skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Context: I work on recommendation systems at a large co - opinions my own)

I think there is a real blind spot in terms of the carbon emissions of ML, somewhat on the research side, but particularly on the production side. Let's take YouTube for example (note: I don't work for YouTube/Google, but I am speculating based on experience with similar complex systems).

A typical YouTube user will interact with a variety of machine learning powered systems:

- Newly uploaded videos to watch (recommendations)

- Recommendations defined by category

- Auto-play next video

- Search

- Ads

- Automated video captions

Each of these is likely a separate team or multiple teams. Each of these will be powered by one or more machine learning models as part of a complex pipeline. These ML models may analyze video content (computationally expensive), audio, user history, etc. Some of these ML models will run in real time, some of them will recompute huge datasets on a daily basis.

What's my point? Very few people have any insight into the carbon impact of all this compute. Perhaps it's negligible, perhaps it's huge, we just don't know. In the last two years, there has been a huge focus on the carbon emissions of PoW cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin). The impact is real, but I also believe crypto is an easy target. The data is public, hash rate is known and total power use is easy to estimate. The same can't be said for ML, there are a lot of hidden variables and few people are aware of the vast amount of compute that occurs to serve their favourite apps.

Final note: I'm only using YouTube as a common relatable example here. Almost every complex modern service will look similar in terms of number of ML models and downstream carbon impact.
That's a useful tool - I didn't know it.

Though it seems targeted for technical people only - the first thing you need to do is pick a "keystore type", which I dare to say, few people understand.
They are a part of NATO, and Russia cannot win a conventional war against the entire NATO armies.
Some people thought Ukraine wouldn't last 3 days and yet here we are.
What a dumb argument. North Korea also has hospitals. Are hospitals a sign of tyrannical dictatorship? Use your brain a little, for fucks sake.
Eh, it’s a limited subset of kernel versions (ones unlikely to be used in those devices), and requires local execution privileges and access to the file system. Linux in general has had numerous security issues (as has every other OS), often requiring far less access.

Does it need patching? Of course. It’s not a privilege escalation remote code execution issue though, and even if it was, it would be on a tiny fraction of running devices right now.
I hate to nitpick, but Kindles still don't really have "backlights"; they're called "frontlights". Basically it's a "light-conducting" layer on top of the screen that's illuminated by LEDs at the top, bottom, or both. It's hard to describe, but the effect is very different from backlit tablets, and much more gentle. It's like this for all e-Readers AFAIK.

It would be interesting to see a study especially since the tech is so different.
The way Notion does this is annoying as hell. I am in a data entering view and there is no "submit" button??
We should definitely trust the word of people who installed mines in the evacuation route out of Mariupol.
Same here for the period was working from home as they got us to come back to the office some months ago. I actually got myself a rebounder and made sure to at least put 10 minutes on it every day. It did make a nice difference and the fact that it's always available I could stick to it for months. Swimming is far better, I wish I had a pool nearby but I don't. I wish you good luck and motivation in sticking to it for the long term.
If you've designed a good front-end from an HCI perspective, you'll still end up with sooooo many edge cases. Human behavior is much more variable than the calls sent to an API or SQL sent to a database. (It also helps that there are syntax requirements that limit what's considered valid.)
Wow! Lots of memories flooding back. I (Xamot) remember your nickname. E2 was definitely an interesting place, bringing together people from many walks of life. I meet many people, who influenced who I am today. And it is unlikely that I would have met such a range of people otherwise.
I'm the same as you. I subscribe to Netflix so long as there's something I'm watching, then stop. Then I might subscribe to something else. People that complain about having to pay for all services are just power users, and I think it's fair that I don't pay as much as them.
Like it took a night for the Russians to wipe out Ukraine (which has been lacking modern weapons)? The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown how weak the Russian army is in reality. They have no chance against NATO whatsoever. Poland and Baltics are also arming themselves to teeth now.
See also BBG news headlines
Hello HN,

I made a small CLI utility that walks your filesystem to find dependencies you use that are seeking donations.

It does so by parsing FUNDING.yml and README files which almost every project embed their support links.

It can export the list to a CSV file as well.

GitHub - https://github.com/mufeedvh/paydept

Please let me know what you think! :)
Nice article but bad language.

When they were replacing the bridge down the road from us they set up a long detour on a road populated by hillbillies that quickly got surrounded by farm equipment that had the words "SLOW THE F--K DOWN" painted on it. (Ironically this was on "Speed Hill".)

After the bridge was repaired the people right next to the bridge parked a gravity wagon in the field by the road with the same words on it.

A family that lived down the road felt that this violated the community standards of our road (like there are families here you know...), got some paint and covered up the middle two words. Mom and Junior could have handled it themselves but Dad thought "if this was a heist movie there would be a driver" so he came along too.
Its probably more that they care about having the source code and being able to modify and rebuild it rather than the FLOSS licenses. For most proprietary software you don't have the source.
>Patents granted to Asians, Africans, and indigenous Americans for prior-art would bankrupt Europe.

>Patents last 20 years. So no.

That's a domestic choice that most countries had no say in, there is no global consensus on how long patents should last.

In the US, congress has the right to grant and extend patents for however long it wishes (and has done so many times in the past).

So yes, to my original point.
MIT's How to make (almost) anything is a good place to start if you are new to hardware prototyping: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.20/

I would also recommend that you join any local Hackerspaces in your area if you need access to special equipment: laser cutters, CNC machines, 3d printers. Peeps who frequent these spaces are very knowledgable and surprisingly helpful with n00bs.

As others have already mentioned here, don't worry about going into production for now because A LOT of stuff is in flux due to the pandemic. Most people who are serious about building hardware either end up moving to Shenzhen or spending a huge chunk out of their year supervising the manufacturing in person.
If you are not ready to make this commitment yet then it's better to focus on making your prototypes locally with what you already have on hand.
Reality Crash
It's easy to ride a high horse and advise states (which have always been vicious, in old or modern history) to do the right thing, period. Who has done more war crimes and inhumane acts in recent years, and in recent decades, around the world, Russia or the U.S.? Which is to say, the U.S. cannot go around lecturing anyone about morality or worse. Have people forgotten the nuclear bombing of huge Japanese cities? It's beyond atrocious.
I don't get the downvotes ether.

You've just lost the vast majority of the market who NEED Russian translations to use your software.

I imagine most Russian speakers outside of Russia, who buy software, would also have an least some proficiency in either English, French or another supported language.

Even though I haven't kept up with my French, I could probably manage to use a French version of Windows. It's going to be harder, but not impossible.
Why I'm not a philosopher (2017)
You can use uBlacklist to remove specific sites from google search results
Available for chrome and firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
You think that China, famous for it's nationwide firewall, will provide open solutions?
Here is the dynamics between February 24 and March 3 - https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1500430882615836674

I tried to translate using OCR, and the first chart's data points are answers to the question to what is the role of Russia in the conflict: "Aggressor", "Freedom", "Peacekeeping", "Don't know".

Note, that it's based on an online poll (so not including TV-watchers-only people), but AFAIK they made sure that the people who are being polled are in different age and demographic groups.
You're right, I though kernel 5.8 is a lot older than it actually is. I've edited my post.

Sorry!
Dear ImGUI keeps a bunch of state under the hood, based on the name of the object. It's not object-oriented, per se, but each object has its set of functions that operate on it, except that the object reference is not a pointer but a string. Kind of like object-oriented C (NOT Objective-C), but with strings instead of pointers.
The influx of scientists is a fascinating criticism. I guess maybe the lunatics run the asylum here, and what I've seen from recent csci grads is partly because theyre being educated by people without the traditional csci scepticism (which I agree, is there: the older generation of csci academics and much more aligned with my view).

Perhaps "scientist" is too vague a term. I mean people with a "in their bones" appreciation of experimentalism, empirical adequecy etc.

What you're saying overall aligns with my view -- no on here is defining empirical adequacy on ML systems as "theories of natural language". As soon as you do this, which would be step1 in any experimental endeavour, the whole show collapses.

No one here is being taught to target empirical systems and develop criteria of empirical adequacy... thinking somehow "accuracy on benchmarks" tracks "ability to understand language" -- this, as we both think, is mad.

I guess my cultural issue is better described then as "pureish mathematicians" having come to own an empirical field, with all the predicatable nonesenses which follow (whether they are discrete or continous).
Because there's very few "NATO troops", most of the time NATO serves as unified command and coordination structure, but there are very few "NATO" troops - just missions sent by different countries.

This would be an agreement between Latvia and USA that might at most use NATO structures to organize.
Yes, you are right, currently 407 deaths.
(https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...)
As far as I understand it sending aid to Poland to help with the influx of refugees is one of the first things the UK did, and there are even actual UK boots on the ground there assisting them. The media here is just focusing on the issue of Ukranian refugees being allowed in the UK specifically for domestic political reasons - migration and refugee policy is a huge political issue here.
Pretty much all AV software, including Defender, does not care about false positives unless it's software from a big company so leaving users without warnings based on shitty heuristics is a positive thing in my book.
> and even if it was, it would be on a tiny fraction of running devices right now.

That's correct and I misjudged the situation. Sorry!
I literally have been there, done that, and bought the t-shirt. There used to be some great Linux t-shirts back in the day but, that bright orange Freshmeat shirt is one I wish I never tossed. I can't even find a pic on Google Images.
> Russia doesn't have the right to veto what sovereign states do.

I'm curious what you mean by your use of the word "right" in the above context.

Whose job is it to enforce that right? Is that right enforced for all countries? Or only if mightier countries take an interest?

It seems that more powerful countries are constantly interfering with the internal politics of smaller countries by doing things like supporting dictators, interfering in elections, etc.
The other option for you here is to simply ignore comments that bother you. You don't have to engage with what you consider a "partisan struggle."
You can literally read it. He denied the genocide while it was going on. He later gave a notpology but that doesnt change that he denied it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
> People are reluctant to pay for the work.

Having seen a few different situations, sometimes people may not pay because:

a) it’s quite expensive in their currency

b) they don’t really have a payment method available for international transactions

c) maybe they’re just poor and got some kind of a hand-me-down computer with their savings

d) culturally, in many places hardware has been seen as worth paying for, but software is seen as something you just copy (don’t even get me started on the pricing differences between app releases that do the same thing but run on Macs and on iOS/iPadOS devices)

e) there is a sense of entitlement towards bits, be they apps or photos or music or movies or TV shows
Yep... cars are just getting DAB(+) as standard, and now this?
Like sibling commenter said, it leaves everything on your body very dry.

Your hair gets that stiff feeling that shampoo doesn’t leave you with. I think it was the mint one I got, as recommended, and it left strong sensation on my balls - the kind you can’t tell if it is burning or freezing. And generally skin dry.

So what exactly does it do that the cheapest store brand bar or liquid soap doesn’t? It’s obviously full of residue given it’s scented, and even if it wasn’t full of non soapy things you’d still need to use body lotion and conditioner afterwards to not feel completely dried out.

Bronners cleans dirt and washes away sweat and grease, sure. But I’ve never encountered a soap or detergent in a super market that didn’t.

The cheapest liquid hand washing soap leaves your skin feeling softer and just as clean and just as scented as Bronners. Although I’m not really sure why being scented is a selling point.

Personally I can’t see why you shouldn’t go for a no perfume, certified safe for people with astma and allergies and certified environmentally friendly. In some markets (like Denmark) even the store brands has these certificates and you can scent yourself with the perfume or cologne of your choice instead of having a mix of cologne, body wash and shampoo fight it out.
This is not about IP regime.

It's about not doing what they agreed for when they signed these contracts which are now terminated.
We need an EU strategic command - who can coordinate over the existing armies.
I like to think it's Gunther from Adventure Time.
Pushover Turns 10
DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?
Did the manual have the incredibly easy "decryption" process?

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.misc/c/PA9sve0eKAk
Do you happpen to have heard/know how groups like this are viewed?

https://mobile.twitter.com/guychazan/status/1500543700295987...

https://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/15004953095957...
In the 19th century, the UK prided itself on accepting asylum seekers: that's how people like Karl Marx ended up there.
> I don't see why I would ever want to do the first one in real life, when exceptions exist.

Exceptions usually aren't typechecked.
EU army is scope creep and redundant. The EU does not need to be a military organization.
And a number of mainstream western outlets are trying to convince us to join the war by reporting on Russia's use of thermobaric weapons as if it was a warcrime.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2310098-what-are-thermo...
https://au.news.yahoo.com/what-is-a-thermobaric-bomb-and-why...

The worst offenders don't even mention the US' extensive use of them, such as the CBU-72 in Vietnam.

There's a huge amount of propaganda going on right now, I don't trust any outlets to be telling me the truth.
Genetic study reveals causal link between blood type and Covid severity
In the light of recent events the UK has recently introduced a Family Scheme Visa for family members of UK resident Ukrainians[0]. For immediate and extended family members.

0: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-a-ukraine-family-schem...
It's fair to assume this is handcrafted and hand-optimized code, as machines back then were typically too small to use for many tasks. Any code generated would have added bloat making the whole project untenable.
CA Transition to Solar Is at a Crossroads: What It Means for Equity and Costs
No, IrisGL did not have any functions for creating Windows, you used libX11 and the Xt toolkit to do that.
> it's like saying to someone who just got their bike stolen while they were trying to sell it "the thief would have probably never bought it"

No it's not.

If a thief takes your bike, you no longer have it, you can't sell it.
Yes, but when around 1500 a graphite deposit was found, it was considered a particular kind of lead, hence the "lead" in the name in many languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Graphite_deposit_discov...
Of course allies are necessary, but which allies and how many is the question. It depends on the situation. You shouldn't need the US for a mere deterring garrison, only if there is actual fighting to be done.

The EU has many more people than the US, and is still fairly wealthy on the main. If there is a relatively big EU military, we in the US have a chance of reforming and shrinking our monster.

The point of an EU army is not to appease Russia --- that indeed wouldn't work. The point is to give Europe some real sovereignty whereas today it has a hugely captive foreign policy.
It would seem to me that "there is no difference with appropriate light intensity settings" would be a much more publishable result? That max. brightness affects sleep is an unsurprising "common sense" result (although still worth doing research over just to verify), but I – and I think many people – genuinely don't know if there's an effect with low light settings (and/or colour temperature settings), and if there's an effect, how large that effect might be. In short: that seems a much more interesting study.
Billionaire Russian-Born Stoli Founder Changes Vodka Name
Of course no country (aside from the US or China) can handle this alone, but that’s the point of the EU, a collection of countries.

They’d much rather have America sink into debt than touch the sacred cow of EU social spending.
While I agree on the premise of gaining and retaining power and the importance of a loyal base to that end, I think reducing loyalty to wealth redistribution is overly simplistic and insufficient.

Humans like any social creatures are prone to tribalism. Social cretures crave a sense of belonging and that means defining who you are, what you want and what you stand for and finding similarly minded individuals. Maintaining that group involves signaling one's "belonging". Tribalism can be along racial, cultural, religious or language grounds but it can also be more ephemeral than that.

Take the popularity of Trump, particularly among evangelicals and other "values" voters. Now for anyone familiar with even a modicum of Christian orthodoxy, Trump seen through the lens of Christian morals is objectively a horrible human being. Many of us find this hypocrisy perplexing but seen through the lens of tribalism I think it makes more sense. Trump, through carefully chosen wedge issues like guns and abortion, provides and reinforces that sense of belonging to that group. It reinforces the "us and them" and "we are warriors for Christ" world views that are deeply-ingrained and pervasive.

Beyond Trump, you have Putin. Some evangelicals believe God is working through Putin [1]. Tucker Carlson last week went on a rant about Putin never did [insert imagine liberal sin here], a video that is oddly hard to find now and Carlson has been forced to backtrack on given the invasion.

Nationalism is another common road to tribalism.

But none of this really involves the transfer of material goods as this post focuses on.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/retired-evangelist-pat-robertson-sa...
> Finally, I hope you realize that by asking here you will get a _very_ distorted view.

This cannot be overstated. It's hard to know what and who to believe anymore.
> Modern recordings that use extreme dynamic range compression and other measures to increase loudness therefore can sacrifice sound quality to loudness. The competitive escalation of loudness has led music fans and members of the musical press to refer to the affected albums as "victims of the loudness war."

I had some serious deja vu reading that as I knew I had head it before. Took me minute to find it but it's said (almost) verbatim at 0:23 seconds into this song [0] that was on a playlist I sometimes listen to.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/track/17NCISfYJl0GITXs8G75Ae?si=4dd...
The combined forces of Russia, China, NK and Iran could probably muster a fight. Not sure how likely that WW3 scenario would unfold, though.
Selecting the text as if you were going to copy it
Not a fan, try as I might I can't figure out how to apply changed attributes to only one interface

It's all or nothing, and if you have important traffic in flight... Best of luck.

Somehow managed to take several solutions, glue them together, and make the experience worse.
Mutation testing is for finding holes in the tests. PBT is for finding holes in your code.
Once the nuclear taboo is crossed it could happen near-instantly. I imagine Russia would prefer to be bordered by nuclear wastelands as a DMZ rather than EU states, which create a existential cultural threat just by existing.

At that point you'd have to ask yourselves: who would risk nuclear escalation to retaliate for Latvia or Estonia? not the US. Would the UK bomb Russia with London on the line? probably not.

Just about everyone has more to lose than Russia at this point, which is an incredibly dangerous situation to be in.
For a quick, easy-to-digest introduction to the topic, there's a fantastic video with explanations and an interview with Bengio that uses Galton peg boards as a starting point for understanding generative flow networks. Highly recommended if you're a researcher or practitioner interested in learning about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M49TMqK5uCE
Latvia is already part of NATO, so this is not surprising nor changes anything. It is more probable that Latvia is voicing what other NATO countries already decided.
Yeah, the famous Russian army. Probably all the money that was directed to it was used for expensive villas.
There's an accessibility setting which you can use to further darken the screen. I have it set to toggle on a triple click of the home button.
Everyone wrote plain assembly in those days. If you were lucky your assembler did nice things like symbolic constants.

It was a skill pretty much everyone knew.