skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how do you square this with the issues of an aging workforce and low fertility

With the second opening America’s voters have granted China: an immigration destination for the world’s ambitious. (Or perhaps an imperial model whereby China controls labour pools outside its borders to supplement its own.)
As the warm moist air is pushed upwards in mountains, on the windward side, the air will drop in temperature and will not be be able to hold the moisture dropping it as rain.
It’s because by and large, web devs do not know computing fundamentals, because they’ve had no reason to learn them.

If your language handles memory management for you, why would you learn about it?

If poor performance in your app can be dealt with by spinning up more copies of it, why would you spend time profiling your code?

And, explicitly to your point, if networking can be hand-waved away by tools like ngrok, why would you need to know how it works?

And so on. People who grew up on computers in the 90s, 80s, etc. largely do know these things, because they had to. Understanding those fundamentals, as in any industry, pays dividends.

It’s incredibly frustrating to me that at almost all companies I’ve worked for, when I suggest we self-host something instead of forking over millions to AWS, it’s an instant no. The most honest answer I’ve had so far was “that skill set is difficult to hire for.” It is, I agree – and how do you think we got to this point? By perpetuating the status quo, and enriching the hyperscalers, who seem to have no problem hiring for that skill set.
Yeah I definitely struggle with this. You need downtime to relax but it's easy to "over relax" just like it's easy to oversleep or overeat or overdo any other number of things that are healthy and necessary but only at the right amplitude and frequency. I think that's why it can feel so good to be in a rhythm. You get a nice oscillation going that rides the wave of momentum instead of some monotonic rise or fall that is going to lead to burnout or stagnation.
For me, it's not so much the vacationing that I enjoy (I can do a pampered resort for maybe 1 week a year max before it gets really tiring). It's more a combination of already seeing a whole bunch of stuff and getting older (and feeling that older in my body) utterly changes the tradeoffs. Cramming my fat ass into an economy seat on flights longer than 4 hours to save a few thousand on flights 20's me was all over that, 40's me no freaking way. I can either afford the business class tickets or I'm not going at this point. Staying in a hostel/ renting a van and sleeping in the back of it to save a few thousand on hotels? Same deal hells yes for 20's me, PFO for 40's me. Flying in one spot, booking 1 or 2 nights in hostels traveling across the region for three weeks then flying out somewhere else? Big yes in my 20's big nope now. Now I fly in somewhere and spend at least 3 nights in every spot (but often a whole week) and instead of 35k+ steps and 12 hour plus non stop go days to see as much as possible, 10-15k usual, 20k max with some relaxation time planned for every day.
In person means everything past the initial tech / recruiter screen, which is a very low bar just to see if we think it’s worth flying them out. The alternative is you will hire people and you can’t know if they fraudulently interviewed using things like the tools above, or even if the person who interviewed is the same person who applied and will show up on day one.

For smaller companies in particular the above can be catastrophic, so I recommend they adapt to changing times.
There is no open source cars, yet car and motorbike hacking is prevalent. I'm sure hardware hackers also have to deal with manufacturers.
Humanity has tendency to do things wrong and then decades later realize that what we were doing was awful to the planet.
> Climate scientists now need to figure out what’s causing these cloud changes..

Only if we have enough funding for the scientists to study these important changes for the sake of future generations
It's not only exhibited but open to visitors, you can go inside it.
I see it the other way. I’ll admit that I do a lot of “embarrassingly parallel” problems where the answer is “Executor and chill” in Java. I have dealt with quite a few Scala systems that (1) didn’t get the same answer every time and (2) got a 250% speed up with 8 cores and such, and common problems where “error handling with monads theater”, “we are careful about initialization but could care less about teardown (monads again!)” [1] and actors.

The choice is between a few days of messing around with actors and it still doesn’t work and 20 minutes rewriting with Executors and done. The trick with threads is having a good set of primitives to work with and Java gives you that. In some areas of software the idea of composing a minimal set of operations really gets you somewhere, when it comes to threads it gets you to the painhouse,

I went through a phase of having a huge amount of fun writing little server/clients with async Python but switched to sync when the demands in CPU increased. The idea that “parallelism” and “concurrency” aren’t closely related is a bad idea like the alleged clean split between “authentication” and “authorization” —- Java is great because it gives you 100% adequate tools that handle parallelism and concurrency with the same paradigm.

[1] You could do error handling and teardown with monads but drunk on the alleged superiority of a new programming paradigm many people don’t —- so you meet the coders who travel from job to job like itinerant martial artists looking for functional programming enlightenment. TAOCP (Turing) stands the test of time whereas SICP (lambda calculus) is a fad.
I remember making an ad clicker. I got the idea after my Banjo-Kazooie website earned $12 in banner ad clicks organically. That check in the mail inspired 11-year-old me to create InfiniteMoneyGlitch.js. It chugged away all night. And when I woke up, I saw that I was promptly banned for life.
There is an ancient text that predicts every body of water becoming like blood.

There is an algae that flourishes in warm water that almost solidifies water into a reddish goop. That goop is much like blood.

We, society, are making this happen. And, it’s happening at a prodigious rate.

The earth’s cooling mechanisms rely upon these bodies of water. The warmer the water the greater the chances of these algal blooms.

Yay us.
We'd be well net neutral and way positive on the just/unjust scale with just two fucking changes.

Get rid of the millionaires excessive destructive power (both structural/political and the personal excessive consumption) and by eliminating factory animal agriculture.

Neither would diminish well-being. At least the actual. Some ego/envy issues though as narcissistic "successful" people couldn't feel their power, but I'm willing to sacrifice that for my kids future.

The benefits are many fold as per Durkheim and more recently Wilkinson and Pickett have shown us.

Easy peasy guys.
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I think of booking as a tool for finding a hotel. I then always happily book with the hotel directly.
> Elon Musk activated secret Neuralink

Musk has been god’s gift to Beijing moreso than Trump. He’s fundamentally compromised on China. And he’s going on drug-fuelled binges of unpopular exercises of illegal executive authority through our republic’s institutions. He’s a walking global billboard for China’s political system, which has shown itself perhaps uniquely capable of disciplining its billionaires.
So when you said:

> I'd certainly also like to see a source for the basic claim. It would be wonderful news if true.

You actually already knew about all of these sources and have debated this before, and decided now to start talking about this bit of nuance?

I'm not going to play. Sorry.
I wish the https://github.com/devos50/qemu-ios project would evolve to support iPhone OS 3.x to experience many early iPhone apps for digital preservation's sake!

https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE is also great but needs patches for all but the most basic of apps.
There's a serious proposal to do that with a fleet of wind-powered ships, seeding low-lying clouds with seawater. Wikipedia cites a cost of $5 billion/year for a large deployment, and a maximum potential of offsetting two-thirds of our current anthropogenic warming. If we stopped doing it then things would be back to "normal" in a couple weeks. There would be local weather changes, but less than what's caused by unabated heating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening

A disadvantage of solar radiation management like this is that it does nothing for ocean acidification. But it could buy us time by heading off feedback effects that cause the planet to emit a lot more greenhouse gas of its own, due to melting permafrost, forest fires, etc.
I wish the author had spelled out the subtextual implications for peak oil demand and the energy costs of solar. I will try to give my perspective I suppose.

We always thought that once solar achieved cost Parity with gas generation, it would be a cascade effect of rapid solarization due to the cost basis alone, finally shedding the necessity of ethical ideology to promote it.

That happened roughly in 2015 for the US, and nothing substantial changed. Then the costs of solar got cut in half. And now as we breach the mythical $1/watt barrier for utility scale solar installation, we still find ourselves breaking oil production records year after year.

We're so far past the "kerosene moment" and barely seeing exponential growth on solar capacity install. Meanwhile China is adding more than 4x as much.

I think the moral of the kerosene story and solar is that it's hard to flip a paradigm that is currently enabling people to get rich. The only time it seems to change is when a law is passed.
"Mechanical sympathy" effects are so strong on modern CPUs you feel them even in languages like Python that are far from the metal.
Net zero will come. Whether by collapse or by us shaving the wasteful excess. Excess being the leeches who don't pay taxes or follow rules.
Don't you think that's rather bold? - to call someone out on an unsupported assertion, in the very same breath as you say "and no it isn't, probably!"
Yes, I'm a woman posting about my own experience as well as the experiences of my female friends who I could in no way describe as skewing particularly sexually deviant. They all pretty much consider themselves "vanilla" and yet this article would have you believe that they're deeply depraved for wanting to be "taken," choked, dominated, or receive some light degradation.

These things are so normal
that they're not even considered to separate from sex, they're just what you happen to be into— on the level of preferring specific positions.
you add spam backlinks in the tool? https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker/?input=https%3A%2F%2F4ht...
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Because they’re trying to do it the right way. The rain we’ve experienced the last few years has been the biggest problem. The soil they’re piling on top of the crossing erodes away almost immediately without plant roots to stabilize it and those plants take a while to establish.
Random thing I’ve been wondering: is there a point in including TLS support in web servers any more? Isn’t it always better to run a reverse proxy and terminate HTTPs at the edge?
This?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_algal_bloom?wprov=sfti...
I don’t think this is true at all.

Look at the rise of Qanon, for example, or antivax, or any other popular narrative-based fiction that is gaining traction.

The news still uncritically reports what the police claim happened.

The power of narrative is becoming greater in our connected world, not less. It has less requirement now to be rooted in any sort of facts.
The issue isn’t taxes. The world’s rich (top 25%) pay virtually all the taxes already but contribute to also virtually all the emissions.

You are right though, there will be a correction.
A genuine confusion for me - as a visual artist - about how two things can be true: this can be a great love letter to such an iconic and brilliant song, and also why generative AI was used to create accompanying imagery in this article. I don't see how an piece about the 'joys of music production' - aka, creativity - should also actively be anti-creative. To me, those two thoughts seem completely opposing.
There is a disease here on HN, and "the algorithm" is not helping.

My intuition is that the commentariat has factionized itself. Of course, the fundamental intent here is to make money irrespective of negative external effects. This is because shit rolls downhill.
No, greenhouse effect is mostly controlled by CO2, although water vapor plays a role. But clouds mostly act to reflect sunlight back to space, so fewer clouds will mean more warming, not less.
If you're a fan of both Daft Punk and the late 70s/80s Anime aesthetic mentioned in the article and haven't yet seen "Interstella 5555", drop everything and do so now.
(.pdf) https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-3974146/v1/df9... ("Oceanic cloud trends during the satellite era and their radiative signatures")
My current problem is that I feel like I’m only barely managing to not completely burn out via relaxation at night. I used to have a ton of excitement over my side project, but for the past several months, I can’t muster the energy. I play a board game on Steam (Wingspan: 10/10 would recommend the physical and digital version) that has a soundtrack I like, and that’s about it. This keeps me sane, but I often find myself wishing I felt confident enough to extend myself further.

Hopefully when my current large work project wraps up I’ll be able to take a breather.
Anything that facilitates or requires extracting carbon from the ground: Coal plants, petrol engines, cars, airplanes, mass production, modern agriculture processes.

The only way to stop global warming is to stop extracting carbon from the ground, where it's stored. After that we can think about capturing carbon. But first if all we need to stop pumping it into the atmosphere at a faster rate than the earth can absorb it (about 40% is absorbed at the moment, 60% of all human carbon use is added to the atmosphere).
Try using an Android phone and you’ll understand.
> So, you can have all the laws on paper that you want, if nobody respects them, they might as well not exist.

Are you talking about the US at the moment?

- https://www.context.news/big-tech/us-prison-social-media-cra...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4ye5zo

- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/un-human-rig...

Basically freedom of expression is fine, as long as you don't:

- criticize the genocide that the US government is partial to (and funds) in Palestine

- criticize the US government for backing out of all climate deals

- criticize Trump for being orange and weird and Musk for being a robot?

I wonder if in recent political history we can find a parallel with some parties in Germany and Italy in the past century.
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Ever been in the famous Mer de Glace in France ? In the 1980s they had to build a cable car to descend from the old train station (which the glacier _almost_ reached at some point) to the surface level of the glacier, which had started descending. By the time they finished building the cable car, the glacier had descended so _much_ _more_ that in the 90s an extra 500 steps staircase had to be built to cover the ever-growing gap from the cable car stop to the new surface of the glacier. ~5 years ago, this gap was so large it would take an hour or so to climb up/down, so they had to build _a 2nd cable car_ to cover the new gap.

The new cable car even when it was in construction _already_ did no longer reach the glacier, as the glacier has descended another 20 steps since construction started: https://www.chamonix.net/english/news/chamonix-new-telecabin...

You can see with your own eyes not only how it is disappearing, but how much the speed at it which disappears increases year-by-year. If you ever plan to visit it, better do it so now; I find it unlikely there will be anything visitable left of it by the end of next decade.
I'm familiar with the subject through long study. The sources you identified were not previously known to me but I feel confident evaluating them as I have based on prior knowledge and review. Do you mean to argue whose web search skills are the best - a point I already spent a paragraph conceding - or do you mean to argue the subject actually under discussion?

I still don't understand where the anger is coming from. Why does it piss you off that I want to argue child sexual abuse is more common and more of a problem than it's broadly acknowledged to be? Are you assuming I mean to use that claim as an argument against porn or something? I really can't figure out what's gotten so far up your nose on this, and I wish I could because it's really making it impossible for us to have a conversation.

Last I recall, we spoke cordially enough last year, if not generally in agreement, on the subject of AI capable of CSAM generation, and how it might be regulated. That was coincidentally a very strange day for me, granted, but again, I struggle to see what's changed since to earn this sort of acrimony.

With whom do you understand yourself to be needing to have this fight right now?
But you stated earlier:

> How were they "pure bread hackers"? Was Gates especially proficient with code? I've never heard that. From what I read, they were the enemies of hackers. This really seems like looking back with rose-colored glasses.

Did you contradict yourself? Also, how do you measure "elite, exceptional, legendary"? Someone not qualifying for that wouldn't be a real coder in your book?
Yes! Let's build this stuff instead of homes.
Did you ethically acquire permission to train on the data set?
That’s changing “every day” into “per day”. Judging by the downvotes that is how people are reading it, but “specified time” of a rate-quantity is an integration, to me. Which makes it a multiply op over the time specified.

If you pour out one bucket of sand every hour, and you do that for 10 hours, I expect the quantity of sand to be measured in buckets.
We should be careful not to equivocate between pedophilia which in the technical jargon of research studies is a sexual attraction to pre-pubertal children and child sexual abuse which loosely is the act of sexually assaulting someone below the legal age of consent. They are two different things. An abuser might not be a pedophile in the technical sense, and a pedophile might not be an abuser.

So rates of pedophilic attractions and use of CSAM could be rising while rates of child sexual abuse is falling. I don't know if that's the case, but we shouldn't confuse the two things.
I’ve noticed this trend in my life where during winter times my consumption goes way up and as soon as spring time is here then my creativity crawls back from hibernation and I quickly regain motivation to continue my side projects. I wish I could be 100% focus year round but for some reason it very hard to keep the inner flame of creativity going during winter times. At least I did noticed this pattern and being aware is the first step to remedy this problem.
An animal crossing built right next to a school. I wonder if the coyotes that will cross will be a threat to the children.
I had that mindset, but then an overwhelming amount of personal and work stress made me change. Unfortunately, as I wrote in a comment further up, now I feel like I’m too far on the other side, where all I do after work is relax.

If anyone has suggestions on striking a balance, I’d love to hear them.
Other more rational people have absolutely tried to make it about China. About trying to broach a strategic advantage.

Early in the nonsense with Canada, Lutnick and Bessent repeatedly tried to give an offramp by broaching the possibility of a revised CUSMA / NAFTA that included more coordinated action on China. The problem, though, is that Trump is a catastrophically stupid imbecile / self-serving criminal, with his administration of Fox News plastic face morons and criminals -- I will not mince words about it, and every American should feel shameful how far they have fallen -- so all the attempts are for naught. Trump kept barrelling ahead like a particularly dumb rhino, to the net effect of significant damage to the US.

Like, at this point everyone realizes that China is going to take Taiwan right, and it will 100% be because of Donald Trump. The only thing stopping them before was concerns about relationships, trade, being a pariah. Now you have the US repeatedly boasting about taking Greenland, about making Canada a state, and spitting in the faces of every ally, all while pandering to dictator garbage like Putin. Yeah, one China will be Trump's legacy. And from that, the percolating violence that will grow.

It cannot be overstated how catastrophic that clown will be for the US and for the world in general, and he's just getting started. Nuclear proliferation has a decade ahead of going absolutely wild.

It is a many-magnitudes more dangerous world, and Americans that think they will be immune from what is coming, courtesy of that orange faced clown, are in for a very rude reality.
You are right that water is a green house gas. You are wrong to assume the only water in the air is clouds. Clouds is basically water condensation. That happens a bit less in warm air; but the water is still there. You need cool air for condensation to happen. Warm air can hold more water in gas form.

Clouds reflect light and infrared radiation from the sun. Less clouds means more of that heat gets absorbed and then trapped by green house gases. Like water.
If you want to be nitpicky about semantics, I think the only valid interpretation then is to take OP by their words and assume they meant energy transfer for 24h, since they did not write "per day" as you suggest:

"Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day"

= 170 PW × 1d

= 170 × P(J/s) × 86.4 × ks

= 170 × 10¹⁵ × (J/s) × 86.4 × 10³ × s

= 14.6 × 10²¹ × J

= 14.6 ZJ

However, I also think "of solar energy" could be read as specifying the type of energy for the "rate of energy transfer", which is already implied in 'watt'. And since it's related to energy usage (rate), there really is no need to leave the "rate of energy transfer" interpretation at all and get hung up on "energy vs. power":

"Earth receives 170 petawatts as solar energy - 10,000 times the energy humanity uses, at any moment.

Edit: And let's be real, we all only feel very smart here because we just watched the latest Technology Connections video https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OOK5xkFijPc :D
> start it.

right I'm wondering where is the right place to start it! In an initializer?
not about Daft punk but..

> The samples they use are from all over the place

> built around a handful of seconds

have you seen/head this?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mondovision

the original was at www.giovannisample.com which disappeared..
No mention of network connectivity - I suppose they aren't emulating the wifi or celluar modem chipsets? Wondering how they might connect this emulated device to the Internet, perhaps ethernet over USB or something like that?
Why would you think that branch prediction wouldn’t be? Do you think the interpreter is adding too much false sharing to the branch predictor to render it worthless?