skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, kind of. But the Stefan–Boltzmann law has the temperature^4 means the earth should radiate it back into space. No?
> Petrochemical products aren't going away any time soon. Unless we want to go back to hunting whales for things like lubricants.

Synthetic lubricants (like Mobil-1) are a thing.
Just like their houses
That’s not an apt analogy. Right now we are trying to make a baby with less than one woman
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I'm at the smartphone right now, but on the screen I've just seen the x( smilie - on M1, btw. I'll check the dev console and version tomorrow (it's 23:00). But I did play with WASM (GC) myself, so it could be that some experimental flag that I've set triggered the error.
I am assuming YC will be lobbying on their own interests, which, at least for typical VCs is getting some of their small companies to go big, rather than promoting success among all their companies. They probably won't be lobbying for the companies that do not get/take VC funding, which are the less capatilized ones that probably need more representation. And, their interests with go big or go bust doesn't always align with the funded companies' interests, since optimizing for their portfolio of many is different from optimizing for the founders' portifolio of one.
The DOJ had safe harbor guidelines for the sharing of price and wage surveys through a third-party intermediary as long as it was sufficiently old and aggregated to prevent determining the prices/wages of a specific competitor.

Those guidelines were rescinded by the Biden administration last year due to concerns that algorithms eroded the distinctions between past/aggregated and current/disaggregated data.
By that logic you also forgot iced, libcosmic, libxfceui4, kirigami, xapps, flutter, .NET Avalonia, electron/html, sdl/raw rendering, and probably alot more that I don't know or can think of. This really has been just GTK and QT for ages.
That is not what "heat death" means.
Starlark is widely used by Bazel and Buck. That would fulfill similar properties and build system folks have one fewer thing to learn.
And inversely, "Consider the Lobster"

Even in the harsh penal environment of early America, some colonies had laws against feeding lobsters to inmates more than once a week because it was through to be cruel and unusual, like making people eat rats.

http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
> In fact you deliberately asked for something impossible and hold up undefined behavior as undefined like it's impugning something.

Correct, I did. This is a direct indictment on a given model's ability to plan/reason in this particular context. There are plenty of situations where models will respond with "Sorry, that's not possible". Ask GPT-4 "Tell me how to grow biological wings on a human" and it will respond with something along the lines of "this isn't currently possible, but here's a theoretical exploration of the idea"

GPT-4 gets very close on its own to the node.js question via a similar response breakdown above, provided the prompt is clear and detailed enough. But I test the open weight models in the same way to see if they have the capacity to exhibit similar reasoning or chain of thought process on their own. They usually don't without excessive prompt engineering or few-shot.

I said that I don't expect models to get this right not because I don't _want_ them to, it's because I think its an important milestone when they do. Autoregressive token prediction is unlikely to produce the real outcome im testing for here, but if it ever does thats an interesting finding.
On the other hand, Tolkien spent his time creating realistic languages and lore to go with that, above and beyond many fantasy writers.

On the gripping hand, having read through various histories, it's nuts how often historians get things mixed up or wrong, or obsolete with emerging evidence. Our histories, even evidence-based, tells a story of our past, and no narrative can fully describe what happened.
Crazy! This sounds very fun. I don't have the time nor the mental capacity, but I'm envious!
It's a trick question regardless of if the intent was to educate the reader or to make them feel stupid. You have to spot that the question both isn't asking what the title suggests it's asking and that the image isn't actually showing the direction you'd go. People tend not to like trick questions.
I am not writing typescript -- heaven forbid -- so I can manage cargo, so I can write Rust.

Dropping the snark, though -- most times I have seen folks attempt to fold other build systems into some polyglot common one, it seems to create a lot of problems -- for at the end of the day, build tools (whether npm, cargo, gradle, docker, etc.) each have their issues. When these issues arise, they require understanding the original build tool. Bazel, for example, is a "polyglot" system which many try to use to manage npm. In my experience, when folks use bazel but have never used npm directly, they often get lost, because they now have to deal with two abstractions (bazel, npm) simultaneously neither have a way for bazel to do the thing they need, nor an understanding of how to get bazel to do that thing (nor npm itself to do the thing), also because they have never worked with npm directly.

Same goes for cargo, incidentally. Switching over to that build tool -- like any major build tool, it has an insane amount of well-honed documentation and thousands of answered questions online (not to mention LLMs trained somewhat well on it). Users when they need to do something with brioche or have an issue with it will not necessarily have the benefit of the massive collaborative support available for cargo.

Incidentally, I don't think that nix is free of this problem, though it does attempt to manage these issues -- sometimes reasonably successfully -- by virtue of keeping interfaces to other build tools in simple, direct ways.

Even then, however, the best way I have seen nix used is as a system for declaring all binary dependencies or other dependencies that are either not manageable or especially competently managed by other build tools -- which nix allows for in a virtual environment by shipping a shell.nix or flake.

In other words -- bringing in the right version of java, gradle, node, etc. But then just directing users to the specific, native build tools that often have a massive number of contributors.

The closest thing to a tool that does this (guides developers to other build tools) is flox, which uses TOML, but uses nix for its backend via C API. I haven't had a chance to use it much yet, but it looks very promising https://flox.dev.

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Okay, all this rambling aside -- building a tool like this for yourself or a small team, especially when you have the time to do it, it works well, and you're having fun... well, there's an insane amount to be said for that; and it will doubtlessly lead you to learning a ton about other build tools and likely offer you deep insights that are only possible when attempting to build something like brioche. So, on that count, major kudos to you.
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"Point is that saying that China wasn't always unified so it is similar to Europe is wrong"

Good point, I agree. That is why I initially said "lot's in common". But I believe the concept of "flee to another country if your views weren't accepted were you are now" is also quite present in chinese folklore.

So yes, there was the one person you could not flee from in china, which was the emperor and his court. But I would argue that your views also could not really go against the catholic church and the pope in europe for a long time and in most parts of it. (In a point more on topic, I would argue, that the disempowerment of the Inquisition, was the main ingredient in the industrial revolution, see Galilei and co.)
> Incredible that they think this will even slow anything at all.

They don't, or they don't care. Measures like these have two purposes:

1. To make it seem like someone is doing something. Constituents don't accept the idea that their representatives are powerless to fix certain hot-button issues. Even if a new law or regulation will have minimal or no effect on a problem, as long as legislators (or whomever) can pay some "experts" to say good things about it, many constituents -- most of whom don't understand the issues involved -- will be (somewhat) satisfied.

2. Continuing to establish and normalize surveillance technology and make it a part of normal life. The more that government types can mandate that people can't do in private, the easier it is for them to do... well... whatever they want to do.
I agree that the semi-power-user category is the most problematic, but my grandma wasn't there. More like, so non-tech-savvy that she accidentally clicked buttons or hit shortcuts for power users, messing things up in ways she couldn't fix. Like, she deleted the Safari address bar and installed 10 malicious Chrome extensions. Used her mouse upside-down for a while once.

GNU/Linux actually might've been best because it's harder to do anything in it. Chromebook wasn't an option cause the screens are too small, and idk if Chromeboxes were viable back then (~2015). She used to use Windows, which was an unmitigated disaster with viruses.
It's not about the workers. It's not about the market.

Hiring all the staff at an inflated rate to put a competitor out of business is good for the staff that got hired.

Without competition the dominant player makes more, without other places to work dominant player pays less.

> It’s not for the greater good.

Your not getting paid because your valuable your getting paid out because its anti-competitive. Paying you more to bankrupt a competitor is no different than dumping product to put them out of business ... Secure your market position and then jack up the prices and lower the salary.
https://muxcraft.eu/

Their website with the announcement also links to the following:

> Alle Dateien vom MuxCraft Server.

> Enthält: Maps, Schematics, Server & Plugins, Bilder, Designs, Website.

https://archive.org/details/muxcraft

Not sure if it’s the same, or some extra data, compared to what they put on the linked GitHub
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> Linux support is pretty much a requirement

Support isn't required for linux: I think there will be people who will be keen to hack up Linux support based on the open source code available, and the same with Windows. However if "Dave" wants access a larger market, Windows or even Android support would make sense.
Dunno. The exception is a security breach in it-self.
Limited sailing.

Sailing and its associated warfare drove technology. China started on that path at roughly the same time as everybody else and then pulled back for various reasons.

Note that a lot of the industrial revolution was using clockmakers. Why do you need super accurate clocks? Navigation and ... that's pretty much it. And why do you need navigation? Naval warfare.
The only thing worse than modern Material is when there was a multi-year (?) period where Google didn't think buttons needed any affordance indicating they were buttons, not in shape, contrast, color, etc. and with touch UIs you don't even get hover feedback like you would on the web.

Reading between the lines, I can see that Google was inspired by the post-skeumorphic minimalism of iOS, but took the wrong lessons away from it. Some of that has been walked back, but far from enough.
Same here with a Sony receiver, Samsung TV, PS5, and Apple TV.

If I turn on the PS5 or Apple TV, within a couple seconds the receiver and TV are powered up and working. If I turn on the other device, the receiver switches to its input. When I turn the active device off, the TV and receiver turn themselves off.

That is, until one of my kids goes out of their way to find the TV remote and turn it off manually. Then everything goes out of sync until I cut power to all those devices and turn them on again. At least it's an easy fix that doesn't require any manual configuration.
Yeah, unfortunately kids having smartphones is very often a case of parental negligence. Just like some parents would buy little Jimmy GTA without even bothering to think about whether that's appropriate, some parents will get their young child a pipe to the worst parts of the Internet without thought.
At best the fees class action lawyers would charge would change that $1000 into $0.10.

I already pay taxes; why not have the government do their job and protect my digital information and fine the companies and their executives so they learn to care about it. The government allows the corporate barrier to be pierced if employee salaries are not paid.
>It's pretty cool that your MSP handles the SD Card directly!

SD cards aren't really black magic since they "speak" SPI, meaning people have been interfacing basic microcontrollers to them since forever.
Reminds me of Antonio Stella Bottom Tile ( https://youtu.be/adkWiJA9xR0 )
>Masks help the wearer.

Yes, they do.

> But the main purpose is to stop sick people spreading.

No, the main purpose of an N95 mask is definitely to protect the wearer first and foremost. It's why they were created and sold in the first place. These masks were intended to protect people from all manner of workplace environmental hazards, and they've been used for that for decades.

>And it’s more effective at preventing spread than preventing contraction.

Citation needed.

Also, many people purposely choose not to wear a mask during a pandemic, so a mask not worn is not protecting anyone. Protecting myself from people without masks is 100% the purpose of wearing an N95 mask. We aren't talking about cloth masks in this thread, this study was about N95 masks - the two are different in that a cloth mask protects others more than it protects the wearer, but an N95 mask will protect the wearer more than others (who may not be wearing any mask).
Because deep ocean game is very different, those cruisers will be moving constantly with 60mph speed in much larger area than black sea, so one need more robust intelligence system and higher speed and range to catch them.
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> First they developed a phonetic alphabet specifically for Japanese

No. First they used a set of existing Chinese characters that matched the syllables of Japanese - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27y%C5%8Dgana

It took several hundred years until Hiragana developed from the cursive writing style of the Chinese characters.
Wait, GtkDialog is considered a GNOME thing and is now depricated? They article claims "These aforementioned widgets only benefited GNOME apps, as they were strictly designed to provide widgets that conformed to the GNOME HIG.", but GtkDialog is the primary way to provide a modal dialog in GTK. That seems like a fairly general problem.
A simple tax on every personal record you hold would work.
> Unless we want to go back to hunting whales for things like lubricants. Having useful plastics

We know how to make both from many other process. PLA plastic (commonly used for 3d printing) is commercially made from plant sources as well (I wasn't able to find a source for if it all is or just some). There are plant based oils that are biodegradable that you could put into any transmission today (meet OEM requirements) - they cost about 6x what regular oil costs though. If that isn't good enough the process to make synthetic oil just need carbon (ideally in the form of CO, but we could use CO2), water, and energy and from there we can engineer any hydrocarbon you want - again at much high cost.

Pumping oil from the ground is cheap though, so it is hard to compete with something else. We know how to do it though. If you are a chemical engineer there is a lot of money in reducing costs (though I'm not making any claim this is possible, only if you can there is money)
Lots of companies ran a mile from data once GDPR dropped and it’s pretty much a standard threat model for new information architectures
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Getting deep to hot rocks is important, but reducing the thermal resistance around the borehole is also important.

Some schemes fracture the rock between two boreholes, but this requires fiddly positioning of the wells as well as the fractures. Another interesting approach is to increase the thermal conductivity of the rock around a single well. Much of the thermal resistance is in the rock close to the well (as can be seen by examining the relevant integral), so this doesn't have to affect too far out to have a significant effect.

A company XGS Energy recently raised $20 M in series "A" funding for this. Their fluid (which is forced into fractures around the borehole) is proprietary, but is thought to contain graphite dust. Graphite can be three orders of magnitude more thermally conductive than rock, so incorporating it into even narrow fractures can have a major effect.

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https://jpt.spe.org/hot-rock-slurry-developer-of-emerging-ge...

(the field tests mentioned there must have been successful, as they raised that $20 M subsequently.)

Because this technology involves a single well that remains sealed from the surrounding formation, it could be used in existing played-out oil or gas wells, some of which go quite deep (although that's in basins with low geothermal gradients or else the fossil fuels would have been destroyed.)
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You might enjoy Sabine Hossenfelder's video exploring this "I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4

It turns out we can probably solve this by building planetary chimneys 5km tall that move heat to the outer atmosphere.