skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. I’m still using 2013 MBAs daily, and they’re pretty snappy. I do keep them on a cool, old Yosemite, though.
Tapered Transitions
I own the full set of books, and I have to say that Unseen Academicals is such a chore to read that I've only finished it twice.

Quality varied throughout the run, but that was the only one that I actively didn't like. Even the last few, getting simpler, or more verbose, didn't bother me as much as that one did.
In my experience, it’s less about knowledge and more about emotional regulation - lack of it is often why it happens, and why it is so hard to deal with overall.
I guess it depends on how you define "few". These days, Chromebooks get 7 years from the day of release. Google seems to be fairly generous with some models and extends support beyond that.

This page lists all the models and their expiration dates:

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en

I personally have the original Lenovo Duet as a cheap tablet / laptop. Paid ~$200 in 2020 and support will officially end in 2028. Not bad. As good as Apple or Windows 11.

Once official support ends, there's still a couple of options left. Some old Chromebooks can use Chrome OS Flex. Some of the newer Chromebooks have the option of updating Chrome independently of the OS. Thus allowing full security updates in the browser even after the OS is no longer updated for that machine.
Do you want a massive wave of unauthorized immigration? Because that's how you get a massive wave of unauthorized immigration.
> There's no point in instituting roadblocks for the sake of preserving a union, especially when its constituents despise each other.

There is. To prevent ephemeral emotions from breaking the bond. Obviously, if the couple genuinely despise each other, there's no point in making them live together. But societal barriers to divorce serve a real purpose.
Yes, but that's not a reason to have anything fundamentally different.

I do think maybe some things, he 'first time you buy' you should have the pharmacist spell it out for you. Or it's even 'behind the counter' and you just have to ask for it i.e. 'controlled substance'.

But I'm not sure if effectively it would make a change, other than the way it's sold in 'huge quantities' makes people believe they can just eat it up willy nilly.
Remind me, western europe, that is the place where offshore wind is way cheaper than natural gas and other alternatives but where the political and economic system seems to be completely unable to connect investments with rational policy goals (survival, independence) and needs of the population (maintaining core temperature within non-lethal ranges, etc.)? :)

So I mean, I assume the original point is about supply/demand, but supply of gas is already short, prices are already high, alternatives are already cheaper, and yet our system is still failing to take any action that might lead to a survivable outcome. So the supply/demand thing seems like a completely meaningless tangent at this point??
Is is though? What’s the point. You’re in front of a screen during the best years of your life attempting to get good at something that is at the end of it trivial from a lot of perspectives. It’s kind of indistinguishable from smoking pot and sitting in front of your TV.

That being said, I’ve followed the scene for 6 years and always found it very interesting to watch.
Ask HN: What are some good “goto” React codebases?
Hi HN,

Do you have any public React code-bases that you look to as good examples of a large project?

One that comes to mind for me is https://github.com/twilio/twilio-video-app-react.
It's TypeScript, has good test coverage, a good folder structure and more.

I'm onboarding some junior developers, and would like to show them some well-developed practices that are not just Medium-esque articles.

Thank you.
You learn to just tell people what they want to hear. These checklists are basically useless.
It's also 300% more expensive than the computer in the GP...
Based on your opinions, I don't think you should be platformed.

Kind of stinks when it's used against you, doesn't it?

The solution to bad ideas is more ideas, not "deplatforming" or whatever mealy-mouthed word is currently being used to make censorship marketable these days.
I have yet to see a compelling argument that a giant hash table as described would not be sentient.

Like Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment, you are relying on human intuition as to what can and cannot be sentient, which ultimately is boiled down to how like you something is. You readily recognize sentience in dogs that can't hold lucid and eloquent conversations with humans because they are biological beings with brains and hearts and blood and guts like you and me, not for any objectively measurable ability to demonstrate "intentionality" or "internal state of mind".
I’m not implying differently. But it’s not built-in to the structure.
what is an "expat"?
an immigrant? migrant? a special kind of immigrant? hm...
T-Mobile will pay out $350M to customers in data breach settlement
I think you drank the Kool Aid. This might sober you up. I am looking at the Pew Research poll you posted [1] and Republicans seem to lag on polls where they ask about the value of racial, ethnic, and language diversity.

You really have to ignore a lot of Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims (Bangladesh is 90% Muslim), Mexicans, etc. Closing your eyes to the tiki torch carrying Neo Nazis, the racist congressmen, the Jan 6th confederates, the list goes on and on.
Perhaps you did not hear when Reagan called black people monkeys (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-rea...) or when Trump called Haiti, etc Sh*t hole countries (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-...)
They don’t see race at all.

I am not sure in what universe that Pew poll looks positive for Republicans. Republicans don’t need to talk about race much according to the poll because they don’t live in diverse communities.

I get that you don’t like affirmative action. It has been a great wedge issue to factionalize minorities against Blacks in particular. The Supreme Court will ban it in due time. You probably did not know that the Civil Rights Act (passed after decades of blood, sweat, and tears of Blacks to protect people like you) and Immigration Act 1965 (repealing anti Asian ban) of that allowed your grandad to immigrate here was introduced and signed into law by Democrats. A lot of pain went into getting you here. You should read about it. (Before they ban those books too)
The problem with covering a parking lot with solar panels is that it's usually a lot more expensive than covering rural land with solar panels. The panels have to be mounted higher off the ground so vehicles can get beneath them, they're usually expected to have a reasonably visually-appealing design, and all the wiring has to be kept safely out of the way and inaccessible to pedestrians. This drives up costs.

If land was truly scarce, parking lot solar would be a good option but I expect most installations will use the cheaper option of just building solar farms a long ways away from people.

Solar parking lots also might make sense in situations where all the power is being used on-site, and it's cheaper in the long run than buying power from the local utility.
Pretty sure you’re not running across the app until it’s solidly in that direction anyway.
I don't actually think it's that big of an issue. Most of those kinds of scripts should have something like `#!/bin/sh` already to ensure they can be run everywhere and you could always run a specific script in bash/zsh if needed.

Worst case, really, is that many of them do $PATH manipulation, set Env variables for you, or setup autocomplete and you'll need to redo that work in your shell of choice if it doesn't act like bash/zsh (e.g. I think nushell would be the most annoying in this way).
I had the same confusion as you, but I'm going to take a guess that it might be analogous to the following:

The function n -> sin(n) might be called a "shadow" of t -> sin(t), where k is an integer and t is a real number: namely, it's not periodic, but it's a shadow (projection from reals to integers) of something periodic.

Maybe someone can confirm if the analogy is correct here?
UAE? Really? Is this some sort of satire? Because I'm honestly laughing.
Sounds like you need to go to a sporting event in Chicago to find out…
Spot on. I see these things poping up and it does look bad, but we have the remember that the current power system is worse.
So long as the remote days a given person takes off stay the same I've found my team adjusted well any place it was necessary.
What does 'offload_folder' parameter do? Why is it even needed? Does the inference produce intermediate results so large they have to be stored on disk? o-O
Is there enough silver to make 300 TW capacity of solar panels?
uncertain what 12ft.io is - it redirects to latimes:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-07-14/california...

That said, I have friends with old panels, and they are happily generating electricity and reducing PG&E bills.

So although there might be a problem with older panels, I expect there are also problems with old power plant generators, aged oil tankeer and gas station equipment ending up in landfills too.
If every day is the same and find it hard to make friends, a job is not the answer.

A job is just putting make up on the problem but the problem itself will remain intact.
Don't they know that consumer education never works, and often hinders the desired outcome? Look at all the efforts to reduce obesity, taxing soda, etc. Utter failure. All nutrition education failed.
I mean, it may not be the same thing but if they're really just looking for some comraderie, those "bar coder" meet ups where a bunch of local engineers meet up at different local bars once a week to talk about stuff and make contacts, might kind of fill the void.
Do you have a source on this? This is quite an accusation, doubling down on it must indicate some certitude...
For places and times without sun there are other solutions such as natural gas. We are not trying to entirely eliminate all uses of fossil fuels for energy; just reduce them drastically where practical. There is also nuclear (longer time scale), hydro, wind, batteries, and transmission lines, among others.

You can cherry pick any one of these alternatives to criticize. Of course every solution has its issues. But they can each be used as needed to suit the situation.
Larry Bird will die young. Just ask him
On the contrary, I think you did a smart thing.
I rearranged my life to get a remote job, which started in January 2020, a couple months before everyone in my industry was remote anyway. I'd always wanted to be fully remote, and for me it was absolutely the right choice. I'm so much happier now, not having to commute, not sitting next to the guy who bounces his leg all day, being able to run errands in the middle of the day, not feeling like I need to do busy work because someone is looking over my shoulder, or could be.

What is great is that, whereas before covid, it was a little harder to find a fully remote position, it's now really easy. But, at the same time, there are plenty of non-remote places too, so people who want that experience can find it, and they won't be competing with me for that job either.

There are even hybrid offices, where you can work on-site part of the time, and work from home part of the time.

Pretty much any setup you want is available to you with a readiness that wasn't there 3 years ago. It's just a better situation for workers over all.

So, if you don't like working remote, you don't have to!
It doesn't do anything to prove LaMDA (or a monkey, or a rock, or anything) sentient, but at the same time it points out a real failure mode of how sentient entities might fail to recognize sentience in radically different entities.
Just curious, can you think of a non-contrived, moderately difficult, non-mathematical problem that has or even in principle could be settled through abscence of evidence? Especially a positive assertion. Closest I could come up with is say confirming a diagnosis by elimination, through abscence of evidence of other candidate diagnoses. But even then there's a non-zero possibility that it's a hitherto unknown disease, or that there was some false negative somewhere.
The pessimist in me thinks it will never happen.

That said, I'm in Australia and our recent government change is starting to make major changes in the space of renewables. It gives me a since of optimism about government I haven't seen in a long while. Just maybe we can still get into the right direction even if it isn't a perfect conclusion.
Technically (as far as I know) 'expat' was (supposed to be) used for people who were temporarily relocated to a different country. Even for a longer period. Think someone who's got a longer consulting contract and the big corporation is sending them abroad for a year. So someone who doesn't have the intention to immigrate. Including blue collar workers, regardless of social class.

But nowadays, it's usually high income immigrant westerners who don't want to be considered 'immigrants' because that's for <whisper> poor people.

After I've dealt with the US immigration processes years ago, I just call everyone who lives in a different country an 'alien'. Fuck this doublespeak.

This article actually features the company which published the 'study': https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20170119-who-should-be-... See if you can ignore the neocolonial tone and figure out expat vs immigrant vs migrant.
I appreciate the explanation, thank you. In my neck of the woods you'll often hear "chinese" used in that way. And yes, it's not always obvious that it's meant negatively.
I did:

> According to Google, "GOAT Blogs" are blogs about goats: https://www.google.com/search?q=GOAT+blog&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS99...
I blame the CPUC for basically everything regarding the crappiness of being a grid customer in California. PG&E is exactly the result you'd expect to get in our regulatory environment.

Our regulators rubber stamp every tariff plan the company puts forth, and lets them get a larger profit margin on capex vs opex. So of course the optimal strategy is to run all equipment to failure and replace it with maximally expensive everything as frequently as possible.

Torching the state is the business plan.
> Why do we still do so much farming in regions that have such marginal water supplies?

You know how you can still buy fresh fruits and vegetables at the grocery store in the middle of winter? Lots of those are grown in the western deserts. If you’re willing to give up year-round fresh produce, we could consider removing farming from these areas. But most people wouldn’t want that.
Why expensive housing prices aren’t good for most real estate agents
I worry when people think of the 3D website they think of the 90s era like the movie hackers.

Technology has progressed so far since then, yet nobody has really tried making 3D websites. Websites that integrate with glasses.

WTF was google glass doing? They could have integrated the glasses with websites but no they had to make it work with the real world which is 1000x more difficult.
These are old talking points. Solar plants with gigawatts of storage are being built right now, today. Costs for such large scale storage are dropping quickly and are estimated to cost half of what they do today in 2030. Nuclear proponents need to update their material with the times. They keep insisting that nuclear is "The Only Way" meanwhile, in reality, we're building renewables backed by storage at higher rates than ever before. Solar plus storage is cheaper and faster to build TODAY than nuclear has ever been.

https://electrek.co/2022/03/07/solar-and-battery-storage-mak...
The Upside-Down Logic of Electric SUVs
Even in urban California the DMV is mostly fine if you have an appointment.
https://archive.ph/fRMOc

"Buyers aren’t drawn to the electric Mustang or Ford’s new F-150 Lightning pickup to solve climate change. These are exciting, high-tech gadgets in their own right. And that’s fine. Even so, customers’ appetite might slacken if they were told the truth. Ford leaked this week for the benefit of the investment community plans to lay off thousands of workers to fatten the profits of its conventional vehicles. This extra cash is needed to support electric vehicles that lose money despite taxpayer rebates plus hidden subsidies via our convoluted fuel-economy and trade regulations.

Ford’s leak may be a turning point. Conventional vehicles will be starved for investment from here on out, even as auto makers throw money at big-battery EVs for luxury buyers.

This trade-off could actually lead to worse emissions than otherwise (though still a rounding error in total global emissions) considering that most nonrich consumers will likely opt for gasoline-powered cars for decades to come. It also represents a gamble with the industry’s finances, which depend on large, government-protected profits from standard SUVs and pickups. If these vehicles start looking shabby and out of date due to lack of investment, the industry is in deep straits. As Ford CEO Jim Farley said in March, “we need them to be more profitable to fund” Ford’s $50 billion in spending on mostly high-end EVs, which have the least chance of being net reducers of CO2."
I get why Japan is near the bottom for some people but, as someone that's lived there for a while > 10yrs, I found the paragraph describing the problems kind of ridiculous

> Expats find it hard to pay without cash (20% vs. 8% globally)

So what? It's safe to carry cash in Japan and you can get cash at every 7/11 of which there is almost always one within 4 minutes walking distance

> and are unhappy with the availability of government services online (35% vs. 21% globally).

I have pretty much never needed government services in my life. That would be slightly inconvenient for the once every 2 or 3 years I'd have to interact with the government seems like an extremely trivial point and nothing to do with actual quality of life

> The country also lands in the bottom 10 for both the Ease of Settling In (45th)

True for many

> — 30% find it hard to get used to the local culture (vs. 19% globally)

Yea, you need to speak Japanese. You can get by but it's not like moving to Scandinavia or Western Europe where many countries you can trivially get by without speaking the local language. You can add Singapore and maybe Malaysia to that list but Taiwan being near the top? I'd expect the same there. Either you learn Mandarin or life is going to be lonely and you'll be left out of most stuff.

> Moreover, 25% feel they are not fairly paid for their work (vs. 20% globally).

This is very true. Engineers for example probably have a cap of $80k year unless you work for a western company.
That would be socialism.
Vector [c,c,c] is not physically realizable. First postulate of special relativity is that the magnitude of the velocity vector cannot exceed c
It wasn't my comment. But I appreciate the explanation. And I agree, their race wasn't relevant.
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...

> “So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they’re going to transmit it,” Fauci said.

So, very few get it at all, and the ones who get it, can't spread it, even without masks. This (well, similar, from our local agencies) was the info I got when i went to get vaccinated.
Not all humans are sentinent
"Assembly can do everything c++ can. You just need to know it well enough."
Legally speaking, I doubt that there's an actual law that applies for the welfare of AIs.

Morally speaking, if society treats both human and animal abuse as a crime, then talking about the believed suffering of an AI would certainly fit the spirit of these sorts of legal protections.

There are going to be some interesting question that might have to be seriously broached within our lifetime. Is an AI sentient? Can it suffer? Can it lie? Does it feel pain? At what point would an artificial creation qualify for some rights? This has previously only been the realm of science fiction.
As with other issues popping up recently, this can be mostly solved with decentralization by hosting your own server with Gitea, etc. The main thing that’s hard to give up is GitHub pages since it’s awesome for hosting. I haven’t tried Netlify but maybe it’s a good enough alternative?
A huge reason for my personal time investment in Nix has been to be able to ignore problems like this. I don't want to constantly fear that as I've finally decided to put effort into making things nice for myself for things to change without any recourse.
Here's the derivation of a formula by Matt Might

https://matt.might.net/articles/counting-hash-collisions/
No, I think we are quite near to being able to achieve that.

There may be billions of vehicles on the road, but as soon as the system fails to be able to upkeep all the deployed capital required to maintain them in operating condition (road resurfacing, parts manufacture, refinement and transportation of fuel, maintaining the value of currency in order to motivate the workers to participate in all of the necessary steps, security from hostilities, roads not being flooded/melted, and so on). In such eventualities sizeable portions of the fleet may be rendered inoperable quite quickly and cars will be displaced, out of necessity, by walking.

What you're making is a different point, it's not that we can't displace hydrocarbons, it's that we can't displace them with something equivalent-or-better. We can probably displace cars with walking, concrete structures with ad-hoc shelters, and hospitals with prayer. That is all not just very achievable, but has actually been increasing in inevitability during our prior decades of "inaction" (obviously you can't really call it inaction when we're taking positives steps to hasten these outcomes)
Relativity already has the inability to distinguish between past and future states built in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

I have no idea how 2D time would work, though.
Try reading "Waking Up" by Sam Harris. I feel it does a decent job of straddling the fields of science and philosophy, and where we are in each.

Science may not yet be able to explain consciousness but it certainly can inform our understanding, and the work continues. If nothing else, it can help us understand what consciousness is not, and much has been learned about how a consciousness experiences certain degradations of the brain.
Great, but what about 7nm?
> Even the whole "hg/git are decentralised, svn is not" mantra bothers me. So friggin create a personal svn repo and merge back when ready already. I've used a decentralised svn workflow more times than I can count now. It's really not that hard.

The point is that it took work for you to set that up with SVN, which most people don't do. Git gives it to you for free.
They are, but for this one, that date is pretty far in the future. From the Q&A section of the product listing ( https://www.bestbuy.com/site/questions/lenovo-chromebook-3-1... )

> This Lenovo Chromebook 3 11 model number 82BA001FUS, will continue to receive Google Automatic updates through June 2027.

> Answered by Lenovo Product Expert 2 months ago