skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like no one criticizing the article read it. There's a graph, starting in Feb 2020 so that it highlights the pandemic spike in rates and return to normalcy.

And the article is written in the most neutral tone possible, pretty clearly targeting a business audience that wants information about shipping rates because of their importance for the economy and financial markets.
I also work this way a lot; in fact, it's probably the majority of my non-VCS-related diff tool use at work. It's very common for me to have data only on the clipboard: watch window output, TTY output, similar-looking snippets posted in Slack, that sort of thing.

I use Araxis Merge at work, and Meld at home, both of which can work this way. (Araxis is much better, but I can't justify the cost personally. Meld is fine, just a bit slow.)
State of AI for Earth Observation (preprint)
Hello. I'd like to share here a potentially valuable resource for those looking to understand how AI is transforming remote sensing, or get into the field of Earth Observation. (See also related Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/alkalait/status/1565710662658953222?s=20...).

Most of the images generated by satellites will never be seen by human eyes. There simply aren't enough humans on Earth to sift through the TBs of imagery acquired daily by satellites. Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising many sectors, including Earth Observation.

[Cover.](https://preview.redd.it/avrdtspt7am91.png?width=1449&format=...)

Our preprint of *State of AI for Earth Observation: a concise overview from sensors to applications* serves as an intro to

* sensors

* the core ideas in deep learning for EO, and the current state of research

* how and where AI is applied in EO

* where AI4EO is headed

* and the role of research and technology organisations.

You can download the preprint here (no sign-up needed):
https://sa.catapult.org.uk/digital-library/white-paper-state...

EO, Remote Sensing, ML are all independent fields of study, with several textbooks dedicated to each. Despite this, the conglomeration of ML + Remote Sensing + EO (aka. AI4EO) raises basic questions that are rarely motivated in isolated fields. For example, how can we...

* tell what happens on Earth based on observations from space?

* allow data tell the story of a natural or anthropogenic phenomenon?

* meaningfully combine sensors of fundamentally different mechanics?

* place all data streams on the globe continuously and harmoniously?

* do all of the above, mindful of noise, errors and observation gaps?

* Finally, how do we walk away with knowledge of what we don’t yet know?

To appeal to all backgrounds, we have included a handy glossary and an acronym explainer.

[Glossary.](https://preview.redd.it/6do66r009am91.png?width=718&format=p...)

This work is now under peer-review. In the meantime instead of uploading it on arXiv, Satellite Applications Catapult (an Innovate UK center) is hosting it as a white paper (no sign-up needed). If you find it useful, please spread the word, or retweet this thread:
https://twitter.com/alkalait/status/1565710662658953222?s=20...

Enjoy.
or the fourth option of having your business taken away from you because of politics and watch some VC-approved idiot destroy it.
Maybe the point is, please stop the mutations. If every couple of years someone came to your house while you were out, and completely rearranged everything, I'd bet you'd be pretty annoyed, mainly because all the time you invested in learning the prior layout was unilaterally and without consultation suddenly turned into wasted time. And then, as you're re-learning how to do basic stuff you already knew how to do, and it strikes you that in a couple of seasons, this learning effort will also be wasted, you will be annoyed a Second Time.

The OS should indeed "get out of the way". The best way to do that would be to stop getting in our faces, bc fashion.
> Electric heat pumps actually don't work in very cold weather.

I think that statement needs to be qualified and quantified.

Qualified: your claim is probably only intended to apply to air-source heat pumps, not ground-source heat pumps. Ground-source heat pumps are popular in places with cold weather, for instance Sweden.

Quantified: If you mean -40°C, then, yes, air-source heat pumps aren't going to work. But most people don't live in places that cold, and just because we can't use air-source heat pumps in a few places doesn't mean they're useless everywhere. Here's a data sheet for a relatively cheap air-source heat pump that's rated to work down to -25°C (about -14 F):

https://img.polarpumpen.se/pfiles/fujitsu-km-slim-09-12-14-p...
I also had a blank screen. I found that I had denied camera permission for Firefox at some point. Keeping it that way
I vaguely remember Flickr early version being a turn by turn MMO ?
Maybe MMORPG, not sure anymore.
But to your point: a gaming venture.
same density, higher size does not mean 2.5 g.
Only some of that mass is below you. Some is to the front, right, back, left, where vectors in sum are zero.
> Of course there’s a can of worms in that there are multiple ‘real’ sugars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar) and producers will try to talk down that 200, but I think that’s solvable.

Total grams of sugar per 100 and total sweeteners equivalent to y grams of sucrose per 100 when both are dissolved in water would suffice.
Your reply is very uncharitable. Newer versions of .NET rely on next to zero non-Microsoft dependencies. The most notable exception to this used to be Newtonsoft.Json, which has since been replaced with Microsoft-owned System.Text.Json. You can easily implement very complex business applications with app stacks like ASP.NET or WPF while relying on exactly zero non-Microsoft dependencies.

The GP never said Microsoft "gets a pass." They were pointing out that there are stacks like .NET where reliance on third-party unvetted libraries is greatly reduced if not eliminated outright. Additionally, nearly all businesses run Windows anyway, so using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are not the risks you make them out to be. Centralized Active Directory policies already help guard against rogue extensions and such, assuming IT even cares (they nearly never do in my experience).

Yes, the surface area threat of .NET and NuGet is far, far lower than that of NPM for nearly all apps.
Speculaas and Speculoos are somewhat different things. Speculaas is older and has more spices, apparently.
You mean like https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl ?
Id's say a stronger circulatory sistem.

Muscles and bone density will need to increase, but we do that as part of adaptation, evolution will favor the trait long term but regular use will already compensate in part or totally the need.

Possibly ankles and knees will need to get stronger as well
Maybe VR will have no killer app, maybe the interfaces will be RR - remote reality.

I think lots of autonomous system promises won't hold, you'll have people in the loop with VR headsets controlling an entire swarm of drones and vehicles, when the limited autonomy says: "this is too dangerous/weird for me to decide now".
The tables here do a better job of illustrating / explaining it IMHO:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme#Tower_o...
When people ship impressive stuff like this, I can’t stop wondering what motivated them to 1) work on it for free 2) have the persistence to finish it. Incredible feat
All wood frame is not equivalent. Modern stick framing is designed to slow the spread of flame both with how the wood is used (see modern stick framing vs balloon framing) and the other materials chosen (drywall is fairly nonflammable, whereas this seems to use plywood walls). I’m not saying this is better or worse (it might be that all the insulation significantly slows the spread of flame?), but they haven’t really discussed the fire safety implications of their design that I can see.
2023 VW ID Buzz Review: The Bus Is Back as a Stellar, Retro-Chic Electric Van
You should not be transferring weekly from your savings account.
I prefer the non-snark, non-partisan version of that narrative.

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
I assumed that weight is the limiting factor, considering the content is slightly denser than water, and an ISO40 container holds 26 740 kg:

https://freightfinders.com/container-transport/40-feet-iso-c...

Assuming two trips the lengths of which are in the same order of magnitude as the one mentioned: $10 522 * 2 = $21 044.

That's $0.7869 per kg, so $0.1967 per 250g package. At $2k per container it's $0.0373.
> The point isn't to prescribe behavior for cloudflare.

No, that we're dealing with cloudflare, with DDoS protection, is the point here. If you want to run a forum where you ban speech that you feel silences people, that's great, but if you want to deny DDoS protection to other forums that don't have this rule, or don't enforce it to your satisfaction, that's very different.

> This is setting aside the mechanism of the censorship -- removing DDOS protection versus a harassment campaign

No we really can't set this aside. Removing DDoS protection directly makes it impossible to run any unpopular website. "Harassment campaign" is a vague term, that can be used (and arguably in this case is used) for any kind of persistent criticism, ridicule, outrage, doxxing - I see harassment campaigns on twitter every day.
I'm not experienced with the SciML ecosystem, but they have apparently put huge efforts into improving compilation lag, and this has been going on for quite some time: https://twitter.com/ChrisRackauckas/status/15612780920433254...

Quote: "Coming very soon: a version of DifferentialEquations.jl that fully precompiles the solvers on Vector{Float64}, virtually eliminating the any #julialang #sciml JIT lag."
Managing cloud cost is much easier if you target it from the beginning.

Having worked in this space, the things that work are mostly centred on making it easier to attribute the source of costs, proactively exploring your bill on multiple dimensions, thinking about the problem early in the lifecycle, and looking for opportunities to delete or turn off unused resources.

The more successful practices that will deliver quickly:

* tagging everything to able to understand who owns what and it is used for

* separating workloads into different accounts (might be easier than tagging and crudely achieves the same objective: attribution)

* turning off unused instances at night in dev environments

* automating the removal of incorrectly tagged resources in non prod environments

* automating image and snapshot cleanup

* avoiding right sizing (it’s trickier than you think and the effort is better spent rearchitecting for more cloud native usage based resource types like serverless)

* exploring your bill and slicing it by service type, account, department and other dimensions you’ve tagged, paying attention to size and trends

* paying attention to network paths (AWS is notorious for expensive outbound and it’s worth understanding how it works and how to architect around it)

* use templates to deploy resources (Terraform/CloudFormation/ARM) instead of console so they’re easier to tear down

* set retention limits on other expensive storage resources (hello CloudWatch Logs)

* being careful with high level services that leverage others under the hood, especially when they’re immature (eg Control Tower + constantly tearing down resources will blow out AWS Config charges)

* using cost alarms

* explore using spot instances, reserved instances or savings plans for EC2 instances
US consumers import 25% of all global trade, despite being 4% of world population

But yes, when they have to pay a premium to win the auction, it's truly heartbreaking

Somebody light a candle for the suffering american consumer
Sony’s new PS5 has been redesigned inside and uses less power
The use of "Carbon negative" really grinds my gears. Carbon negative would mean that by building this house, you actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. No, you don't remove CO2 from the atmosphere by buliding this house.

Yes, trees remove carbon, but now you've just cut them down and released a bunch of carbon in that process (plus all the CO2 you emit, you know, building the actual house).

Edit:
Ok, looking more through their website I came across this: https://www.wikihouse.cc/product
They say that the upfront carbon cost of building a WikiHouse is - 17T CO2, compared to a normal house of + 30T CO2. This is so fucking misleading, I've just lost all respect for the makers of this. I think it's a great project, but once you start bullshitting like this, you can get the hell out.
Probably prep.ai.mit.edu. MIT does that kind of thing; It’s like tsx-11.mit.edu, the famous US Linux FTP mirror, which was, IIRC, originally Theodore Ts'o personal workstation at MIT.
Taxation(tracking) leaps to mind.
Chimps show off their 'signature' drum beats
First sentence: don’t guess people’s motivations

Second sentence: explain people’s motivations
Some people can't afford to keep up with our upgrade treadmill. I'm trying to do my part to slow the treadmill down by voluntarily not upgrading my main PC, a 2016 laptop with a quad-core i7-6700HQ and 16 GB of RAM. I suspect that even that machine is too powerful. To really feel users' pain and develop my software in a way that minimizes it, I should probably be using a budget laptop with like 4 GB of RAM, an actual spinning HDD, and the typical Windows crapware still active, and do big compiles and other tasks that truly require more resources on a remote machine.
Aaah the brief, heady days of “no serious gamer would use a hybrid 2D/3D card” and the Voodoo fill rate wars. Fun times!
I don’t think the usability of MacOS has gotten significantly worse per se, but OSX was once markedly better than what Microsoft was doing with Windows. This was in the early to mid 2000.

Now they just aren’t putting the resources to it and seem focused on creating a shared experience between iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.
I which more countries follow that...
I don't know any other country that has such rules.
There's two specific attributes that are unique to IPFS.

1 - A content addressable URI protocol that allows you to locate a file without linking to a singly-owned and named server or host. This is not the case with HTTPS URL protocol.

2 - Open source clients where multiple parties, including competing parties and individual users, can all simultaneously and permissionlessly peer-to-peer host an asset behind the content addressed URI.
It also misses the point that sometimes refactoring makes it _easier_ to fix the bug, and that a large part of fixing a bug is understanding exactly what's happening with the code, which refactoring can also make easier.

Overall I disagree with this article, both in it's definition of yak shaving (as being unrelated to what you're doing), and in it's assertion to never refactor and fix a bug in the same PR (now I'm not saying you should refactor things every time you fix a bug of course).
Thank you! I will be kicking the tires on this.
It looks like difftastic can support way more languages. I haven't used semantic merge (or even heard about it before this) so idk if its language support is somehow better though.
So all drugs should equally be cheaper, the point still stands.
So are you proposing that we just live off the land like our forefathers?

See Also: “I haven’t watched TV in 20 years. You don’t have to watch Tv”
I agree that the technology is capable of creating many sorts of worlds, and that it's a series of choices that has lead us to this one and not a better one. But I disagree that it is possible for individuals to simply change their behavior and create that world using their collective purchasing power. This arrangement works well for the companies and investors that create the options consumers may choose from, and they have and continue to offer the set of options that match their preferences. To take the example of Google, and they are not unique here simply particularly egregious, it is apparent that they are completely unwilling to offer a human-powered support facility that is able to make complex decisions and accommodate unique situations. Eg, I imagine we've all seen stories on HN about Chrome extension developers being kicked off the app store and being stuck in an infinite chat loop with an AI, as they struggled to reach the _single_ human being[1] who may be able to help them.

That's not something we can fix by making different choices in the browser marketplace, which increasingly is just Chrome wearing different wigs. Even if we solved it in the case of browsers, this is a systemic issue across not only companies, but industries. Fixing this would mean something more fundamental than individuals changing their preferences to prioritize nonhostile software. It would require society at large agreeing to change it's priorities so that good options could be presented to them in the first place.

> A typical argument is that technology causes this centralization, but it's simply not true.

I think when people say this, "technology" is best understood as "the technology industry" or "technology, the social phenomenon" rather than "technology, the artifacts of engineering." I don't entirely agree that technology is amoral (not that you claimed this), but I think that's true enough for a first approximation. But when people say "technology causes centralization" (or "technology causes X" generally) they mean, "technology, as it is implemented in our society, given that it doesn't exist in a vacuum," and that has moral dimensions for sure.

[1] https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261155320740499456
Looks good. Keep at it!
I'm guessing your old address has friendlies there? Otherwise, how would you get new cards, and mail bouncing can trigger issues.

(In Canada at least, mail can be set for "no forwarding", so the post office won't redirect in said cases.)
https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/assistance/filecomplaint.html

File a complaint with their regulator and let them know you have.
Taking this discussion at face value, it sounds like US physicians go through substantially more training than their UK counterparts. If true, does that manifest itself in substantially better outcomes for their patients?
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The thing that is absolutely essential to displace SQL is to have the replacement be the native interface to a high-performance database that people want to use.
That's because the author had the wrong definition, and probably meant to write an article about their ADHD.
The carbon sequestered by the trees is now in the building materials. The space the trees were in will now have more trees grown in them.

The carbon from the trees is now not in the atmosphere, it's in the wood components, and won't be in the atmosphere until the wood components reach end of life and are burned/rotted/whatever.

So yes, carbon has been removed from the atmosphere. I don't understand the objection.
There’s got to be something more to the story that his son isn’t sharing.
From their FAQs:

>Which material is better, ply or OSB?

>Ply is lighter and generally better structurally but more expensive. OSB is cheaper but heavier. With the recent research on WikiHouse Skylark we did test both materials, but in terms of the full spanning floor beams it’s clear ply offers advantages in terms of strength but also because it’s lighter it’s easier to move and carry. A hybrid approach is also a possibility.
I see.

Another wood-house project created by civil engineering or building material science graduates (Leeds Beckett University)--similar to the last one.

Build costs similar to brick (ouch!), requires a specific CNC operator to build panels (supply chain ouch!), and creates an integrated house (ouch! to any renovations using conventional materials; ouch! to system longevity).

I hate these as they're basically the results of a couple of graduate students operating under a innovation grant.

The practical results of this are that someone is going to find a local CNC operator (within 320km based on the study), find out the costs of buying 300 sheets of quality 7-layer plywood and running a custom project with the CNC operator, find a local engineer willing to sign off on the project (for insurance, mortgage, and to maintain the 10 year defect free period), and then have to find a local labour contractor willing to use their building materials as the structure.

After all that legwork, they're going to go with a traditional building contractor.
People have been predicting the end of GNU ever since the beginning, perhaps starting in earnest in 1994, when the GNU project was 10 years old! Outdated, obsolete, practically one foot in the grave, surely, people said. And yet here we are in 2022, RMS being more right than ever.
I really enjoyed this article! The author walks us through design of an ML system and typical problems in a fun and understandable way.

The conclusion is pretty wrong though.

> Regardless of how complicated your program’s behavior is, if you write it as a neural network, the program remains interpretable. To know what your neural network actually does, just read the dataset.

This is not true at all? That’s like saying “all binaries are open source, just read the machine code”. Most datasets contain a reasonable amount of pollution (even the author ran into this). And if you let the model train on its own output it’s pretty easy for it to cheat: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/this-clever-ai-hid-data-fr...

Moreover current ML techniques are pretty sample inefficient. So your dataset is likely to be much, much larger than the equivalent program. Right now we haven’t developed much tooling to help you map a sample bad input or behavior back to training data that might be relevant. So “just reading the data” seems like lots more work than debugging a modern program.

I do think we’ll get better at debugging this stuff in time, but I don’t think it’s currently true that ML systems are simpler or more interpretable than a corresponding imperative program.
I made an anime community with a good-looking UI
Since the current anime community/forum looks too old, I made a community with a relatively modern aesthetic by myself. If you are interested, you can come and play together.

https://vroll.me/spaces/F702C4E0
It's still rough. They've been at it for yrs and it's a perpetual bed of sand... A lot of machines will fail to install it because it's so resource intense to install... Promising idea overall, maybe in three yrs or so it'll be worth using for something outside of research.
I just mentioned it in this comment[0] but I disagree with this premise too since sometimes it's more work to fix the bug without the refactor:

> It also misses the point that sometimes refactoring makes it _easier_ to fix the bug, and that a large part of fixing a bug is understanding exactly what's happening with the code, which refactoring can also make easier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32749390
That's the point, they didn't. You won't get your iPhone without globalized trade.
Oh yes we still have theology. I don't know why.
But as long as good books like Scott Alexanders Unsong tell me that American Pie is a song about the old testament, I do get entertainment out of it.

Training your mind to find patterns everywhere can be fun, unless you get QAnon out of it. Or, IMHO, religion that influences states or bothers non-followers.
Contrast the good things, though: The aforementioned authors shows in Unsong that "Harry Belafonte - There's a Hole in the Bucket" is actually about the singluarity in AI/AGI development.
Even then, your "C++ resource" will perform completely differently based on the person they are: eg. a junior C++ engineer will be slower than a mid/senior engineer, and an engineer providing a more maintainable solution might be slower too (and somebody un/familiar with the problem domain or API in use).

I don't see how planning work for a "C++ resource" helps other than faking it over and over again.
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