skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, however I think a significant portion of the blame for this kind of emergent behavior comes from the consumers of said media. They're producing what they know will sell.
Are you factoring in the costs and environmental impact of producing and maintaining storage for solar, the production and maintenance of solar cells and all the other externalized costs and impacts of so-called renewables? From what I understand, there is a great deal of hype around these technologies that doesn’t really stack up and that the renewables industry is rife with shady practices and bogus claims.

Personally, I think nuclear (fission and hopefully fusion) are the best options, though I can accept a minor niche role for tech like solar.
I fail to see how this decision in 1946 is relevant. Its clear you are just pushing a narrative and reaching way, way, way into the past to try and sell it.
OLTP is not a good fit, if your workflow consists from INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements
The Remington 700 is an excellent platform and used to be highly regarded for precision rifles. It was the basis of both the US Army and Marine Corps' bolt-action sniper rifles for many decades (M24 and M40, respectively). Remington's manufacturing quality has just gone downhill in recent years.

There are other manufacturers that still make them to a high standard. I'm not sure whether they're licensed copies or just clones, but I recently heard someone joke that "these days everyone makes a great Remington 700 except Remington".
This sounds awful. I can't think what it does for morale when they spend $900m on Moovit. Certainly doesn't imply management focus on the most important issues. At least investors understand - the questions on the earnings call were basically all about 7nm.

Jensen taking over would certainly be interesting!
> Observing the breath before sleep has made it easier to fall asleep.

Every night when I go to bed, I deliberately slow my breathing.... I find that it immediately gets me into a meditative state and more likely fall into a hypnagogic state
I’m not being, or at least intending to be, anti-intellectual. I do think that a study confirming something this obvious is not notable or interesting enough to be at the top of HN though
Just off the top of my head, I was able to think of not just Puerto Rico and Taiwan, but also Palestine and Kosovo, as examples of "interesting edge cases" when it comes to sovereignty, national recognition, and Olympic participation. Kosovo and Palestine, at least, aren't in there because of a 30-year grandfathering, and their recognition is far from universal; the IOC or the IWGA would certainly be able to accept a Haudenosaunee team if they were so inclined.
I worked for failed startup, and now I work for successful startup.

How do I know the one I work for now is successful? Founders are transparent about burn rate and available funds and also they do not hesitate to share information about revenue. This does not sound like much but from my experience is already a good sign.

Maybe some users here will find it difficult to believe but previous startup I worked for (the one that failed) was not transparent at all. We would hear stories of potential big.co customer that will bring millions and then... we would hear about another potential big.co customer that would bring millions... And every month or two we would hear the same story. And then one day we was informed that the company can no longer keep us so we are released with immediate effect.

Revenue is (usually) a sign that people want the product you build. And if people want it hard enough to put their money into it then you know you solve a real problem and that there is actually market for it.
The claims do sound pretty loopy at first blush, but there have been several studies at this point, and the science PDF they host on his website is pretty interesting.

https://explore.wimhofmethod.com/wp-content/uploads/ebook-th...

Edit: The PDF is actually a bit out of date, the more recent studies are summarized here: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/science
I wonder if those Thai religious videos were spending a lot of money trying to get your specific demographic, so youtube showed it to you even though it was evident you had zero interest.
> increasing the height of the panels on a solar power plant gains nothing

Well, not nothing, since less atmosphere means less energy dissipated before light hits the panels, but certainly it’s a better tradeoff cost-wise to keep them low.
Similar experience here.
> But sales income would be negative (it is a credit). I wonder if that would confuse people.

It does tend to cause some confusion, but IMHO less than you would get with negative asset balances, much less the traditional version where "credits" and "debits" have different signs depending on the type of account and nothing ever just sums to zero.

The less confusing way to think of it is that an income account represents not "how much income have I received" but rather the source of the income, e.g. your employer or customer. They paid you, so they have less than they started with.

⋄ Money moves from employer to me: decrease "Income:Employment" and increase "Assets:Cash".

⋄ Money moves from me to my landlord: decrease "Assets:Cash" and increase "Expenses:Rent".

⋄ Deposit money at the bank: decrease "Assets:Cash" and increase "Assets:Bank:Checking".

⋄ Take out a loan: decrease "Liabilities:Loan" (negative since I owe them money) and increase "Assets:Cash".

Note that Income and Expense account balances are relative—which is why it makes sense for Income balances to sometimes be negative, and why these accounts are zeroed out at the end of the reporting period with transfers to or from equity—in contrast to most other accounts which have absolute balances.
However, we need less energy by the year to maintain an identical standard of living, because we are making everything far more efficient. Our energy use has been extremely inefficient up until now. Modern heat pumps alone will revolutionize heating, requiring 2-3x less energy for heating.

Moving around massive cars by burning gasoline is a perfect example of a hugely inefficient and primitive system. Mere electrification requires many times less energy.

The US depends on massive amounts of energy because we outlaw city construction that enables car free living, but that will begin to change too if younger generations can ever wrest control away from the boomers.
In Chengdu? No wind on most days, which is (in part) why the fog / smog blocks out the sun almost every day of the year.
Way into the past? The rule is still in place today.
It gains the space underneath. Flat roofs (of large commercial buildings, for instance) sound like a good place for them. I don't understand why they are put on the ground instead so often.
Thank god. I said some really dumb shit on those lists in my youth that I regret.
Can you explain what about Daniel's explanation is incompatible with what's at your link? I don't see how they disagree.

> AGPL is mostly used for things like stand-alone apps, which don't link to anything, rather than for things like libraries which link to internal systems.

Right, except for when they don't, which is just as (if not more) important from a legal perspective.
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This name illustrates the limitations of this strategy. I like the idea of SO for Teams, but we already have Github Wikis, Github issues, and our team's slack instance.
We see in areas where healthcare is completely private or more private - that services get better and cheaper (plastic surgery and dentistry). So the claims about scale and competition don't really hold water as something inherent to the service. In fact it becomes more apparent that the government regulation is creating the shortage.
Abusing people doesn't result in very effective workers. It's another reason why free markets outproduce coercive economic systems.
What has changed is the meaning of the word connected.
They don't sell peoples personal data at least publicly. But that makes them care even less about end users, even paying end users. Which means a business is foolish to rely on them.
Isn't killing projects Google's key strength?
> The whole notion of 'programming language' is wrong.

Anyone know what Alan Kay meant by this or have a pointer to an expansion?
> "solar/wind have trouble beating nuclear on metrics like death/watt because you need lots of infrastructure per watt."

That may be so. But solar and wind are clear winners when it comes to cost/watt, and that's what determines which gets built.
If we could transmit power across vast distances like that then we wouldn't even need to bother with solar. We could build a thousand nuclear power plants in the middle of nowhere.

Unfortunately, power transmission suffers from line losses. Even a few hundred miles requires several hundred thousand volts to avoid losses. Maybe that's an easier problem to solve than fusion.
you might be amazed at how little actual content is consumed, despite the high traffic number.

these sites get a lot of traffic(clicks and page views) and serve a lot of bandwidth(videos) but most users are just clicking around and watching just a few seconds to a couple minutes of any video they load(due to skipping). I think a lot of the traffic just people looking for the perfect scene or something new... there is a lot of junk on those sites these days.

source: i used to manage a number of high profile adult websites.
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)
> The CD where dark green or blue, one or two were golden

For some reason this image just brought back a whole load of memories for me. Some of the first of these I encountered were previews of my Dad's music he would send me on those ever so dark green discs.
> But (almost) everyone would be opposed to a fission plant or nuclear waste facility next door - and rightfully so.

Reading this kind of debate from France is a good laugh.

If you're interested you can check where our electricity comes from here: https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-production-delectricit... (between 60 and 70 percent of nuclear energy today).
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I’ve a 10 bay system populated with 4TB drives that I use as a dumb data dump in RAID6. They’re okay systems, but as others have said they come with a lot of useless complexity. At a previous job had an 8 bay system that had a dodgy backplane that was a pain to deal with.
There was a Washington Post article a few years ago that referred to a Ruger 10/22 (which shoots .22LR) as a "high powered rifle". By all means keep trying, but I've found that efforts to inject facts into the gun control debate are often poorly received. Folks have their preconceived notions, and it's easiest to just cling to them.
how they know it's 100M years old? carbon dating goes max 50,000 years back, other radiodating methods are not accurate, they dated newly formed lava stones in hawaii and came with million year old numbers, besides if a microbe died on a old rock doesnt mean it is as old as the rock.
MEC is struggling hard right now, unfortunately. COVID + Amazon + investment in more physical stores == Money troubles.
I can’t imagine how a company like that would let such an individual interact with customers.
It’s more like one nostril is high-velocity and the other is low-velocity, not that one is completely blocked. The evolutionary reason is thought to be that it aids the perception of low PPM volatile organic compounds (i.e. bad smells = rot, toxic chemicals) because the ‘blocked’ nostril is used as a sense chamber which lets the air spend more time within, thus increase the effective sensitivity of your sense of smell.

If you do not have this behaviour (which can disappear with certain neurological diseases or just idiopathically not exist) you also likely have a reduced sense of smell.
There is things such as SPARC by Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) using rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconductors. Not quite the scale of ITER, but it should give us some first experience working with that material. If that works out the next step would be ARC [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
still, to be handing over money to a chinese govt owned and subsidized company at the cost of our own perfectly capable industry who can't compete with their subsidies is just foolish.
It's a double-edged sword highly dependent on local governments. All the wealth that tech has brought to the Bay Area hasn't improved the dire state of housing or public infrastructure. Economic activity isn't a cure-all.
I think it’s a lot of what Tim Ferris talks about in 4 Hour Body.
This was the result of a lawsuit.. getty images if I remember correctly
I'm totally lost, because I can't see why this rule is a problem. It seems logical to only include a subjects race, only when race is relevant to the article.
> Completely new design that still lacks pull to refresh.

Here's the thing... sometimes when you unload Fenix and then open a link from another app, the browser will fail to load... you get a white screen... and the page never loads, but at least you can pull to refresh, which does nothing... (press Back to get out of this state)

So the only time you can "pull to refresh" is when Fenix doesn't work!
There's something about this format that makes it significantly easier for me to read.

On the web, my default is to skim. Actually reading a longform piece—line by line through every paragraph—is very hard.

Putting it in a "book" format doesn't completely solve the problem—I think some of it is due to the lower contrast of a screen versus paper or e-ink—but it definitely helps.
Taking you very literally I don't know what the most reliable source is, nevermind claim it to be the Telegraph, but I'm not really sure what the implication is, or perhaps rather its reasoning? It's a perfectly respectable paper; (along with The Times) a paper of record.
When Google started, there was maybe an overall altruistic, visionary, principled culture among many pre-Web Internet-y people, and it looked like Google was of that same school of thought.

(This was at the same time that there was a gold rush of IPO plays, hiring anyone who could spell "HTML", and plopping them down in slick office space, Aerons for everyone, and lavish launch parties, with tons of oblivious posturing and self-congratulating. But Google stood out as looking technically smart, at least I believed the "Don't Be Evil", since that was the OG culture, and it seemed a savvy reference to behaviors in industry and awareness of the power that it was clear they would probably have.)

That might be why it wasn't surprising to hear of things like someone entrusting a bunch of old university backup tapes to Google's stewardship.

This has played out with mixed results, and I think Google could be doing much better for humanity and for techie culture.
And on current time tables that can be everything.
Another complication is that most of our ancestors would probably only have been "feasting" on meat - there wouldn't have been any bread, sugar, palm oil, etc. in the mix.
I also left on seeing the email screen - I believe the OP of this thread had it right - I was unsure what was going to happen.

I went back and then started scrolling down and probably figured that it wants my CC purchase data to do this. I did not continue with signup mainly because of trust although the value proposition sounds good.
Related: I recently read "The Story of Earth" by Robert Hazen and it's a fascinating read. Highly recommend. The author also has a few Great Courses courses. "The Origin and Evolution of Earth" is a companion to the book (it covers much of the same material) but the two together left me with significant retention of the material. It's fascinating to go out hiking now with my kids and be able to entertain and educate them with facts about the rocks and formations we are hiking on :-)
I guess it wouldn't work if your dependencies weren't easily seperable from the rest of the code. in this case there are no dependencies, it's all custom cobbled together, for better or worse
Most teams don't understand the cost of logging on their infrastructure, they just seem to thin writing logs is 'free'.
Sitting in an office besides someone having a Zoom meeting sounds is my personal version of hell.

I probably wouldn't make it as a telemarketer.
I am glad there are some promising alternatives under investigation. Dark matter had a smell of Aether to me since it was first proposed.
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That's because abuse and coercion leads to workers pushing back. So what are labor unions, then, but a natural by-product of a free market capitalist system?
They spend $x billion on whatever acquisition of the week and they take away the quarterly ice cream social and the free fruit out of the caf. That’s a specific complaint I heard, yeah. And that’s Bob Swan's doing.

The old adage about "when they take away the free soda it's time to start looking for the exits" rings as true as ever. It's fine if you don't ever offer it in the first place but when the CFO is suddenly checking the phone booths for leftover change, there are bigger problems.
your understanding is correct, the two/three original code bases many tube sites started with was all written in PHP.

in fact i cant think of any widespread use of any other language at all, in adult.
Easier said than done. As of few years ago, Qualcomm wouldn'y really talk to you unless you can guarantee at least 100k unit purchase- which gets quite expensive fast at ~30-40$/pc for a mid range SoC.

At the point where we got access to documentation and very basic support, around $1M USD was paid (part of which was covering the initial shipments of chips though).
Just don't handle it. The placebo effect tells us that some things that have no reason for working, work anyways.
Every time I search for an answer to a technical question, and I end up on a mailing list post, I get the old great/damn response: Great, that's my question! Damn, will it actually be accompanied by an answer??
I don’t think it’s being downvoted. Maybe it’s because it’s an actual post?
> Does GPT-3 "fail" when BPE is replaced with the conventional English alphabet as input symbols (for various definitions of "fail")?

The attention mechanism is quadratic cost in the number of input symbols. Restricting it to a tiny alphabet would radically blow up the model cost, so it's difficult to make an apples to apples comparison.

> When I finish reading a paragraph, I can probably use my own words to explain it. But there's no chance I could even try to recreate the sentences using the exact words I just read.

Sure you could, you could look up and copy it which is an ability GPT-3 also needs to model if its to successfully learn from the internet where people do that all the time. :)

> the use of a very large attention window of BPE

You're also able to remember chunks from not long before. You just don't remember all of them. I'm sure people working on transformers would _prefer_ to not have it remember everything for a window (and instead spend those resource costs elsewhere), but it's necessary that the attention mechanism be differentiable for training, and that excludes obvious constructions. (E.g. you can't just bolt a nearest-key->value database on the side and simply expect it to learn to use it).
Pretty cool, keep in mind this is the experimental API and they are changing it. The OpenAPI spec is in the code base afaik, and the implementation is tbd
I'm a naturopathy by certification, I don't practice because I prefer to work in my trade. Four years studying in a formal capacity, Western Herbal Medicine, Clinical Nutrition (diet and supplements), and enough anatomy & physiology and pathophysiology to be able to converse with experts in the field and keep up, and the resulting life-long passion to seek out and critically analyse new information relating to chemistry, biochemistry, neurology, immunology, etc etc etc.

I have fond memories of one lecturer always saying "don't put anything on your skin you wouldn't put in your mouth and swallow".

Your skin is permeable, the fats and oils the skin exude are part of it's protective systems, and, as the article points out, the regular surface of the skin is a veritable smorgasbord of commensal organisms.

We should probably stop treating out bodies as fundamentally broken. They've gotten us this far, and, more generally, you don't see other animals obsessed with hygiene. Although I did recently see a video of a rat soaping itself up for a shower, so there's that I guess.
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What can I do to get academic credit/recognition from my hobby project?
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Our best performance currently is in C++ code and LLVM is something we are considering using to compute expressions, such as predicates and select clause items. This is most likely to be way faster than what we can currently do in Java. What I would like to know if LLVM can optimize all the way to AVX512?

We also need to experiment with hugepages. The beauty is that if read and write are separated - there is no issue with writes. They can still use 4k pages!
When accounting for all externalities, hydro doesn't usually pencil out all that well. It's a sad reality, because through a certain limited lens hydro looks amazing.

There are many efforts underway removing old hydro dams to restore the environments and ecosystems that were totally devastated by them.

A notable recent example is the Elwha River Dam removal that finished about 4 years ago in Washington: https://therevelator.org/elwha-dam-removal/
> "Mining for the things that go into batteries is just as destructive as the mining done for coal."

Most of what goes in to batteries can be recycled. You can't recycle coal.
My point is WHO failed the world by trying to be politically correct with China and not listening to Taiwan. Here is how Taiwan dealt with it from the outset [0] and what Taiwan says about WHO [1].

0. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

1. https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...
How do we go about dealing with the massive overpopulation?
Exactly. "Start a highly competitive small business and bet your entire livelihood on it, but the product is something you love" is pretty different than just getting to do what you love all day.

For it to make sense, at a minimum you have to also like and be pretty good at running a small business in addition to the thing that you love.