skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is how I have come to understand entropy. The words disorder and order are a proxy for information content

Does information content mean this? ... "How many bits of random-number generator would I need to make the number of micro-states in the macro-state?"
By act of Congress, not Constitutional amendment.

It could be repealed in a matter of weeks if Congress saw fit.
Not really specific to the UN. These sorts of international NGOs all have the same problems. The WHO is worse. The whole idea of global governance is really only attractive to one particular type of person, and they aren't accountable to anything really, so of course you end up with this sort of groupthink.
"... 10 aerial color images taken April 19 during Ingenuity’s Flight 26" - I am more excited by the fact Ingenuity continues to operate and has so far collected unique imagery and telemetry on 26 flights!
Yep, when I was shopping for a condo 2 years ago, basically every place I looked at was selling for the same price as when they were brand new 10 years ago. Good thing though is it is way more affordable than the west coast.
Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation
Many rivers have tidal flows in their lower reaches. Maybe the Turkish Straits are just an extreme example of that?
YC has a free start up school where they teach how to build a start up, including raising money: https://www.startupschool.org/
In the last few years we had sudden temperature jumps in spring and autumn. Suddenly it was 25°C (77°F) warmer or colder the next day. Feels horrible especially since when a mediocre acclimatisation sets in the temperature changed again so there is never a nice temperature and it was always too hot or too cold.

Some already predict that 2022 will be the hottest year since we started to collect data. Not looking forward to it too much.
I am not even sure about what quirks you mention from Xlib.
That said, I do think that having this server-less is going to be challenging. Even if the author claims this would ease things like DnD, I am not entirely convinced...
You really are a man full of arguments, aren't you?

According to EPA the average car during its lifecycle produces 38 metric tons of CO2 if it reaches 200k miles.

Producing a car alone, producing it, without putting a single mile in it produces between 7 and 35 metric tons (based on the size of the vehicle).

If you can do very basic math you can understand that the greener option is ALWAYS to keep your old car, unless, again, you do really a lot of miles and electricity in your country is mostly (70%+) renewable.

But that truth is hardly said loud, because it doesn't sell lots of cars and doesn't make enough money.

Meanwhile we're killing the planet even further convincing places like southern europe to buy electric cars even tho they mostly use gas to produce electricity in the first place.

There's plenty of studies online you can read:
https://bfy.tw/SyoX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem, and I presume "loved one" might include cousins, grandchildren, etc.
Greeks ruled Egypt for several hundred years after it was conquered by Alexander the Great.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom
I am the same way.

One thing that helped me in the past to focus and move past the paralysis was to meditate and exercise.

Life has been hectic and I lost my routine, but I will try then again once I can establish a routine again.
Learn BigQuery
Using tools like Emacs and Git feel complicated for most-common-use-cases in modern times. It takes way-too-much time to achive basic proficiency. And there seems to be a need to design these systems for better UX. Or better teaching.
Did I understand u correctly?
As a joke/experimental project, I trained gpt-2 (don't have access to 3) on Joe Biden speeches/interviews/press conferences, cloned his voice (mumbling and all), created a 3d model of him, and connected Twitch chat to make it interactive for the audience.

Didn't do it for politics, just for lolz and prototyping a concept. Got to Twitch's advertising unlock, but stopped running it because it was a headache to maintain with my home setups/remotely.

But yeah, not trained on my comments, but someone else's, and it didn't take a ton of content to get it going for gpt-2.

Edit: Here's a clip for reference

https://clips.twitch.tv/LovelyObedientTaroNerfBlueBlaster
> How much does your household spend on furniture and appliances each month?

A little = 140€ / month. Wow. What do people do, redecorate every year?

edit:

11 tons of CO₂ per year

That's 64% less than the Germany average for your household size.

I guess the two of us are pretty ecological ;) But I just realized they didn’t ask about heating (afaik oil based and I have only costs, no usage numbers), so that might make some difference.
Ask HN: Why do we assume animals can't conceive of a higher level conciousness?
If we assume animals can't conceive of a higher level consciousness, i.e. the ant doesn't know of a human, then why do we assume humans could consciously conceive of whatever life-form is above us?

Can't we use the argument that with 8.7 million species, what are the odds, that we are number #1? Why do we assume we are #1, and not some lowly species with not even the slightest idea of what apex is above us.
U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter
40% of U.S. residents can be described as "coastal" so you're painting with a pretty broad brush.
That's a good point, I was responding to the "install rootkit"-part implying they do have root and want persistence, but yeah it does protect against other things.
You cannot study outside of the US or enroll as a non-US citizen at WGU.
They can still use ML to prune the search space, I suppose?
UK Mirror Service – currently unavailable due to a network issue
Back when I last visited HK (years ago), Dim Sum Labs would have been a great place to learn electronics.

But as others said, many of us have learned electronics at home in even smaller apartments. You really don't need much to get started.
Tritium is not the only radioactive isotope present though:

https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-japan-stateless/20...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/fukushima-reac...

> In addition to high levels of hazardous radionuclides such as strontium-90,
TEPCO on 27 August 2020 acknowledged for the first time the presence of
high levels of carbon-14 in the contaminated tank water
> Let's further assume that he spent one hour on each page.

That seems extremely low for finished, post-edit text? I would estimate one work-day per page is more likely?
It's definitely an option. Wrapped services are almost always more expensive, so careful attention to pricing details is needed.
Their hypothesis is that "virtual communication hampers idea generation because the bounded virtual space shared by pairs narrows visual scope, which in turn narrows cognitive scope". It seems to me the human mind is far too complex to predict the effects of such simplistic parameters, but it's still food for thought, so to speak. I personally find Zoom/Teams meetings to be soul deadening but I'm a restless, attention-deficit kind of person to begin with and I hate meetings in general.

What gets the creative juices flowing probably varies from person to person, but likely reducing interaction to a small window is low on that list.
That's exactly the sort of reaction folks at WGU would want to avoid. I'm sure.
But if the situation is that in 2022, you have enough cash to buy a house outright or get a mortgage and invest your cash, you still do have to invest your cash to benefit from the mortgage.

If I have $300k in cash today, and I want to buy a $300k house, then I can get a mortgage and let inflation shrink my mortgage payments, but it's also shrinking the $300k I have in cash.

I don't see how you can profit from the mortgage unless you find an investment for your cash with yields significantly higher than your mortgage interest rate.
Susskind says that entropy is determined by selecting a macro-state. He doesn't claim that the entropy of a macro-state depends on whether we know which macro-state the real system is really in.

If we happen to know, then, sure. For example we could pick a weird-ass observable state, and when we saw it we would know the entropy of the system was low. But the entropy of each macro-state just depends on how many micro-states we define it to contain. It doesn't depend on our knowledge of the system state.
I am personally not willing to put all the eggs into one basket, because I don't share your certainty about future course of things.

We have some lessons from the Energiewende in Germany, which turned out much more expensive than promised. German Green minister Jürgen Trittin assured the German public in 2004 that support for renewable energies is going to cost them "one ice cream scoop per month" [0]. Which was so wildly off-mark that you can only laugh about it bitterly in 2022.

Now it is possible that molten salt reactors are a waste of money, but I would still prefer having more options open for the future. Especially your idea that storage will be cheap needs to be tested in reality first. Currently, storing of electric energy is darn expensive.

[0] https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Trittin

Edit: instant downvote instead of counterarguments. Energy storage is still pretty expensive regardless of the # of votes (positive or negative) that this comment attracts.
Human life is just not that interesting it seems. Even when it's yours.
All you need for simple SMD soldering is a TS100 soldering iron, good solder and good flux. And that's what I would recommend to any beginner, even if they wanted to solder together THT kits.

The only extra tool needed is if you need to replace a chip (or solder some QFNs / BGAs), but the cheapest available hot air station will do just fine.
I grew up a five minute walk from Lake Erie in a small town several hours SW of Toronto near the Grand River.

Like people who live on the coasts it gets into your blood.

The summers really are something else. I don’t miss my home county so much, but I have a vivid image of the rolling countryside and summer drives listening to music. It’s a memory I tap into often.

These days I live in Dundas and if you haven’t made it down here yet I recommend it!
Plomb Tools
No Code Deployment of HuggingFace Model
> We've had inflation and catastrophes and we managed to move value without the blockchain.

Nobody claims that life is impossible without crypto, we were talking about reasons and situations where it makes sense, and one example is when fiat currencies fail or are inflated away. No, it's not the only solution, but it's a solution.

>> Not to mention that Trudeau let the cat out of the bag, you can't even trust that teddybear of a country with your money if you say something the government doesn't like.

> You can trust the blockchain even less then.

That's objectively false. Bitcoin, for example, is not controlled by any single entity, especially not any political entity, so obviously you can trust "the blockchain" not to steal your money for supporting the wrong politics, that can't even happen in theory. But we did just see it happen in the regular banking system in a supposedly free democracy.
It's already happening - marketers are creating sockpuppet accounts on Reddit to promote their products. This approach isn't sustainable.
Egypt was Hellenised after its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The article suggests the temple was renovated in the reign of Hadrian, in the first half of the first century AD.
I guess. I don’t miss them and always thought they were cold and smelly and didn’t make for great beaches. The weather around them is awful as well with long, bitter cold winters and summer days that are often extremely humid. You can’t really eat the fish out them either due to high levels of mercury.

Additionally the land around the lakes is nice but not spectacular. At least not for North America.

If I were to plan a trip to the general region and wanted wilderness then I’d pick the Boundary Waters I think.
Exactly! So what difference does it make if there is one patched package or 1,000?
Oh, hi neighbour. I'm up north of Waterdown on 6 acres. Dundas is where we do most of our "town time." The archaeology dig I was talking about was @ Cootes on the RBG lands.
First, whether you like React or not, it's hard to argue that the most popular JavaScript framework is "just smoke and mirrors". It might be great PR, but there's also a lot of substance to it.

Second, even if publiccode.eu doesn't help Facebook in any way, that's not evidence that they have motive to intentionally block it. You'd have to demonstrate that they have some reason to want the initiative to fail, not just claim they don't care.
I use this extensively on FF desktop but sadly, I don't think I it's available on FF mobile. Has anyone had any luck finding a solution on mobile without needing to type in the extra ~15 character suffix?
GraphQL Joins for federating data across GraphQL services
Business schools frequently offer PhDs in a subset of the following areas…

- economics

- marketing

- finance

- statistics / econometrics

- organizational behavior

Not to be harsh but…

1. I don’t think most reputable places would let you do it all online, nor would that be a good idea.

2. I also think your understanding of the degree is wrong if you are thinking about it as “low hanging fruit.” These degrees generally take 5-6 years to complete full time and are designed to train researchers to produce research articles in the areas above. It is a full time job (or more) anywhere.

3. Neither your MBA or your business experience are likely to be that relevant.

There are some purely online schools which have sort of “pay to play” phd programs. You pay tuition and they pretend to teach you something. Probably the first result that pops up when you Google “online business phd program” will be a good example. I don’t think those are likely to be a good investment of your dollars, nor are they taken seriously in the research community.
> the company can deliberately choose to stand up to superficially-valid DMCA takedowns that it thinks are frivolous, without necessarily posing an existential risk to the entire company.

We all seen the Oracle vs Google lawsuit... sure they can choose to stand up to frivolous DMCA takedowns, but it doesn't means there won't be a frivolous lawsuit that follow.

It just not worth it, why takes that risk when taking something down protect you from it?
> Isn't there a consequence for making frivolous or baseless DMCA takedowns?

In theory yes, in practice no
Can you elaborate on the difference between a "fine-grained" macrostate and a macrostate that is not fine-grained?

I think you will find it hard to separate the concept of a macrostate from the state of knowledge (or ignorance) of an individual subjective observer.
It is without doubt a critical gaps in information. We need to know first how much radionuclides already exist in the ocean (per volume), and where those comes from. All combustion and mining release to some degree radioactive isotopes into the environment, and much of it ends up sooner or later into the ocean.

A common popular science experiment for kids is to show water samples from different sources and store them for a few days. Most assume that rain is pretty clean, but in reality it tend to be almost comparable to untreated sewage water and one of the more nasty samples after a few days.

More studies are needed is something everyone should agree on regardless on which outcome people are voting for.
>Same. Which is exactly why I bought a house in 2011. In hindsight it was the perfect time, but at the time the market was still bumpy. At the end of the day, I had a stable job and needed to live somewhere.

And you were more likely to be able to because it was 2011. Fewer people can do the same today, at least at a similar comfort level of cost of house to income ratio.
Declaration for the Future of the Internet
Grew up in Michigan and I always describe them to people as "inland oceans." People in the south understand what it means to be 30 miles offshore in the Atlantic or Gulf, and it blows their mind to know that the lakes are so big you can travel far enough out in them to lose sight of land. They're "Great" bodies of water indeed, disrespect them while on their waters at your own peril.
Some day I will convince 16 million people to each dig a tiny bit of a canal on the northern border of South Africa. I hope that by simply plotting the perfect route for the water to travel, the natural erosion will finish my work for me.

That way the entire Northern Cape (deserty region) and the Southern Namibia (deserty region) will have a massive amount of water suddenly closeby, eventually changing the surrounding environment naturally.
Entanglement of Dogs and Their Meats in the Way of Life of Naga Tribes
note out of pocket doesnt mean independently - definitely still have a professional approve the purchase decision in case something about the configuration needs to be tailored specifically for your friend

in my case, i needed to see an orthodontist every 2 weeks to have the mouth piece adjusted. I am not sure how CPAP works to say if it is safe to "plug and play out of the box" so-to-speak
I also recently switch away from lsp-mode to eglot and I could not be happier. The setup was simpler than with lsp-mode and eglot doesn't make new things happen in my editor without me opting into them (e.g., lsp gives you a breadcrumb bar at the top of the window).

In general, I'm really enjoying the rise of high-quality packages that work with Emacs rather than providing their own thing. For instance I switched from Ivy to Vertico and it's nice that there's nothing to configure: any time Emacs prompts for input, Vertico is there. With Ivy, I had to do a few configurations to enable Ivy completion everywhere.
I only recently bought my first oscilloscope (Telequipment analog CRT scope circa 1964), but I've done electronics for years without one. Mostly audio stuff so I've poked an audio probe in the circuit and listen to the signal rather than look at it.

So no, it's by no means essential but it certainly opens some new doors in the hobby. If you want to build kits, say for guitar pedals (pretty popular electronics-related hobby), you can manage without an oscilloscope.

But for designing experimental circuits from scratch, it's really nice to have one.

And it's just fun to play your guitar with the signal plotted on the warm glowing cathode ray tube.
“open source software from bigco it's only a smoke and mirrors to make it look like they are nice.”

So the React ecosystem is smoke and mirrors? GraphQL?
“Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history (2018)
A: Find a different gatekeeper. As the parent commented noted, they found relief after getting Xnd opinions.

B: There are specific provisions for emergency situations typically guided by state law.
A new take on the data processing maxim of "garbage in, garbage out"?
Does eglot work with projectile yet?
Best it'll have been since Harvard days!
> something you spend an hour setting up when you start a project

Most projects suitable for Python should take less than an hour end-to-end, not just for setting up package management.
Just published today, signed by the EU, US, UK etc.

The full declaration is at the bottom of that page, it's a PDF here: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/86262

Press release for context here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...
You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer.

It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.
Geologically speaking, I remember reading about some of them being revenant of post ice age seas like the Champlain sea. Could be a memory bug.
How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"?

Food for thought...
Babelia: Wanna be large scale search engine for the commons
I've had pretty much the same experience as you. Some devices had excellent standy power use, others were really bad (the speakers on my sound system being the worst offenders and using exactly as much power when on standby than when operating and more than my fridge…). The key takeaway here imho is: n=1, monitor your own installation and devices and don't expect there to be either an untapped pool of savings or a well optimised system based on blog posts by other people.
I believe the Boomer generation overspent. It's their parents that over saved (habits learned during the depression).
I don't know how other countries work but that actually is a legal requirement in the US. The NRC requires reactor operators to set aside funds for decommissioning[1], and the government charges a fee to nuclear plants to cover long-term waste storage[2]. Or at least, they did, until 2014. The waste fund has accumulated to $43 billion (as of 2018), but the government hasn't managed to actually store any waste; since the utilities were also incurring the cost to store the waste themselves, they successfully sued and got the fee lifted, until such time as the government starts taking the waste off their hands.

If only fossil plants were required to pay for burying their waste deep underground. Then we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/waste/decommissioning/finan-assur.html

[2] https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/01/billions-pile-up-in-nu...
Ask HN: Heavy Metal Music for Programming?
Listening to chillout or electronic music playlists for programming really isn't for me, what about heavy metal programming playlists? I don't see many around.
This is correct yes.
Rumor-mongering is more efficient both in term of detecting/propagating a node failure and in term of network overhead.

We stopped using SWIM because it is too hard to get right, and because scuttlebutt allows all nodes to expose a bunch of meta-information about themselves.

It took a lot of time and effort to Hashicorp to patch memberlist into what it is today.
Maybe "not uncommon" was a bit strong, but it happens. What you have to realize is that these are very small towns[1], shipping is a big industry for the area, and a guy two generations ago can have a lot of grandchildren.

[1]: Check out the list of cities on Lake Superior on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_on_the_Great_La...
The three largest are Thunder Bay (108,800), Duluth (86,600), and Sault Sainte Marie, ON (72,000). After that, the mean population of the remaining "cities" is 7,495. I grew up in Ashland, which at 7,908 brings the average up :)
I'd probably rather drink this than most brackish water out there.

I am quite sure there are more naturally occurring reservoirs of water that is strictly more lethal; also non-diluted.
I replaced it with a deeply jaded attitude.
Sounds straight out of a sci-fi novel by Peter Watts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts_(author)
> It's like trying to build a flying machine without understanding the principals of flight.

The Montgolfier brothers didn't need to study bird wings to make their hot-air balloon, and if birds didn't exist the Wright brothers could still have learnt the principle of aerodynamic lift from looking at sail boats.

I think people over-estimate the amount of understanding needed for trial-and-error to work. To give another example, the first humans to control fire didn't need to understand oxidation reactions.