skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While your statement is fundamentally correct, the issue here is that people typically use these charts as an excuse to point the finger.

The tension globally is between the west who has high per capita emissions, a long period of high emissions, and high living standards as compared to the global south who have a larger population and lower living standards and yet still high absolute levels of emissions.

Telling China/india/et al that they’re the real problem is taken as “yeah we polluted for centuries to get rich but that’s all in the past, you need to stay poor in order to save the planet”.

An alternative solution might be to have the west pay to help these countries develop more sustainably, but that’s met with anger by the rising nationalist elements. I mean even importing green tech from the global leader (China) is being resisted.
You can also now free-view stereo image pairs. Congratulations.
When you try someone else's "broscience", you're not really experimenting with the unknown, so it's unlikely you're going to stumble into a "result". They know it doesn't work. If it did work, they'd have patented it and licensed it to Merck or Pfizer.

Choosing quackery is not experimenting.
Yip the reality that the speed of light is fixed, but the 'speed' of time is variable is just so intuitively absurd.

This is the reason that I find things like the Fermi Paradox no more than mildly interesting.

It implicitly assumes we have a sound understanding of the fundamentals of the universe yet each revolutionary discovery we make soundly refutes that assumption.

And with the vast number of 'known unknowns' and an unknowable number of unknown unknowns, it seems ridiculous to imagine we're anywhere near the end of revolutionary discoveries.
You took the very words right out of my mouth.

Jokes aside, TILs are not necessarily just junk food. As a reader, oftentimes I find them akin to hors d'oeuvres that whet my appetite for something other than what I'm diving into at that period, a sort of inspiration.

Sure, many of them may turn out to be low effort blog fodder, but that usually has to do with each individual source's quality - in which case they help filter out low SNR sources.

Of course, when I have TIL-style moments myself, I jot down a quick note, usually ending up fleshing it out later, as I expect many other engineers do. I prefer having a low effort aide memoire for later, rather than an open browser tab or bookmark that I'll almost certainly forget about in a few hours' or a day's time.
> currently maths is built on set theory

most mathematicians will eventually agree with that when pressed. However, almost none of them know the axioms of ZFC by heart (because they don't need them). You can swap out ZFC for something else and nobody will care very much as long as "the same" (does a lot of work here) theorems, which they know and use it their work, remain true.

This is what many theorem provers do. Many aren't based on set theory, for example, but instead on type theory. (You can still do set theory in a framework based on type theory, and vice versa, but the foundations are "different").
No. The comment I replied to is about comsumption-based emissions, which attempt to account for exactly this. See the description in the link
If it's Linux, you can bind-mount the rootfs read-only and chroot into it:

mahler ~ # mkdir /roroot
mahler ~ # mount -o bind,ro / /roroot
mahler ~ # chroot /roroot
mahler / # passwd
Enter new password:
Re-type new password:
passwd: Authentication token lock busy
passwd: password unchanged
Can only encourage you, I'm mostly working with Go but all my side projects are with Rails which I've only started a few years ago. It's a lot of fun.

I'm not a big fan of watching tutorials, but more of learning by doing but I signed up for https://gorails.com when I started out and it was very helpful to get an overview.
It seems the author is using the word logic, so logic boolean algebra suggests the classical case. Perhaps what is not trivial is that one can use that rule to deduce the other axioms. So that is not the theorem what is important but that one can prove any tautology using that simple axiom.
Big Mumbai
You dont 'tell' your eyes to cross, you just look closer or further away. Try looking at the image at normal distance, whilst imaginging that you are looking into the distance at a beautiful view or at the horizon on an ocean. It is this difference in distance focusing which causes the illusion.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence.

During WWI he was sent from the UK to the Arabs to find a leader who could unite them and lead a rebellion against the Turks, who were allied with Germany.

He succeeded.
Somewhat related, but I've been using the Semantic Diff extension in VSCode, works better than standard git diff.
it's me, the opposite anecdote, no one I know has had one
In my country, they claim that women would be as tall as men if not for misogyny.
I would say that HTML is a programming language of the Declarative programming language paradigm.

For SQL you are not instructing the computer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that an execution engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.

For HTML you're not instructing the renderer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that the rendering engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.

If I'm wrong, I would be very happy to be corrected because I've argued this for a long time with people who don't know what a programming language paradigm is - so I'd like to know if I'm mistaken.
The Search tab is taking close to 30s to load... I'm suspecting this site itself also uses Rails
I like the books app on the ipad. I can select text and copy it over to Obsidian to take with my notes.
All of this would be avoided if NULL in sql was just called "UNKNOWN". Which is what it is. Terrible name :/

Imo, SQL should add "NOTHING", add "UNKNOWN" as a synonym for "NULL", and deprecate "NULL".
If you enjoyed this article you would enjoy the book “The Kidnapping Club” by Jonathan Daniel Wells. It covers the history of pre-Civil War New York. (As the title suggests, the bit in the article about “probably have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery” was more common than you might think.)
2006 called — they said scaffolding is still the cheat code for building something working, stable, simple, and maintainable.
OK evidently 2 people are unhappy to hear these conditions would be illegal in the EU and have downvoted.
I can't find the blog post now, but I remember reading about how Koa's event loop was built around JS generators and that was big thing then, that's why I mention it. I haven't used Koa so maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

I did find this video that covers an early version of Koa.
https://youtu.be/RVxx2T7SPw8

> An introduction to the Koa web framework for Node.js and some of the technologies behind it. Covers ES6 generators, promises and TJ Hollowaychuk's Co library.
I wouldn't worry too much about what a lot of the comments are saying. I would heed some of the advice about being secure but I wouldn't worry too much about it being a problem or shutting down the app until you have it worked out.

I don't want to discourage you because it's always good to have multiple options but I would look at what Cariloop (https://cariloop.com) is doing, try and focus it like that but with unique aspect you have they do not. This is only the second caregiving app/service that I have seen.
I’m similarly interested in learning Rails.

Does anyone here have any recommendations for free or at least very cheap Rails hosting for a toy app just for learning purposes? I’m looking for a PaaS offering since I don’t have the time to secure and manage a VPS.
Fermat's Last Theorem, about Andrew Wiles long hard journey to prove it.
Squid Game actually only makes sense in the context of Korea which doesn't have robust bankruptcy laws like the US. Student loans are the exception, everything you could just walk away from in the US.
> sqlite3

I know sqlite3 is great, but I've always found it much more annoying to use it on a server for small side projects than just using Postgres where I could just connect to the prod instance from my local machine and run some queries to look at the data. With sqlite I'd always have to sync files, set up volumes, make sure permissions are correct vs. just setting an environment variable to a PG instance.
I was going to suggest the same book. I first ran into story on PBS as a teenager, it was titled "The KGB, the Computer and Me".
In what way do you have access to the truth conditions for 'I have a pen in my hand' that an LLM can not? This smells circular to me.
> that's the equivalent of me unilaterally calling New York "Nouvelle Amsterdam" then

This is very common. The name used by the locals is called endonym and the one used by foreigners is the exonym.

For example Zhōnghuá is the endonym vs China the exonym. Or Magyarország vs Hungary. Or Deutschland vs Germany. Or so I not just list English exonyms Lake Balaton vs Plattensee.
Almost certainly not. Kindle's native format is MOBI, not PDF.
Fascinating. I didn't know these existed and find the naming to intrigue me the most.

I've been saying lately that the resolution of conflict is not peace, the resolution of conflict is love.

It seems putting walls up is a way to avoid conflict, or try to avoid it, but I wonder if the conflict just festers, and the actual resolution would be unity.

Except the challenge can be it just takes a few people in a group to say "if you love them, you don't love us" and thus we run away into our corners, pretending that we don't love everyone.
Oh, that's a good idea.
>yeah I mean, isn't all of this true for ANY abstraction?

No, it is only true for bad abstractions.
Sure there are always narratives at play, but the reality is never really either or. Automation is an objective trend that we have to contend with. Vending machines for example are a menace that threaten to make all retail workers obsolete. I think we still have a long road ahead to a fully automated utopia, but as we become more efficient at converting labor into wealth, we need to get more serious about the problem of fair resource distribution.
The app does not load for now. I guess they used Rails :)
At a lot of companies, there are still full teams of people slinging t-sql or pl/SQL all day long to support their organization. Not DBAs, just developers who primarily work inside the database system their entire life.
"Simple" "Safe" "Private": Marketing buzzwords without any proof or a reputation.

No idea who this person is. Could be some 15 year old scammer in Florida. Could be a billionaire heir in London. No contact information. The domain registration is hidden.

What is this "product" solving that is not much different from a shared Google Doc?
Though as someone just suggested in another thread, chrooting into such a thing isn't a terrible idea. It certainly limits the damage I can do.
I've used this command to achieve that in the past:

sudo systemd-nspawn --directory=/ --read-only --ephemeral --volatile=yes

[systemd-nspawn](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemd-nspawn.1.html) would normally be used to run a command inside of a container (a directory), but in some modes you can specify the system root as the "container" path.

I believe this specific set of options relies on (BTRFS) file system snapshots for performance. It's possible that you can get it to work on non-BTRFS systems by providing another combination of command line variables, but the default setting is to copy the file system tree to a temporary path.

You can also pass parameters like --volatile=state (so you can write to /var) and --volatile=overlay (so you can "write" to state, but all changes are discarded after the container exits). --volatile=state is useful for extracting data from a temporary read-only system, --volatile=overlay is useful for running tools that crash if they run on a read-only filesystem.
Elon Musk promised to build this tech.
He also developed an appreciation and love for the things satired; you can see it in the development of characters over time, many started out as a one-dimensional parody and grew to be actual characters with depths, while still remaining true to the original parody.
Just remove `/usr/sbin/shutdown` and `/usr/sbin/poweroff`
RIP, hacker news hug of death
That new president was elected by most Americans, and had 'get men out of womens sports' as an official part of their platform.
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers[0]

Describes how British cryptanalysts and engineers built the first vacuum-tube digital computer[1] to break the cipher[2] the Nazis were using for strategic communications.

[0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/colossus-97801995781...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Lorenz_ci...
Heroku is decent although I don't like some of the tweaks you can't do with it. For example, setting variables in postgres is neutered.
Dreaming In Code[1] is an interesting one. It recounts the history of the team (which included Mitch Kapor of Lotus fame) who built Chandler[2]. Chandler was intended to be a game-changing PIM (personal information manager) / note-taking app inspired by Lotus Agenda[3].

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Agenda
> Breaking Bad does not feature medical debt, or even medical costs

But it is the story of a father doing everything possible to make sure his family is taken care of after he is gone.
More like it's a way to keep your Windows port code to a minimum so that the rest can run on Unix. I.e., you want to use UTF-8 because that's the standard on Unix, and you don't want to have completely different versions of your code for Windows and Unix because now you have twice the maintenance trouble.
The way my dad explained it to me: "a heads or tail might matter, in the grand scheme of things, but at the end of the day, you gotta be there to flip the coin in the first place." Granted, he said that in regards to me being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but the quote applies aptly here.
I haven't used their Rails hosting, but I have liked Fly.io for other PaaS-y things before. Heroku is technically still around.

https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/
"Donald Trump threatens to imprison Mark Zuckerburg for 'rest of his life' if 'he does anything illegal' over election"

Lying through omission. The rest isn't worth responding to.
Could this be used as a community “social network” where seniors or people with disabilities can reach out for specific asks like getting driven to a doctors office or getting a prescription picked up, etc.
Can someone provide a reason for why anyone should be using Rails? I'm always curious why people love context switching between multiple programming languages.
Rational agents offer information hoping to persuade their counterparties?!?!
I do not know how many times that frog type experiment has been repeated on other species or branches of animal life but that one study up ended my preconceived notion of how vision could work with a brain, and most insects have a tiny brain, speculatively may be possible only of certain automaton type tasks, though wasps IIRC have very small brains relative to other insects but exhibit social behavior so who knows.
Fasting:

https://www.mskcc.org/news/fasting-primes-immune-systems-nat...
Could this be viable on Mars? Having legs might support a bigger range of terrains than wheels while the flying mode requiring more resources might be used sparingly to overcome bigger elevation changes or to cover a higher distance quicker.

Tough adding legs instead if wheels might introduce balancng issues, the drone could be lowered further to ground level for the time of harsh weather conditions to increase the traction.
I use 63/37 solder with a flux core. The Pinecil is amazing, it holds heat really well and gets to 320 C in eight seconds. I didn't calibrate my tip in boiling water, and I don't remember which tip I use now, it's the one that comes by default (B2?).

I only bump it up to 400 C because that was the default, I never use it for more than two or three seconds so the temperature hasn't mattered much. I haven't noticed solder stick, it just sometimes fail to melt properly with large ground planes, so that's when I bump the heat.
that's just rude
This isn't about Unicode having "loosey-goosey" anything. It's about aa mapping that Microsoft came up with to map Unicode to non-Unicode.
--read-only would be a nice option for `run0`
Been using Rails professionally for 13 years (currently at GitLab) and I still don't think anything else beats it for developer happiness and productivity.

It cuts through all the mess of modern web development so well and makes turning an idea in to something deployable incredibly easy.
I like the idea, but my immediate comment here, in a spirit of thinking about what would get a tool like this wider adoption, is that "boulette" is a clunky thing to type on a terminal. You can be more assertive about the importance of your tool, and give it a shorter, punchier (command-line) name; it might see more use if you do.
Is this for a class? What problems do you have that you can automate with software? I would start there.
The whole site seems very much like it is AI generated. In particular the css is very close to what I've seen ChatGPT generate when I used it to create similar things.
Fairchild Semiconductor – By Bradford Morgan White
And you know because...?
US Unveils El Capitan, Fastest Supercomputer, for Classified Tasks
Why would Jevon's paradox not apply to human labor?

I am not sure what I expect for software developers besides that the nature if the work will change but it is still too early to say exactly how. We certainly cannot extrapolate linearly or exponentially from the past few years.
The worst case for the judge who would sentence Trump is basically getting assassinated. I can understand him letting Trump go.
https://portswigger.net/web-security/access-control/idor

It's not, by itself, deadly but it does lower the safeguards against ACL slip-ups, which could easily exfiltrate the entire customer base
I really miss using Rails. It is seriously so enjoyable to quickly build stuff with it.
What I describe in the post isn't a particular tool, just a coding convention to follow in writing tests using Go's built-in testing tools.

It's hard to say how to test your app without more information, but here's a good primer on testing in Go:

https://www.calhoun.io/how-to-test-with-go/
We're Reaping Just What We Sowed
Please Google Thomas Seyfried and William Makis. The latter is controversial—if he’s not completely fraudulent and making things up, he might be onto something. He’s sharing emails from numerous cancer patients who claim to have healed using these two particular molecules.
You could probably dockerize it and stick it on render.com
> if 2^512 calculations costs you $8 then (2^512)^2 calculations costs you $64

Can you answer

a) If 1 apple costs you 8$ then (1)^2 apple costs you: ???
b) If 10 apples cost you 8$ then (10)^2 apples costs you: ???

edit: between the price and the amount, usually there is a ~linear relationship. So if you can buy 2^512 something for 8$, then chances are that for 8 times the price you'll only get ~8 times more amount, and not 2^512 times more
> sometimes software is fit-for-purpose and can really be just be left alone for extended periods

I suppose if the software maker is a functional monopoly in that space and the customers are cursed withe vendor lock-in, sure. I can think of Major Software companies that barely maintain their products yet companies stick with the garbage because what choice do they have?
The order of the addresses was linked to the Coloured Books and needed translation to interwork with SMTP, and eventually the users needed to change their addresses. The point being, that anyone involved in UK scientific computing will have been aware of the UK protocols - many will have been involved in their creation and maintenance.

The humour comes from a (non-risqué) double entendre.
c64 was just so much smoother playing + looked better visually. not choppy.
MicroOS has something in that spirit I think ? Maybe I'm wrong tough, don't even know if MicroOS is usable in host
I just like their cars. It's not a political decision.
There was a period of time around the height of Rails original heyday where the idea of a very opinionated, complete framework such as Rails got a lot of blowback, which gave rise to the Javascript ecosystem and its myriad front-end frameworks.

I think the pendulum is kind of swinging back the other way now. While there are certainly advantages with the Node ecosystem, it always felt very messy to me. Rails language extensions, ORM, testing, and migrations frameworks have never been matched by any javascript libraries. Ruby and Rails have always prioritized quality of life features, which made it a very enjoyable and productive framework.
I wonder if you can scan sites and check for rails. I know if there is an error the dump if visible can tell you it's rails like ActiveRecord
Actually, given enough practice, you can literally just get your eyes to do it. I started doing magic eye puzzles as a kid and loved it, so just eventually learned how to control my eyes in that way. Even today, if I see any repeating pattern, or even anything vaguely similarly shaped, I can’t help but do it
ChatGPT can use a stateful python environment to do math. It isn’t confabulating the answers, it’s using a calculator.
Religious conflicts, including big name ones, have always been political conflicts between groups that happen to have different religions.

These days there is still political conflict, but there's less contrast between each side's religious makeup. Therefore the conflict won't appear to be a religious conflict.
Minimizing the carbon footprint of bridges and other structures
easily happens in homogenous populations where people speak the same language.
even if they learn english at school - and they don't have foreigners to speak it with - they will lose ability to converse in english.

before video games and other popular culture things would help people learn / keep practicing a language but now china has a vibrant video games market e.g black myth wukong.

saw it happen in taiwan.
I think it is misleading to categorise the conflict in Northern Ireland as religious. There are two different ethnic/national identity groups that happen to be predominantly of different Christian denominations.

However, there are atheists and protestants ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Irish_nationalists#... ) in the "catholic" IRA, and the IRA killed British soldiers regardless of religion (and there are lots of Catholics in the British army) etc. and British Catholics were not often sympathetic to the IRA (nor Catholics from the rest of the world) and we were just as likely to get bombed by them as anyone else in Britain.

A book I have on Irish history quotes a study that found that the more often Catholics in the Republic went to church the less likely they were to support Sinn Fein (the political party linked to the IRA).
Right. I've had that same problem when trying to build a new app with Claude / 4o. I essentially have to go through the docs myself so I understand the framework structure enough to write up an outline for the llm to follow when developing a new component or backend structure.
"NET2021" means "no earlier than 2021". So, if nothing even arguably similar happened until 2024, that sounds like a very correct prediction.

Whether that's worth congratulating him about depends on how obvious it was, but I think you really need to measure "fairly obvious" at the time the prediction is made, not seven years later. A lot of things that seem "fairly obvious" now weren't obvious at all then.