skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire world generates about 25,000 TWh of electricity every year.

I know this isn't you, many people use these units, but I cringe every time I see abuse of units like this. 1 TWh/year is 113MW, so you are saying 2.8TW global; Finland is 9.4GW.
Amen. Offhand, can we start with e.g. a 2 or 3 window deal, in which there is a file manager and a document viewer that one can easily copy and paste from? There's stuff out there that sort of does this but it could be done MUCH better.
So because your losses are comfortably socialized, it's a good system?
Provide a real source. WSJ has no credibility.
Of course, it's somewhat disappointing that any molecule you look at will result in isomerization of cis-retinal to trans-retinal - including a picture of the consumed cis-retinal.

Another interesting example where molecules will produce themselves is chiral amplification with autocatalysis. This article is fairly technical, but a nice example of a reaction product being a catalyst for its own (chiral!) formation: https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/ar9900820
Seems reasonable to me. They could “buy” it with a donation to charities that helps those states. Not an easy one to untangle.
I'm sympathetic to the author's frustration, but I didn't find the article compelling. He asks the question, "What is the primary advantage of college compared to other education businesses?" It's an excellent question.

But then he goes off the rails into conspiracy-theory land, saying that the advantage is "marketing." Marketing is the bogeyman of everything popular that subgroups don't like. Why is Windows more popular than OS/2? Marketing! Why does this game I hate sell better than that game I love? Marketing! It's a lazy way to ignore the other products' real advantages. People who trot it out as an excuse often think "marketing" just means "advertising."

In this case, I think the author is missing the fundamental advantage of college over other educational offerings: signaling. A degree, especially a degree from a prestigious university, is a signal to employers. It's a way of standing out from the crowd. Unfortunately, the crowd is now going to college, so it's harder to stand out. But you still need the degree to compete in most cases.

The solution to this isn't to fight "fradulent marketing," it's to come up with better signals. I don't know how, and it's a big fight. But at least it would be fighting something that exists, not a conspiracy theory.
I remember back when cryptokitties came out KNOWING that useful real world blockchain applications were right around the corner.

Simpler, happier times.
Optimization isn't a one size fits all thing. Poorly optimized for very low end hardware, sure, I have no trouble believing that. That's not the same thing as being poorly optimized in general.

And realistically, even much older games were not known for running well without dedicated GPU's on old computers.
I'm sure there are ads you've seen on YouTube, they just look slightly different to what you have in mind.

But first, this comment wouldn't be possible without Deutsche Bahn, the n°1 train provider in Germany. If you go to their website right now with promo code "probably_wrong" you get extra delay on your next trip. If you're going to be late, be late with Deutsche Bahn. Remember: promo code, free delay.

Now, back to our comment. YouTube is full of ads, the only difference being who gets the money from them. Is one of the reasons why some people here don't want to pay for it - you get less ads, but not ad-free.
Got lucky with this pair:

"Professor" to "Education in France"
Time: 66.789 Seconds

Number of links visited: 3

The path you took:
[ "Professor", "Tertiary education", "Secondary education in France", "Education in France" ]
The people in Lebanon, Turkey, Venezuela holding USDT on Tron would hard disagree with your statement.

There are capital controls in place in these countries that make holding foreign currency simultaneously difficult and illegal.

This is why I believe a US CBDC and CBDC wars are highly likely.

A CBDC allows nations to control those nations that use their currency and the increasing it’s use allows the issuing nation to debase the currency to their advantage.

The only problem is distribution of technology but this is only a matter of time.
Wow! Subsampling red is unbelievably stupid. You usually get away with blue, but subsampling red or green is immediately visible.
Pihole with ad blocking or an OpenWRT (or really any router) router with ad blocking DNS is an alternative.
My audio interface is a sound devices mixpre 10 which records 32 bits. It also has preamps with -133dbV noise figures.

In the practical sense what this means is that I have to be less careful with setting the gain. Typically when setting recording gain you want to go as high as possible so preamp/mic noise doesn't become an issue, but not so high that you are going into the limiter when something unexpectedly loud happens.

I often record in environments where unexpectedly loud things happen, so having a recorder that allows me to record at a lower level while still not gaining noise issues or loosing detail in the silent parts is a very welcome thing.
Except that all the engineers working at Figma and getting paid huge salaries, and many of whom will now get a huge exit pay day if they want it, may not have had this opportunity without the company existing. It's well and good to trash talk the idea of companies raking in huge profits, but we as a software industry and incredibly privileged to be making the salaries we do, and this would not be possible without the existence of these companies, and the constant cycle of start-ups and buyouts.
Yeah I realized that I should add why that seems even worse to me, so I edited that in.

To elaborate a little, I pay for Spotify, Netflix, F-Droid, OsmAnd, Simple Mobile Tools, FairEmail, K9, Internet Archive, and other software and services I use.... independent companies and creators that don't already track me to hell. Giving money to google would be out of necessity, not to help them strengthen their position if I can avoid it. If YouTube spins off as an independent firm where you can have an account that has independent guidelines and everything, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. They make a good product and have good content, the only downside is that there's zero competition but that's not a deal breaker by itself.
Do they have any information on resolution, chip, or anything else?
Not just money, but access to Peter Thiel's network. It would be very surprising if there weren't some monster successes in there, even if they weren't given a dime.
Feels almost like the end of that part of the internet to me. ;) Or like with electricity or even drinking water, where you no longer realize how essential something is, until it fails. CoM, or what a this point appears most recommended, unfortunately doesn't do the trick for me, though I appreciate all efforts of course. Doesn't even work on BBC or Guardian, let alone on German sites that's where I'm based. Even when and where it does something, seems you still get to see everyting that's going on, there's a silly animation and it takes ages. Ages. Don't get me wrong but this is a step backward unless you're fantastically slow, and/or mouse-bound. I have the impression it's rendered all the more useless since I'm "private" mode only user (Firefox) and used to close windows often. Obviously still a better choice than IDCAC now. Anything is. But no way out for me. Until there is, I might as well go text browser only, for news, wikipedia and passive reading of stuff like HN.
Team led by Japanese researchers reveals best way to put crying baby to sleep
How do you know this to be true? There are many failed future predictions. There was a post about it just the other day. I believe it rated Kurzweil's singularity predictions at 7% accuracy to date. We still don't have commercial flying cars, cold fusion or space colonies.
> I recall 18% being thrown around in the 80s.

I was there. And I got hit by the 18% they threw
Approval voting is a cardinal system, not a ranked choice system. That's why it's able to satisfy all of the Arrow's Theorem criteria.
So you're going to wreck your good street tires? The stuff you want to drive around on is not the stuff you want to drift on.
The issue is colonial people in South and Central Asian history is weird because just about every South and Central Asian state (the Durranis, the Sikh Confedracy, the Sikh Empire, the Mughals, the British Raj, the Maratha Empire, the Delhi Sultanate, etc) was a federal system with castes, clans, and ethnic groups being given varying levels of self governance [0][1][2]. So when you say colonial people, does it belong the people of N state of the no longer existing country called X or M state of no longer existing country called Y. Successor States are an actual legal concept which remains a grey area to this day.

On top of that, both Pakistan and India made themselves successor states of princely states in the 1970s but it's still a murky gray area from a jurisprudence standpoint as cases are still being litigated, as the associated federal-local level deliniation is still lacking. Welcome to the legal world.

[0] - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/constitution-to-sc...

[1] - http://14.139.211.59/bitstream/123456789/194/6/06_CHAPTER_02...

[2] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/20078850
Indeed. The C64’s fixed palette resulted in so much better colors.

OTOH, the BBC’s palette matched the one from Videotext.
I pay for YouTube Premium, and happily so. There’s A LOT of great content there—probably even better content than Netflix.

And you want to know what else? While it’s just okay, it includes ad-free music from YouTube Music. So, win, win? Until someone comes out with a better offer, I’ll continue to give more money to Google.
Thing is in WOW you had a large population of actual gamers who were willing to pay real hard currency for ingame currency. Because the game in itself was attractive as a game. Cryptokittens have none of that value.
It seems like Scott's bet was merely that our modern techniques would be able to make at least some nonzero progress in compositionality (and the terms of his bet spelled this out with how lenient it was), and Gary is treating it as if the bet was about compositionality being solved. It feels like a very bad faith reading from Gary.
Because Scott somehow manages to forward-activate the neurons of many people who read him. I'd say he's in the "top 5" of topics that show up most frequently (gwern has fallen off signficantly). He's a clinical psychologist, but he's got a collection of weights driving his writing that manage to make a subset of tech people feel something.
dbm is an ancient unix thing. better in class are gdbm and berkeleydb... or these days of course, sqlite.
In adition to stdin and stdout, I want datain and dataout pipes, for passing some standard format.
From what I can see, it's a software ecosystem and not a specific hardware device.
Yes. A “gang rape” is a working democracy.
> If someone offers me 20B for something I created I will happily accept it.

I can’t say what will happen for real of course, but the knowledge that they’ll ruin what I spent years building would give me pause, I think.
I feel “useless hop in TCP connection chain” is treated as a virtue in “modern architecture.”

Somehow micro services and cloud native turned into that. So yeah, slow response times, wasted infrastructure and most work put into I/O and serialization/deserialization.

I think we forgot what actual monoliths look like and just kept decomposing… I guess that is an appropriate term.
Might be better to redirect to the news.ycombinator.com instead of google.com. I'd be less likely to notice that, especially if I opened it in a background tab.

But maybe that's the kind of criticism he was trying to avoid in the first place!
Maybe the final curse of the Koh-i-noor is that it is a constant reminder to its possessor that they are the inheritor of crimes upon crimes, stretching back centuries.

Of course, everyone's life is built on millennia of injustices, but for a family to own such a basic symbol of this ... let them keep it, and own the curse it carries.
$20B?

It is fear that gives wings to men... And opens the pockets of companies.
For the confused: https://archive.ph/Ky33p
They were also one of the companies complicit in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Every time this subject comes up, the comments are filled with people who feel entitled to watch YouTube for free (not willing to pay in attention or in hard currency). "If you don't watch to pay for it or watch ads, don't use the service" just gets ignored, and people post ridiculous replies like "lol I just block all ads" . . . it's as if YouTube is as necessary to their survival as water.

It's also great because it demonstrates how full of BS many of the "if I had a choice to pay for the <ad-supported thing> I would" crowd are . . . not all, of course, but I bet there's a sizeable intersection between the two categories.
I’m incredibly disappointed to see this happening. Adobe has a history for stagnating products and really now that Figma has sold out, their team will naturally start looking for other projects to work on that the core members have life changing amounts of money and the pressure to innovate is off. They have beaten their primary competitor.

It’s funny to see Wall Street’s reaction to this but they don’t understand how much Figma is eroding Adobe’s enterprise businesses. I filled in a survey a few months ago saying I have been using Illustrator and Photoshop less for basic tasks as Figma was so much faster for those. It also fixed the collaboration step. I as the CDO, had dozens of people across our SaaS company using Figma, including the CEO and COO who were using it to design all of their slide decks. At the same time in my side projects working with small product manufacturers and HR consultants I’ve got them using it too as the infinite canvas enables thinking that other established software doesn’t (MS Office, Google). Usually Adobe’s products are only in the design or maybe marketing departments. So Figma was eating out Adobe’s core whilst reaching strongly into other parts of a company that Adobe struggles to reach. The Wall Street types who think Figma was just a pandemic boosted product are blind to Figma’s true position. Just the simple fact that you don’t have to install anything and you have something that can do basic drawing and design tasks is huge.

Congrats to the Figma team on cashing out but RIP in stagnation.
This sounds like a great application for supercapacitors. Regen charge the caps when braking to enter a station, and use that energy to accelerate back out of the station
I've known a number of devs who've taken a year or more off and were able to return to the field. It certainly isn't a career-killer.
Skype was already dying. Are you remembering correctly?
If I understand correctly it uses a RPi or other ARM device attached to the TV.

Is there anything out there tbat overwrite the TV's "smart" firmware? Something analogous to OpenWRT and its router support?

It would be bet cool if you could use the controller and buttons "natively".
The electoral college isn’t a voting rule (for deciding who wins) it’s a power distribution rule (for deciding who does the electing).

But you’re correct that even that modest complexity causes people to have a fit every four years when it doesn’t reflect their intuitive understanding of how elections should work.
Anti- does mean 'against' or 'opposing'.

Making it analogous to antimatter only works if you say something like 'a white person is antiracist to a black person'.
So a spilled bag of M&Ms makes them money twice.
> First you have Price's Law - half the people actually doing work rises with the square root of the total employee count. It's a variant of Pareto law. So as you grown bigger, the critical path of viable operation depends on fewer and fewer people per capita.

Huh, interesting point. Natural conclusion is that as companies grow, they become more and more fragile to core people leaving.
The YouTube ads defeat DNS sinkholes because the ads are served from the same domain(s) as the content.
Who in the field is saying current AI is near primate level intelligence?
I spend a lot of time looking at the various primates and cuttlefish thinking very much about what they "think" and whether we could even conceptualize the self-awareness experience they seem to have.
Prescilla

edit: Maybe I made a composition error. https://imgur.com/a/Q7hHduY
May I introduce you to NewPipe, an excellent client for Android, and https://piped.kavin.rocks/ on desktop/web?

I disagree with the statement that this is " a medium where you don't have full control" — after all those are my devices and I like them to be my (user) agents, not some thurd (sic) party.
It feels solved in raw Powershell functions, but running external CLI tools inevitably returns text and ruins the workflow.

"Crescendo" has been marketed as a solution and looks cool, but it means relearning the tool or documentation being less useful. The sheer amount of existing time people spent learning arcane git syntax means they're not going to switch to a hypothetical "New-GitCommit" function, even if it accepts arrays or PSCustomObject as input.
I’m in the same boat. I watch YouTube via Brave or uBlock + Firefox. If YouTube spun out of Google, I’d pay for premium. I get a lot of value out of it. I just can’t bring myself to pay Google for anything. I know it’s not really rational, and in a way, ad-blockers feel a little like piracy. But it’s where I am.
I don't know if there is a law saying that but I know that fasting in morocco is from ~ 5AM-7PM give or take. This is from sunrise to sunset.
Compared to NeXTStep, BeOS was a wildly incomplete tech demo

So true. Even though the market share of NeXTStep never got very high, it was a robust, battle-tested operating system that ran on multiple processor architectures with real software like FreeHand and Lotus Improv, an amazing spreadsheet for the time that would hold up pretty well today.

And interestingly enough, one of the main BeOS guys ended up at Apple and worked on APFS.
> For example we have evidence that about a quarter of Ethereum's mining farms moved to ETC over the last 24h.

...which is a stop-gap, holding-pattern sort of action to take, because there is OpEx to running a mining farm, and the lower trading value of ETC vs ETH (1 ETC = 0.025ETH) means ETC block rewards likely won't be enough to be positive-margin for these farmers. This is just a way to reduce burn while they try to sell their rigs. (Which they likely won't be able to do, because nobody wants overheated near-EOL mining GPUs. Mining farms will likely just end up bankrupt with assets liquidated at fire-sale prices.)
Nevertheless, the complaint is still silly.

I won't dispute that some companies are known for making particularly optimized games that function well even on very low end hardware, including Riot and Valve. That doesn't mean everything else counts as poorly optimized, though, and certainly it's made easier for a company like Riot when they're huge and the game is intended to live as a GaaS for a very long time.

Your reasoning amounts to, "a few companies manage to do X extremely well, everyone else counts as a poor effort". Do I really need to explain why this doesn't make sense?

Not to mention, at which point in PC gaming history were you able to play most new games at a decent framerate on a 7-year old PC with no dedicated GPU and a CPU that was weak even for its time?
Which begs the question. Most Mexicans now are descended from both Mestizo Indians and Europeans. Once we give Mexico back to the indigenous peoples... do we send the Euro-descendants back to Spain? Also what about the Clovis peoples of California. Do we track down their heirs?
in AU, we have something called Financial Ombudsman Service by Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), I had similar issue with paypal (with a much smaller scale), then support didn't want to help me. I complained to AFCA, scared the shit out of them, then got all my money back.

I assume US has something similar to address issue like this where financial platform is acting like this?
Does it really, though?
I am sure we can all agree that the new generation of AI models has some applications. How much remains to be seen. The ones you've noted could be nice. We'll see.

A Twitter thread demo is not quite a revolution yet IMHO. Even in the 60s some people thought ELIZA was a real person.

I've said all I have to say. Have a nice day.
What is the ROI on buying an ASIC these days? Is it even possibly given the demand/delays.
Queen did which is good! I'm curious whether King Charles will though as he seems to own a fair number of private enterprises, as well as the other royals (I think Prince Harry and Megan Markle announced raising a Series B for their company earlier today for example)
I wonder if there are any prn games where the gameplay is so good you forget about the prn
It depends on the type of garment, and how you plan to use it.

For example if you're buying tshirts, ring-spun cotton is ideal. Thicker and heavier the weight (gsm), the better. Quality stitching, see if it's double-stitched along the bottom, or if it's made by hand - backstitched.

Silk and linen will last longer, but you also need to be more careful with them. You can't throw them in the dryer. Cotton is good for casual wear if it's heavy gsm, ring-spun and has good stitching but silk and linen will outlast you and your children. Seriously, you can buy suits from the early 1900's that just need new stitching.

Blended cotton is made to be stronger, but will age weirdly if you're using a dryer. The tension of the different blends of polyester and cotton will fuck up your garment over time. It's also not suitable for exercise or if you sweat a lot. If you're just wearing it around the house - blended is a great choice - but you'll need to be careful as most blended garments are made that way because they're cheaper to produce and "feel good". So you'll have more shitty manufacturing practices to look out for.

There are great $5 t-shirts mass manufactured in Bangladesh out there, and there are shitty $70 t-shirts made by hand in the US.

White and Black is a good choice, as both can be dyed or bleached (start with oxygen-based bleach like OxiClean before trying chlorinated bleach on fabric) to look like new.

This is just t-shirts. Dresses and skirts, jeans, dress pants, shoes, everything else has their own specific instructions. Most of the time the manufacturer knows better than any guide you read online about the product, read the tags. And I didn't even get started on wool tshirts designed for hikers.

Oil stains aren't the end of the world. Starting with white tshirts and ending up with black (or dark-colored) dyed shirts is a great way to prolong the life of an oil-stained garment you can't get the oil out of.
> YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS

Not for me. (Typed from iOS + Brave.)
The solution to this is $11.99 a month.

The way consumers value things is insane to me. People will fork over $12 on DoorDash delivery fees, an overpriced drink, a coffee, etc. but to remove ads for access to an enormous vault of content that provides endless value, NEVER!!!
Perhaps Apple
the sense in which one way is "wrong" is the same sense in which the oxford comma is argued: nobody is saying that civilization will collapse either way, but one way is tighter in terms of eliminating more common forms of ambiguity. And when saying 150 is one hundred and fifty, the "and" adds nothing in terms of information or comprehension; to that very same person, "one hundred fifty" is just as comprensible.

and fwiw, I don't think it's a regional difference, I think it's a difference between certain traditions within the banking and accountancy areas, vs outside.
Strange how /r/collapse seems to be bleeding out everywhere these days.

Weren’t they mocked as doom-and-gloomers just a few years ago? They sound pretty Cassandrian these days…