skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exact wording varied, but the claim was this: that 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is protected by Indigenous peoples.

"Wtf?"

I'm a "conservationist" by virtue and inclination, and I had no idea these idiots were making such claims.

I will say there is an assault against the natural world, and the uncorrupted indigenous peoples are obviously caring for less diminished biodiversity.

Is this special interest science being used as a weapon of future exploitation?

"Americans are saying it's not such a big deal...", "yeah, the Americans are saying, science proved biodiversity and stay-the-f-out aren't the greatest causality to things still being there ..."
Well, you have to take into account that if something like that were to happen, within 1 week we'd have curfews and rationing everywhere. So those 24 000 TWh probably become 5-6 000, or something like that.

Plus we'd still have hydro, wind, geothermal, etc, etc.
Some of us don't like the taste of dirt licked off a boot. They'll be fine.
You're reading too much into an offhand comment that's more metaphorical in nature.
Well, then it ought to go the other way. If you create foo_bar.go and bar is not a known build tag, you should get a compiler error.
accidentally quadratic.

you just want two non-nested loops.
One of them was figuring out a recursion issue in a grammar for a markup language I wrote. The other was about traversing a dependency graph and evaluating stale nodes.
Oh, don't get me started on what the problem is :D

* Espresso machine electronics are very proprietary. There's basically one manufacturer, no published schematics and very closed firmwares.

* That one manufacturer's hardware occasionally breaks and needs replacement, and they charge up the wazoo for it.

* Firmware updates is not a thing. Buying a new controller with the new firmware is your only option.

* Espresso machine electronics hardware is pretty firmly stuck in the past. If you're lucky you have a 128x64 px OLED, but more likely you have LED indicators, 7 segment displays, or graphical LCDs.

There are absolutely exceptions to this, but for 95% of the espresso machines out there, you're definitely not getting the full potential of the hardware.
> We can be certain that any woman with an OnlyFans portfolio will face that being dragged up later in their life if they are at all slightly public.

I fail to see how it would be limited to women with an OF portfolio and not any female with an instagram/tiktok/facebook/linkedin account? Deepfaking is an online abuse problem that can reach anyone who has a public photo online on the internet.
> For example, on YT it's really mostly skill

I watched that video from start to finish and disagree with your conclusion. I watched it all so I could make an informed comment but regret spending those 15 minutes on it.

The author essentially made a video about a popular streamer, then went on their stream and baited them with 50$ and a video about themselves. It was literally click bait. It was so transparent that the streamer realised at the end what had happened but still decided to go along with it since it cost them nothing.

That’s just directed spam (which, by the way, is a word the author used themselves). It was one video about drivel. Granted, it’s not dissimilar from the other garbage that populates YouTube, but it also didn’t get views for being good. It’s the equivalent of video junk food. You know it, the creator knows it, yet it’s still hard to stop consuming.
If you reread what I was replying to, I was saying they might want to demand changes to management because it’s in their best interest to demand those changes, focusing only on short term benefit to themselves is harmful to their long term best interest. And organized labor does have the power to severely damage the companies they’re part of it’s not all one group or the other.
I'm sorry, a single Lambda for what exactly?
It also works fine with whatever 'reader mode' your browser may have.
well said!

as I was just sitting down to another day of ruby on rails (that I am grateful for!) I was thinking.. I wonder what hobby/open source projects could use some of my attention later..

.. what projects my attention could use later .. :D
Following that logic:

‘Reading words etched into a stone or inscribed on papyrus by other human hands is the natural way of things, like actually having sex with another human.

Reading words created via machines is much more like pornography.’
The irony here is that Jason is speaking in the context of LLM development, which he lives and breaths all day.

Reading his comments without framing it in that context makes it come off pretty badly - humans failing to understand what is being said because they don't have context.
Without evidence it is real, the default assumption is it's not. People can behave irrationally, but that's no reason to expect any particular irrational action.
"Nobody is seriously going to..."

People will throw any problem at it they want to. That's the entire point of general intelligence.
Not defending Boeing here. They have lost engineering focus as everything has become financialized in the search for ever-higher profits.

But there's also a recency bias here, as in fatal defects aren't new. Example: there were several fatal accidents with the 737 rudder in the 1990s [1].

One valid area of criticism is how the FAA has essentially allowed Boeing to self-certify to safety since ~2009 [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues

[2]: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/b...
I think it’s a demo of the interface and nothing more
Does "negative hedonism" mean suffering? that's a hard sell.
Comply with tax and other laws first. To do it the other way around is, in my opinion, completely unethical. Even ignoring that lawbreaking makes the company literally a criminal organization, a willingness to do that indicates a kind of fundamental flaw that makes the business forever untrustworthy to me.
The propagation of the change in the magnetic field travels at the speed of light.

The act of moving a magnet and thus changing the magnetic field at one point also induces a change in the electric field and vice versa, that's why you'll always hear talking about "electromagnetic" waves (which light, radio waves, etc are an instance of).

To make things even more interesting there is also this phenomenon: the magnetic field is created by moving electric changes, relative to the observer. If an observer moves at the same velocity as the electric charge it will not observe a magnetic field. It turns out that when you apply special relativity to the effects of electrical charges (coulomb 's law) you get a theory of electro-magnetism (Maxwell's equations). Magnetism this "follows" from the behavior of electrical fields and special relativity. That doesn't make magnetism less "real" but it hints at the intimate connection that the two forces have and what we now talk about them as "electromagnetism"
I’m not a really avid espresso person but IMO any decent espresso machine could do the job, the real deal is the coffee grinder. Invest in the highly precision grinder could up scale your espresso shots without an expressive coffee machine.
That's a fascinating perspective. I wonder if there was any pushback when recording was first introduced?

A quick search shows... of course there was!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/06/the-record-eff...

https://archive.is/PDR04
Court Enjoins the Utah "Minor Protection in Social Media Act"–NetChoice v. Reyes
OF revolves around a single product

AWS/GCP/Azure manage physical data centers across the globe, and includes hundreds of services/offerings on each platform.

Additionally, critical industries (hospitals, banks, airlines) often rely on these companies to be available/resilient at all times. Thus the need for increased global workforce. OF on the other hand, nobody is going to die if they can’t access the feet pics they bought for a few minutes or days.

You are not comparing the same companies.
At least back when I was working these "blessed" tools were usually a tad hacked together, modern homebrew toolchains for many older platforms are better except for debugging support (since the devkits for the machines usually had better hooks available but also avoiding the entire GDB focus).

Having been in both worlds, i'm not entirely sure there's that much to be envious of.
But on the other hand, our society is designed in a way that: if it's not growing; it's disasterous.

Why? We could all just forever keep doing what we are doing today, nothing bad would happen. With a few caveats. We are depleting non-renewable resources and the population size is changing, that would eventually cause problems if not addressed. Also living standards are very unequal, in reality you could not convince the poorer people to not try to become richer.
Interesting link. I had not come across this tool yet. Thanks for the hint!

Seems like the creators of this have a very similar goal in mind, but looks like it got created before LLMs were a thing. I think adding AI to the mix makes this even more interesting.
Livebook Teams
I wrote a Linux/BASH tester [0] for this recently that includes instructions on how to create simulated fake devices:

To create simulated (2GiB) fake devices

fallocate -l 1G fff_test.flash
DEV=$(losetup --show --find fff_test.flash); echo $DEV
DEVNUM=$(stat -c %Hr:%Lr $DEV); echo $DEVNUM

With wrap-around sectors:

dmsetup create --concise "fff_wrap,,,,0 2097152 linear $DEVNUM 0, 2097152 2097152 linear $DEVNUM 0"

With silently dropped writes:

dmsetup create --concise "fff_drop,,,,0 2097152 linear $DEVNUM 0, 2097152 2097152 zero"

To test:

fake_flash_finder.bash /dev/mapper/fff_wrap
Capacity mismatch at LBA 2097152, data wrapped around to block 0. Size is most likely really 1073741824 bytes

fake_flash_finder.bash /dev/mapper/fff_drop
Capacity mismatch at LBA 2097152, data does not match what was written. Size is most likely really 1073741824 bytes

To wipe the device if repeating tests:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/fff_wrap bs=64M status=progress conv=fdatasync
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/fff_drop bs=64M status=progress conv=fdatasync

To remove the device:

dmsetup remove fff_wrap
dmsetup remove fff_drop
losetup --detach "$DEV"
rm fff_test.flash

[0] https://salsa.debian.org/-/snippets/732
That is true, but this is so much worse.

1) this is a college

2) it was about research, fundamental to the mission of higher education

3) it was fraud, not error

4) It was HARVARD, exalted bastion of elite colleges, the most prestigious university in the US

I get Harvard is always more about influence and an insiders club rather than any real academic work, but still ... So many heads should roll over this.
To add to other comments here: think about what happens when a heavy object (e.g. a planet or a moon) moves, how quickly does the change to the gravitational field propagate to affect the distant surroundings?

Answer; at the speed of light.
Nice, but MySQL is even simpler than PostgreSQL.
I don't disagree that a moka pot and espresso are completely different processes, I'm saying that a 250 EUR espresso machine is not going to be capable of making actual espresso (barring stuff like Flair that takes away components to make it work).
I’ve heard one claim that we could bring all 8.5 billion of us to the living standard of a middle class American in the 1960’s and still reduce the size of our economic footprint to fit within sustainable boundaries for a healthy planet.

Not sure if that’s true. The claim is that wealth inequality and standards of living are not distributed evenly. A very small percentage of people on Earth emit much more carbon than the rest. Enough of a difference, perhaps, that the argument that we’d all be living in stone huts is a bit ridiculous if we were to focus on degrowth.

What I find hard to digest about all of this is that the foundations of economics is based on a lot of shady hand-waving and pontificating. How we base our society and planning for our future on such a weak discipline is tiring.
Because the tv is entertaining and "you" are not (haven't read the article).

This is rampant in early grades where children are still allowed to play, so they absorb everything.

Watching my kids, I started to question if we got school extremely wrong. After all, play seems to be the way we learn in early childhood?
The advantage of AirPods for social stigma is they aren't solely hearing aids, so you have a type of (casual) plausible deniability about why you're wearing them. They won't draw people's attention in the way that hearing aids (because they're different/unique) do.
How can anyone hold IP over an abstract vibe?
It is media I think.
Funded by YC (Your Cents)
You're not quite there. Annapurna does not make games, it publishes them. There's no significant number of 3D artist working there. Even on the movie side, they don't directly make the movies.
[dupe]

Lots more discussion on the source, as referenced in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504331
You're getting downvoted but you're 100% right.

The Reagan-era conservative propaganda is so unbelievably strong that even when a private corporation kills hundreds of people, people will STILL use the opportunity to point at the public sector.

No, they don't operate like the public sector because they're actually in the private sector. But the propaganda is so strong that it's literally unthinkable for a private actor to do something bad on a large scale - only the public sector can do something bad on a large scale.

Therefore, in this reasoning, Boeing must be like a public actor. It's really remarkable the mental effort people will go through to avoid any type of narrative that MIGHT imply the private sector needs more accountability.
Very cool. Could do with training on some decent handwriting
First, you need to give birth to the entire universe.
sure but parallel comes anyway from the English word, inheriting the meaning "occurring or existing at the same time or in a similar way; corresponding.", 2 processes that exist in the same time all time are, to coin a phrase, classically parallel (by the original English usage), but two processes where they exist only part of the time at the same time are not parallel in the original meaning although they may be for CS - but the question is if there is a special technical term for this condition that anyone knows of?
I cannot strongly enough suggest the book "Tending the Wild:
Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources" by M. Kat Anderson.

It was suggested to me in a comment here on HN, though I cannot now seem to find it by searching.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/tending-the-wild/paper
That is bigger than many city apartments.
> Most will stop when they see others get burned, others still will stop when they get burned, and a small minority will stop once there is no hand left to burn.

And this explains how drug problems solved themselves hundreds of years ago. Good thing we've all decided to stop doing debilitating drugs after seeing the consequences of addition in the past!
HP calculators use BCD not floats.
Seems like a rage bait post but: how do you update the firmware without an apple device?
Missouri bird flu case believed to be a 'one-off'
I would take it as a return to community/family focus instead of selfish individualism
Debatable. For all the complaints about regulation, there's lead in your cinnamon and filth in your deli meats. Listeriosis kills.

The regulators are under-resourced, if anything.
Okay. Objectively you're paying easily 2x more and, objectively, you're not safer in developed countries.
IMO a great example is that it means not building floating skyscrapers powered by diesel fuel so that people can shop at a mall in the middle of the ocean.
Got hit with a popup to signup to something before I could even read their "splash" message, jesus christ
Let's investigate that claim. Does OF physically and emotionally abuse its creators? Does it perpetuate human trafficking? Does OF create drug addiction and use that to control its creators? Does OF force its creators to have sexual contact with potentially violent or diseased/depraved individuals?

Ask yourself, would you prefer your family members to be under an IRL pimp or run their own OF?

If you look at this realistically, OF is not nearly as morally reprehensible as an IRL pimp.
I take it to mean less pleasure, which I suppose is a form of suffering.

I don’t follow the logic of the comment you’re replying to that degrowth would be a hard sell to a democracy, but reducing comfort and pleasure wouldn’t.
Consider valves or pressure regulators also! Lots of shared fundamentals with the flow of gases!
The Azure Quantum website has some good resources for learning about what’s required for performing error corrected runs of Shor’s algorithm in order to defeat current cryptographic schemes: https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/tools/quantum-cryptograp...

You can also try a small scale simulation of Shor’s algorithm and a resource estimation sample in the interactive playground available via VS Code for Web: https://vscode.dev/quantum/playground/
kingdom come, the last book written before his death, at once falls tremendously short of his reputation for prescience on the literal level, but exceeds with flying colours in prescience on the metaphorical level. the median-age HN reader would probably do well to start with it, as its zeitgeist will still be kicking around somewhere in your memory and so it will be in some sense maximally relatable of his bibliography. then work backwards to taste.
The question at the heart of people's anxiety here is: Would you bet that same $250 if AI had 5 years to be able to do it?
Lat time I went to an American DMV it was in a small town in Colorado to get a license renewal. I was in and out within 10 minutes.

My next license was in Canada. Made an appointment and it was about the same, maybe a bit more to get all the paperwork scanned to convert my US license.

The DMV doesn't have to suck. Government services don't have to suck, and a lot of them actually don't. Frequently they suck because they are tasked with doing far more than any similarly resourced private company could accomplish.
a) You only get this message if you stop at the title. The rest of the article is not a criticism of degrowth but a criticism of it's academic literature.

b) At 12.6 tCO2eq/cap/year [0] I would not call this a success.

[0] https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2023?vis=ghgpop#emissi...
You're 100% right, but I avoided touching on this more deeply because if you make any mention of institutionalized or systemic racism then a lot of people will stop listening.
Good coverage of this for those in the UK (or otherwise have access to BBC Sounds) in Things Fell Apart S2. Ep 1: The Most Mysterious Deaths.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v3dw

Actually more interesting to me than Stockholm Syndrome, as the captors of Patty Hearst had demands which would have sounded completely eye opening and reasonable if you'd had her upbringing.
Airpods don’t fit in my tiny ear canals. I even bought a smaller aftermarket tip and still no luck.
The planet absolutely could not support 8.5 billion people engaging in subsistence level farming, or hunter-gatherer living. At all.

The proof of this is North Korea, which is broadly in the middle of major ecological collapse because it's farming doesn't work and the people have essentially stripped the land bear trying to gather enough food to survive.
There are some niceties from it, primarily that it keeps games affordable to virtually everyone. The price of a video game hasn’t really changed since the 90s. If anything, it’s come down given how many major games are F2P these days.

I don’t think it’s abhorrent in principle that people with expendable income bankroll the game for people without in exchange for silly skins. Somebody has to pay, and I suspect the upfront purchase price will be higher than people expect.
Words etched in stone? Bah! Words were created for speach!

> For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.

> - Socrates

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439
Yah.. it was well known but when it happens to you it's hard to really not try to be open minded. That is why his rant is so famous.

I was rolled up into Oracle through a series of acquisitions a few years before Sun.. it all went down the same way. You know what's going to happen but it's still a shock when a manager you knew before you joined Oracle and wouldn't have behaved the Oracle way instructs you to lie to a customer cause "that's how it's done here and we're going to have to go along with it."

You also don't realize how shocking it's going to be to see the office re-decorated until they come in and rip everything down and put up pictures of Larry's boats and airplanes and other toys.

When we were acquired Larry Ellison got on a big conference call we were all allowed to join and we could raise a virtual hand and ask questions. To his credit he answered everything 100% truthfully and transparently, and the questions were answered exactly the way the Internet expects he would answer.
I've written a HIPPA-compliant application that was VPS-hostable. It's been a while, but IIRC, it simply involved a combination of TLS everywhere and encrypting the sensitive fields in the DB. I don't remember if there was any other trick involved, but it wasn't difficult. By far the hardest thing about that project was the complexity of the medical codes-- not HIPAA compliance-- and that is something the cloud wouldn't help with at all.
IMHO, the problem when we try to innovate is that we don't try to solve problems. An innovation may or may not solve a problem, and it should have no value if it does not solve a problem.

Blockchain was an innovation that almost did not solve any problem (except for cryptocurrencies, there is nothing useful that blockchain can do and that could not be done better already).

LLMs are an innovation in search of problems. There is a bubble because it is a gold rush, but it's not clear at all what it solves (though it's clear that it brings big problems).

Sending people to the Moon/Mars does not solve any problem worth solving in itself. Etc.

Engineering should be (again IMHO) about solving problems, not about making money. And we have plenty of problems that we as a society need to solve (going to Mars is definitely not one of them).
Is the hearing aid market big on modularity and compatibility?

isn’t it good to have multiple options so consumers can pick what they value?
Nimona was not a massive hit.
Types of companies that use software (2019)