skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raising solar panels on all the canals could have a big impact on the problem, by cutting evaporation.

It was estimated we could get an easy 12 GW (peak) from the aggregate of California canals, for much less money than, say, a 2GW nuke. Energy storage cost is plummeting even faster than solar, so making that a 2GW baseline is in easy reach.
> For the rest of the chip / hardware there are at least some chances to test what they do and discover any suspicious behavior.

That there are some chances to test them does not provide any measure of trust... you actually have to perform the audit to achieve that.

>... On the other hand, a RNG that cannot be verified to be what it claims to be, is completely useless.

If we are going to take such an absolute line over RNGs, then, to be consistent, we should take the same attitude to the rest of the hardware and software we use - but, per my previous point, that means actually evaluating it, not just having the possibility of doing so.

One might, instead, argue that we should use only verifiable RNGs because that is actually feasible (at least for non-mobile equipment), but that does nothing to bring the rest of the system up to the standard of your last paragraph.
Totally legit.
I know a lot of "those people" who are using Bitcoin already, but I would never refer to unbanked people as "those people," being for all practical purposes one of them. We mostly aren't using it safely (a lot of us don't know the difference between Binance and Bitcoin) but we are using it.

The last transaction fee I paid was 33¢, and the average transaction in the last Bitcoin block was 913 bytes, so your internet access speed isn't an obstacle to sending a transaction as long as it's above about 20 bits per second; if you want to run a full node you need at least 17000 bits per second of internet access unless you're using the Blockstream satellite.

Typically I pay US$5 a month for cellphone internet access when I have it, but more commonly I use Wi-Fi in various places.
> policy ban is also an implicit admission that the government's position on money and finance is weak

Every country with capital controls already does this.

Most of them (e.g. Egypt, Iraq, Bangladesh and China) hand banned or heavily restricted (e.g. India) crypto. The same way they restrict hard currencies. America has an open capital account, so the threat is less present.
There was a recent major release that added in M1 (and Monterey) support. A few of us have been using it since the beta a few months back. It works at least as well as it did previously, and it feels much snappier now.
Lot of wisdom here. I never thought I was anxious, turned out was just really good at self-medicating with avoidance and procrastination. Wish I had figured it out sooner.
Real-world situations aren’t binary. They don’t just automatically go to the extreme edge case. It’s a common mistake of programmers whose brains are trained to think that way (mine included!)

So when the government is bad people who have guns, it might be tempting to think “There is no mitigation for this because they have guns! They can just exert infinite leverage at any point to squelch any mitigation to their corruption!”

But reality is there are only so many bad guys with guns and they can’t be everywhere all the time. Every additional tool people have to circumvent corruption helps.

Can they access the internet and read content from free countries? Educate themselves? It helps. Even if it invites persecution, it helps.

Can they access some way of storing value their corrupt leaders can’t just steal or print away? It helps. Sure someone can come to the door with a gun and demand your wallet key, but until then, it helps.
It is when you remap caps lock to escape (good) for a key tap and add some other functionality for a long press. Meh.
Thanks for the link.

This is a good example of how you can make a RNG using a microcontroller board connected to an internal USB connector of the motherboard.

However what they have is not perfect, because the RNG boards include the ADC and some simple digital post-processing, providing a RS-232 serial output. For better auditability, the RNG boards should have been simpler, with only the analog part of the RNG, and they should have used an ADC input of the microcontroller instead of using a RS-232 input. If you compile from source and you write the flash of the microcontroller yourself, then it is secure enough.

Because only seldom such boards are available for buying, many people have done something like this only for themselves.

However the problem is that this is a non-standard solution. A connector like the 3-pin header shown at this link should have existed on every motherboard (but with analog input, not with RS-232 input). All software should have expected to have a standard RNG input on the motherboard, like it expects to have HD Audio input/output or temperature/RPM sensors. If the ADC would have been provided by the motherboard chipset, which already provides many other ADCs, there would have been no need for a microcontroller and no need of firmware for the microcontroller.

Had they wanted, Intel could have easily standardized a RNG input for the chipset, like they have standardized HDAudio, SMBus and countless other chipset features. Anyone else would have followed.

It is very likely that standardizing such a solution would have been actually much cheaper for Intel and AMD than implementing RNG instructions inside the CPU, which will always remain non-recommendable for any serious applications, so they waste die area and testing time during manufacturing, and they may also reduce a little the yields of good dies.
Thanks! I'll shoot you and NavBaker an email this afternoon.
My guess is this is ultimately about money.

Facebook/Meta stock lost 30% of it's value a few months back and may not recover any time soon.

Many of these people are high level, so I'm guessing (based on a quick skim of levels.fyi) about 50% or more of their TC comes from stock.

This amounts to an effective 15% pay cut in a year with record inflation.

I think most of us would leave our job over a 15% pay cut, especially if we were well established in the field. On top of this it loosens those golden handcuffs quite a bit for anyone who was on the fence about being employed by facebook, but couldn't say no to the comp.
The fit of alternatives was not the focus of the comment I was replying to.

The fact is that many people hold their wealth in cash, and many of the same people are part of vulnerable populations.

One shouldn’t remove another’s alternatives simply because it’s assumed that the other lacks access or sophistication. Even if true, both potential deficiencies are fully reparable and do not permanently negate the benefits of uncensorable money.
Some of these are making a comeback, like vinyl and Nintendo cartridges.
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That’s very disingenuous. Impeachment is extremely rare. The bar for conviction, 2/3rds of the Senate, is essentially insurmountable. The decision to impeach is essentially a political one, and it is rarely in anyone’s interests to go down that road. Also, by the time it was clear that the FBI had decided to let her get away with it, it was only a few months until the election. Impeaching under those circumstances would be seen as undemocratic and trying to take the choice away from the people.
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What would happen to Pytorch if FB did cut their support?

Are the people who depend on it seriously incapable of taking up the load?
An aside: Assuming that page was authored using the design system... can anyone tell me why the leading/margin above a heading is shorter than that below it.

To me it makes the headings appear to be more connected to the paragraph above them than below, messing with my semantic overview.
If you're a small startup you absolutely cannot do this in the current market.

You can maybe start with a 10-15 chat with a founder to build rapport, and then move to 1:many.
Not to mention, given the choice between figuring out whether or not "this" one is ok or just going somewhere that doesn't display any markers co-opted by bigots, it's just easier to go somewhere else.

No, not all X are Y, but if I'm going to have to spend time and effort to figure out if this X is Y when I could just not, I'm going to choose not. That's just easier for me.
So if I understand correctly: they are working in a domain different from yours, thus their work isn’t relevant to you, and even though they are not claiming otherwise their reputation is overrated?

Maybe you meant something else, but that’s how your statement reads.
Anecdotally, cannabis seems to do that for me. Pain/soreness that I normally dont feel from a few previous injury becomes magnified and noticeable.
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Roads are just asphalt. Train tracks need all kinds of supporting equipment installed for safety. If you want to electrify the track I'd guess that just installing that is more expensive than building a road. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though, do you have any sources about the average cost per kilometer of roads vs tracks?
As described in a parallel comment: Farm kids mostly live in, well, rural areas (okay, there is a small percentage of farms in urban areas too...), which means that the chance of them obtaining higher education is provably lower than the chance that urban-area kids get.
smh, have a good one.
Wow, that is a trip. Amazing to see my father's family all laid out like this https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Nassau&name=w.... I had no idea the census data was so well archived.

The machine learning is truly impressive, because some of the writing is hardly legible.
I confess my mind jumped to sexing chicken eggs that are probably in a controlled environment anyway. Not a live bird.
> Individualistic isn't bad. Individualism is the fundamental basis for thinking that individuals have intrinsic worth; take that away and you may not like the result.

It's not that individualism is bad, that's a quality of people. The "solution" isn't able to be produced or acquired in any way that's close to calling it a solution. Nobody is coming after you.
I think you misread that paragraph. It refers to situations like this: "You selected that you want to jointly apply with another individual. Do *they* live in the same household as you?" Yes, you could also write out "the other individual" every time. The guideline doesn't prevent that. But it says not to use "he" or "she" (or "he/she") to refer to the other individual.
Bc there is no way academics would not take credit for it. That's like expecting a fish not to swim.
Is this what we've come to? Robotic dogs barking reminders to not use the word 'man'? My social credit is going to tank, as my father named me Manny.
`mkdir build && cmake ../llvm -GNinja && ninja`

better?
This has been solved with X-of-N multisig since 2012, but its opt-in.
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It made so persony mistakes too..
Being reputable and being a vanity division are not mutually exclusive.

You could argue that at it's peak Bell labs was a vanity division. That research may have changed the world, but very little of it likely ended up benefiting AT&T in any major way financially. It's telling that once AT&T was broken up Bell labs, while existing in some form for years after, was never reestablished.
That's funny, man
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You don't need AGI to reach the official definition of the singularity as I understand it.

The only requirement is too have a machine design and build a machine with no human Input which is able to design and build another machine which is able to do said task *better/more efficient" then the previous iteration did
Please do! I would love a post on that topic
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Which is why people are encouraged not to keep their wealth in money. We can get bogged down in endless discussions about the theory of money, but my view is that money is not meant to be an appreciating asset. It is meant to be an easily fungible currency that discourages hoarding so that it's always put to work.
Enter FirstName then space then LastName. It worked for me for a random "John Smith" in Camden, NJ.
Yes, they are the best. I used them several years ago when constructing my family tree.

And a big raspberry to their competitors that lock everything behind a paywall. I think one of them (ancestry) has exclusive deals with some states, so they have records you can't see without signing up.
If you search sufficiently far down the digits of pi, you find an MPG with a version of Casablanca where Rick and Ilsa open a halal McDonald's.
My experience is the opposite of yours. It has never come up in a job interview but I have used it for real work several times.
I always wondered how much the pytorch team could make if they quit and forked the project. I'm sure plenty of companies would be willing to sponsor them.
No way this isn't an April 1st joke
Of course. Can only be on GitHub.
It's this repo that implements the bot; https://github.com/inclusive-coding-bot/bot

I'm not sure who is responsible for it.
So the author points to a link claiming 12% of Ukrainians own crypto, yet triple-a creates a circular reference in trying to substantiate this claim:

- The author refers to: https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-ukraine/

- This link calls it an estimate: "It is estimated that over 5.5 million people, 12.7% of Ukraine’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency.(1)"

- Link (1) points to https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership/

- The link under "Ukraine" in that list points back to the first claim: https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-ukraine/

At the bottom of their data page: "The data contained or reflected herein are proprietary of TripleA."
> but you can't say that PCA is feature selection.

One of the steps in PCA is to select the top N eigenvectors sorted by eigenvalues. So while it is not feature selection, it can be argued that it involves a feature selection step.
Who's upvoting this garbage? A poorly coded bot submitted some bad pull requests and this is news?
No, it's been around for about a week now.
Thanks, this looks excellent.
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> Are the people who depend on it seriously incapable of taking up the load?

Probably. First of all most are domain experts not at all systems programmers. That’s the main value of such libraries.

And even for those who work close to the iron: plenty depend on, say, the Linux kernel without being able to write patches or even diagnose problems. And few, if any kernel developers have submitted patches to, say, GCC.
This is a hilarious April Fools joke, and so many people are falling for it.

EDIT: Damn, the PRs did not go up today.
It seems impossible to find anyone regardless. My mom's family has common names, so there are pages and pages to wade through. Meanwhile my dad's family has a very unusual last name, but their data seems to be missing from the 1950 census.
Cars tend to fail more disastrously now, but less often. If my coil back goes I am SOL. There's a reason they tell you to keep one in the trunk. The difference to that and a cap+rotor is, a cap and rotor is about 12 bucks and can be done on the side of the road without tools, and that cap and rotor fits about 50 million 4 cylinders manufactured in the last 50 years, and tends to degrade more gracefully.

On the flip side, cars now tend to run more efficiently till they break fully and go into limp mode or won't run - a lot less tuneups and tweaking, no adjusting the valves and carb as the car ages
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I'm fully willing to forgive them for that snafu when they decide to kill off the Lightning connector for good.
There have been many documented instances of lab leaks. It's even happened with Covid-19 research[1] at least once that was reported, and with the virus being pandemic around most of the world I'd assume there were many other leaks that weren't reported because nobody could prove it came from a lab. And even if the evidence that the original Covid-19 resulted from a lab leak is weak the evidence that the Omicron variant came from a lab is much stronger.

Scientists are only human and bio research labs don't have the same culture of continuous improvement and lack of blame that have let the airline industry, say, get to its current level of safety.

EDIT: Oops, forgot to add the citation

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/taiwan-investigates-covid-lab...
> or honestly the American flag

Huh, that’s kinda surprising. I’m not American, but always had the impression that Americans used the American flag like the British use CCTV cameras — putting them everywhere essentially decoratively, because everyone else does, even in situations where they don’t add anything.

(I absolutely understand the problem with the Confederate flag: that’s much weirder than say the English (i.e. not U.K.) flag, which itself seems to only be used in the two contexts of football and nationalism).
Reminds me of the guy stuck in the wework elevator [1]. Bots don't understand human.

[1] https://i.redd.it/wqld5v9s5ln81.jpg
This comment is ridiculous. Facebook has some of the best researchers in machine learning and deep learning. And if AI at Facebook were a vanity division, Facebook would never have a viable ad business, and the entire Facebook would have shut down years ago.
Hell, I don’t care about the FOSS religion. FOSS is nice for the inherent benefit of just having the source code and being able to patch stuff, or pay someone else to, so I definitely like FOSS as a concept. But I don’t buy too much into the more preachy bits, myself.

The true difference isn’t whether they buy into Richard Stallman style FOSS evangelism, it’s more whether they give a shit about FOSS at all. To me, when I think Nintendo or Sony, I suspect Webkit and BSD are just convenient. They happen to be some of the best options around and you don’t have to pay a license fee for them. Win/win.

The animation and VFX industry seems likewise. UNIX workstations are just a norm, nobody cares much if the code is available.

In many ways, this makes sense. However, it’s also a mindset shift that happens over time. I don’t think anyone should buy too hard into the moralistic preaching, mainly because even if you truly believe it, it evidently doesn’t work very well to accomplish anything. What sells people on FOSS is seeing the benefits in action. As developers, it’s very easy for us to see the benefits of FOSS in action because we can modify and compile the source code to Inkscape if we wanted to. In some cases, the benefits have become self-evident in seeing collaboration between major entities and the effects of patron-based funding, as has been seen with Blender and Krita. In that way, the average person has been able to see how it can work well first-hand.

On the other hand, industry workers who use it because its standard-issue may have a very different and more pessimistic view of it.
This actually gave me an itch to make a web-based version... still pondering it.
This is part of the "space cadet" layout which I also use. The shift keys only function as parentheses when you tap the key (i.e. press and release without tapping another key in the meantime). It means that the character is typed when you physically lift the key instead of pressing it but worth it.
PR creation should be limited to hupersons
Long enough there is a "Human Exclusive Robot" that solely exists to refute the Gender-Inclusive Robot by automatically replying to everything the GIR posts on with a post refuting it and asking contributors to close the issue and ban GIR.
I’m a consultant / data scientist for a big management consulting firm.

What the hell is a big AI consultancy? As far as I can tell, these do not exist. Why would you expect to see meta doing consulting work at all?
This would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
This "use the words I tell you to use or else you're a bigot" rhetoric is getting really stale, really fast.

Edit: I think this might be a terrible attempt at satire, e.g. the website is: https://inclusivecoding.wixsite.com/home
This level of language policing puzzles me. It literally wants to replace 'mother' and 'father' with 'parent', 'son' with 'child'. I thought we wanted the world to be more tolerant, not more authoritarian.
I'm not sure why we're calling it disingenuous. I believe you have correctly described how the system works. What aspect of that description is disingenuous?

The decision to impeach a Cabinet member is a political decision. I believe you have correctly identified why it would have been an inexpedient political decision.

And ultimately, the consequences for her actions were that the American people chose not to elect her President.

The consequences of all of these political interlocks are that even though the ultimate authority rests with the President, it is de facto delegated to the Cabinet as well, because Congress cannot hold them accountable without implicitly holding the President accountable. The President, of course, could also hold a Secretary accountable; in this situation, the President chose not to, so no harm no foul.
This is literally an april fools joke...
I didn't misread. I like your example. "You selected that you want to jointly apply with another individual." The other person is, grammatically, the third person singular. "Do they" does not agree. The correct form with a pronoun is "Does [3sg]." But we can avoid using a pronoun simply by using the noun.

"Does the other person" is correct, accurately describes the scenario, and is comprehensible at essential English reading levels, which is incredibly important.
Have a look at the timestamps...
The bird-dog pose, yoga and just improving core strength has helped me.
This is exactly why people like Mearsheimer are so important, to cut through emotional takes like this and present the actual logically based outcomes of our actions.

The US was very involved in the "totally-organic-grassroots-uncoup" in Ukraine in 2014[1] - so to think that wouldn't impact Russia's geopolitical strategy is, well, illogical.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
LOL. I may start telling people to check the personual page when they ask about linux commands
You have the luxury of living in a high-trust society with a stable banking system. Even if you assume that current stable banking systems will remain that way in perpetuity, half the world's population does not live under these conditions. Their risk calculations will be different from yours. That alone is enough to sustain the value of cryptocurrencies.
A lot of folks get into a zone where the money no longer matters, as long as it’s in a range where you don’t have to think about it. Still they might leave simply because they’ve been there a while, or want a change, or want to work with some particular people who are at a different organization.

Not to say that some might be motivated by money, but at that level I would be surprised if it motivated many.
Is switching to gender neutral pronouns bad? That being said the bot is pretty poorly coded.

Think you’d need something more sophisticated to do it properly. It might actually be intractable to do this (limiting to just man/woman and she/he replacement) in a way they introduces no false positives.

On that note these sorts of bots should be opt-in not opt-out.
The PR is from 2 days ago
Yes, all of these disruptors rediscovering the core issues with the segment they're in and why the sectors they disrupted operated as they did.
So all of the data for https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership/ is fake?
I'm not so sure. The dependabot has been helpful on occasion, when it doesn't spam me too much.
Some bots are simply terrible.

(And I’m definitely not posting this comment to help this HN post getting kicked out of the front page thanks to the flameware filter).