skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much value can you get our of Reddit heavily depends on which subreddits you subscribe to. r/news or r/politics is a cesspool.

r/askhistorians is pure gold. Hobbyist subreddits are extremely valuable - discussions are polite, to the point, high-quality posts get consistently upvoted. r/coronavirus and r/COVID19 have been pivotal in making sense of the situation in early March (though r/coronavirus turned into a parody of the former self once Covid started spreading in the US). r/nottheonion or r/gaming are often hilarious.

There are three important steps to turn Reddit into a useful tool:

- Unsubscribe from the subreddits you find toxic

- Learn to use 'Sort by Top - this week/day'

- On PC, visit old.reddit.com instead of reddit.com. On mobile, use a third-party client like RedReader or Appolo
Takes me back to 2012 and the 600$ power bills
It says the high point is 2017, not the last good paper. There are of course other good papers coming out go Google. But the novelty is dropping and the angst is increasing.
I’d love to know the all-in energy and ecological footprint of building for passive solar. I could imagine it is significant.
Sure you save lots of energy over its lifetime but you likely have a huge deficit to start with.
To get to the point in the article where it introduces the subject, scroll about half-way down or search for “Why look for Ban Tran in the first place?”
You're absolutely right. I still write with fountain pens and I have several including a Montblanc, Parker and a Waterman. I find that when I write with ballpoint pens my writing deteriorates significantly although I've noticed that for many others this isn't necessary so, as their handwriting is still excellent.

When I was at school I learned to write with a nibbed pen and I always had ink on my fingers (and often on my clothes much to my mother's chagrin); in fact during the early years we weren't allowed to use ballpoint pens at all!

I can only guess the reason for this is that ballpoint pens don't provide the correct kind of tactile feedback that's necessary for good writing. Anyway, it seems it's so for me, I think the reason is that they offer little resistance, and what there is of it is uniform, and with too little variation, thus one needs to better control the pen's movement but fails. On the other hand, fountain pens have a solid tactile resistance that seems to change dynamically as one changes direction when forming characters. (The fact that ballpoint pens were banned at school seems to indicate that others must have the same problem as me. I'd be glad to hear from anyone who's had similar experiences.)

Perhaps this is why I also find that my writing is much more legible when I write with a pencil. For normal day-to-day use, note taking and such I usually use propelling clutch pencils with 0.5 or 0.7mm leads (I've many scattered everywhere).

I am sorry I never learned to write those cursive scripts to which you refer. Whenever I see old historical handwritten documents I never cease to be amazed at the excellent standard of the handwriting, and it's often in this cursive style. Furthermore, from my observation, the older the document then generally the higher the handwriting standard is. In fact, the quality of handwriting in old documents, especially official ones, seems to be almost universally of a high standard (it seems that then clarity was more highly esteemed than it is now.).

It is a shame that nowadays we no longer pay much attention to the standard of our handwriting and that so few recognize or appreciate the fact. I've always believed that humankind loses something significant when a skill that's still useful— or that can be appreciated just for its aesthetic reasons alone—is lost.
I think you ignore the concept of pain and suffering. There clearly is a difference in pain and suffering between, say bacteria, plants, insects and vertebrates. Or even between vertebrates and Humans.
Not OP but I do this by avoiding processed foods, making everything "from scratch".

Examples:

- Pizza sauce from crushed tomatoes, tomato puré and spices.

- Marinade for marinating meat from spices and olive oil and either balsamic vinegar or lime.

- Pick my own blueberries that I freeze and put in plain yoghurt.
Winner.
I think Imgur is one of the first unbundling examples which I think at one point had alexa rank lower than reddit.
the stupid clickbait title take away all credibility from the article
Most articles are in Danish, the best I could find quickly is: https://www.datacentremagazine.com/data-centres/facebook-exp...

Edit: It's should be noted that most Danish cities already have a remote heating infrastructure in place. Aside from the regulatory issues, it's mostly a question of hooking up datacenters and other heat producing industries to that infrastructure. In most places utilising the remote heating isn't voluntary, if it's available where you live, your home has to be connected.

Things like datacenters are slowly replacing coal fired heating plants, because most of those plants where made to generate electricity, but that's now supplied by more and more renewable energy. So cities need to find other sources of heat, to replace the volume no longer coming from the power plants. Where I live that's datacenters, waste incinerators and heavy industry.

As a new thing, remote cooling is now also attempted by using cold water from limepits.
I read the article and i'm not following the argument delivered at all.

There is no real proof to this.

I'm following and reading research @ google (stuff like this https://ai.googleblog.com/ and other sources) for ages now and NOTHING indicates an 'implosion'.

It is strong research with real and constant results.

I have no idea why the autor would even consider using the word 'implode'.

Its not rocket science that data is biased and it just will continue be researched and a solution will be found. For the single reason that biased systems in certain areas will not deliver the results you need to use it properly.
I’ve all kinds of not nice things to say about the US healthcare system but their ability to not get overwhelmed during this pandemic compared to Italy, Spain and UK is remarkable, as the parent poster (probably unintentionally) mentioned.
As a casual observer, I get the impression that Google's corporate attitude toward research on Ethical AI is fundamentally analogous to Exxon's view of climate research in the 80s (and since).
Namely, that Google, correctly, views research in the area as potentially undermining key revenue sources in the short and mid term. It is sad, but unsurprising. Government funded research and regulators will most likely be the force driving AI to be more ethical -- if that's going to happen. That's what we see whenever corporate and public interests collide head on.
Enamel

Ceramic

Cast iron

Stainless steel

In that order, in my opinion.
>..it would be possible to use this fuel in any internal combustion car without having to go through the lengthy—and expensive—process of converting it.

It's not made explicit in the article. Is this a greener replacement for both Petrol and Diesel... or just Petrol?
Every time critics try to lump conspiracy theories, LGBT representation, and fake news together just to make a general point, it directly puts me off, I think that's mostly a cheap shot and lazy.

I'm out of the loop on the whole Gebru situation, from what I know she was researching ethics wrt to AI, so I don't really get the whole "novel idea/work" part in the last paragraph. I often get the impression that such critics never see the rapid developments in AI as progress as long as they don't cover the topics they would like to see focussed. It will never be good enough and always a concern because of X.
The market is factoring in that debt. So if Ford magically cancelled out its $160B, its market value would rise significantly.

So I guess one could compare its post-debt estimated value to this new startup as a upper bound since the startup doesn’t have that debt.

But auto making requires lots of capital so avoiding debt will likely not be possible as the company grows. Although if they keep valuations they can just sell stock and avoid debt.
Facebook. The changes are minor.
Dude, what the fuck.

Mathematics is pretty much on topic here. I made a valid point, just for fun, that giving a precise mathematical definition of "walking around an island" is a tricky issue. Of course everybody knows what does it mean roughly, but making that point, about a mathematical definition cannot be construed as anti-social. Unless you consider mathematics anti-social.
Clearly overall AI research at Google is not imploding, so I thought it was more interesting to talk about Ethical AI.
Other article posted a little before this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233897
So where do you live exactly?

I live in Europe and I would say that heating IS life or death problem whereas cooling isn't.

See, there is this thing that is called hypothermia and if you take a look at the map and find where it is possible to die of hypothermia vs where it is possible to die of overheating, the number of people that live in places that require heating is much more than number of people that live in places that require cooling.

That may change in the future.
What is the $ cost of the power?
Proxmox Backup Server (for any physical hosts, too)
What I ask myself is how did they transform voltage of the engine generators? I highly doubt the locomotive electric motors which were driven by the locomotive generator were operating at 220V.

They may have "simply" modified the generators exciting field strength. If so, these generators once were designed with ample allowance.
I find pink noise relaxing when working.
To be fair, you wouldn't know that from the article's subtitle:

> What does Timnit Gebru’s firing and the recent papers coming out of Google tell us about the state of research at the world’s biggest AI research department.
Even in France a heat pump will give you at least twice the heat for the gram of CO2.
Personally I just use cheap and simple solid stainless steel cookware, and scrub aggressively. Chainmail scrubbers work well for really baked on stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Knapp-Made-CM-Scrubber-Stainless/dp/B...

I used to have teflon cookware. It's great in theory. But in practice, I find indestructible stuff that you don't have to baby works much better for me. Of course, if you don't have much upper body strength, other approaches may work better.
I'm not romanticizing anything.

GMO is relatively new. We know a thimbleful of information about nutrition and health generally. We know even less than that about what more recent inventions do to the human body because there is simply less of a track record and time span in which to determine meaningful data and conclusions.

Saying "We don't know what this new thing does to our health" in no way romanticizes anything. It doesn't even implicitly suggest we know a heckuva a whole lot about the old thing. But the old thing is probably not going to randomly open up some metaphorical worm hole to some bizarre outcome and maybe the new thing will and we just haven't had enough of a track record to notice yet.

Thalidomide was briefly prescribed to pregnant women for nausea until they began having babies missing limbs because of it.
Charging for links had to be the single most destructive piece of tech legislation ever conceived in a 'free' democratic country.

Links that connect the web as we know it would be monetised, destroying the free flow of information. Australian media companies (who are themselves part of a larger group of global media organisations) know that paid links are completely incompatible to the free internet. Thats why they lobbied the government to break the internet on their behalf. Enter the dystopian 'media bargaining code' that,

1) Force companies to display selected media links and then charge them for it. In short, Extortion.

2) Paid links = lower search ranking. To circumvent the foundations of net search, this new law would force Google (and others in the future) to alter their algorithms to preference media organisations and charge the search engine in the process. An aggressive takeover of a companies service through government legislation.

The media, like everyone else, can create their own websites and charge as much as they please for their content. They are not happy with this level playing field and require laws to take control of another companies services. It is an attack on the free internet itself for no other reason than some entitled companies thinking they deserve money because they were beaten at their own game.
What's the point of "cars" that can't do at least 50mph/80kmh?

You can't really use them in the city, because you get stuck in traffic just like everybody else. Here, a bicycle or a scooter / moped is the way to go - or public transport.

You can't really use them on city speedways or circular roads, because you are too slow and hold everyone else up. And you can't use the cycle paths either. And motorways - just forget it.

The Twizy has the minimal speed, so you can at least use it around town. But the Citroen is completely useless. Maybe, if you could use the bus/taxi lanes, then maybe... but if everyone had one, then stuck in traffic again.
> Of course everybody knows what does it mean roughly

So you know this goes against

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says

But you've generated such a strong negative reaction that you've been flagged and the comment has been removed, so it's a lot of people saying it, not just my random opinion!
> I don't think anything can return an lvalue in C.

Btw, I was curious to check , here is an example of a function returning an lvalue:

struct test {
int a;
} global;

struct test* foo() {
return &global;
}

int main (int argc, char**argv) {
printf("%d", global.a); //wil print 0

foo()->a = 9;
//or (*(foo())).a = 9;

printf("%d", global.a); //will print 9
}
Is this actually from the article? I didn't want to click such a clickbait title, but this would confirm it had nothing to offer.
That statement seems to contradict your disagreement with the statement that there's nothing sad about religious beliefs.

I think you are in denial about holding a biased opinion.
How about the 1918 influenza pandemic?

There's also lots of places that don't do much flu vaccination, they don't necessarily have the same strains in circulation forever.
Any thing where people are product is not undervalued. Question should why they valued non-zero?
I doubt that, but I will add a link to this comment to my file and see if I can find anything when I get around to trying to do some kind of write up about it.
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I think judging the decline of a rapidly evolving field by literally one of the biggest breakthroughs in its entire history is not good. I also don't like clickbait and I think the audience here generally doesn't either, even if you justify it at the end.
1800 rpm 60hz / 1500rpm 50hz given a four pole alternator.

One of the reasons old stationary engines (in Europe) in the pre-governator time ran at a fixed speed of 1500 RPMs
> plenty of space for cars, excluding small city centers

EVs are, in fact, more popular in the cities. And Norwegian cities are not very welcoming to cars.
Fuck you fucking libtards.
Needs a (2015), but yes, agile is certainly that.
This would've naturally occurred if the US telecom industry followed through on the rural high speed rollouts they promised for decades.
This is not a good recommendation. Wray and the MMT school have a bizarre set of views which are wildly outside the mainstream of macroeconomic thinking.

Moreover, when serious macroeconomists have tried to engage with MMT on its own terms (which they do!) the MMT people always get evasive and vague in response to the very simple question: “why didn’t your monetary ideas work for Venezuela/Zimbabwe/Weimar Germany?”

There are much better textbooks available. Wolfers/Stephenson is a recent one I’ve thought about using in class.
It is a valid criticism that the headline is clickbaity.
I don't think it's about whether Gebru "deserves" the credit, it's just a bad comparison on so many levels. Roughly like: "the transition from Ronaldo to Magnus Carlsen may be seen in the same way as we see the transition from Pelé to Lebron James". I also think it would be fair to speak in terms of communities and not of individuals, at least in modern science.
"Latest questions" page [0] is currently hilarious, with questions titled "Boik natcha patcha?", "what this fuck" and "hey this is a test".

[0] https://calladev.com/questions
In general, my consumers don't want to learn my API. If they find shortcomings, they don't want to work around them by learning to query my bad models, they will call and complain that my model is bad and that I have to fix it in the next version or they'll look elsewhere.

At least, this has been our experience with B2B software sales.

Of course, YMMV depending on market etc.
So it dropped the whole way down to what it was priced at two weeks ago.
Man, are you all just mindlessly upvoting every vaguely negative cryptocurrency article?
Humans only eat the beans, because those are a valuable protein source. Actually, it's one only very few practical, mass produceable vegan protein sources.

Cattle, can also digest the rest of the plant. Like they would digest grass. And if you have the stuff anyway, why not feed it to grow some cattle meat.

However, for high performance, that ain't enough, you still need more protein. Soy protein is an important and (so far) cheap protein source in many animal feeds. But it is getting more expensive and problematical...
Also, the cheaper VAG alternative, Skoda has a decent looking EV SUV starting at £31k [0].

[0]: https://www.skoda.co.uk/electric-hybrid-cars/enyaq-iv
Is there a way to know if they offloaded before Musk called it overpriced? Do they have to report sales like they would shares?
What other credibility does it have really?
I actually tried fallocate(2) but it didn't change the performance characteristics at all. It doesn't seem to do what its man page says.
Compared to $721M they made in 2020 in total.
Some loud people will always leave, but reddit just this months got a lot of free ads (gamestop) which certainly will counter the leavers.
and they state "the backup is blazing fast since only changes are written" so it includes deduplication as (the great) Borg does.
Lots of people think protein folding is a bigger deal than beating the go champion.
The bus company doesn't place chattery doctors between you and the bus door.
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Still don't understand why this is an example of a dishonestly used metaphor.
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That's why we need regulations that will ban the sale of any new non-eletric vehicle in the next 5-10-15 years. Thankfully Europe is going in this direction. Asia not so much.
I think you are saying that the top-level could be modeling a completely determinstic world that could be anywhere from slightly to completely different from their own? That's a good point, and it would mean that the first simulation need not see the viewport pop into existence. They could not then assume they are the top-level, however (which would be false), and I don't think they could conclude "either we are the top-level or the first simulation", as, if the latter of those possibilities is the case, they cannot rule out the level above them also being some sort of simulation, only that theirs is not an exact replication of it.
Smaller is probably better for evs. In this class of vehicles evs stand to get the full benefit of a considerably lighter and less complex drivetrain, that ice cannot come close to. Furthermore marketing them as short range, low speed people movers means the overall battery weight, which is likely the biggest impediment to ev replacing ices, can be better compensated for.
Exactly. Going full vegan requires real effort to get enough of all nutrients you need. A vegetable-heavy diet with little animal products on the other hand easily gives you everything, without any vitamin pills, and reduces your carbon footprint almost as much. It's also psychologically easier as you can still enjoy good steak or whatever you like every now and then.

I highly recommend chickpeas and fava beans in particular. Much better for stomach than kidney beans, and perfect for many kinds of rice and pasta dishes. Fava beans are also very easy to grow outside in most climates if you're into gardening and have the space.
What's that saying: if you're not embarrassed by your startup you've launched too late.
I'm sorry for the broken link ron22.

Our goal atm is to get some early users that are willing to talk about their problems and figure out the best solution with them.
How Python strings work
Hi! This is part 9 of my Python behind the scenes series. Each part of the series covers how some aspect of the language is implemented in the CPython interpreter. This time we'll study how Python strings work. Here's a quick summary of what you'll find in the post:

* What the problem of text encoding is.
* What Unicode is and why we need it.
* How Unicode works.
* How Python strings worked in the past and how they work now.
* Is Python's approach to implement strings the best? How modern languages such as Go, Rust and Swift implement strings.

I really enjoyed working on this post. I welcome your feedback and questions. Thanks!
For many reasons.

First, transporting heat as opposed to electricity is very wasteful, so you only want to transport it in very short distances.

Second, typically even small single family home requires quite large volume to store the heat effectively for many months. It isn't that complex only because in a single family home setting you already have a bunch of uncontested land available so you can use the volume that is relatively flat and not too deep.

Building this on a scale of a city would be insurmountable challenge. You would have to dig deeper than the buildings are high and any kind of works like that are difficult in urban areas.
Unless Telsa is the last company to add BTC to their holding, I suspect this is temporary.
Maybe it is better, but what part of what he said is not true, do you think?
Theoretically you can get the wheels to turn in a certain direction. The challenge is doing it while under 40 tons of load.
Huh? Well, Reddit is a platform, not a community. A sane usage pattern is to come for a sub, create an account and immediately unsubscribe from all the other subs. I find the communities I participate in not as bad as you describe. But a community defined as "everyone who cares about politics" is simply doomed.

Now, to answer your original question: the value Reddit provides is having a single account for all my communities, instead of registering to umpteen PhpBB. This allows for a much more efficient antispam. Also more efficient ads, so they do have a business out of this.
(mmmh, that may just mean 'incremental' and not deduplicating, too)
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You seem to be saying that, within that version of the rules, an individual has a right to speak to every single motion for 20 minutes.

If you have four motions on the agenda and an hour to cover them, that single person can comfortably guarantee that we ain't hearing the fourth motion.

That would be untenable for local community organisations that I have been a part of. Every such org has that one individual member (and their pals) who would rather raze it to the ground than not get their way.
Blah blah blah racism blah blah blah lgbtiqp blah blah blah parroting blag blah blah white male redditors.

Very good article.
They shouldn't have to, but in West there is something called Corporate Socialism.
I find it ironic that the Liberal Government which is a center-right political party enables this.

In my opinion, news media has been dead in Australia for a long time, which has done a terrible disservice to the Australian public. It time to drop the dead weight.