skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there's manpower and energy that goes into every image creation. Without a profit incentive the technology would mostly stagnate. So ya it makes sense to charge to keep things rolling.
> Especially since this kind of thing is best done on the job by looking in a good textbook or using the standard library.

The way that job interviews continue to fixate on having a huge amount of information stored in your head, rather than your ability to be resourceful, is so frustrating. Oh well, maybe it's about time I go back to Leetcode and see how quickly I can grind out a recursive DFS algorithm...
Cryptographic Agility and Superior Alternatives
They reduce the number of the most harmful parasite: Humans.
> money is overwhelmingly better spent on building out renewable generating capacity than on storage.

Yes, the world uses about 18 TW (continous). If we wanted to provide all that with PV at 20% capacity factor and with a lifetime of 20 years, we need to be producing 5 TW of PV panels per year.*

Currently we're making around one percent of that.

* Actually we don't need all that. The 18 TW is based on "primary energy supply" which ignores the two-thirds energy losses with fossil fuel based supply. In terms of delivered, useful power, we only probably need 8-ish TW currently.
Exactly. Since it was so great, I didn't need to be told to try it, and what's it to you if I do or don't?
Sounds like awesome energy and hustle on your part.... If you work somewhere especially good, you will get recognized and rewarded for it. If you work somewhere especially bad you'll somehow get punished for helping.

Telling your manager feels like the right first move and will likely help make it the best it can be, but the biggest thing is going to be the culture of your team/company.

(p.s. If it doesn't work out and you like working with data...I am hiring https://jobs.lever.co/bateau).
:D

Yeah, floating point is nothing more than your standard scientific notation of numbers, e.g.

digit.xyz... * 10 ^^ +/- some exponent

The exponent is simply shifting where the decimal point is. The only different for floating point is that everything is base 2 because computers :D

Interestingly you're right that a bunch of fp functions can be faster than integers equivalents (although I'm still not convinced that this isn't simply due to the reduced number of bits involved), and more fun the relative performance of operations can actually change vs what they would be in integers. Also this is in the context of doing it in software vs hardware, where again the perf costs of things change.
>Why don't we ever folks like this ever ask, "when will AI replace SWE?"

People ask this all the time.
> almost all of these devices burn propane or similar to generate the CO2, making them dangerous for indoor use.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but burning propane indoors is allowed for cooking and heating... although there's venting requirements and venting probably includes the CO2, so maybe not useful.

I use outdoor mosquito devices that have UV + a sticky tape with odor (supposedly, I don't smell it and can't confirm). I don't know how effective they are vs other things, but they do capture a lot of flying creatures anyway.
Agreed, it’s both. They don’t really care for me if others are around. I’ve never had a visible reaction from a mosquito bite. I live in The South and they are around during the warmer months.
In the “Office Ladies” podcast (where actresses from the TV show The Office recount their days working on it), they mention the writers had a similar “candy bag” they’d put ideas in when they couldn’t work them in the episode they were working on, from which to pull down the line.
It's been amazing how few systems of cooperation we have evolved around digitally-enabled security. Having cooridination & enforcement below the state/police level, having civilian systems, seems like a part of better claiming the power, having a more opt-in & distributed, a-heirarchical society.

In thus case, made to sound like the means of rendezvous & coordination is one dude (a priest). Who serves as moderator & centralized trust agent. Who just gathers, chooses, & ultimately passes select data up to the state. But still, a radical intermediation on uncapped data slurping.

> Brad O’Brien, pastor of Jesus Our Redeemer Church in Federal Hill and public safety chairman for the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association (FHNA), created a form where residents can register their home security cameras. This does not grant anyone access to the footage, but it allowed O’Brien to build a map of the neighborhood’s camera footprint. After a crime occurs, he can contact residents who might have relevant footage. He passes what they send him on to the city police department.

The field is wide open to decide what we might do with our data, find how & when we might mix it. The future is exciting. Local truth & form slowly starts new abilities to gather.
a) there is a difference between electricity production and energy use. Typically countries don't use electricity for all energy needs.

b) are you aware that half of the nuclear fleet in France isn't online?

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-news/274261/controlled...

> It's clean, it's energy dense, and we can make a lot of it. France gets most of it's energy from Nuclear plants.

It's not clean, since the nuclear industry is also polluting the environment. It's not safe, since there is a risk of nuclear weapons, it's also limited (for example one needs water for the production of nuclear electricity - which in dry summers - like right now - can be a problem).

Worst:

Parts of the nuclear energy production is largely unsolved (nuclear waste storage, clean reprocessing, ...).

It's expensive, needs lots of government money and creates huge centralized structures.
There needed to be a professional communication method that was less formal and "chattier" than email, but still in a written text format that allows sharing files, images, links.
> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!"

He can try "Tectonic" [0] - a modern XeTeX based TeX/LaTeX distribution that installs a minimum system and then downloads and installs dependencies on-demand. Tectonic is written in C and Rust [1].

[0] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
It is constantly happening to me. The "I know there was something on my mind just now and I think it was important, but I can't remember what it was".

I hope it's a common thing and not a sign of mental problems x)
An alternate name is “Conway’s Game of Death”
Nobody at Google wants you to do boring work without questioning the need for it. That would be a waste of money and time.

Hard interview questions are asked for the same reason hard questions are asked in SAT tests. The assumption is that if you can do a hard thing in the interview (implement a mutex using a semaphore or whatever) then you can probably write simple code too.

A few years ago I was working somewhere that had a low hiring bar. We were using an opensource graphql library to interact with some service. The graphql library didn’t expose some queries we needed, so I forked the library and added those queries.

After I left I heard through the grapevine that they were very unhappy with my work. They didn’t have anyone on the team who was skilled enough to maintain the code I wrote, so I left them in a bad place.

In retrospect I’m still not sure what else I could have done to solve the team’s graphql problems. Not that, but what?
Boo, no fp80!

Honestly I think having fp80 would be super interesting as it was the first end-user available hardware implementation of ieee definition of floating point, and also as a by product shows some design "mistakes" that were ironed out by the time fp32/64 were formalized.
The closest I can think of is High Performance Browser Networking:

https://hpbn.co/

But I'm not really sure what backend-specific networking knowledge you need.
Pournelle was not cynical enough. You only need to spend time in corporate America to watch the bureaucrats, administrators, and bean counters take over. It always starts small, but every day, while you are focused on making a better product, or a better process, or service to the customer, they are focused on control of the finances and core decisions, because it is in their nature to do so. And one day you look up from your work, and find that you are no longer permitted to make the decisions that are best for the company's goals. It is inevitable, because these people are like barnacles on a boat, or scum on a pond, or tarnish on silver. They dull and destroy every good thing they touch.
I believe https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... has decent docs on what to do here:

- Run NTP in the guest

- If at all possible, run the qemu guest agent, which can inform the guest to resync when it resumes from suspend

- If available, use the "kvm-clock" clock source (but that's just a source of timing ticks, not of actual time, so it doesn't help a lot with suspend)
It's people who hold debt who are robbed by inflation, not people who are in debt. The entire political program of the people closest to the money printer is to reduce inflation (and to lower government debt without changing the balance of payments, which by necessity shifts that same debt to individuals.)
I’m referring to the omission of the “H” in the abbreviation. Satire wasn’t the correct word choice looking back on it.
That percentage was 100% at one stage, though, and has only dropped because the rest of the human race adopted maps drawn by those few.
It's been a while since I used hover, but I wouldn't consider it horrible, and I think you had to set it as an account setting, I don't think it happened by default...

But if I obtain a new domain, of course I want it to point at my existing DNS servers, that's what they're for. In general, it's hard to know which nameservers are going to do the wrong thing with that, and I don't want to use my registrar's DNS ever, but many registries prohibit registering names without setting NS records, so what do you want them to do?
> C++

And using pointers instead of references.
Sites Used to Be Slashdotted
whats the equivalent for hacker news? hacker newsed doesnt seem right.
Sure, but there are things you can do without a license because they're not copyright violations. You can read the work, learn from it, and sometimes make quotations under fair use.

This is a novel scenario. It seems unclear how the courts will interpret it? Never mind what we think, will they decide it's a derivative work, or is it a transformative use?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use
We need to build way more PV factories. But building the wrong kind would be counterproductive. If perovskites end up way better, it would be wasteful to have built out too many new silicon cell factories.

While building out storage now would be a mistake, we should be building factories for storage like crazy. Every kind. We don't know which storage methods will win, but we can't afford to wait and find out.
Unicode does have both upper- and lower-case Roman numerals, U+2160 to U+2188.

But I doubt that the Romans had any clearer of a sense than you of whether "II" was one letter or two. It probably varied across eras and regions, and most people probably didn't think one way or another about it. It's probably not such a big deal to write II when you meant U+2161.

However, I definitely do agree that we are badly lacking in good software tools to help us enrich the set of letters that we can easily use. Imagine if you could type "II" and your text editor could offer to replace it with "Ⅱ".

On the other hand, font support is a limiting factor. For most purposes, II should looks similar to Ⅱ. But in our current world, you are at the mercy of whatever fonts that happen to implement Ⅱ, which might be totally different from how II looks.
Ok, I'm extremely stupid. I confess.

Now please offer an intelligent, insightful, un-enraged response. Maybe with examples. And if you're truly brilliant, include something that considers the patient, in some way, preferably constructive, figuratively.
... and that majority does not bite for blood
There is no better general-purpose 2-D map projection without interruptions than Kavrayskiy VII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavrayskiy_VII_projection

The AuthaGraph has been mentioned several times before on HN. This post in particular is interesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13003670
It is fixed size...for now ;)
Texas is pretty successful with banning "urban camping" despite progressive cities like Austin objecting. It might not be the result you approve but I enjoy not having panhandlers and people drugged out of their mind wondering into the traffic on every intersection near a highway and being able to walk under an overpass without dodging piles of junk and aggressive crazies.
You say that doctors are pen pushers in administrative bureaucracies and come to the conclusion that doctors need fixing and not the bureaucracies?

That seems like a very odd and backwards conclusion which reeks of treating a symptom instead of the root cause. I think you may have missed the forest for the trees.
Yes that mean that in their experimental setting it didn't change. Doesn't mean it doesn't in other conditions or when measured by other means.
Graduate degrees aren’t meant to simulate work experience or take more classes, they’re intended for research. If your MSc lists no research and is applying for some sort of boilerplate frontend job, then I understand the hesitation, but normally one would take that experience into a cutting-edge field which focuses on innovation rather than making web apps as fast as possible. In jobs with an element of R&D, university research experience is very useful.`
The problem with open source is that developers can't earn a living while developing the software. I know that I would take a pay cut if I started to work for something I truly felt good about. But at the very least I need a wage to live on.

Fix the wage issue and you will get the project moving.

I think a model similar to the peace corps could work. Young people could work on a project for 2 years. They can get experience and learn while doing something good. But I don't know how to finance it.
Well Idk about that. Many illicit activities also use manpower and energy, so I'm not sure if it's the best argument.
rest in pieces Tom -- honestly between you and me, he was popular and successful and then he passed away in an untimely way; makes one pause about this profession, and how the roads of success are paved by the bodies of the fallen
Does this thing still use libp2p, or did they give up on that?
Are you aware that it is pretty easy and possible to create an accurate globe map?
How much of a difference do you expect to see from that "projection" compared to a handpainted globe or even the real earth?
Just raise the bar, rather than getting students to reverse an array, get them to do something more complex that is difficult even with the use of modern AI tools. We currently hand out degrees to people who couldn't write a program in raw assembly but it doesn't matter anymore. The world has moved on from that being a required skill.
"HN hugged to death".
Cubic Boron Arsenide
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have found cubic boron arsenide can perform much better than silicon as a semiconductor. The next step is finding practical and economic ways to manufacture it.
OK, TIL wasps are pollinators
This is cool!

Had a small issue with "All displays" input: the lower third of the glass does not render. If I choose one display or the other individually, it works fine.
Hahaha. Excellent.
yes... I come from the tropics. I have always fantasized abput escaping to Alaska where 'there would be no mosquitoes'. But then I saw Grizzly Man. More frightening than the bear was the fact that the couple were wearing nets to cover their faces from mosquitoes.
Sure, my current gig is making software for banks. Previously I’ve worked on managing medical records.

There are people working on robotics, working on medicine, biology, rockets, software for people’s real problems, tools to enable other businesses, all sorts of things.
> Fist, a misconception, there is no such thing as "free" time (opportunity cost: whatever you do means you're not doing something else in that same time that might benefit you more).

"Free" doesn't only refer to monetarily free. What OP did was in their free time, as in, free to do whatever they want with. i.e. Not work time.

“free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”, and all that.
> Should a malicious actor try to tamper with the underlying protocol by using a large number of validators to revert a finalized block (the equivalent of a "51% attack" in PoW) their funds are slashed — meaning they lose a portion of their staked ETH

Where does it go? Is it destroyed?
In 2012, you could presume cryptocurrency users had some idea what, say, cryptography was.

In 2022, you can't presume a damn thing.

As I noted in another comment, users could do all manner of things they don't do. In practice, defaults are overwhelmingly important.

When Infura blocked all of Venezuela in March, due to an error in over-applying sanctions against Russia, some wondered if the Ethereum network was being blocked. No, it was just the app everyone depended on for almost everything.

In the fabulous future, I'm sure it'll be great. In present-day reality, things are as I described them.

Nobody actually cares much about Infura or other points of centralisation because approximately 100% of Ethereum participants in 2022 have a firm and unshakable ideological commitment to being in it for the money, on an extremely short-term horizon.
There is a common trend of devs on HN getting angry that their work has been "stolen" to train copilot, While none of them raised the same concerns when everything else like art, music, literature, etc was used to train other models. Now that it affects them its a real issue.
There's nothing about crypto that shows it wouldn't have exactly the same size of a financial sector in addition to proof of work, so the two aren't doing the same things.

Forget fiat. When money was gold in a vault, that's proof of stake, not proof of work. For proof of work, you'd have to disintegrate the gold. I wouldn't put my trust in a dollar backed by the absence of gold.

edit: I think maybe bitcoin enthusiasts think that value is a sort of spirit, and that if you kill something valuable, then through a huge mass ritual you can direct that spirit into another vessel. Proof that you once had money, and further proof that no one else has that money, should be enough for people to treat you as if you currently have money.
It's a CUDA accelerated toolkit for storing and tracing volume data.

In my opinion, this one is pretty pointless because everyone who uses Nerf or similar technology in a game or end user product will need AMD and Intel GPU support, so CUDA is a no-go. And researchers can just copy a 200 line PyTorch model of they want to build a customized Nerf. Plus if you do that, you get the production export to onnx for free.

In short, I can't imagine any case where using a CUDA-specific closed source library would be superior to using readily available PyTorch scripts.
https://archive.ph/Hckq9
Octonions: The strange maths that could unite the laws of nature
Maybe I'm overly cynical but this seems more like a way to promote a movie that has around a $0 promotion budget. I guess we will all find out next time he has a big budget Hollywood movie coming out.
I suppose I extrapolated a bit too far but I don't really see the point if not to package them together. If you wanted to link against an executable such that it was safe to do so, why not go further and pull apart a library for that executable and others anyway?
Some people are in fact rabid, and the comment is addressing only them by definition. It stands up to scrutiny.
In short; if they decide we can't take care of them and they wish to off themselves, we ought to honor that decision.
What are the checking mechanisms that 2/3 of the nodes are not colluding together? In other words how do you prove someone owning 51% or 2/3 of the network?
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I think the question was ecological benefit not human benefit.
Doctors are people. Their labor is labor. Unfortunately for those not in the health industry, this labor is expensive, regularly not optimal, and might be surprisingly, easily, bolstered or replaced by AI, or even a nurse, or in rare situations, self help. Regardless, it's unobtanium for many.

I'm going to directly declare it now -- this is my last comment/reply here.

Thanks everyone, or someeveryone
Defense contracting is somewhere in between. Whether that's better than the three industries you mentioned is up to you.
Early 90's "Zack the Lego Maniac" ads were fun when you shared a name...
> …most of us get the World War Two abbreviation WWII wrong (myself included). The 'II' is not two alpha characters as we almost inevitability use but rather it should be the Unicode characters for Roman numerals.

FWIW, this example is really, really far down on the list of things you'll be going to typographic and/or semantic hell for. It doesn't impede communication, and I'd guess that using the Roman numeral glyphs would actually break stuff that assumes the usual/normal Latin representation.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Unicode: "The Unicode standard, however, includes special Roman numeral code points for compatibility only, stating that '[f]or most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate Latin letters.'"

> Potentially this is a big problem.

I wonder how far context can go to mitigate this in OCR applications?

> Unicode Utilities: Confusables
Fund can be borrowed. As attested in last the couple months, billions of funds were borrowed to bet on the market one way or the other. Borrowing a billion dollars to subvert the network for a short duration sounds like a feasible strategy.
Part of the scroll bar thing is an admittedly subtle old interaction cue, which is that the scroll bars are sized proportionally to how many screens of data there are. So in just glancing at a list of ten files, you can see that there are approximately 20-25 files total, with no interactions.
I know that, but they could go further if they wished.
I don’t understand the purpose of your comment? The burden of proof is on people who claim something. What’s your problem? If someone says the page is full of ads and I can’t replicate it, why should I post a screenshot? Please, make sense.
Years ago I was in the US merchant marine and a very enterprising young deckhand joined my crew and figured out a “much faster process to get the power plant fired up.” Well, after we got the fire extinguished there was about $600k in damage and he was back to being a landlubber. Sometimes talking with more experienced colleagues is good before striking out on a new adventure.
I agree with your main point about the binaries being small and a reasonable LaTeX distribution fitting in under 50 MiB (I think starting with a minimal MiKTeX and letting it install what you need a few times will leave you there as well), but regarding

> a manual source port to a different language is painful enough that nobody tried

there are in fact quite a few, many of which are complete: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/507846/are-there-any...
It allows any nodes to validate the validator, they can call out anyone out by doing their own computation for the transaction. If they find a bad actor the stake that bad actor put is lost and goes towards the "whistle blower" node in their wallet.

It is based (on my reading of it) on the notion that there are many more good actors then bad. I wonder if you can get in a situation where someone spams bad actors and fudges all the transactions.