skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> any new force has to either require huge amounts of energy or interact very, very rarely.

That or it completely breaks the rules of physics as we know it. Given that physics has zero explanation for consciousness that hardy seems unlikely.
If it really has to be cloud hosted then sounds like you could run your scripts in a VM in free tier of AWS/Azure
British army confirms breach of its Twitter and YouTube accounts
I don't check my plumbing or drainage. And a lawn is a difference between a house and an apartment, you're right about that, for me it's about 2 hours a month (which I pay someone else to do) rather than uh, 40-80. However I believed we were discussing ownership vs not ownership, rather than apartment vs house.
In general, I swipe left on guys who explicitly say they don't want kids or have and don't want more. That's pretty much the extent of it. I've learned not to think I can change somebody if they are that specific that they don't want children.
What would be used in the total absence of an IM tool?

How was this managed 10 years ago? Email?

How was this managed 50 years ago? Physical bulletin board?

What the GP is trying to drive at is that slack should be treated like a passing conversation, and nothing more. It cannot be relied upon as a persistent source of truth or a knowledge base.

We try to apply the same philosphy within my team.
> It has been lying dormant ready for another bloom when MS finally decide to enable the tools to allow it.

I enjoy Minecraft as much as the next schlub, but I think you're being hyperbolic. Modding is great, but I think we've seen the extent of what it's capable of. Enabling mod support on Bedrock isn't going to herald in a new golden age of gaming, it would probably just give Microsoft more of a reason to kill off their legacy platforms, which is not what anyone wants.

Java and Bedrock compliment each other. Java is simply a better pick for modding, and Bedrock is available so kids watching Minecraft videos have somewhere to spend their $7 allowances. This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think Microsoft made the right move here. Running the Java version on mobile was miserable, so making a pared-back, cheaper and monetized version for mobile gamers is fine as long as that development effort ultimately feeds back into the Java version (which most of the time, it does).
We use Falcon and FastAPI at my shop, both are very common and popular alternatives to the ones you listed. FastAPI is from 2018, it's more recent than any popular JavaScript framework (angular 2010, react 2013, vue 2014, svelte 2016).
There have been some experiments of just giving kids cash for getting good grades in public schools.

Motivating your children to do things that are good for them in the long run (brushing their teeth, not hitting other people, etc.) is very much in the wheel house of parenting.
Sure if you are so confident that the existing system is maximally good, you’d be interacting with professors of economics, history, and sociology, not college freshmen since a bunch of people 18 year olds aren’t exactly most equipped to answer these questions.
Even further: I bought minecraft in alpha, when the purchase agreement included receiving all future versions of minecraft. Going from "all future versions" to "well only this specific version and also we've migrated your account through multiple different systems so if you could just contact support that would be great" is rather frustrating.
One odd feature of many apps that use streaks is that they fail to account or allow for a rest day or a weekend. Even with work one can have perfect attendance and only be there 5 out of 7 days. It's strange that it's normal for apps to demand more engagement than that to maintain a streak.

I find it overbearing that apps create the expectation of participating even when I am in the middle of the forest and mountains with zero network connectivity. It incentivizes unhealthy lives and life patterns of never disconnecting from the internet. Why can't these apps allow users to choose what kinds of streaks they want to aspire to?
A small observation after working in frontend for a while (and not the only reason JS appears to change a lot):

JS development is often tightly linked to graphic/UI/UX design and marketing in a way that's not so common in Python/Ruby/Go/Rust/Clojure/other language communities. JS developers tend to be quite good at building brands, making logos, and polishing marketing sites around their thing — because it's their job! They're usually also good at promoting things in their networks of sometimes high-profile designer/developer/DevRel types and the huge ecosystem of YouTube channels and podcasts linked to frontend.

This gives JS open source projects an elevated level of buzz relative to those from other programming language communities. Added to the sheer number of people working with JS, as a whole there are more loud things competing for attention in colourful ways, which gives the scene a feeling of constant newness and flux, for better and for worse.
WWI is actually one of the most interesting parts of the book. I read this book a long time ago so I'm probably remembering a lot of it wrong, but basically, by WWI, the decline already quite advanced, enough to be a cliche: the Gilded Age mansions and museums of New York were already filled up with art and artifacts bought off of broke British aristocrats.

The causes are complex, and interesting. One of the big challenges for the British aristocracy was that American farming started to destroy the economics of traditional agriculture-oriented landholding in the UK in the late 19th century.

So, the 'bargain' the British aristocracy had sort of explicitly or implicitly made over the centuries with the rest of the British population was that the aristocracy were, you know, the nobles. The knights. We call them 'armigerous' families because the have a _coat of arms_.

The British aristocracy viewed WWI as an opportunity to be like, "Ok, THIS is our time to shine, this is what we've been playing rugby at Rugby for all these years..." The sons of the British aristocracy signed up eagerly, and were put into leadership positions. In the early part of the war, they were still using tactics oriented around personal bravery and charge-leading, so while WWI was horrific for all of Europe with (IIRC) ~10% of the of-age men being killed in the war, the impact on the aristocracy was much worse, with some estimates being around 30% of the young men of the aristocracy dying in the war.

There were far-reaching restructurings of society after WWI, but the aristocracy couldn't come back from the combined loss of a generation of a men, and failure to achieve their gambit: they basically bet it all on "we'll show you, we'll lead the nation through this war" and the public perception was that they completely failed.

So it's not so much that WWI did it, as it was basically done, and WWI was a last gasp.

Like I said though I read this book in...I wanna say 2006? It's been a while.
I tend to agree with this. I also feel that in general men who are in my age range have a clearer idea of what they want and I try to respect that instead of trying to change things or "hook them in." In their twenties, their mind might change drastically, but not so much later in life.
> Due to customer demands, end-user requirements, and device fragmentation, front-end development has genuinely become _that_ demanding. So as a non-specialist in the field, you can't look at relatively specialist tools like Vite and Nuxt and expect to understand them straight away.

Vite is a set of front end tooling - it provides a local dev server, allows you to work with JSX, CSS and TypeScript, as well as lets you build your app, amongst other things. It handles most things that go between editing your source files and having distribution bundles.

Nuxt is a framework for Vue, that attempts to provide a lot of defaults for your Vue apps and also supports server side rendering or static site generation. It has functionality for handling views, routing, state, configuration, as well as middleware, fetching data and validations.

You can probably describe anything in a way that people would get the gist of it straight away. It doesn't have to be all encompassing, it doesn't even have to be 100% correct, just easy to understand, maybe even with a comparison in there (e.g. npm + webpack). Many such descriptions might just fit into a single paragraph of text, or even a tooltip.
Renewables->electrolysis->hydrogen->ammonia could be a viable energy storage and transport system, regardless of efficiency, as long as it can be made cheap enough. Not all energy demand is easy to run a wire to, and those demands will be willing to pay the cost of inefficiency as long as the absolute price is bearable.
Before I clicked, I thought the answer would be "like the sound of very busy traffic"... Instead, it turns out to be theoretical physics.
Why do we always talk about tougher and not softer people? So much emphasis on violence that it becomes at least suspect.
That doesn’t help for servers that are only reachable via ipv4 (see GitHub).
It is just one of the legs of diversification. India is also investing heavily into Na-ion batteries. It already has swathes of solar farms and twenty two working nuclear reactors and 13 more in the pipeline .
Hey thanks I'll take a look at that.
> including unproductive meetings

That would certainly tip the scale.
Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
Many don't know this but the most important thing to know about solar is that it is so far the only method of direct power generation that exists. Nuclear and various fossil fuels create heat that boils water to generate steam that turns a turbine to generate power. This adds cost and complexity that you can never get away from.

But solar by virtue of being direct avoids all of this so has a lower bound in cost that other methods of power generation will find it hard to compete with. Solar cells can be small so solar power is highly flexible. Plus it has no moving parts (other than sometimes solar cells are moved slowly to face the Sun as it moves through the sky) so it's upper bound for reliability is hard to beat.

I actually think solar is and will be the most important method of power generation in the coming centuries that will culminate in space-based solar power collectors.

So solar has the potential to be extraordinarily cheap, reliable and require no expensive infrastructure like power lines. Creating methanol is essentially a way of storing excess energy so this could be a real game-changer for developing nations that lack such infrastructure.
What id like to know is what happened to Russia retreating from Ukraine, as many sources originally said they would. They seem to have taken a good chunk of Ukraine just this past week, and there’s no news of this unless I dig into shady sources.

What the fuck is going on with our news?
>As society we agreed that calling trans people by their old identity repeatedly is a thing they do not want (unless specified by them otherwise) and is therefore harassment.

Society has not agreed to this, which is why this is such a controversial issue.

Also, just doing something somebody doesn't like is not harassment. I'm sure Peterson isn't a fan of being called a bigot and everything else he is called every day on Twitter. Should that count as harassment? People have an "intense dislike" towards him. People who say mean things to him often times are "acting motivated by hate".
Opt in never works though... tragedy of the commons. I would have probably not opted in, even though I enjoy the streams and the analytics sites. I forgot to opt out, because it really doesn't matter, and actually promptly one of my games was casted once, which was upsetting for a second, but ultimately pretty funny.

Why would anybody opt-in to analytics of a website they are visiting - even if it's strictly first-party, not sharing it with advertizers or Google, just for improving the site? You are gonna click "no".

Same with application analytics - if you know as a developer which functions people use how frequently, and where the app crashes, everyone benefits. The potential dangers are theoretical at best, and you can always opt out. But if it is opt-in, you get completely skewed results.

Controversial opinion, but I think opt-out should be the default in 90% of the cases, and to prevent the undesired outcome (e.g. people making ad profiles) you should not require out-in, but just ban the undesired outcome.
So what? That’s still just a scaling factor at that point and still requires you to have v4 cgnat infrastructure + ipv6.
Hi, I'm the original author of this article, though I have since left Pinterest.

180M/s is the peak throughput I've observed from the entire fleet, and is an accurate figure.

It's worth noting that:

(1) When it comes to caching workloads, there is often a wide spread of request amplification factor from a single inbound user request to the site. For example, a search query on Pinterest might internally fan out to an order of magnitude more requests to memcached across several different services along the request path used for servicing that query.

(2) There are many systems outside of the online critical path that use caching, which add load on the system independent of the rate at which users are posting or viewing content on the Pinterest site.

As another reference point, Facebook, who developed mcrouter, shared that their memcached deployment serves on the order of billions of requests per second [0]. And this figure is from 2014; I imagine it's grown a lot since then.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13...
"Of course, you're doing that now. This has gotten so much attention that it I'd give you one-third odds of being married in 18 months to either someone who saw this thread or someone someone who sees this thread introduces you to."

That's a really kind and encouraging thought. I appreciate that.

It's kind of amusing to me that people are starting to think the way I presented myself in this post is the way I should present myself on a first date. I would also worry about scaring someone away! That said, I've already met a couple people through the post, so maybe being up front and explicit about what I want is a good thing!

In trying to figure out a generic way of solving the problem, you take an approach that works fabulously for you but is difficult to scale." ->> so true

" A bit like the education problem..." nice one:) you pay attention to detail!
You are repeating a common, but very flawed and invalid, argument there.

Yes, batteries are more efficient than power-to-hydrogen-to-power. But the "cost of inefficiency" is proportional to the number of charge-discharge cycles of the storage system over its economic lifespan. For diurnal storage, you'd be correct, hydrogen is a poor choice. But diurnal storage is only one storage use case. For other storage use cases, such as seasonal storage, or backup against rare prolonged outages of renewable sources, there are relatively few charge/discharge cycles. For those uses, hydrogen is vastly superior to batteries.

The argument that hydrogen would imply use of fossil fuels is nonsense. Fossil fuels are going to have to be kept in the ground in general by punishing legal sanction. What makes production of hydrogen somehow immune to that?
Yup.

Ages ago, I transitioned from UI to tech writing. I usability tested all of our docs, pretty much as you describe.

Thereafter, my products received very few tech support calls.
Consolidation is efficient. It frees up capital to be used elsewhere. No need for 10x accounting and marketing and sales department when 10 companies exist instead of one.

Of course a homogeneous world is less interesting. And anti-competitive behaviors are net bad and need to be disincentivized. Big company hate just seems misplaced.
The arrogant way in which you are speaking just indicates to us you are being dishonest and you are discussing this in bad faith. Perhaps you are a paid employee of Tesla.
George Orwell - 1984. It talks about the present.
This big thing for me about SwiftUI is that it makes not using xibs a thing of the past. Like there’s value to it even if your app is just NSViewRepresentables (or UIViewRepresentables).
I think most of us cognizant of Microsoft's history expected they'd try the ol' Embrace Extend Extinguish approach on software freedom, but I can't say I anticipated exactly how wacky their attempts would end up being.
Is the part that would allow this in sourcehut opensource & allowing contributions for this?

From the sounds of things he does not want the feature.
I'm sure there's less of it, but training on copilot's source would have more delicious irony.
I'm not sure - I could see both India and Australia become massive energy exporters if they make proper use of their available resources. In which case Hydrogen makes sense.
Cloud storage is useful if you only ever put encrypted files there and keep the keys to yourself. Of course, that's not how they are by default.
You need to establish some rules to make Slack work for most teams without overload.

1) People should avoid DMing each other when talking about work, use threads instead (see 3) to discuss topics in team channels (see 2).

2) Keep channels to a minimum.
Every person shouldn't have more than 2/3 channels they need to pay attention to. A private team communication channel (eg #dream-team) and a private work channel (eg #dream-team-engineering) is enough for most teams.
All team members are in the private team communication channel.
A work channel is specific to a domain, such as engineering. Example you don't want engineering work banter to distract those working on other stuff.

3) Use threads religiously!
This is super important as it helps declutter the Slack experience and keep conversations heavily organized.
a few years ago i went to a talk by some people that were working on this kind of stuff within google brain. unfortunately i don't remember any names though.

edit: just had a look. it appears to now be the magenta project which is referenced elsewhere in this thread.
Thank you tmtd! I'm not too concerned about it personally but as usual, you offer excellent advice sir, madame, or they.
I've been working with OpenAi's jukebox to make vocals / "singer-songwriter" type stuff rather than electronica. Can do a HN writeup on process if there is interest...

Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcCJzfXl50&list=PLaa32nLgVv...

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/songshtr/sets/machinecroon

Github: https://songshtr.github.io

The main challenge for me so far has been post-processing. Jukebox produces very "scratchy" / lofi outputs... and I've been DIY'ing with Audacity. Thinking of getting a track professionally mastered to see just how far the boundary is...
One of the most striking things about intro computer vision explanations & courses today is how completely things have changed in the last 20 years. My “machine vision” textbook from college has near zero overlap with the subjects listed in this blog post, except for face and object recognition as goals, but the techniques taught for object and face recognition today are different from what was taught not so long ago. Seems like CNNs really flipped everything and that nobody starts off with Sobol operators or Medial Axes or Hough Transforms anymore. Most of computer graphics and computer science in general is still building on foundations from thirty, fifty, and seventy years ago, but it seems like vision has changed more dramatically than most other sub-field of CS.
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And even more so if the plants which produce solar products use solar power to offset. I wonder if they do that or not. I'm guessing it's not quiet that simple and distributors of the individual components vary in their methods.
About Crystal
I'm aware, part of my assertion was to bridge Gitea and Sourcehut projects together via AP, I go into detail in my other replies.

I understand and support his decision, but I will be going with Gitea because I'd prefer AP networking over email. To each their own for sure, but my main suggestion was to support both so the communities aren't fragmented, that would be a bigger threat to Github's network effect. Oh well.
Thanks so much for your kind words and encouragement.

I believe that gently asking someone if they're open to having kids on the third date or so is very different than aggressively asking a woman very specific questions and making generalizations about her reproductive health before you've even had a first date or on that first date, especially when the question was uninvited.

It is sad to me that so many people feel that I should hide my desire to have children because "it's a turn-off."

I feel that it's important to be honest and truthful with people.
Amen. I dual stacked my home network 10 years ago. 5 years ago I joined an ISP that gave me CGNATv4 and IPv6 and I opted to disable IPv6 at the router.
I would never use such a service.
Yes but who is going to pay you the 2% for the remaining 9 months?!?!

You’re incorporating a theoretical (and unrelated to 2% credit card rewards) interest rate into your calculations. I could easily say a CD yields 10% and this is a 50% APR then.

EDIT: Maybe to help you think about this: this is a purchase loan. It is not a cash loan. You got $1k worth of goods for $1k dollars. You can make arguments about opportunity costs, but that’s different than the traditional concept of APR.

EDIT 2: I’m posting banned but indulge me, what’s the APR of cash purchases?
Thank you. One hundred times yes.
If you think a corporation like Microsoft isn't attracted to power, you're nuts.
Sure, (maybe) a valid cause for concern. They seem to be the lesser of three evils though.
Because there are a lot of incompetent engineers that think they need to reinvent the wheel because they are not able to use (yet improve) existing tooling.
I think that if a motivation to create a child with someone is expressed plainly and clearly, it is far from an ulterior motive. It's a genuine motive.
> If you are confused by the many licenses out there, you can also just pick CRAPL, a license invented by the inimitable Matt Might and specifically targeting academic settings.

The CRAPL is one of the worst licenses you can pick. (Note that the author's claim that it's open-source is a lie.) Literally any of the licenses on the page linked to by "confused by the many licenses out there" would be better than it is. That advice is like saying "if an orphanage is on fire and you can only make one trip inside, and it's hard to decide who to save, just save the pet hamster instead of any of the orphans."
well the seperate airport is basically on the other side and was already in full rename at around ~2018. (I was there and it was crammed...)
99.99%? Did he list at least 10000 items lol
If you were to actually develop such a system, instead of using an alarm, you might consider simply playing the speaker's voice back with a slight delay. It is a surprisingly disorienting effect - most people cannot continue talking through it.
If someone is after me with a gun, having him use up all his ammo in 1 second is probably good for me. They call that kind of shooting spray and pray for a reason.
I’m not sure the price is justified, however the ISP market is extremely difficult/impossible to break through for startups or any company capable of building their own. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, the market is hard to break into (for other reasons besides networking equipment cost) so nobody who can actually do something about it is able to get in.
Not really. It adds substantially to the 30Y total cost.
No.

What you're downloading is a different skin for Safari. Apple does not allow any other browser engine than WebKit.
We're not hiring at the moment I'm afraid, and I suspect a US candidate probably wouldn't be considered due to the time zone difference.
Any references for that? What about just drinking a lot of water so you have to pee more often?