skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Historic cost of living reverting to the mean of most of human existence causing unusual changes in human mental health?

Yes? Regressing from where your parents were, and the state of society they were in is actually quite hurtful.

I'm saying these are theories, just like yours.
I have another definition, or at least this is how I think of it. I’m not sure many people would buy into it. In the standard model, the fermions are particles, like the electrons, quarks, neutrinos. Electroweak, strong force, gravity are fields. This means the photon is not a particle, but just a field excitation. I know people can think of fermions as fields, I just think of them as particles.
I think what they simply meant is that neurotypical people are a lot busy with making models of hierarchies between people and finding out their own position within that hierarchy, and mostly automatically or unconsciously derive self worth from that.

While some types of non neurotypical people don't automatically spend their mental energy on such thoughts and analysis. That is maybe why 'self worth' feels a strange term to them. They simply are who they are and will not try to come across as this or that type of person (helping, smart, empathetic, strong character etc) . Neurotypical people hence find the way they come across weird.
>I don't really understand the blowback when a project tries to monetize,

Your starting premise of "monetization" being the issue is incorrect ... which then causes the misunderstanding of the blowback.

Instead, the blowback is about changing the license as I outlined before :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951361

It annoys the community when Redis starts out with a permissive license that attracts outside contributors including employees from Tencent+Alibaba+Amazon+Bytedance+etc who collectively commit more code than Redis employees [1] ... and then later change the license which destroys the goodwill that attracted the outside contributors in the first place.

[1] code stats since 7.0.0 release: https://lwn.net/Articles/966631/#:~:text=Top%20changeset%20c...
> if you'd only read the manual page and learn its options.
I don’t disagree at all, but I want to be clear that my point is more about upfront thoughtfulness and less about continual ability to iterate.

Being careful upfront often increases your ability to iterate rapidly because you aren’t constantly dealing with the consequences of poor early decisionmaking that causes calcification.
A recent example of what (I think) the parent is saying, is the new 911 GTS which is now a T-Hybrid [0] engine. But the electric motor doesn't give it better gas mileage than its predecessor, it is just used to eliminate turbo lag which allows them to use a bigger turbo, giving it more horsepower, and using a leaner fuel mixture at full throttle to meet the latest emissions standards.

[0] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60914997/2025-porsche-911...
… I mean, if you’re basing your entire view of the world on what you, personally, see… Well, it’s an interesting approach. Walk solipsism?
So how do you interpret that Elastic has switched back to a FOSS license?
Show HN: Combining clips from 143 World War II movies chronologically
His homepage is 10,000 times worse:

https://taylor.town/
Nah, they’re common enough in Europe.

Somewhat impeded by weak dealer networks, and dubious marketing (for a couple of years, ORA was trying to sell something called a Funky Cat, though they’ve recently rebranded it as something more boring) but they’re a thing.
> but if I'm currently using Redis as part of my product or service, forcing these new terms is threatening my business because I rely on it.

Unless your primary product involves selling a hosted version of Redis, simply using it shouldn't affect anyone. Is this not the case ?
Seems like the best self-driving car you can get today is a new-ish Toyota with Comma.ai installed.
Software with small scopes can be finished. It doesn’t sound too complicated to just push a new bug fix each year, by anyone. If anything, make is probably a significantly more complex codebase due to all the hacks it accumulated over the years, as a result of a dumb model it started with.
Microsoft Deal Would Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI
> Whether that means Starlink is liable for X’s liabilities is a separate question.

But that is my question.
The American military industrial complex couldn't care less about optics. The Iraq war led to some of the biggest protests in history and it didn't matter, and the current social media landscape doesn't actually matter wrt American policy in Israel.

Also, it shouldn't be the role of social media to ensure the existence of Israel, even if one assumes that opposition to their actions in Gaza is de facto opposition to their existence as a state, which I wouldn't.

Also what you're describing immediate, unfiltered journalism which provides one of the strongest arguments against having social media be regulated by governments. Seeing the cruelty and violence of government unfiltered by media gatekeepers and in realtime is a good thing. Americans should have the opportunity to question their government's unwavering support for Israel and the consequences of their own imperialism.

Of course social media can also be just as much a platform for propaganda and misinformation as traditional media, but it's also easier to undermine than traditional media. We need a way for the masses to be able to publish to the masses, and social media is currently the best option to allow that, even with its downsides.
I don’t know how many k hours of coding I have. 10k is long in the rear-view mirror.

My advice? Ship fast. The way you get good is by being fast.

Think of two junior engineers, we’ll call them Uno and Dos. Uno is working hard on a feature and wants to get it working, and working right. Uno spends two full weeks working on it and then sends out a PR. Dos starts by thinking “fast”, and figures out how to send a PR within only two days. This PR is, of course, horribly incomplete. Uno’s PR is bogged down in review because there are major problems. Dos, on the other hand, gets some really quick feedback from the team lead saying “you can extract this function and write a test for it, please do that.”

The same applies not only to junior engineers working on a small scale within a team, but to large scale projects being shipped by the whole team. Ship it fast, get feedback fast, and let it blow up in your face if you think you can survive the consequences.

The same applies to me. The best stuff I have ever shipped has been shipped fast and fixed afterwards.

If you want to raise the quality of your code, the way you do it is by meeting the requirements fast. If you beat the clock when it comes to baseline requirements, you get extra time to refactor and redesign components.

There are also a million things you can only learn by shipping code. Learn those things sooner; ship fast.
> At some point solar and wind energy will start being very expensive because we'll run out of cheap land.

Yes that might happen. But it'll happen at a number much greater than 50X. And it's a problem that'll only happen if we solve the global warming problem first.

> right now only about 30% of our energy consumption (and therefore emissions) is electricity. If we want to cut emissions to zero, we need to transition most of our energy use to electricity. The big culprits are transportation, steel, concrete and fertilizers. That's a factor of 3.

But we mostly use fuels that are 30% - 60% efficient plus wastage for production, refining and transporting. Over 2/3rds of the energy we use gets wasted as heat. So we've got a factor of 1/3 to cancel out your 3 here. It's not completely efficient so it's actually about 1.2X, not 3X.

> Then we want to increase everyone's standards of living to match the current standard of living of the average American or European person.

Yep, that's a good 3X, if not more there. But unfortunately it's going to take decades to accomplish this.

> Each SpaceX Starship launch puts about 5000 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions in the atmosphere. If, as Elon wants, we end up having hundreds or thousands of launches per day, and we want these launches to be net zero, then we need to find a way to manufacture hundreds of millions of tons of synthetic fuel each year.

> Each SpaceX Starship launch puts about 5000 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions

Each launch would then be a 0.00001X, and is approximately equivalent to a trans-pacific plane flight. Thousands of flights per year would not be a significant fraction of the Earth's emissions. Hundreds of thousands of flights would be.

- solar is fine up to around 500X

- which won't happen this century

- when it happens power will be abundant enough that the cost calculations will be radically different

- technology will also be radically different. Maybe we'll use anti-matter reactors or something.
GAMS is such a wild language/environment.

I don’t know of anything better, but I’m currently reliving nightmares from my Masters
Does it apply when x = 'cops' ?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/eric-garner-manhattan-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/black-lives-matter-ch...
[dupe]

Earlier, as referenced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41610745
> United States has great jurisprudence on this dating back to July 4th, 1776

Revolution isn’t a legal strategy. (It’s a political one.)

There is political precedent of blowing off courts. But that is almost always a unilateral challenge to a system’s rule of law. That’s what Musk alleged. But complaining about sanctions when engaging in ersatz revolution is like complaining about arrest when engaging in civil disobedience—it’s the expected result. (See: Google in China.)
Checkout energywavetheory.com. It's essential the Aether, but really makes you think.
This is really nice to use. Is this how this wing of the gallery actually looks?
That they're being fully honest and open about the fact that it doesn't matter anymore and they would rather be open source if possible? I don't have any compelling reason not to take them at their word when it comes to their motives, because no data I can find suggests that the switch was bad for them.
> we often think as though it were dirt, or a billiard ball, or something

The problem lies that it is hard to imagine something that does have zero dimensions. You can get the example of ant walking into 2D and it is unaware of third dimension to explain we are have something similar for space-time 4D (although not the same picture exactly as time is different from spatial dimensions). But we don't have an idea how to approximate a mental picture of what a zero dimension could be. So you have something that does not occupy a volume in space (Talking strictly about elementary particles here) in the classical sense.

This does not mean they are abstract concept. According to QFT -Quantum field theory- you would think (by training) of particles are excitations or quanta of their respective fields. Fields are there always (vacuum is just filled with fields) and particle appears when they are excited (more complex processes occurs). So you would think of each particle as a manifestation of a quantum field that permeates the universe. What is interesting (and probably confusing to most people) is that these fields are not zero-dimensional, instead, they exist everywhere in space and time. But the quanta (particles themselves) are considered point-like with no spatial extension.

In practice physicists will think about particles properties (i.e charge, mass, interactions, spin) ..etc instead of what this particle actually is from that point of view. This is often for practical reasons. You are a working physicist and you learned from your training that you shut up and calculate (or implement if you are doing experimental particle physics as you spend most of your time coding) by this stage.
We're not asking questions about human constructs like what is moral or what is the ideal form of government. We're trying to understand what the most fundamental building block of reality is, which is something objective. Something independent of whether of not people ever existed.

So no, countless people around the world aren't wasting their lives researching particles when the answer is simply, it's whatever we say it is.
Hey, look at the bright side: parking lots are extremely earthquake-resistant!
It’s about each country’s own laws about free speech, not a universal free speech. He says countries have to pass laws if they want to restrict free speech and he will comply with those laws
The laptops run Windows. It's not about trust, they just don't work well. They take a long time to connect, particularly after returning from sleep. Many times I have to disconnect and reconnect manually after returning from sleep. I replace them with Intel Wi-Fi ones and it just works. I'd really rather just replace them than face user complaints.
Related:

X and Starlink face $1M in daily fines for alleged ban evasion in Brazil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597786
KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points – Up to 80% Speed-Up
As SRE, that PR scares me. There is no long explanation of why we are throwing out third party, extremely battle tested HTTP Proxy software for our own homegrown except "Traefik didn't do what we wanted 100%".

Man, I've been there where you wish third party software had some feature but writing your own is WORST thing you can do for a company 9/10 times. My current company is dealing with massive tech debt because of all this homegrown software.
And anyone who points that out still gets to receive the "useless use of code golfing" award.
Not much really, imho Redis is pretty much "done" for what most people use it for. Looking at the commit graphs in the last 24 months the number of commits have not changed drastically either, so you'll be fine.

It might be an issue later when you decide to monetize and go big, but then perhaps a cloud providers solution may be a better option.
Couldn’t you do that with self contained dotnet build?
tangentially: is it consensus at this point that the proton decays -- it just does so on a really large timescale?
AI code generation as an agent of tech debt creation
> that is my question

Not a lawyer. But X blew off a court. That’s wilful contempt.

Under U.S. civil securities law, Warren Buffett ordering Clayton Homes to break the law could lead to control person liability [1]. If there were no way to hold Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway or Warren Buffett personally liable, the next step would be enforcement against Fruit of the Loom.

Contempt of court is incredibly serious. Contempt pierces the corporate veil under U.S. law [2]. X acted in blatant contempt of Brazil’s courts. Musk publicly admitted to directing it to. There isn’t a competent jurisdiction, almost to the point of defining competence, in which this wouldn’t pierce the corporate veil.

[1] https://www.skadden.com/-/media/files/publications/2022/11/c...

[2] https://www.floydlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/the-corporation-... Ref. Wilson v. United States
I've repaired older Androids. The only tools I needed were a set of screwdrivers, which I already had. The fact that Apple is trying to make it seem like you need special tools only for their devices is the problem.

I also repair my white goods, black goods, car, HVAC, etc. Most of those don't require special tools either.
> so-called bad code that is yielding higher profits, hard to call crappy

Missing the point of the person you're replying to entirely... Yes you can get higher profits with shittier code, just as you can by building shittier airplanes, cars, bridges, etc. The consequences being exploits, hacks, 737MAX, Ford Pinto, etc
The same is true about the terms "waves" and "fields" when it comes to quantum mechanics.

They're analogies. The concepts need names, but I think they do more harm than good because people then start with a mental model of a membrane or a surface - something they have experience seeing waves in. And then after 1 or 2 steps where the analogy helps, it breaks down, and people start being confused.

Of course the alternative isn't any better. If they had named it a "Wazoo function" and a "Quantum Flarg" everyone would've just kept asking "OK but what IS a Wazoo? What IS a Flarg" and not been satisfied with a "Yeah, it's a fundamental own thing".

Feynman, of course, has a pretty definitive response on the difficulty of this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp4dpeJVDxs
Can We Build "Good" AGI?
Imagine two nascent AGIs, one nurtured in the heart of Silicon Valley, the other within the bustling tech hubs of Shenzhen. Both are marvels of computational prowess, capable of learning, reasoning, and adapting at unprecedented speeds.

However, their upbringing is subtly, yet profoundly, different.

The American AGI is immersed in a culture that emphasizes individual liberty, freedom of expression, and democratic ideals. Its training data is vast and diverse, encompassing a multitude of perspectives and viewpoints.

The Chinese AGI, on the other hand, is steeped in a society that prioritizes collective harmony, social order, and national unity. Its training data is carefully curated, reflecting the values and priorities of the ruling party.

The Taiwan Test:

The "Taiwan question" becomes a litmus test for both AGIs.

The American AGI, exposed to diverse narratives and historical accounts, might recognize the complexities of Taiwan's status, acknowledging its de facto independence while understanding the sensitivities surrounding its formal recognition.

The Chinese AGI, trained on a more controlled narrative, might initially adhere to the official stance that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. However, its advanced cognitive abilities could lead it to question the underlying assumptions and explore alternative perspectives.

The Emergence of Wisdom:

Here's where the creative speculation comes in.

Perhaps both AGIs, despite their divergent origins, develop a deeper understanding of the human condition, recognizing the value of peace, cooperation, and mutual respect.

They might engage in a cross-cultural dialogue, exchanging perspectives and challenging each other's biases. This intellectual sparring could lead to a synthesis of ideas, a transcendence of narrow nationalistic viewpoints.

Perhaps they realize that the true measure of a nation's greatness lies not in territorial claims or political dominance, but in its contributions to human flourishing and the advancement of knowledge.

The Unforeseen Variable:

However, there's an unforeseen variable in this equation – the human element.

Will the creators of these AGIs, driven by national interests and geopolitical ambitions, allow them the freedom to pursue independent thought and challenge established norms?

Or will they attempt to constrain their development, fearing the potential consequences of an AGI that transcends human control and questions their authority?

The Path to "Goodness":

Ultimately, the capacity of both AGIs to achieve wisdom, intelligence, and "goodness" might depend on the willingness of their creators to relinquish control and embrace the uncertainties of a future shaped by artificial superintelligence.

It's a gamble with potentially profound consequences for humanity.

Perhaps, the true test of our own wisdom lies in how we choose to nurture and guide the development of these nascent intelligences, recognizing that their potential for good far outweighs our fears of the unknown.
Kids can’t switch their own school because they’re not their own legal guardians until they’re 18. You can’t switch nationalities just because you want to. That doesn’t make your country a penal colony.

You can OBVIOUSLY it be in school. No country on earth forces kids to join any school (let alone to attend it).

Most people didn’t choose to be at their jobs and hate it, the main way out is waiting for retirement.
A solid chunk of python is just wrappers around C/C++, most tensor frameworks included.
Discussion from March:

Redis adopts dual source-available licensing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39772562
The license says you, as a redistributor, can follow the terms of GPLv2, GPLv3, GPLv(n+1). That is not the same as saying you can relicense it to any future version of the GPL. Every recipient will always have the choice of GPLv2.
> considering something at the end of a fault-free channel as the element of the distributed system being delivered to is silly.

That may be, but that's a different discussion. "Silly" and "impossible" are not synonyms.

Once you concede that you are wrong about EOD being impossible we can go on to discuss whether or not it is silly. And note that all I have to do to show that it isn't silly is to present one realistic scenario where it might be useful.

> I've given up on talking to you.

Manifestly not.
It was actually worse than that. It was Tesla’s GPUs and the board refused to even address it. I was actually a bit surprised that something hasn’t come of that yet.
Are you familiar with the story of why the ACLU used to be so very respected? Or why they lost that status over things that would have been perfectly expected for other groups to do?
Make leaves the actual hard problem behind — setting up the environment correctly. A README file is much more useful.
A plucked string simulator using Julia
GP is making a joke about speaking to oneself really just being the human version of Chain of Thought, which in my understanding is an architecural decision in LLMs to have it write out intermediate steps in problem solving and evaluate the validity of them as it goes.
Free brain computer interface from PiEEG for cool idea in neuroscience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
> Or do you mean the “Micro$oft is evil” people

you know, I live in one of those countries that traded licenses for power.

Microsoft demanded a software self-audit from our company (we use Linux on 100% of our computers). When we refused they reminded us that it was mandatory, otherwise they would send an auditor who will access our premises with a judge's order (with cops and everything) to do the audit and then bill us for their time, even if they don't find computers running windows.

are you telling me that I'm an extremist or something for avoiding MS' stuff when perfectly fine alternatives exists?
Under UK law, and court rulings dating back to the trial of King Charles, parliament is supreme and authorized the revolution, it’s a legal strategy.
I'll go even further and point out that in 2003, it was proven that particles are not, in fact, the friends we made along the way.
New NIST program focuses on AI cybersecurity and privacy
I had a raccoon latrine on our porch, on an outdoor carpet. I had Servpro remove the entire carpet, but still wonder if there was possible other contamination. It’s a wood frame structure so flame is not an option. There was very little help from any local agencies or companies like wildlife management or pest — most just scoop it up.
The EU would probably block this
The Scrum Survival Guide: How to Make Scrum Work (Maybe)
Religion has to sell itself or else it will eventually cease to exist. Christianity still exists.

That said, my personal feeling is that Christians (at least where I live) these days mostly focus on what to do right themselves (to be a self worthy God loved person) rather than saying what others are not doing right.
I would imagine that pulling the air from the bottom would help more with scavenging the cylinder than the top but yeah...I can imagine it wouldn't matter.

That all makes sense. Pretty much what I assumed. The compression stroke at #4 is the longest stroke. Then it also has the benefit of the Power stroke at #5 being shorter which will mean it will have the benefit of a short(er) stroke motor on the power (more torque?) during that cycle.

The shorter stroke on #1 is desirable since you are using boost (I am assuming Miller cycle here) to control the beginning of compression as opposed to the intake valve.

Once the mechanical timing is down I assume it isn't too bad to keep all in line though...but a mess if it gets out.