skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an 8, a 16, and a 64

The 8gb was just not enough. It crashed through normal use often

16gb was greatttt but got slow and weird (audio devices would disappear, requiring a restart) , occasionally with Docker Desktop

64gb is a beast and I'm running parallels windows and parallels KDE and even ELECTRON apps simultaneously ( ;) )

If you can afford it, get the 64. If it's too much, I'm guessing 32 will work very well also.
I think quite a few people would say otherwise: https://www.arrowfilms.com/blog/features/is-robocop-the-ulti...
Setting up a hardware platform of this kind that is useable in production costs significantly more than a couple of million
Yep, anything audio, like a whistle, shouting "ahoy there!", has less use these days and with tiny airpods being a thing now, it's not even possible to guess from a distance if someone is listening to music.

Possibly some kind of laser beam thing that sweeps the ground in front of you might work?
Let's compare with a competitor you never heard of:

Nvidia RTX 3090: 285 Tensor-TOPs @ 350 W [1]

Specialised accelerator: 100 TOPS at less than four watts [2]

That's a 30x improvement over a GPU in power consumption. Sure, it's inference only, but training and inference are not that different.

[1]: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-geforce-rtx-308...

[2]: https://www.imaginationtech.com/product/img-4nx-mc8/
I do think A4 is too wide for note taking, I almost always use two columns.
Everywhere I've lived people also discuss display sizes in inches despite everything else being metric.
I regret that I've chosen 16GB. I thought with the 1 TB fast SSD I could utilize the swap (also 400€ cheaper) and help Docker continue working seamlessly, but working with many containers and many tabs and App's open I can feel the sluggishness switching between windows. If I were to buy new, I'd buy at least 32.
The only thing I can think of is that screen diagonals are still measured in inches. Ignoring that, a lot of countries are definitely fully metric with regards to the basic length/weight/time measures
I'm surprised it hasn't happened before. When I was in the air force, it was common practice to send out embarrassing emails if someone left their computer unlocked. They'd send them to the whole squadron or wing if they could.
Sorry I wasn't clear. My point is that, since majority of the demand is A4/letter, in letter's case, they can still use certain size of big rectangular paper and cut them into letter. The fact these larger paper can't be cut into other shapes doesn't really matter on supply side because they're not going to.

If they need some other odd shaped papers, just like metric B-series, they do that separately.
Oh but that was part of the original plan!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

10 months per year, 10 days per week.
I've seen the temperature argument and it never has made sense to me. What does "very cold" and "very hot" mean? For me living in Spain, 40º is "very hot", but I've seen people living in northern countries complaining about 30º. Viceversa with "cold".

The only reason Fahrenheit looks like "a human scale" is because you're used to it. At least Celsius has clear reference points (everybody knows how cold is "freezing water" and how hot is "boiling water").

> Doesn't it make sense for some things to divide by 3 and 4, like a year, so that a season is 3 months long, instead of 2.5 months long (as in the old 10-month year system, ending in December)?

Programmers all around the world would first hate you for changing things, and then love you for making a consistent dating system.

But, seriously now, dates are a bit of a difficult system to change. You want to be able to refer to past dates without too much confusion, and also there are outside restrictions such as the length of a year compared to a day (not many integer divisors of 365 days).
Preferred Metric Sizes
Virtual Ants
> Seriously, I propose a compromise. Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements. Everyone wins.

+1
>There's no citation needed, there's some education needed. It's a simple fact that discrimination occurs against atheists in many contexts - political, social, professional.

Any more than there's discrimination against religious people? (e.g. in progressive media, art circles, academia, and so on). Or just each team favoring their own, but none having systemic support, legal support, or any great power over the other?

Can this still be called discrimination? Perhaps. But if we overblow some words, they lose their meaning. Atheists do face serious discrimination in some countries, for example, but in general, e.g. it's not something that will hold you back in your career in America.

One might argue it can hold you back in rural Alabama, and that I'd accept. But then again, try being a card-carrying Christian in Silicon Valley and see the looks you get, and whether you'll likely to get any promotion in a liberal news organization...

Sure, it might hold you back in your chances for political election. But that's democracy. People get to pick someone whose politics and beliefs they like. That's more like complaining "there's discrimination against punk or hip hop fans", because they wouldn't accept you or your views at a prog rock group.
First, yes, it sucks. See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587346>

But:

- It exists.

- It's ... kind of ... not owned. (Though as TFA notes, this is only vanishingly true any more.) But compared to most alternatives, it is less owned by any one entity.

- It's supported over a wide range of devices, from smartphones to mainframes.

- It has extensive mindshare, use-culture, associated processes, etc.

- It is largely agnostic as to content. Yes, plain text is most native, but through the majick of MIME, et al, it'll manage just about anything.

If you're going to call for email's end, you'd best have a highly viable alternative or replacement in mind.
Yes, but that is really rarely used -at least around here-. Most envelopes nowadays have opted for different factors. Usually you fold an A4 in thirds on the longer side and use an 110x220 envelope.
Bill and Ted was hardly a large pot of money in Keanu terms.
> Tesla Bot is a good indicator of this direction.

Tesla Bot was the human in a bot costume dancing on stage [0], right? If so, then yes, this is quite a good indicator of the seriousness of this direction.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUP6Z5voiS8&t=1m2s
> a) what heuristic are you using to determine that power consumption will be 25% of the power supply sizing, and

I'm not the OP, but it's probably about right. Power supplies are cheap and there are variances in manufacturing. Typically power supplies for all consumer electronics are rated for double peak load. And assuming that standard load is half of peak load is probably on the high end - standard load for the processor(s) is probably more like 1/10 peak load, but there could be other components on the board whose electrical load is not workload dependent.
The archetype of this argument is of course the (in)famous "P doesn't Q people, people Q people" *

While this is "true", the sense in which it is true is so limited as to be entirely unhelpful. If you manufacture P, and you know Q may be an outcome, why are you manufacturing P, and how are you preventing Q?

* Where, as we all know, Q is usually "kill" or "harm", and P might be "guns" or "autonomous vehicles" or "military robots" or "facial recognition" etc.
And opinion surveys also consistently show American voters are even less likely to trust an avowed atheist politician than a muslim one. I wish they had also asked survey participants about LaVey Satanism :-)

I personally suspect the majority cult among politicians is actually Mammon (love of money) or Moloch-Baal (love of violence).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-44856910

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Humans are inherently tribal. If enough of us get together in a group, we are capable of terrible things - and the justification of them.
Oh I agree with you: memory bugs are annoying and I've had my share of them. My contention is that, while they waste time here and there, the biggest problems are 1 or 2 layers of abstraction up. I've probably spent 10x more time debugging random physics issues than I did dealing with invalid iterators or heap corruption.

But I mainly take issue with the cockiness of my parent post. Rust is a reasonable evolution which, as you point out, eliminates one class of bugs. But my parent post took it for granted that things should be rewritten in it whenever possible, and that the gamedev community is ignorant of best practices.

The tech industry's demographic pyramid has a really wide base, which is possibly why it seems to build cults around new programming languages so much. Last time it was Ruby, and if we all listened to the equally self-assured Ruby crowd, everything would now be message passing up the wazoo.
>it's the death of a specific aspect of art which is the focus of art critics and some of the artists, but can be ignored by the 'art consumers'.

Fair enough, I'd agree with that - but I think there is no-one left but "art consumers". One could imagine a version of instagram, where the user could scroll through pages of images, all of which were generated by AI. Is that user of Instagram then an artist if they pick a favourite? If I scroll through real instagram and pick a favourite, am I now an artist?
Counter opinion: no one who grew up in a country with the metric system would know how to understand "I weigh 14 stones". What stones? Small ones? Big ones? Who decides if it's a big one or a small one? Also, how would I know how much a stone weighs?

It's just silly. It has no more bearing on reality than a kg does.
It's interesting that the human scale is (logarithmically) in the middle between the plank distance and the size of the observable universe.
I used letter-sized paper when I was a kid in Honduras, and if memory serves a number of people use US units.
I grew up with the Johnny Mnemonic name being familiar, only to watch it a few years ago, but I discovered Strange Days, which I've hard never heard of, just a bit later. Strange Days has its flaws, but is much much more modern and reflects the cyberpunk literature much more accurately.
You can find occasional uses in many countries. TV screens are advertised in inches here in Denmark, although I noticed the last one I bought was "34 inch, 86.00cm" in the detailed specification -- the inches were just marketing. Old water pipes have some sort of pre-metric size.

Several countries (e.g. France) use the word pound (livre) to mean 500g, which could confuse visitors into thinking something non-metric is being used. I noticed that in south America.
Mine bitcoins in winter.
Beauty of maths
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The difference is that in the UK nearly everything you interact with in your daily life is in metric. You won't find anything in a UK household in imperial measurements other than the bottle of milk in the fridge.
Celcius 0 in weather is pretty handy. If it is at that or below I know that I should be aware that it might be slippery so drive more carefully and check where I put my foot. Much below that those things aren't that big issue but better wear more. And above that somewhat I can survive outside okay.
You mean minimemerica and America’s hat?
uLisp wireless message display with a Pi Pico W
Long shipping address
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Don't forget "but there will be more bicycles" is a much stupider and easier to call out excuse for trying to prevent affordable housing than "it will make traffic worse"

Also vehicles that are easier to stop are far better for small business owners and local economies.

Also keep in mind traffic speed is usually somewhere south of 20mph. You can get places quicker at 18mph non stop than you can at 30 or 50 with congestion caused by traffic control that has lower throughput on a 4 lane each way intersection than a single bike lane with no control.

30mph vehicles are LEVs not bicycles and should be treated as motorscooters or whichever similar law framework is available and not allowed on bike paths or shared paths. That said, I fully support LEV only zones possibly where bicycles are allowed in a similar vein to how they are allowed on roads and possibly before bike only zones in less urban areas)
Group songs
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I thought EVs still had a 12v battery. Is that not charged via an alternator?

I admit it seems more sensible to charge it direct from the battery pack, but then it seems more sensible to me to do away with the 12v battery all together. So if you're going to have a 12v battery it may aswell be completely independent of the main battery pack.
The ubiquity of B5 notebooks (and just B5 paper in general) is one of the things I love about Japan. I don't mind having A5 and A4 around, but I'm not too fond of A4 being the default printer paper size.
Oh I completely get that 0 = 0 folds, but if we are comparing square meters then A1 is 1 square meter.

It depends on your point of view on what you are comparing.
> there are no natural objects that weight around one kilogram

Yes there is: a liter of water (see the beauty?)

> Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements. Everyone wins.

And US gives up strange day-in-the-middle date format as a bonus to make everyone there sane.
Night mate region
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Beauty doesn't necessarily mean practical in all cases. In all honesty, people who grew up with the metric system don't usually understand how practical Fahrenheit and other non-metric units often are (not always are). Are they hard to calculate with? Yes, sometimes. But they usually directly map to average human experience. For example, humans experience temperatures in the range of 0 - 100 degrees F most of the time. That's -17.8 - 37.78 degrees C. The Celsius range doesn't really make sense in the context of daily experience and is less fine-grained at that. Yes, 0-100 degrees C is freezing to boiling, but humans don't live in that range.

The metric system is great for symmetry and calculations but that doesn't always map to practical quantities in those units, in my personal opinion. It's kind of funny when foreign friends will explain to me metric units, when I already know them, but they don't understand anything about non-metric units or their practicality.

Edit: I should have known to make this comment, because it's going to get bikeshedded to death (already is). The summary of my point was to say that the metric system is perfect for calculations and representations, but the non-metric systems can often serve more practical purposes. Not always but often. In other words, for daily, non-engineering uses, there's really not much of a strong winner aside from people's country of origin. Even for paper, it's a toss-up for me. I find for notebooks, the A<x> sizes are nice and preferred by me, but US letter size is sometimes more preferred over A4 paper. A4 paper is nice for mathematical notes but can often get in the way of diagramming due to the narrowness.

There just seems to be a superiority complex of those that use the metric system, but I don't really get it. Note the use of the word "shocking" in the comment I replied to.

Edit 2: Commenting on scales really seems to grind some gears and gets people going. I'm okay with stating that the scales used for various measurements are fairly arbitrary in daily life and that there's pros and cons to both, but still disagree that it's shocking various places don't use the metric system. They certainly cause issues in engineering systems though.
Yeah, but it’s not like this is rocket science or anything.
kWh is more metric than imperial, although Joules are of course the standard unit of energy.

Watts are a metric unit, as are seconds. Hours are not formally an SI unit, but at least according to Wikipedia [0] are "officially accepted for use with the SI".

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_units_mentioned_in_th...
If you are technical, I would recommend looking at the open-source Python ecosystem to create reports and dashboards. It has amazing analysis and visualization libraries (like Altair and Plotly).

We are building an open-source library to create data front-ends like reports and dashboards using Python (https://github.com/datapane/datapane). You could programmatically create a dashboard for each user and save it as HTML to something like S3. As the dashboards can be pre-rendered and static, they can scaled really heavily if you need.
Revenge badass
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It's good that we have progressed from no protection to broken protection. May we continue to progress in the right direction.

Practically, 5G phones today remain vulnerable to IMSI catching.
Study links pornography use to the desire to avoid unpleasant thoughts
Kament, an extension to enable YouTube comments when they are disabled
There's room to debate whether bitcoin mining with renewables would be a good or a bad thing from a renewable power, environment, energy price perspective.

It's obviously bad if using non-renewables, where the negative externalities are subsidized, but since it's a modulatable load with a desire for cheap electricity it could be considered an accelerator once renewables cross over to be cheaper than non-renewable options, which they have in many locations.

Does anyone estimate the mix of energy used to generate that electricity used for bitcoin over time to see if there's a trend? Or even the countries they locate in which could be used as a proxy?

Quick Google returns this:

> Currently, 57% of the energy used for crypto mining comes from renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal and carbon generation with carbon offsets as defined by the Bitcoin Mining Council Q3 2021 Report).4 Apr 2022

https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/How-cr...

And more recent reports suggest minor uptick:

https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/bitcoin-mining-electricity-...

So, better than it could be, but not perfect.
There were numerous tantrums after the cigarettes. If you ignore them and the measures are only a mild inconvenience and you don't have to get people to do something actively they get tired of it and shut up
Milk is sold in litres in the UK, it's really only beer that's sold in pints.
Most countries still use inches for wheel sizes, for example.

These are basically “sizes” that are imperial by tradition/accident more than people using them as measurement. If I wear size 32 waist jeans is that imperial? Maybe. I’m not measuring I’m just using it as a known size. Might be inches.

Same for wheels, rifle ammunition, …

I use inches for TVs/monitors and although I’m as metric as they get, I have a 55” TV and my car has 20” rims and so on. Everything has cm, kW instead of horsepower etc listed as well for a TV of course.

As far as I know only a few countries - presumably because of regulation - have switched for absolutely everything. Australia is an example of a country where you can get a 100cm TV.
Here is another good explainer which might be a bit easier to parse: https://unsharpen.com/paper-sizes/

Minor side point, I’ve never seen an x written as )( but always as / and then \ (or vice versa). I wonder if this is a regional thing ir just one person’s preference.
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Yes. It's common in most of Europe afaik. B5 is a quite nice size for notebooks.
Gas should have been phased out a long time ago, for geopolitical and environmental reasons.
And nobody argued that there aren't. The charitable interpretation (and the obvious one to me) is that the parent is speaking about the US/West.
I'll repeat that quote from the WMF executive above:

"And the fact is that, as a movement, we need as much money as we can get to advance our mission. Our vision is so ambitious and expansive that it is also bound to be inevitably expensive. This is something that the Board understood: shortly after endorsing the Strategic Direction in 2017, they directed the Foundation to prepare to raise more funds than usual, to be able to move towards our collective vision for 2030. [2] My fellow members of the working group on Revenue Streams for movement strategy also understood the scope of the movement's ambitions: the first guiding question for our work was how to "maximize revenue for the movement"."

The reason given for wanting to raise more funds and "maximize revenue" (Wikimedia had a $50 million surplus in 2020/2021, $88 million if you include endowment growth ...) was not a lack of staff or resources for maintaining Wikipedia, but the "Strategic Direction" and the desire "to be able to move towards our collective vision for 2030" (which involves Wikimedia becoming "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge").

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/...

Frankly, a lot of the new employees appear to me to be producing a lot of high-faluting words – about the Universal Code of Conduct, the Human Rights Policy, the UN, knowledge equity, movement strategy, and whatnot. Around 50 people just work on Fundraising. I wish they prioritised the things volunteers are asking for more, but their sights often appear to be focused on far loftier aims.

In that vein, they recently created a $4.5 million fund to support organisations completely unrelated to both Wikipedia and Wikimedia:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund

And all these things may be fine things to do, but if they are fine things, then tell donors about them.

As for what Lisa meant, I genuinely don't know what she meant. That's why I asked above. If you've spoken to her, then fine, I'll take that on board.
Where are you based? If you are able to speak English well, the honest answer is that you can be making the same as EU/US based peers. But perhaps not at the same company.

Usually landing a remote position creates significant opportunities. My girlfriend, a talented senior designer, has increased her compensation nearly 5 fold from her previous work situation and now also works from home.

You ultimately get what you negotiate.
I moved from a Fahrenheit country to a Celsius country, and let me tell you that knowing 0° was freezing and 100° was boiling did not help me decided whether I should put on a jacket when it's 17° outside.

(I now know how to interpret Celsius, but it involved memorising certain fixed points. The "30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cold, 0 is ice" rhyme is a good one.)
>Easy: Look at atheists running for office and their chances of being elected.

That's just democracy. People get to vote for people whose politics and beliefs they like.