skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rome wasn't built in a day.

We only have a day.

> I'd like to know how anyone with an ounce of reality thinks we're going to reduce emissions substantially faster than we already are.

The problem is political. The idea that politics is fixed, unchangeable, is obviously false. For example, look at the radical changes since 2015.
I guess a Buddhist telling you that you're unenlightened is the equivalent of a Christian telling you that you won't be saved.
That's why I said "somewhat."

You aren't telling the database how to get those results from the files on the disk. You are telling it what values you want, matching what conditions, and (in the case of joins) what related data you want. If you want an aggregation grouped by some criteria you say what values you want summed (or averaged, etc.) and what the grouping criteria are, but not how to do it.

Not a perfect example and it breaks entirely if you get into stuff like looping over a cursor but it is why SQL is usually called a declarative language.
I guess I was a bit direct but I don't fully understand the down vote. I was not implying that the README was bad and it does have corrections that would improve it. My reason for not raising a PR is some repo owners don't care and I really didn't want to go through the effort unless they actually care.
The creativity and technical skills on show in so many of these small games is astounding too. The intervening years have shown us people who have learnt to push the hardware to the absolute limits and leveraged modern PC tools to create things well beyond many of the games that were released in the C64's lifetime (and the Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX etc).
Urban Machine: robotics and AI to reclaim lumber for reuse
It gets worse than that, it's a term for a trading language that was mostly Italian and originated in Turkey.
Better to be dead then to be a slave in russia- which almost always means you will become a slave dragged against your will to the trenches to die in another enslavement campaign. So the choice boils down russia or not russia - and beeing dead either way.
Nice! Learning how QR codes work has been on my todo list for ages, this was a nice introduction.
> humanity should be working on a peaceful painless extinction

We're already way ahead of you. Check out developed country birth rates.
A non-US actor would be interesting indeed, and it's also more likely than ETs.

However, let me point out that this:

> The news is that the US military is acting very much like they aren’t responsible for recent sightings

... has multiple prosaic interpretations that are also relatively likely. To name a few:

- "The news" is not the US military. You have at least one level of indirection there.

- The US military saying something doesn't make it what they truly believe. Disinformation is a real military thing. Even disinformation aimed at a third party (e.g. rival nations who could believe the US military is asking its own population [things]).

- Inter-agency rivalry is a thing. Top secret projects may not be known to everyone within a military.

- Drones are now widespread, so the US military encouraging the usual UFO believers to be on the lookout may help them spot actual threats. It doesn't have to be anything physics-defying, just true unidentified flying objects.

- Finally, though less likely in my opinion, it could be the US military believes in UAPs of physics-defying or even ET origin, but it's just another case of Men Staring at Goats. I mean, in their history they have believed all sorts of kooky things with zero backing evidence.
I have been replacing most of my hardware with Apple products recently. In an effort to empathize with regular users who don’t buy a laptop to run Linux and all that.

One thing I am surprised doesn’t exist is a non Magic Mouse, with Apple branding. There is absolutely no way the average person sees the Magic Mouse and feels compelled by the gestures. It seems like a missed opportunity not to have Logitech 903 Apple Edition and make it an Apple Store exclusive.
I miss when antitrust regulations were focused on preventing harm to consumers, rather than competitors. Clearly marketplace is a net benefit to consumers, hence its popularity. If you’ve ever used it compared to any of the other unauthenticated marketplaces it would be obvious why.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Allen_Bartlett
The Greeks and Indians are closer to each other culturally than people are willing to admit. They should be considered cousins in terms of their philosophy, cultural, and religion.

That there were Greek states and colonies in Norther India/Gandhara that spoke Greek for generations is not given enough scrutiny imo. The cultural impact of that transmission not always clear outside of something concrete. Like the most obvious being the Greco style Buddhist statues in Gandhara.

So Stoicism is probably similar because of some cultural link that's lost. This is especially likely considering that the rise of Stoicism coincides with Alexander's conquest and lateral cultural contact.
Linux 6.12 Released with Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, AMD RDNA4 and More
I genuinely wonder for ProtonMail (and anything web-based, really): isn't it a fact that if I use ProtonMail, my browser will download and execute a client every time? In the sense that I don't actually know what code my client is running. ProtonMail could totally decide to serve me a client that actually leaks data, and I would not know it unless I somehow save and audit the client every. single. time.

If I use e.g. Signal, I can of course build it from sources I trust, or download it from the Play Store and trust that Google won't send me a modified version of it (at least it seems less likely and harder to pull).

Am I wrong in considering that web-based clients cannot really be considered secure?
20 years is a generation, however for many of us, Apple's walled garden was a refreshing concept versus the mobile operators gardens.

First of all, getting SDKs was akin to console devkits, back in 2004 getting a Symbian SDK was still a commercial only product for example, same for Windows CE/Pocket PC,...

Followed by about 80% tax, only to be listed on mobile phones magazines, with the SMS code to trigger the application download.

Hence why everyone rushed for the garden, it was indeed easier to be creative in Apple land.

Now 20 years later, there is another reality.
"Making revenue" is far from being the only metric by which we deem something worthy.
They don't seem to care about that part.
I don't see how you can come to that conclusion.

About 1/3 of Americans have a tattoo [1]. Of the people without tattoos 66% say seeing a tattoo on someone gives them neither a negative or positive opinion of the person.

A tattoo on the buttocks will not cause skin cancer on the face. (There is a small association between tattoos and skin cancer but that is skin cancers at the tattoo sight, and it is not so much that they cause the cancer but rather make it harder to notice the cancer so it tends to be farther along before detected).

So I don't see how it could not be controversial to cut of Medicare to someone over something that a solid majority don't care about and that almost certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with their skin cancer.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/15/32-of-ame...
Yeah I was talking about small apps/services for personal use rather than professional applications built to serve a business need.

Two ideas: "For every picture of food I take, create a recipe to recreate it so I can make it at home in the future" or "Create an app where I can log my food for today and automatically calculate the calories based on the food I put in".
I've watched the actual SICP lectures before (the 1986 recordings on MIT OCW). They're often praised for the information density, but it actually still wastes a lot of time listening to students' Q&A, the lecturers drawing the class' attention to various attempts at "multimedia" presentation in the classroom, simply not having the entire lesson plan worked out in advance (i.e., not being able to preempt the Q&A) etc. For that matter, the sheer amount of time spent on writing things on a chalkboard really adds up.

And of course the order of the material could be debated and rearranged countless ways. One of my future planned projects is to do my own video series presenting the material according to my own sensibilities.

It's nice to hear that the course apparently still stays true to its roots while using more current languages like Python. Python is designed as a pragmatic, multi-paradigm language and I think people often don't give it enough credit for its expressive power using FP idioms (if not with complete purity).
`curl hashbang.sh` to see script without running
not seeing your point
Up front though in every other thing I’ve read is that this is going to be hard, so that doesn’t seem like a fair argument either. I don’t tell people that the VI text editor is easy to learn or even that it’s even superior to anything at all, only that’s worked for me and that I hope everyone finds something that works for them. It’s not like we need any more barriers to helping people code and write, yet they all take a set of complex practicing to be proficient given we aren’t wired by genetics or anything do such complex activities such as language and walking upright.
Using a sterling motor would give you mechanical wear.
The network effect always wins.
The fact that Windows can upgrade an installation in place with relatively high success is impressive. Is it possible to have an install that's been repeatedly upgraded all the way from MS-DOS without needing a reformat somewhere along the way?
it don't make sense to stock hot plutonium to use it later, it loose power and decays overtime wherever you use it or not!
> It would imply that denying one's own wrongdoings is a necessary prerequisite for being actually evil.

It just came to mind that in studying IT security I read a criminolgy expert (not specific to IT), who said that criminals need a justification or rationalization; iirc examples include 'this big company steals from ordinary people', 'they won't miss it', etc.

Despite the Silicon Valley fantasy and the neo-alt-whatever attempt to condition people otherwise, humans are inherently moral. Sociopaths are very rare. Even criminals need a rationalization.

Look how much effort political leaders put into giving people a rationale, even awful people like Hitler, Stalin, etc.
> The price of renewables has plunged to be cheaper than fossil fuels

Is there a source for this? If you're referencing LCOE, remember that does not account for storage costs for intermittent power sources (wind, solar) so it's an incredibly misleading number.
The port location is not the reason Cook isn’t using it. The article just made a guess.

Port location is a non issue.

The Magic Mouse just sucks in general. It’s a terrible mouse. Poor ergonomic. No real right click. No physical scroll wheel.

They went way too fancy with the design. I’m guessing it was a Jonny Ive design.
That thing just won't die!
> if what you're vending is the software instead of the service (not what people usually do now, but there was a time)

I'm very curious what this means. Can you give an example?
NASA missions still routinely overperform. Curiosity's been operational on Mars for a good 12 years now.
I wrote https://github.com/aunum/gold as an attempt to try ML with Go.

I came to the opinion that it’s just not worth it. This isn’t what Go was designed for and it will likely never be a good language to interface with ML.

The Go to C FFI is too slow for native Cuda ops and Go doesn’t have a good bridge to Python.

Rust is a much much better option in these scenarios
Opinion: Frontline Mpox Responders Aren't Getting the Support They Need
Recent Veritasium video on the topic, "I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8
While I've never heard it put exactly that way I have been listening to a lot of Ram Dass and he has a few talks where he discusses Trungpa Rinpoche ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6gyam_Trungpa#Controver... ). The way I remember it for Ram Dass he saw Trungpa as enlightened so all the "bad" stuff he did was sort of ok because that was Trungpa's dharma and he did it in a detached state.

I understood it like.. just as there are people who's dharma is to reduce suffering in the world there are people who produce it and that's fine and normal.

LE: I think Ram Dass used the Hindu meaning for dharma which afaik means "path in life" not "teaching" like in Buddhism
"Lambdas" and functions are not different things, in a functional-programming perspective (i.e. where you're operating with referential transparency and immutable objects anyway). The lambda syntax is just function-definition syntax that doesn't include an implicit name binding.
Pointing out one good passkey implementation does not mean we should remove memorized secret non-physical passwords as security.

A physical pass key can have all the biometrics in the world and be completely unprotected from law enforcement. Requiring multiple devices is useless if all devices can be unlocked with things I can see you carrying.
The fundamental differences is that the old GitHub was trying to be git's web UI, and the GitHub under MS is trying to be an IDE.
Not sure if it's true anymore.

It made the headlines in 2017 and sort of became a meme, but in practice, indiscriminately avoiding left turns in routing can lead to huge inefficiencies.

In my city, trying to avoid one left turn may mean taking 3-4 block detour due to one-way streets. It may decrease fuel usage, but it increases delivery time, and if I'm not mistaken, for most carriers, driver time costs more than price of fuel.
The US put a fission reactor in space too. They did it first, in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A

Edit: it’s apparently still there and will be for a long time (!) albeit non-functional:

> Decay date: April 3, 5966 (planned)
> PGP has the same problem: yes, it can be used securely, but that’s not sufficient in 2024.

Does that justify saying "it sucks shit", though? Especially considering that it was written in 1991, and not in 2024?

I feel like I don't regularly read blog posts from aerospace engineers that sound like "The Apollo mission sucked shit. Those morons had no idea what they were doing. We younger aerospace engineers who have not had a fraction of the impact Apollo did have been saying it for years: use our new stuff because we are the smart ones".
Finding “V’ger” hilarious.
NT 6.3 was Windows 8.1, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers...
There have been iterative substantial improvements to the NT architecture since Windows 2000 and later with Vista (where the UAC model started, rather poorly).
Yeah, if the commit record acts like an audit log I think there’s a lot of value. I wonder how hard it is to get the exact environment used to build an artifact.

I’m a big fan of this style [1] of building base containers and think that keeping the container where you’ve stacked 4 layers (up to resources) makes sense. Call it a build container and keep it forever.

1. https://phauer.com/2019/no-fat-jar-in-docker-image/
There's various youtubers who have tried upgrading MS OSes thru as many versions as possible and they have taken it pretty far
Wow, I am surprised to hear that. Is blocking calls not a thing there? In Sweden you can say that no sellers may call your numbers, companies where you are a customer excluded though.

I never get spam calls or sellers calling me.
My attempt ... On the table was a big red jug maybe full of milk but it was screaming BIG HEAVY DO NOT TOUCH and if you break it lashings by tongue and angry voices will be followed by lashings by a heavy leather belt and tears streaming down not so much due to pain but the needless humiliation of it all.
I’m not saying it’s true but I really feel like I see this article once or twice a year. I’m not sure what’s going on.
> Do you really think a change in air temperature of 8-15C over decades is repeatedly localized in just one place?

Sure .. we can see this kind of "stutter" in dynamic environments all the time, vortexes "pulsing" in stream water for example.

The "rapid warming" followed by "slow cooling" pattern speaks to a lower tempreture being the long term natural stable temp. for the local region duringthat much longer period .. but interrupted by a pulsing in the climatic cell stability that routinely brings warmth in from the equatorial zone - likely via water currents, possibly via air currents.

Such things can happen during stable global mean land|sea energy levels as that's literally just an average of the activity of all the cells across the planet.
Classic Apple cope.
You can do this with other languages (C# for example) as well. Memory is so cheap, though, that most companies should spend their money on increasing memory rather than on paying programmers to optimize memory usage.
Sounds very emotional.
"everyone always told me that the implied setting of AD&D was post-apocalyptic"

Really?

I guess in the sense that Britian is post apocalyptic with the ruins of several great societies scattered across the land. I'm not sure that really qualifies as post apocalyptic in the thunder the Barbarian or Aloy sense in my book.

DnD has always struck me as high magic, high fantasy medieval/feudal Europe.
Including preserving custom user config (colors, background images)

I feel strange about hating on MS after the 2000s
I'm sorry why would you buy a product that the creators don't want? This is like the zoom RTO.
Buddhism is definitely a religion. The founder of the religion himself talked about an order of monks.

What happens with Buddhism in particular, especially in the West, is that people pick and choose what they want to believe from it to the point that whatever they're left with is hardly Buddhism at all, and it does end up being a philosophy.

For an example, ask the next white person you meet who identities as a Buddhist if they believe that there are 8 hells. They're going to tell you that's, to use your word, "nonsense".
> I, therefore, appeal to you in the name of humanity to stop the war. You will lose nothing by referring all the matters of dispute between you and Great Britain to an international tribunal of your joint choice.

On the contrary he had everything to lose. Backpedaling on his entire agenda, performing an about face would have been political suicide. Hitler stopping the war by himself in response to Gandhi could never have happened. Gandhi would have to have convinced not only Hitler but all of Hitler's henchmen. If they stopped the war, they would have all been finished politically. Their only rational end game was to keep marching forward.

If Hitler had approached his men saying you received an awakening letter from Gandhi which changed his outlook, he would have been regarded as crazy, probably stripped of his power.

> For, if a fair number of men and women be found in India who would be prepared without any ill will against the spoliators to lay down their lives rather than bend the knee to them ...

The Nazis were fanatics who were also willing to lay down their lives and did, including Hitler.
You forget that doctors recommend smoking as safe in tabacco advertising back in 40's.

https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/more...
Do you have a past example where this already-proven theorem/new tools/objects would have been only possible by human but not AI? Any such example would make your arguments much more approachable by non-mathematicians.
Ignoring the feasibility of the physics, imagine trying to calculate all the resulting trajectories to point antennas at to talk to the probe. With computers and equipment of the 1970s.
I didn't say sending single photons at a time is a viable communications mechanism. I said a photon will travel indefinitely, without losing any energy, until it interacts with something.

Interestingly, if you send out a single photon from a radio antenna not even the universe itself will have 'determined' which direction it even went until it DOES interact, because there would be a Quantum Mechanical superposition/indeterminacy similar to the famous slit-experiment, if you were dealing with one photon at a time.

So even the thought experiment itself is complex due to wave/particle duality.
Possibly sentient? Aren't like crows sentient? Like, with the 'red dot in face in mirror' test?
Single digit dollar sounds more like the Appollo program. I think it's been a long time since the entire NASA budget was more than a penny per tax dollar.

NASA says the voyager mission cost 865 million dollars from the start in 1972 to Neptune encounter in 1989, and currently runs at 7 mllion dollars per year.
That’s way more deep than my lucid dreams which are exactly like my regular dreams, except I can control what happens in them, like being in a movie I’m also directing and writing.

Usually it’s just something like I’m at a restaurant but I can just eat whatever I want because I know it’s just a dream and I can make it a different kind of restaurant instead if I want. I certainly never had anything spiritual about it.

I think a good way to describe my lucid dreaming is it’s just like day-dreaming, but immersive because it feels like I’m actually there experiencing it instead of just thinking about myself experiencing it.
For me: I used to be a tiny bit good at lucid dreaming, just for fun. Now this skill has developed back, but it's still enough to be able to wake up from annoying dreams.

Those include: being with persons you no longer want to be with, writing exams at schools and failing terribly, repeating nonsense calculation/problem solving dreams...
The course is using Python to implement a Scheme, then uses Scheme to implement a Scheme. Python could and should be removed from the course.

Python has very poor support for functional programming. Lists are not cons based, lambdas are crippled, pattern matching is horrible and not even expression based, namespaces are weird.

Python is not even a current language, it is stuck in the 1990s and happens to have a decent C-API that unfortunately fueled its growth at the expense of better languages.
> I’ve been working on an MN3205 with digital controls...

I should get myself some of those to play with, and you, friend, might enjoy a tape delay or two off ebay. (I have an Echoplex and it's tons of fun)
Not sure it’s a tautology. It’s not obvious that a recursively enumerable procedure exists for arbitrary formal systems that will eventually reach all theorems derivable via the axioms and transformation rules. For example, if you perform depth-first traversal, you will not reach all theorems.

Hilbert’s program was a (failed) attempt to determine, loosely speaking, whether there was a process or procedure that could discover all mathematical truths. Any theorem depends on the formal system you start with, but the deeper implicit question is: where do the axioms come from and can we discover all of them (answer: “unknown” and “no”)?
Don't take me wrong, I'm not in the denial camp, quite the opposite in fact. But I cringe when I read a non sequitur like this:

> “If you plot global temperatures against the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, they both fall on a remarkably straight line, much straighter than current theory would predict,” said Dr Jarvis. “That line tells you not only how much the Earth has warmed since pre-industrial times, but also how much of that warming can be blamed on human activity.”

How can a straight line tell us anything more than a mere correlation between the two measures, without any hint about which is the cause and which is the effect?
Outline maintainer here, happy to see the rec and can answer any questions
Another argument for every public funded thing should be open source.