skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the the broken window narrative is that while invalid, it's counter-argument is also too simplistic when dealing with issues on the level of nation states.

Suppose you have a city where windows never get broken. So there's no demand for glazing for a few years. So the glaziers all go out of business and move onto other things - they break down their machines and factories and repurpose them.

Then there's a minor earthquake and it breaks a lot of windows. But the cost to replace them is enormous - there's no glass making business anymore! What should have cost a few hundred dollars costs hundreds of thousands because the machines and people need to be built and retrained, and the quality for a few months is kind of bad as well.

What should the city have done? Well, one answer would be to break some windows regularly to keep at least one glazier operating. Or we could pay the glazier to make windows we don't use right now, or ask them to build better windows under government grant to keep them available and maybe come up with an improved window design...etc. etc. etc.

A machine on the scale of the LHC doesn't get made in a factory which makes LHCs. It gets made in literally tens of thousands of businesses, each of which services a big order for some type of precision part that's either within their capabilities or that they might believe can be accomplished if demanded. Once they can do that, that becomes the new thing that everyone else can now buy potentially.

So yes, sure - let's talk about added value, but when "choosing between alternatives" you need to have some actual, reasonable alternatives. The postulate here - build ITER instead for fusion power - is exactly the same sort of project. And the reality is we can and should do both.
Interesting. I don't have access to the full text of the paper, but I'm surprised the platinum-doped gallium doesn't form a protective oxide shell, like pure gallium does. Perhaps this depends on having very small particles? Or does the platinum just stabilize the surface chemistry against oxidation?
Simple. I stare at a rock. The rock has no meaning even though I have no idea about the story behind the rock.

The burden of proof is always on the person assigning meaning to something. Why? because from a probability standpoint, no meaning is more likely. So the person claiming dreams have meaning must prove why their claim is real despite the low probability.

Why is meaning low probability? Because much more things in the universe have no meaning then have meaning.

For example, greek mythology. I know nothing of it. Yet I can make the claim that it is false and have a higher probability of being right then the person who claims greek mythology is real and has meaning and knows everything about it.

The majority of "meaning" is "found" the same way a christian "finds" meaning in the bible. It is common human behavior. By making a claim that someone has found meaning in some random thing this way, I am making a high probability claim because of the fact the behavior is so common.
No. Sell me a game, not a matryoshka of skinner boxes I have to pay for.
> Surprisingly, it's actually the gallium that does the work of driving the desired chemical reaction, acting under the influence of platinum atoms in close proximity.

> Exciton Science Associate Investigator Dr. Andrew Christofferson of RMIT explained how novel these results are: "The platinum is actually a little bit below the surface and it's activating the gallium atoms around it. So the magic is happening on the gallium under the influence of platinum.

This is interesting and makes me wonder what other sorts of materials could act as more efficient catalysts when modified by the presence of small amounts of platinum. Could you, for instance, deposit a sparse layer of platinum covered by an atomic level thickness of some other material in the solid phase and achieve catalysis with the cheaper coating?
Perhaps one cause is inventory overhang, as Target now suffers from. https://www.axios.com/2022/06/07/target-prices-retail-invent...
I was under the impression that cryptdb "encryption" was thoroughly broken. Am i mistaken?

E.g. googling i found http://cs.brown.edu/people/seny/pubs/edb.pdf
who is working to ban passenger air travel ?
> even today most rooftops don't have solar panels

I'm installing rooftop solar. It makes me feel good.

Its output is an order of magnitude more expensive than utility-scale solar behind the meter. The solution has to be renewables + storage + zero-carbon baseload, i.e. nuclear. Everything else, including calls for rooftop solar, is a distraction.
Saying a particular sector (AI/Crypto/...) consumes a lost of energy and we should do something about it, is like treating the symptoms and ignoring the root causes. The problem is mostly how we produce energy, not how we consume it. Consuming less energy on a particular sector means people in that sector have more money to spend on other things and those other things also cost energy (ok maybe less). To be clear I'm not saying we should totally ignore how much energy a sector consumes but most of our focus should be on how the energy is produced.
Depending on where in the lifecycle the note is, it's either a 2-of-2 multisig transaction or 1-of-2 multisig transaction, using only the user key in the latter case.
Weird, if true. Diablo Immortal is rated M (17+) [0], the gambling age in the Netherlands is 18 [1].

0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blizzard.d...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age
It was developed by NetEase, which is even worse than Tencent.

In Tencent's game, if you pay some money, then you can enjoy the game. The more you pay the better experience you will get.

NetEase: "Yes, you paid some money, but I'm still your father"
Remember when Blizzard mocked the fans who said Diablo 3 was too colorful and cartoony?

Path of Exile is such a better successor to diablo 2.
Oh I would love to talk to you about this. I am working on building a similar system and encountered this so much and other issues.

Is there a way I could contact you?
I'm not saying functor is a good name. I'm saying it's the name that's more or less stuck. To start using a new one is just to make the terminology even more confusing.

For what it's worth, "functor" properly describes the combination of a type and its relevant .map() function. It's (common) shorthand to refer to just the type as "a functor" when there's a unique, well-known functor that utilizes that type.

So, we could be more precise, of course. But also if you just throw up your hands when someone says "a list is a functor" then you're fighting a difficult battle.
A better qualified person saying something doesn't make you qualified to repeat it.
My 4c:

a) Stop using the term carbon footprint. It was invented by BP to scapegoat and market, it defocuses us.
b) Blaming tech or civilians doesn't help. Blame countries. China, U.S, Germany etc need to step up. Ban coal power production -- coal industrial power combustion and mining is everything bad
including radioactive (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...) -- promote nuclear.
c) At this point add serious teeth to treaties. Countries not taking steps are costing future lives and resources. We are going nowhere otherwise.

P.S. Practically, too many powerful countries have serious incentives to offload responsibility, and as this is a prisoners dilemma game in the sense one cheating screws everyone, that there are no peaceful means to achieve this goal. So let's not kid ourselves.
Using fake encryption is much riskier than no encryption, because if you think you are safe you will do unsafe things with your data. If you know you are unsafe then you will take appropriate precautions.
We must end the iOS monopoly and so that Chrome can have an all-OS monopoly.

It's the only sane thing to do.
This makes me think of of the Amazon Dash button which had a microphone [0] that would listen for ultrasound emitted from your phone to configure wifi credentials.

[0] http://www.blog.jay-greco.com/wp/?p=116
I'm sure these people will gladly put themselves in a position to decide which are valid uses for energy so they can enlighten us all with their wisdom

And those who don't obey should be intimidated into compliance. After all, this is a fight to save the planet and your casualty is a small price to pay
Someone learned some big words and wanted to use them.
>246 Dino

And, today, fetching a boatload of money. They are very (very) high maintenance, and fragile, compared to many other Ferraris of that era.

In about 1985, I dated a woman who had one in her garage buried under a pile of clothing and fabric. I about fell over when I discovered it.

"Oh. THAT. I got it in the divorce."
Sounds like a success to me?
Limiting energy use while continuing to use carbon-emitting, non-renewable sources is literally the worst way forward.
> there are no peaceful means to achieve this goal

The EU's border-adjustment scheme isn't perfect. But it's in the right direction. Clean up your own act. Assign a broad-brushed adjustment to goods coming from dirty origins and use the proceeds to (a) further clean up your act or (b) incentivise others to clean up theirs.
My method of solving this is to only use familiar, well known information about myself as my master password. It's > 50 characters and contains addresses, old ID numbers, my public library card number, account numbers, old usernames from 5th grade (I've never seen another username even remotely close to either my first IRC name or my geocities username). I usually get the order wrong the first time I try it, but correct on the second or third.
You say that you're not good. Why aren't you good? Separate question, have you tried making an effort to improve?
Perhaps the incentives need to be re-aligned to separate the collection of data and the publishing of studies based on that data.
Any safe places that have a somewhat dry climate, if not as dry as Utah?
At first glance I thought this was going to be another 'tech X uses energy Y and so tech X is bad' but reading the article shows it focuses mainly on lowering the energy cost of computations using a number of different approaches that look interesting. Sparse matrices where every element doesn't need to be re-computed as most stay zero for example. I'm not sure what actual improvement this would bring, but they do follow a good basic notion: if you're going to discuss a problem, try to discuss possible solutions to that problem, and improving the energy-efficiency of computation is always a good idea.

The one issue is that translating electricity usage into fossil fuel equivalents for this specific application, without contextual information about similar energy demands, such as streaming video, data collection/storage/processing (be it at Google or the NSA), total router energy consumption in the global Internet, etc. might result in a distorted view of the relative importance of energy demand for their particular issue (training complex models).

Furthermore, it's not necessary to generate electric power with fossil fuels, is it? My view is that solar/wind/storage is the optimal global-scale solution, but placing energy-hungry steady-load data centers near baseload nuclear power plants is arguably an efficient solution (ask the insurers first, however). Hydropower is region-specific and as the drought shows, subject to going offline when needed most to run AC etc. It's not inevitable that power demands equate to fossil carbon emissions, in other words.
Not a single image when describing how semiconductors work? Here's a better resource: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
It will be very impressive if they get this to actually work, as opposed to an endless flood of unstoppable spam forever.
Here's a good article on the law in Belgium and the issue generally.

https://thelawreviews.co.uk/title/the-gambling-law-review/be...).
The idea a company "anti-competitively restrains the web" by "not adding some features some developers want fast enough" is just so high-school drama hyperbolic it's hard to take you seriously.
It comes from Safari. No one else advocated for it. Firefox hasn't registered a position on it, has nothing underway.

> Google is slow

> Safari is faster with features

> maybe it’s Chrome that’s the problem?

Again you seem to be slanting everything very highly. And using endlessless questions? This is really some dogshit disingenuous debating, that looks like the dissembling crap you pulled yesterday. Please sir, man up & quit this crap.
That’s simply not true, US electricity use per person has gone down.
Those are simple expressions (no multiline blocks, no named symbols, no expressions that call other expressions), and you're still forced to treat them as opaque strings when you use a serialization language for configuration.

That may be the best approach for a given project! But if you're using configuration to define an API contract, cloud infrastructure, or a query, you might be better off using a purpose-built DSL like protocol buffers, HCL, or SQL, respectively. That approach can let you define a greater level of expressivity than is allowed in a serialization language like JSON or XML without letting config authors write scripts of arbitrary computational complexity (like they would be able to with config in a scripting language).
I would love to talk to you about this. I am currently doing something similar but accentuating the dataset by adding info on publications etc. thereby making them more "legit" (for the lack of a better word)
There is very little on this page. The bios are cut off on the Team page, the landing page is basically just a blurb. I much prefer sites that enable immediate demos of the thing in question, or at least something that gives me a better sense of what the value-add is. The site itself reminds me of consultancy sites more than a 'product' oriented startup page. Just my $0.02
It's not necessarily that they are worse programmers, but rather represent the industrialization of building software, as outlined by Brad Cox [0]. Partially driving this is the shorter tenure of today's software engineers. How many beautiful things have had to be completely rewritten because the original creator had left, and no one could grok it? Not that there is no way to reconcile fungibility with expressiveness and beauty, but the tradeoffs involved are tricky and will always end up disappointing somebody.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3246772_Planning_th...
Not to mention how much IT enables us to avoid using energy! Better routing, just in time manufacturing and storage, teleconferences replacing flights...
I call bullshit.

So let me get this right - its encrypted but you cansearch prefix and suffix?

So all the attacker has to do is do it one letter at a time, see if it starts with A, B, C, once they figure that out, go to the next letter and so on. (I presume that the DB is not supposed to be trusted since they make such a big fuss about only being decryptable on the client side)

Also there doesn't seem to be a whitepaper detailing algorithms or their threat model. Bitcoin scams try harder then this.
> software engineer who is self-taught
> I don't know testing, cloud, or CI/CD practices

"I'm a master craftsman but I don't know how to use a jigsaw, plane a table top, and also I'm missing my dominant hand."

First, be honest with yourself and your skills, then re-craft your résumé.

Honest to god though? Build a fake e-commerce store in Gatsby that isn't shitty, then get back to interviews. But this time you're "web developer".
I'd probably start by asking myself, what type of company do I want to work for? And what type of job do I want? Scroll job boards and see what is out there and what appeals. Then go buff up any skills you need to get a job at those companies.

A great way to do that is build a clone of some aspect of their product or business. This will prepare you for the interview and job like an insider. You'll be able to talk about the parts of the product that were hard and why. Then all of a sudden your interview is just a good conversation.

Force yourself to do it the way an actual engineering organization does it, too.

If you aren't sure _how_ engineering teams organize projects, deployments, testing, etc then do a lot of googling and even reach out directly to CTOs, PMs, Senior devs, etc at different companies and just explain your exact situation - even link to this thread.

Lots of people are willing to take the time to help especially if it is as simple as saying... "At company X we do Y and Z" and then that gives you another thing to dig into. And you've potentially made a helpful contact/mentor.

It sounds like you don't have a lot of extra time to develop yourself into the perfect candidate for your maybe dream job, so for now you could probably pay the bills using freelancing job sites and offering IT/web dev help to local small businesses.
Who is working to ban passenger air travel? and whom would the ban effect?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-h...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/business/energy-environme...

https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/air-travel-climate-chan...

etc.

There is a grassroots campaign for more restrictive legislation on air travel, but it's early there's lots of progress for us to make still.
:) Maybe a warehouse full of poorly treated mechanical turk workers. Could make a halfway decent scifi short-story I bet.

We'll get it right eventually though.
All lead exposure is bad.

Lead bioaccumulates and causes irreversible damage.

The bioaccumulative effects are well researched in all the places you’d expect to undertake expensive and generational health research.
First to stop clapping. By attaching an inconsistent critical theory to something complex like machine learning, it elevates the ideological speaker to being percieved in the eyes of an audience as equivalently competent to the people whose work they are criticising. This is the trick of all critical theory, and if you do not challenge them, it means that you are going to have to pretend someone yammering on about climate justice knows anything about your field.

Saying something "harms the planet" these days is just code for pointing out targets for subversion, subjugation, and governance. The next best they can do is be bullying and disagreable. I'm tired of this bullshit narrative stuff. What's doing the most harm to our planet is putting up with it.
Am a researcher, and also work in data governance, data sharing, etc. for medical research data.

It's not about an "open source mentality" - almost all of my analytical code is online, and when I work with simulated data sets (the bulk of my work) it's freely available.

It's about incentives, and effort. A couple examples:

1) Primary data collection is hugely time and resource intensive. It's hard to be okay with all of that, getting a single paper out, and then immediately having that be expected to be freely open and available.

The argument that it's necessary for reproducibility is a compelling one, but also one that's much rare than what most people are looking for, which is to do new and novel research using your primary data.

2) Research has a potentially long time from data collection to publication. It's entirely possibly the reason isn't "I may want to work on that someday" but "A graduate student is working on that right now". I have been in the position of potentially having a graduate student be scooped on something, and it is terrible (it ended up being a false alarm). They're potentially also the person who put in a lot of the labor on publishing the paper in the first place.

3) Sharing comes with an unknown expectation of support, documentation, etc. wherein there's absolutely no incentive structure in place to support the work that takes. I write in time and budget to do so in my grants, but that also mean my grants have less science in them than other people's, and I have to rely on that mattering to someone enough to make up the difference.

4) Genuine data ownership issues. Health data is especially complex in this space. Do you want a simulated data set that will give you the same broad patterns? That's easy enough. But if you want the real data - that's potentially a very complex issue wherein even if I say "Sure, let's get that process started..." you're potentially looking at a year or more before you get the data.
That’s a sad story. Mental illness is such a tragedy. The author clearly has a great deal of technical depth shining through which makes it all the more tragic.
Do you have a source? How is that calculated? I suspect it's a rather complicated calculation. Questions like what defines a person in this context, what defines electricity usage, where did it go or come from if it did change, etc. seem like important ones to answer.
Absolutely not to continuous GPS tracking, and wake lock.

No website should have that level of access to my device.
Actually - come to think of it there is one reason. If this person wants a job with Microsoft or Apple getting something like this working without the support of MS or Apple is a hell of an exceptional application...
"interconnecting as many as a million gates within a single chip"
> particularly European tradition of non-total war

What I described is tied to the resources and power of the person in charge. I don't see how that's only European?
> Well that shouldn't come at a surprise since U.S. antitrust law is aimed at protecting consumer interests, not protecting competition.

And a lot of people are now questioning the wisdom and effectiveness of that approach.

Also a, "that shouldn't come [as] a surprise" response doesn't really address anything in this subthread. I don't think anyone is surprised that was the approach that was taken or its result, they just disagree with it.
That's what I'm saying. If you put 5 days of work into 4, you didn't have enough work before the switch.
No, because safari will not be chrome. Whereas Chrome is currently safari.
You're right on the face of it, the added context that's missing is Numenta has been pushing bio-inspired AI for like 17 years and nothing practical has come of it. If using some energy to achieve a practical goal is wasteful, using less energy to accomplish nothing is more so.

I got into AI after a grad school career split between mathematical signal processing and computational neuroscience. I knew folks back in the early 2010's looking at joining Numenta. The ideas are absolutely good to explore, it's the execution that's lacking. Maybe their big breakthrough is just around the corner, but how long do you wait for product 1 alpha build 1 before calling out vaporware?
Your skills have almost certainly deteriorated in that time if they have not been used. I think that is a valid concern from an employer's perspective, don't you?
Is that because the US exported manufacturing to Asia?
Invading China is a cure worse than the disease, we really need to do this peacefully.

One peaceful way to do it is to develop clean technology that is cheaper than the dirty way.

Then every one will quit the dirty tech, out of greed.
Democracy means you can alter the future direction of your country by simply voting, which took me 15 minutes.

Don't think joining a party with clear views and goals would let you have any significant effect on its trajectory without decades and lots of luck.
Regardless of what he did, I think it's clear that his interests were exclusively to protect the church. The fact that years prior he was part of a commission or whatever doesn't change that
If you halve the training time or energy costs of a model, DS peeps will just grid search an extra parameter.