skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"An acre of forest sequesters somewhere in the region of 30,000 lbs of carbon dioxide. Individual trees die and are reborn, but the forest as a whole, if it does not shrink, retains that carbon."

But it's even more complicated than that ...

We are reforesting ~20 acres of woodland just outside of San Francisco and we are not, as you say, thinking about individual trees - we are thinking of the woods as a whole ...

... which means clearing out a tremendous amount of sapling / deadwood / litter material that would quickly combust in a wildfire and destroy the entire forest.

So while we are on track for planting >200 redwood and douglas fir trees, we have also had to cut down >100 marginal trees to reduce fuel load. We're thinking on the scale of the entire forest and the entire forest needs to survive a burn ... including our relatively new trees that aren't as fire resistant as the old growth redwoods that were originally logged out of here.

Generally speaking:

The complexity of carbon mathematics is fraught and complex and I don't think it's reasonable to expect end users like consumers to navigate it.
I keep hoping someone will do this with -v², -v³, and so on.
I've actually done exactly that many years ago for a self-hosted Jira installation that didn't have any backups. You can bet we had backups with regular testing after that.
>If they decide to just beat my ass, they can and I can't defend myself.

Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor's boyfriend was cleared of charges of shooting back at police. Had it not been as publicized he would probably be in jail though. It's possible but it's an uphill struggle, the system will defend itself any way possible.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-56331483
Unless he's a baby octopus. And years after ... oh dear ... "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
> No one said anything about autocompletion either, yet here we are.

We were talking about filters, and this is directly related to the filter functionality that you're so intent on defending.

> I'm a bit done here since you are one of these people who refuse to use analogies to inform their thinking.

I don't refuse to use analogies. However, I refuse to use false analogies, and I also refuse to use only analogies to inform my thinking. I prefer facts over analogies.

> many billions of people over the years have found analogies to be a useful endeavor

And once again you're veering into some completely unrelated tangent that no one is talking about.

> Douglas Hofstadter has a good talk about analogy

If only you had the will and comprehension to keep with the topic at hand without resorting to inventing arguments for other people, overusing false and inapplicable analogies etc.
> Seems like a strange claim. The scaling laws are showing that you can still make gains with more data and more parameters.

But then we’ve given up on matching human intelligence which is all about working efficiently with small training data, and certainly training a human does not need anywhere near as much data as GPT-3.

GPT-3 was interesting as a proof-of-concept of what happens when you use a gigantic amount of training data. We don’t need a bigger one until we can figure out how to make a smaller one that is just as effective.

If scaling laws are telling us to keep putting even more training data into the thing, then the conclusion should be that the architecture is just not working out.
To anyone reading the above and thinking "well, just move the shipping cost over to your product cost, duh" -- the problem is that shipping becomes dramatically more expensive the further the package is going. How do you pick one single price for an item when 50% of your customers are in the US and 50% are in the UK? Which half subsidizes the other?
But you can change it if many many people decide not to work there and they can’t hire a workforce.
The "Law of Marginal Nostalgica"?
Yeah, that building must be absolutely terrible. I have a shared wall with a neighbor who has a baby grand piano and can only barely hear it from right next to the wall.
See also my example I put together some time ago: https://github.com/PetterS/clang-wasm

At the time, I could not find something like this online.

It's fun to write your own malloc! :-)
Canada isn't immune from this, just look at these moronic displays. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22926134/canada-truc...

This idiocy was all organized on social media. The convoys are overwhelmingly unpopular among larger Canadian society, but social media allowed them to organize in an echo chamber.

No comment on Germany, but I would be betting on things being similar there, not different.

My personal theory is that before social media, a lot of the people involved in this would have been bullied or shamed into not doing this by their peer group. But social media lets you set your peer group without geographical restrictions.
I hope we can return to the social democracy of before the 1980s soon in the West. Austerity politics hurt everybody except the ultra-wealthy.
You did good, and you're doing good by killing this the way you need to for your own reasons. You don't owe anyone anything.

Hang in there.
Well, where I am gas is $1/gal higher than it was in March. That's down to Putin/Ukraine/sanctions and all that. That's going to show up in as a big inflation bump.

Now, inflation was up before that, definitely, in a way that it hadn't been since 2008. But it got a bit spur from Putin's non-war war.
I recently enrolled in a newly launched BSc program at my local university titled Sustainable Urban Development, blending administrative and social sciences with engineering in an attempt to tackle current and future issues related to urbanization, urban planning and sustainable development.

https://www.tuni.fi/en/study-with-us/technology-sustainable-...
sshfs works for only 10 files or less project.
Also, you must work in linear colour space. In OP's case you would have to apply the inverse sRGB transform, do the calculation, then apply the forward sRGB transform. Best if you just work with linear colour end to end, if you have the memory to spare.
It's funny 'cause that is the only one I fully agree with. Etsy used to have strict rules that everything posted had to be hand made. Obviously, they weren't able to scale that rule as they grew, but for me it is the entire appeal of the site. If I want to buy mass produced goods I'll can go to any big retailer or eBay if I want a deal. That said, I rarely use Etsy anymore because all of the hand made stuff is drowned out by all the mass market crap and it's hard to even search out unique hand made items anymore.
One of the reasons I left a BigCo is the pervasive cynicism. I really had trouble finding it satisfying to work in an environment where cynicism was so deep and widespread but nobody wanted to leave because of the advantages (like good pay and good tooling). It just felt stifling after awhile.
You might have misunderstood me. I really meant that my incentives (which are 98% monetary) are well aligned with helping my peers. If they do well, we all elevate each other (I'm monetarily motivated to elevate my peers, through aligned incentives at work through good management and tending to my network)

FWIW I'm intentional & clear to my peers about priorities.
I think Superbaby would have survived.

https://superfriends.fandom.com/wiki/Superbaby
In limited, often zero or one shot probing of the model, yes. Do multiple generations and recursive passes over the output to have the model select and iterate on a target and the utility goes way up. You can coax great output from small models, even the 125m parameter gpt-neo.

The process kinda goes like this -

Think of ten answers to this question: blah blah blah

From these ten answers, which are the best 3?

Of the three answers, which is the best?

Revise and edit the best answer to be simpler or more understandable.

Prompt engineering is a nascent field, and we haven't seen nuanced or sophisticated use of the tool yet. Most of the metrics reported in papers are barely better than a naive Turing test. It doesn't take much introspection to know that even humans endlessly iterate and revise their output, and the best extemporaneous speech doesn't match well curated and edited material. It shouldn't surprise us that similar editing and revision processes will benefit transformer output.
A "deleted" field type deletion is also how you get a massive fine from a GDPR agency when they find out that you're not actually deleting PII properly.
ACA did not ossify it. If anything, ACA allowed non employers to purchase insurance. Previously, the options were to work for a deep pocketed employer or just not have insurance.
I once left a company and half the staff followed, they closed their doors 2 months later.

Apparently all the staff that actually knew how to layout the magazine, run the online content, and print the publications were important. A sales staff with no ad-space to sell can't do much.
Oh let me be perfectly clear here, I know that that is how things often shake out, especially in the US. What I am talking about is the way people defend businesses that behave this way.

They act as if they have no choice, that there is some legal mandate to just wring out a company all day every day and damn all consideration beyond “I can make another dollar this second.”
It’s down to sanctions only.
As a parent I usually know the general where about of my kid like 99% of the time (or at least where to start looking), and if I don't know exactly where he is I know how to contact whoever he is with to find out. Of course this will change as he gets into middle/highschool.

I mean we grew up without phones and our parents+ grew up without phones. I think it will be fine. He knows both of our phone numbers so if he ever needed something he would probably just ask a stranger to borrow their phone to call his parents or something.

I might be the edge case here, but I really like that he has to think about what he is going to do, or where he is going to go with his friends; that he might have to somehow contact me so he has to plan ahead. This is what we did when we were kids, we would have to let our parents know ahead of time where they could find us. It is sort of a responsibility that has kind of faded away with everyone having phones.
This is the future. I've been developing a new programming language based loosely on constraint problem solving recently because I believe it has the power to revolutionize our industry and cut costs drastically.
I've changed the place I work immensely in my three years here, and I think for the better. But at no point did I (or would I) threaten to leave if they didn't change... It just wouldn't work.
>Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, 204 Mich. 459, 170 N.W. 668 (Mich. 1919) is a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a charitable manner for the benefit of his employees or customers. It is often taught as affirming the principle of "shareholder primacy" in corporate America, although that teaching has received some criticism. [Wikipedia]
I think this goes far far deeper than just ego.

I believe it’s possibly a fundamental mechanism of intelligence.

We have a drive to “be right”. We feel “good” when our model of reality is stable - where we feel confident that we can reliably predict the future.

Destabilizing our model or reality makes us feel bad by possibly triggering things like adrenaline, cortisol, etc.

Our primitive brain solution to this destabilization is raising our voice and going into fight mode.

Hard to overcome. I like to think I’m decent at staying chill and level headed but I occasionally have spikes of anger when I hear things that are wildly out of sync with my models.

We’ve got a neural net wrapped around a lizard brain. We’re human.
The Atlassian Outage Just Keeps Going and Going and
Nice! And I’m not a web engineer so I’m not really au fait with Puppeteer - but fingers crossed it’s useful to you. (I simply hadn’t heard of Puppet at all, so Puppeteer seemingly came into my head first.)
1. Because nearly every culture has some form of serious dysfunction with conflict.

2. Because our educational systems have not prioritized conflict resolution skills (along with a host of other critical soft skills). It seems insane to me that we can teach a HS kid calculus, but not how to manage relationships.
Populism (from both sides) is going to destroy this economy
Which product management frameworks do successful teams use?
My theory in my other comment is that they've deleted some data and are waiting on third-party data recovery specialists. That would explain the timescale.
2012. https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/09/atlassian_cloud_stora...
Okay, this all makes sense... but why anger specifically then and not disgust, despair, depression, sadness, annoyance or something else?
Sure I’ll take that on board. I try and live with a ‘don’t be an asshole’ mantra but it’s fairly hard to navigate correctness on terms I don’t frequently use. I would assume that in almost all scenarios, incorrect but good intent probably indicate innocent mistakes.

No offence was intended though (;
Products don’t come with a label measuring how much oil was burned in their production. Even if the manufacturer wanted to know, tracing that detail through their entire supply chain is really difficult. Preventing fraud is also very challenging.

Whereas if you tax at extraction this is automatically take into account at every step of the supply chain. The market does all the hard work for you.
That could have been on purpose and they have gills :)
Despite the warning, I didn't find it nearly as "ranty" as the author cautioned, and instead seemed like a fairly comprehensive and fair take on his experience.

Having gone through the same thing myself several years ago, the UI aspect of it is something that I'd be curious to see how it develops for the author. I think it is not uncommon for Windows folk to find the windowing experience on macs rather painful, at least at first. However, after a while, it sort of "made sense" to me, if that makes any sense at all. There are some clear UX philosophies that are very different, and the initial transition can only be pretty jarring, but I'm curious what the author would say about it after a month or two.

Also, fwiw, I think most power Mac users also marshal the use of some other programs to help along with some of that (or at least to tailor it more closely to what they want the experience to be). Rectangle is one of the first installs on any Mac I put my hands on... makes window management so much more pleasant!
...Okay, yes, technically sometimes by leaving you can change an organization from "alive" to "dead." :) But that's probably not the change that would have kept you around, right?
Pedantically, it might even be undefined behaviour (not sure, maybe a point of contention, similar to container_of macro). It's unlikely to cause problems, but the way you suggested is better (and can even be accompanied by a length field).

Thank you to the author though! It is a nice little example.
No, you said this:

> if NATO gets into a conflict with China over Taiwan, there's a highly chance that Finland and Sweden would have to send their troops to fight and die there too

Nothing in NATO's organization or the Treaty itself supports that assertion; in fact, it explicitly says otherwise.
Only past discussion with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10029202 - Aug 9, 2015 (13 comments)
Almost all of us get "angry" about almost any disagreement, but the degree may be so mild that we often do not view them as getting angry. But if you are careful, you can see the emotional reactions for example in facial micro gestures. So why does almost everybody react to almost all of such challenges?

Humans must have an "organ" (let's call it that, it is not actually physically a seperate organ) for keeping our world view constant. Think about it: if we did not have constant world view, we would be unable to operate in the world, even to lift a glass of water to drink it -- because the next moment we would not know what this object we have in our hand is. So such an organ is necessary for us to be able to function in the world. We can call this "organ" the ego.

Our world view consists of various kinds of beliefs. We could say that each belief has an associated valency -- i.e. how strongly we believe in it. When we learn something, initially we assign high valency to the belief -- this is essentially the Dunning-Kruger effect. Everybody knows that somebody who has just converted to a belief (such as any -ism or religion) is the most vocal proponent of it.

Over time, when we encounter things that challenge our beliefs, we may start questioning our beliefs or our beliefs may become stronger. What happens depends on multiple things.

For example, how we encounter things that challenge our beliefs. It is easiest to swallow something if somebody is "feeding us with a small spoon". Also, our mental state when we encounter challenges to our world view has a huge impact. Our personality has an impact as well.
Saying the article is "pretty shallow and non-descript: is much shorter and more useful than what they posted.
I'd disagree with this lesson. Saying "do not utilize cloud solutions" period is nuts. Google and Microsoft are way better at email hosting and delivery than your on-prem server is unless you spend a ton more money on hardware and engineers to keep it up, which is simply not worth it for many companies. Dropbox is going to have better uptime and lower TCO than your self-hosted owncloud instance.

What I will say is it's important for the customer to HAVE THEIR OWN BACKUPS. Don't rely on the vendor - that's the lesson here. If you have all your stuff in AWS back that data up someplace that's not AWS, etc.
I suppose he could let rando users load their crap into a launch and then have people bid on "owning" a bit of spacejunk memorabilia orbiting the planet. Think, "Shamrock Beanie Baby, but orbiting the Earth!".

Probably not great if you want the actual thing, in hand. No one spending 3x the price of a Steam Deck right now will want that price going towards launching it into orbit instead of having it in hand, playing games. Still, maybe there's a market for "owning" orbiting space debris contributing to Kessler Syndrome? Sort of like buying & burning an item to make an artificial scarcity NFT? Only this way you get to contribute to the destruction of mankind's ability to easily launch anything into orbit.
> The object, a small meteorite measuring just 1.5 feet (0.45 meter) across, slammed into Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 8, 2014, after traveling through space at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h)

Can anyone say what percentage of the speed of light that is?
My experiences while at Cisco about 4-5 years ago:

1st experience: Told my boss I am leaving. My boss’s boss calls me in a room , tells me he has some great projects for me and that we will work together on them. I agree. Turns out it was his last day!

2nd experience: Similar situation, told my boss I am going to a startup. Boss’s boss calls me and gives me a lecture about how it is a bad idea to go to a startup. I leave. A few weeks later I find out he also left for a startup.

Some time later I met the boss from the 1st experience and he told me “sorry, but it was not personal. I was just doing my job”

If you are in a megacorp your job should be to extract as much money as possible while doing as little work as possible. Because your boss's job is exactly the opposite.

Your coworkers are not out to get you but your managers are. Don’t fucking ever trust them.
All OS's should come standard with sophisticated windows management. I use BetterSnapTool on my Mac, have done so for close to 10 years now. I honestly don't know what I'd do without it--and I'm not doing too much fancy. But keyboard shortcutting to maximize, minimize, or tile (left right/corners/thirds) elimintes 90% of the fiddly annoying this about dealing with the too many windows I have open. But even this basic level of control that the app affords doesn't seem to be important enough for any of the major OSes to make standard.
How to Pursue a Career in Brain-Based AI
Most people are good

incorrect, try again please.
Does anyone seriously use nano for programming?

Also I'd probably get pissed for using vim over ssh session to program when sometimes the network could sporadically slows down my cursor movement.
The speaker concludes with the self-referential comment, saying something like "and of course, here I am, giving you a narrative" implying we can't escape them, but at least we can slow down our thinking to contemplate whether we'd like to endorse any particular point of view ;)
This one is actually really interesting! I would guess that it comes from electrical engineering, and specifically the signal processing side of things where filters happen. One option for filters are “notch filters” [1], and the letter “v” looks like a notch. So just think of “notching-out” a signal when you’re trying to remove something from your grip results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-stop_filter
Failing to provide a working unsub link is actually a legal failure especially if the recipient is in the EU
For much of the past century, the best career advice in the world was: go to IBM, General Motors, General Electric. Climb the ladder for a few decades, get a pension, retire at the top 1% of the income pyramid. That worked great until it didn't, and millions of people got left with no savings or useful job skills.

Today's world offers so many more paths for talented builders, beyond joining the currently hot company as a cog in the giant ad-tech machine and hoping for the best. As a data point, go read last week's article on how Sidekiq has made $13 million for a solo developer.
Imagine smartphone as a knife. You can cut throat's of puppies and people, or make world class food and become the best chef in the world. I know so many people who do not have any issues with smartphones. Yet I know people that abuse alcohol and other substances.
Hey ! I'm the creator of SSLPing... yup, I'm the guy who got famous when he killed his dream.

Switch to K3S, you won't regret it. I was hesitant to pour more work into my project to switch to K8S (which I know well, it's part of my day job !)... K3S is an excellent way to get into Kubernetes. Or use Digital Ocean's or other hosted implementations...

Kubernetes has a lot to offer... peace of mind is one of them !
Like how invaded Finland, stole a bunch of land, and then interfered with Finland's internal politics so much they came up with the term "Finlandization" for it?

Not a great example dude. Everyone eventually hits the "Poland" moment, where you can't keep appeasing a dictator.
It depends on what the disagreement is about. Javascript vs Python? Floyd vs Zeppelin? Pineapple on pizza? Could care less. Will happily debate all day long.

Whether different races are inferior? Should sick people just be allowed to die if they can't afford healthcare? Now you've got my wind up, because those are opinions that actually affect the quality of my life or the lives of other people. They're not just intellectual exercises, even if they see that way to you - likely because you're not the one with something to lose.

Things like eugenics don't really bear arguing about, because the science is irrelevant in consideration of people and their right to live and be happy. If your brain can't sort that one out - and I'm not saying youra can't, I mean in general - it's probably not other people who are defective in this situation.

Tl:dr; some opinions draw blood and should be considered carefully before keeping, much less wielding.
What is horrible about it? Just because some people cannot control themselves, should we support banning smartphones?
Shackleton's ill-fated antarctic expedition had a cat, so maybe not as much of a guarantee as you'd think...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Chippy?wprov=sfla1
the data shows a lot of time spend doing nothing