exceptions.

Tiktok and similar apps are completely different.
I've thought about writing a GPU side interpreter for SDF definitions for a while. I made a SDF shader generator that dumps out shaders with hard coded values, but doing it with bytecode would be cool. I'm sure this has been done before..
Bringing up personal responsibility always struck me as avoidance of addressing the problem at all. People will always be irresponsible. If you want to address the problem some part of the answer will have to come from society compensating for poor individual decision making.

To avoid doing this will just perpetuate the idea that a child is the property of the parent and deserves to be the victim of their failings.
How much do you lose cleaning out the vitamix? I’ve found that PB costs the same amount as peanuts, by weight. If I had to roast and grind them I feel like that would take a while and result in some loss.

Is this better than using the in-grocery grinders?
The Philosophy of Murder Ballads
Yes, you can learn how to sue. You can learn how to be a doctor too. You can also learn rocket science. The third one is the easiest to me, personally.
Highly doubtful that any psychedelic would cause pain and certainly not as a side effect.

I have used psychedelics all of my life.

I am nearly 70 years old, retired and previously successful in my profession

There are always a few stories being bandied about claiming psychedelics might be harmful.

Compare that to the dangers of most of big pharma's entire portfolio of prescribed drugs and there is no contest about which is less harmful.

Have you read the side of your prescribed medication bottle or packet lately?

There are far more stories about the positive impact of psychedelics.

Psychedelics are amongst the least harmful drugs on the planet.
Screen time tripled in 25 years but yeah it's "nothing"
Essentially a Ghola in the dune universe
It’s good advice! Especially for the games industry.
> Koreans tend to walk (exercise) more. Walk (partway) during commute, walk to lunch, walk to do errands, etc. In the US people just sit in their cars.

People are always going on about walking, but I have a very hard time believing that the lack of low-intensity walking is a major contributing factor for the 250-pound bodies that are so common in the US (especially south and midwest). When you're overwhelming your body with fried food every day and coke at every meal, you ain't gonna keep up with those calories by getting in more steps.
While true, it's a related dysfunction that damaged American education in profound ways.

I went through an under-resourced education system with 50+ students per class and bused 3 hours per day to a school with gangs and drug problems because of my race. All the while, I was bored to tears with material already covered up to 2 years previously in private school. (Dad was a cheapskate and wanted more money for buying stereo equipment, and so Challenger had to go.)
I think I edited since you saw/replied, I added a bit about the environment.

We can't control everything, but we can control how we react to it. He's a product of his environment, parents, and choices.

That's not to discount disadvantage. I get it. None of this is final or complete, it's a fucking movie metaphor
Yes but those things aren’t infinite content, are they? They are material things with a beginning and an end. YouTube is infinite. You can scroll forever and would never reach the end.
Do you have to fridge it first right side up, to firm it up before you turn it upside down?
It seems to me like a fundamental line has been crossed and things are different now. I'm not sure exactly what that line is though.

Maybe it's that TV was manipulative (advertisements), but those manipulations were limited and not very effective. Video games were an honest transaction, you pay $60 and you get a game, and our focus has been on making the best game we can, we hope you enjoy the game.

Now, social media is much more manipulative and addicting, and video games are more likely to be designed around manipulation and micro-transactions rather than simply being a good game.
I'm kind of going the same direction, but different route. My design is based on VexRiscv and all hardware is written in SpinalHDL. It does not run Linux yet because of limited SRAM (512KB) on my Karnix board, but it has Ethernet and HDMI. I have coded a CGA-like video adapter with HDMI interface that supports graphics (320x240x4) and text (80x30x16) modes with hardware assisted smooth scrolling. :)

If someone is interested, here's a rather brief README:
https://github.com/Fabmicro-LLC/VexRiscvWithKarnix/blob/karn...

KiCAD project for the board: https://github.com/Fabmicro-LLC/Karnix_ASB-254
Yes! Email in profile.
Radio Caroline turns 60
Is this a local bug or iCloud? I updated a few days and haven’t found any old photos (I delete photos constantly). Don’t have iCloud linked up.
"You" are still doing it, your Western governments looked the other way at killing of more than 300+ pro-democracy protesters by our government forces at the beginning of 2022 because it was convenient for them to do so. Half of worldwide supply of uranium fuel and all that. These things will be remembered for decades.
Except that the larger packaging size is not totally free - makes shipping more expensive and less units per shelf space. Not sure by how much. I bet peanut butter margins aren’t great.
from 2014 (in the url itself) - but adding to the title would be nice
Returning JSON instead of HTML is just the same. And you can still go back to JSON some interactive UI (Maps, RT Chats,…) but if the UI seldom updates and mostly on navigation, it’s great. I’m currently using Laravel and livewire for a project and not worrying about frontend state is nice. and if you worry about scaling, you can make the web service stateless, moving everything to the DB and external services (logs, caching?, jobs queue).
Absent physical violence, I spent 180 days in lunch detention during middle school for refusing to do my math homework due to the marginal impact it had on my grade. Even after 2 trimesters away from my friends during lunch I refused to do the teacher's busywork, and they refused to give me my time back. It was a zero-sum solution for both of us (and a surprisingly childish response from an adult that ought to know better).

Sometimes, students recognize the barriers around them and exploit them to their fullest potential. One student pays attention after getting the book thrown at them, another observes how the teacher aimed for the floor and tests their patience because they know they won't get hit no matter how many times they zone-out. It's disappointingly easy to bait educators into disproportionate escalation, in my problem-child experience.
Could the loss function be any better??
Related:

Radio Caroline – Pirate Radio Ship Off UK Coast in 1965 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33361253 - Oct 2022 (0 comments)

Britain's Buccaneer Broadcasters: My Story of Radio Caroline (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29316561 - Nov 2021 (11 comments)
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. Except we might be mistaken about who the real "Iovi" is in the world today.
> you could build an actively–stabilized structure around the black hole to create a livable environment of truly insane proportions with Earth–normal gravity

Which was also a rocketship into the future, moving you super fast towards the heat death of the universe?
If you can learn rocket science in x years, you can learn how to sue in x days. So, do both.
So, instead of regulating the industry, you would to hold industry leaders criminally liable for how they operate in an unregulated industry?
Charitas (1871)
Anti-money laundering: the least effective policy experiment?
There are significant numbers of kids who have been trained not to want to learn in America because America is deeply anti-intellectual and teaching to excessive standardized testing drives what little curiosity there was out of greater numbers of them. As a result of this and wildly inappropriate teacher performance measurement, the really good teachers who inspire kids get frustrated and leave. As a result, most American public schools are watered-down, don't care about excellence, and are de facto prison daycare with absurd levels of performative testing pantomiming a quality education while being anything but. It's not the teachers' fault but the parents, voters, school districts, state education boards, and past US presidents who all share in culpability.
Cable TV is almost infinite lol. It's just that you might not find what you want being aired at whatever time.
Agree. Difference being the amount of stuff competing for kids Attention has exponentially increased. Attention Theft is a phrase I read on HN a while back. Felt like a good description of the main dynamic in the Attention Economy.
Disabling Modernism
> This is not like the atomic bomb. We had tons of experience with big bombs. We just knew atom bombs if they worked could make orders of magnitude larger booms. The implications if real big bombs could be reasoned about with some basis in reality.

Well, we thought we did.

We really didn't fully appreciate the impact of the fallout until we saw it; and Castle Bravo was much bigger than expected because we didn't know what we were doing; and the demon core; and the cold war arms race…

But yeah, my mental framing for this is a rerun of the first stage of the industrial revolution, and it took quite a lot of harm for what is now basic workplace health and safety such as "don't use children to remove things from heavy machinery while it's running", and we're likely to have something that's equally dumb happen even in the relatively good possible futures that don't have paperclip maximisers or malicious humans using AI for evil.
> what could they observe and experience

Observe? Nothing, once you're inside the event horizon, right? The event horizon isn't a solid wall, it's just the point at which light can only move further inward, never outward. So even inside the event horizon, we still can't observe anything further in.
I’d avoid the Reagan or other comparison as well even if I have medical evidence for their decline as you see with Reagan. In this specific case of Biden there’s not even that so it’s purely a political opinion and it’s definitely bait for flame even if not intended as such.
Also the Abbey Road crossing webcam at https://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing . Not so busy at night, but plenty of people trying to take their photos during the day.
When the end state changes over time, or there is no defined duration.
> Only for those grapheme clusters that do not have a representation in Unicode!

I think it's reasonable to consider a grapheme cluster composing one codepoint to be a codepoint, not a grapheme cluster. One grape is not a cluster of grapes.

> Also, these negative i32s are really an implementation detail.

What a coincidence! I was explicitly discussing the implementation.

Oh, is this the thing where some people pretend that Raku is different from Rakudo? Fine. Pretend I said Rakudo.

> Unless you want regexes to be a. correct in the unicode world, and b. be performant

I work extensively on low-level pattern matching code. So I can say with considerable confidence that blowing up every string to take up four bytes per codepoint or grapheme cluster, is not the only way to make regex correct in the unicode world, nor is it necessarily the best, or even helpful. The assertion that a regex search on a blown-up and custom-tailored string is going to be more performant than performing that search on the native UTF-8 representation of the string, is hard to justify. It's seems evident to me that it would be less so, by default.

Furthermore, I'm unsure how O(1) access to anything could aid regexen, since using them is O(n) by definition.

I think Raku is an interesting language and that people should check it out, to be clear. That doesn't mean I agree with every choice the Rakudo implementation has made.
The Dream of Streaming Is Dead
And the "tik" comes from TikTok.
It's not nothing, but it's not automatically bad just because it's a change.
And some ordinary people spending decades still wouldn’t necessarily be able to do what someone at google can, today.

I don’t know if it’s just me but it sounds justified, but there is supposed to be something wrong with that?
Words in natural languages develop different meanings. The most common term for a protocol resembling a political confederation is federated.
The War on Weeds