skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is a very dumb question, but how have people around the world living on smaller islands gotten their electricity in recent decades? Are they connected to the mainland's electrical grid, do they run their central own central power generator, or do individuals just use gas/solar power if they need electricity? I don't know about other nations with many islands, but in Greece's case, there are loads of small islands ranging from just a few people to hundreds to tens of thousands, so it probably makes a centralized infrastructure very hard.
Nope, confirmed with blood test. Dengue is quite weird though, it's asymptomatic for most people who get it, under a percent get hemorrhagic shock and end up in hospital, and the rest like me are anywhere in between.
:-|

I wish I had a good solution to this. Cloudflare to mitigate DDOS attacks has somewhat of a “baby with the bathwater” vibe (considering how much of a pain it is if you can't pass the CAPTCHA, or if you're on Tor), but I can't think of an alternative.
I have not - answer to both questions. Got busy with college, work, family. Im sure what will draw me back in will be VR. But I have no interest in FPS games. I await the next paradigm which VR will enable.

In college I wrote a multi-user version of Battlezone. Another student did a "flying through space" version.

What I learned doing that launched my software career.
I suspect it may partly also be cultural for that segment of people. Repeating yourself at seminars or other academic meetings was highly frowned upon in several instances I've seen, it was not just greatness/respect/intrinsic etc.

Perhaps sufficient greatness of attention span is a prerequisite to remember what everyone has said since the start of the meeting :-)
Well, I'm not betting anything on it..
Ask HN: How to handle situations when co-workers laugh at you in meetings?
The whistleblowers reported on data that was real. After they blew the whistle the data was taken offline. Seems like worthy reporting to me.
Any chance you could link to some stuff that's making you so optimistic about rejuvenation on that timeline?
What is the difference between wind turbines and highways or utility poles festooned with cables?

It seems to me that the key thing is that the latter were installed a long time ago and acceptance is baked into life. But if you think about it, utility poles with cables running everywhere are a more invasive eye sore. And listing all the problems with highways here would certainly hit the character limit.

There's a lot surrounding us in modern life that if you step back, you might see a problem. Wind turbines are new so they're under the microscope. But if they've enabled Greece to cut its coal power substantially, they're certainly worth it.
Ah thanks. It should be fixed now.
I was about to ask the same thing, didn't realize until your answer, that it is web-based? A local offline application would be great!

(also maybe.. is making an account necessary?)

And one more question, can it also pull multi-page documentation, or just single URL's? I assume it downloads websites and makes them offline available, or is that a wrong assumption.
They describe it as structured and unstructured data, with the latter examples being "emails, spreadsheets, word processing files, or other electronic documents"

The former is likely database files, JSON, XML, etc. and anything that has a "common format", but I don't think specifics are given.
More than 200k still would have died under that scheme as well.
It was said that NL and UK are not affected, so that can’t be it.

Also the move would definitely be illegal in the Netherlands too.
I would expand your point to add that another missing key part of dev on big distributed platform is being able to run parts of the system locally.
For some shop it is a lot harder than a simple docker-compose (think of envs with 10 or 100 of micro-services), any laptop cannot handle such load and it is critical for devs to work on the machine, otherwise you lose a lot of time with shared dev envs, SSH tunnels or rsync...
I agree that CI pipelines are a pain in a distributed system but I heard more complains from devs not being able to test locally some new feature in serviceA that depends on 10 other services + DBs to work.
That is a feature.
There used to be meetings where I wished we could have installed those campaign debate buttons that buzz when someone's time is up. It could be infuriating. I have high hopes that remote meeting software will grow features like this eventually.
> It's surprising how ridiculously fast it is

This is why server-side rendering is making a comeback; for over a decade, ever since Chrome and V8 came out, the focus has been on making JS faster, but in the meantime rendering plain old HTML and CSS (especially without animations or other complexer calculations) hasn't stopped. Especially newer versions of rendering engines, employing 3D acceleration and tile-based rendering will make these things really fast.

Years ago we decided that vBulletin 3 was getting too old (it had been superseded by the slower 4 and 5 by then; slower because they did more 'tidy' coding in the back-end (object-oriented PHP) and tried to build a more JS-heavy front-end.). We first tried Discourse - we tried it for days, trying to migrate posts, but it was just so heavyweight, it seemed aimed at enterprise companies with a free-to-spend credit card linked to AWS, not some random fansite out on the internet. I gave up eventually.

Instead we went to Xenforo, which was built by the same people behind vBulletin up until v3, after which that company was bought out and the people left. They built Xenforo with similar goals as vB 3, just with a fresh start, and the result was an old-fashioned but fast forum software, suitable for mobile, some JS sprinkled here and there for e.g. instant posting without a full page reload, but other than that a pretty vanilla piece of software.
Only collapse of the consumer economy, which in the first place should never be allowed to rise to enough significance to be much of a show-stopping collapse when it happens.
When you toss “2241 + 19873 =” into an applet that shows you the default tokenization scheme GPT-3 uses, you get this:

(224)(1)( +)( 198)(73)( =)

I’ve heard it remarked before that, while tokenization is obviously an unavoidable part of a model with an architecture like GPT, this is a very silly way of tokenizing number strings for the purposes of learning or doing arithmetic. Indeed, I think a lot of GPT-3’s puzzling edge-case performance can be ascribed to weird and unhelpful tokenizations. Just imagine if you were forced to learn arithmetic with a brain that automatically categorized “224” as a sort of distinct object, or, for that matter, breaking down 19873 as ( 198)(73) rather than (19873) or (1)(9)(8)(7)(3) or anything practically useful.

The thing is that we can, in a sense, learn better “tokenizations”, in the sense that a 4 year old learning to read sees letters, while a 40 year old reading a novel “sees” whole words or even groups of words. The GPT architecture can’t change its tokenization scheme.
And it's also assuming that any life is like us, with no other technology or way to cycle/recycle heat other than to radiate it into space.

I mean, I know the proof of life is us, but the human-centered view of the universe does reek of prior historical "knowledge" that the earth was the center of the universe. I understand searching for life like us, as that is what we can extrapolate from current data. But to use that to infer that we're it, it's just too much for me.
These language models feel, to me, like the unfiltered self. If someone asked me what 838+1283 was my head would instantly offer up some number 2301 or something. But i would discard that number because I learned in elementary school that I don't come up with good values, I need to execute a process in order to get the right value.

I imported the csv version and I'm no statistician but 90% percentile relative error is 8.6%, which is something like this:

What is 22730 - 24978? -2448 (real answer -2248)

That's totally within range of something that would plop into my head...with one exception. Of 1000 entries, only five have an incorrect last digit. I think that's meaningful...it almost tells me that there's a multi-stage operation happening in there somewhere.
I've used to own DiMAGE A2 and remember fondly that aperture priority mode was a bit different than in other makers. There was a specified range of shutter times and when the camera was reaching the limit of the range it started changing ISO to stay within the range. It's been extremely useful. I still miss this kind of behavior in my Canon 5D Mark II.
:-| indeed.

I've considered having a naked endpoint with a rate limiter that, when it hits some ceiling (dunno, sustained load of 2 RPS or so), offers the alternatives of going through an unlimited cloudflared domain, or waiting until the bots give up. But that might be annoying too.
Well, they're undoubtedly marketed differently, but IMHO it's a double-bluff.

Range Rover markets directly to upper-middle-class suburbanites, and show off the leather seats, fancy touchscreens and alloy wheels of shiny, clean cars.

Land Rover markets 'adventure', shows cars fording rivers and crossing deserts, and offers optional winch, expedition roof rack and ladder. But they still offer leather seats, fancy touchscreens and alloy wheels; and mostly sell to upper-middle-class suburbanites.

To me they seem like extremely similar products, predominantly targeting the same demographic, just with different marketing.
Whoa, that explains why only .5% of the examples have an incorrect last digit.
Well, adding "obviously" to an argument does not add anything to the argument.

I can see how you _might_ think this some type of mental health issue, but seeing a behavior that is weird from your point of view does not make it a medical behavior automatically. It might, it might not, and you can't tell for sure.

To push another armchair diagnosis with exactly the same value, I'd say it looks someone who plays the game of life at a high level, which can sometimes looks like lunacy from the outside. But that's just like, my opinion, man.
Was not intended like that. Reverse the argument: it’s really hard to vandalise it due to the relatively low attention span of vandals and the throttling.
Yeah, the totally managed deployment for Pages is great to get started, but not being able to run through our regular CI tool is a major bummer and has us also sticking with Worker sites.
Are you able to provide some details?

I'd say it depends on the situation, was it a good-natured friendly ribbing or were they mocking something personal about you like your looks or something?
Is this how a coordinated, large group of websites could "DDOS" Bing or Google?
There is a major logical flaw in your argument.

Space travel is only considered to be impractical for humans, or similarly large organic entities within their limited lifespan.

The time constraint and the mass constraint may not be particularly relevant to intelligence that no longer has organic form.

An artificial lifeform may not have a defined life span and thus taking 100,000 years to travel the stars may be acceptable.

Additionally, they may only need to make the trip once to establish the receiving antenna, in order to transmit their "progeny" around the galaxy.

Tldr; We are like ants thinking that we need to figure out how to make really long tunnels to cross the Atlantic, instead of focusing on the limitations of our physical bodies.
I too got a little excited about a new MirageOS release for my TI-84
> We have only recently put a man on the moon, and now we're saying we would be able to detect dyson spheres...?

A moth doesn't even have electricity, but it can detect a lampshade. A Dyson sphere is basically a stellar lampshade; we can detect it if the laws of thermodynamics hold, and we're pretty sure they do. (A Dyson swarm is similar, though a bit harder to detect.)
Thanks for the interesting reading! I took a dive and it turns out Operation Starvation was remarkably effective and arguably should have been used earlier [0]. Also it didn't actually lead to any deaths from starvation [1]. Here are some excerpts.

"After the war, the commander of Japan's minesweeping operations noted that he thought this mining campaign could have directly led to the defeat of Japan on its own had it begun earlier. Similar conclusions were reached by American analysts who reported in July 1946 in the United States Strategic Bombing Survey that it would have been more efficient to combine the United States' effective anti-shipping submarine effort with land- and carrier-based air power to strike harder against merchant shipping and begin a more extensive aerial mining campaign earlier in the war. This would have starved Japan, forcing an earlier end to the war." [0]&[2]

"While some of the main actors (the UK, the US, Germany, and Japan) escaped famine..." [1]

"In Britain, Germany, and Japan, rationing was effective; even though food availability was sharply reduced almost everywhere, few literally died of hunger. Britain and Germany managed to maintain food consumption per capita at about 3,000 calories throughout the war. In Japan consumption fell from a norm of 2,000 calories per capita before Pearl Harbor to 1,900 calories in 1944, plummeting to 1,680 calories by the war’s end." [1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Starvation

1: https://voxeu.org/article/famines-wwii

2: https://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm
Did you live in USSR after it collapsed? It looks like your information about that places comes from The Economist.
It was nepotism + intimidation, USSR was like kindergarten in comparison. Putin & Co (for example) are not talented in any imaginable way except being good in eliminating the competitors.
It's been a bit more in my model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301438
I had Covid and hit a new all time high deadlift (515 lbs) at a lower body weight a few months later.
Syncing with banks is neither free nor open source though and is a clusterfuck to maintain.
The article doesn't live up to the title. Mentions "wood" twice at the beginning, "sustainability" once.

After that it's just a regular cryptocurrency article that's already been written countless times. Surprised at this low quality coming from The Guardian.

Is there a reason you submitted this?
> the ground shakes uncontrollably

Yep, that was the real problem till YSFlight version ver.2015xxxx, but since ver.2018xxxx it was a little bit fixed, but I'm agree that being open-source it could has a chance to be fixed by community.

Being in actual state, YSFlight is hobby project of single person.

That is why its hard to predict future of this amazing software.
We know today that DNA can be extracted from air.

https://www.livescience.com/dna-collected-air.html

In addition there are probably more valid reasons for heads of state not to have DNA available to a possible future adversary. A more reasonable fear would be these two from

https://internethealthreport.org/2019/23-reasons-not-to-reve... and many others:

+You may be discriminated against in the future. In the United States, health insurers and workplaces are not allowed to discriminate based on DNA. But the law does not apply to life insurance or disability insurance. Who knows in your case, where you live? Some day you could be compelled to share genetic information with your own insurer.

+Racists are weaponizing the results. White nationalists have flocked to commercial DNA companies to vie for the highest race-purity points on extremist websites.
You might like the work of George Selgin.

He's an Austrian economist, but not of the 'Internet Austrian' persuasion. He's done lots of work on the history of money and banking.
Tell me what would you prefer and I'll tell you why it's inferior to OCaml.
I think that at somepoint Google will find itself in a position TV stations found themselves in around 2008-ish; TV stations had created the habbit of cancelling everything that wasn't an instant hit in it's first season. In turn this became a self-fulfilling prophecy because people wouldn't watch the first season. They didn't want to be left out in the cold with some season 1 cliffhanger which was never resolved because the series never got renewed for a second season.

...AND YES I'M STILL PISSED ABOUT FIREFLY!
Hmm. I’m not sure what you mean. Temperature is randomness; low temp is to get the most probable least random result. It’s what chess engines do during tournaments, for example.

The other parts seem unlikely. It has no knowledge of bases, except insofar as they appear in the training set. I saw this in our GPT chess work — even with strange tokenization, it learned chess notation well.
I should try something like that for the endless bots that seem to try and access our site. Instead of outright banning them, put them in a special user group that gets a gzip bomb whenever they try to access the site again.

Is there a way to make it so it doesn't outright make processes crash or lock up, but instead really slow them down / hang them up for a long time?
Doctors Group Accuses Neuralink of Animal Abuse During Brain Implant Experiments
Wood are certainly biodegradable, and some takes a long time to degrade. Afaik many wood houses use paintings or coatings to protect from nature (at least where I live). So, I wonder if it applies to European half-timbered house.
I've used sc-im for pretty minimal spreadsheet operators for a while now, but have hated needing a special file format for it, plus it's not available in a lot of package managers. Love that I can do simple calculation in Vim now.
(Published September 2021)

03/04/2021 - Attempted to contact vendor
13/04/2021 - Vendor confirmed vulnerability
23/04/2021 - Vendor issued $2,000 bounty
24/04/2021 - Assigned ID CVE-2021-31698
08/09/2021 - Write-up published

Looks like at Pine it's treated as a "Don't fix", or at least it's on Qualcomm to release a new firmware: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14935
It's the best kitchen timer in the world, no matter how many dishes you're cooking.
In the United States, excess deaths increased 22.9% between March 1, 2020, and Jan. 2, 2021, an increase that “far exceeds annual increases observed in recent years” of 2.5% or less, data in JAMA show. In other words, this trend pre-dates mass vaccination campaigns that barely got started mid December 2020.

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20210402/allcause-m...
I’m not sure if there are better actually solution. A single wind turbine near a farmhouse brings out some warm ecofuture vibes however right now it seems more likely that what we will get is every hill top and the horizon near ever beach polluted with turbines.

Off shore wind farms are a nice idea until they block your entire view of the sea.

Wind should be a small scale solution for remote locations.

It doesn’t seem to me that any implementation of it on an industrial scale can be achieved without an environmental disaster of a different kind.

Small Nuclear Reactors and fusion really can’t come fast enough.
Infrasounds are weird. They are hard to measure correctly with off the shelf equipment that's usually used for noise complaints and they affect people very differently.

Some people don't notice a constant infrasound at all, others start getting a "dreamy" feeling and a constant feeling of ... something weird. Both of which are really hard to quantify and measure.

There are even studies that kinda sorta link "haunting" with sources of infrasound.
Double down and laugh at yourself.

It neutralizes any awkwardness and kills the joke immediately.

Use humor to your advantage. nothing they say can hurt you.
Right, also the hull must resist the impact against hidrogen atoms at near the speed of light, which would apply tremendous forces. Dust will be like exploding nukes.
Most of the projects I do are because they are useful to myself. I'm happy if other people find them useful, but I don't depend on them becoming successful.

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https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard

Customizable personal dashboard and startpage. I have a pinned Firefox tab that I check daily to get a quick overview of some areas I find important.

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https://github.com/darekkay/static-marks

Shareable bookmarks. I have first built it to maintain a list of bookmarks for me and my work colleages. Later I have migrated all my personal bookmarks as well. Now I can type "sm" (for static marks) in any of my browsers followed by a search term to open Static Marks and get to all my bookmarks, filtered by the search term.

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https://github.com/darekkay/evaluatory

Web page evaluation with a focus on accessibility. My motivation was that my blog previously had a small accessibility issue. I didn't catch it, as I've tested only the desktop breakpoint. Evaluatory runs axe-core at multiple breakpoints at the same time and generates an HTML report.
You'd have to get very close to the speed of light, before you'd see any really significant relativistic effects.

That just isn't practically doable with any technology within humanity's reach, probably for centuries. If it ever will be at all.

The amount of energy needed to propel anything at that speed is enormous.
Uh, sorry that happened to you? Were they laughing at your joke? Or did something unprofessional happen?
Note that the claim actually being addressed was that we've been doing it sustainably, not merely that we could of we wanted to.
> A significant disadvantage was that we couldn't have both 0.47.x and 0.63.0 in our application simultaneously.

You definetily can! We used Slate `0.47.x` at Leadsimple[0] and we went through the same hustle and decided to go with Slate again! We have both versions running in production for 3 months now, and we didn't have any problem. You can add separate versions of the same library using a feature of `yarn` which allows you to declare `"slate": "^0.47"` and `"slate-latest": "npm:slate@^0.72.0"`. Then, in your code you just need import `slate` when you want the older version, and `slate-latest` when you use the new one. We also had to inline some stuff because `yarn` isn't the smartest when solving dependencies, but it sure is possible :). It wasn't easy, but the end result is amazing, and REALLY fast, hasn't caused any problem to us.

[0] https://www.leadsimple.com
You should tell this to Bolsonaro or Trump, both of which miserably failed at even pretending to look like they're doing the right thing.
Yeah, assumptions, slight of hand remarks at least you are sticking to the stereo type. Thankfully I never have to deal with people like you in a real rnd environment. surplus people.
Yes, a modern nuclear plant requires tons & tons of concrete. Yes, it costs tons & tons of money. It also gives you gigantic amounts of energy, and you can adjust its output. Windmill and solar panels only produce energy when there's wind or sun, so their actual energy output is much lower than their peak power output, and you can't decide to turn them on or off at will like you can with a nuke plant to adjust it to the energy needs of the country.

You want to be renewable only? Then you need to install several times the power output you need, and enough energy storage to have your energy at will: dams, batteries… This is going to cost a lot.

Also, shutting down a nuke plant takes about a minute, then you need very little water to keep it cool. Completely dismantling it takes much longer of course, but it takes so little surface compared to its energy output that you might as well just leave it there to rot.