skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's probably talking about places where there's no people. The western states have many places like this.

And what is going on in France? Their crime rate is much higher than all their neighbors, and in the range of countries like Mexico, Ecuador, Paraguay, etc. Sweden is a surprise too; again, their neighbors score much better.
It's also demonstrably false, which may be part of the reason.
Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-in to the browser, something that (AFAIK) Google has never done. You can, I suppose, go find the settings one by one and disable all the places they appear, but Mozilla can (and has) introduced new on-by-default ads with version upgrades, so that only lasts so long as your current browser version is supported.

I mean, sure it's great that ad blockers still work, but let's not pretend that Firefox is some kind of bastion of pro-user sentiment.
> You show that everything you know about Russia and Ukraine is from western propaganda.

I find it hard to believe that everything we see is western propaganda. One of the reasons for this is that the Russian propagandists on TV proudly boast about committing genocide, are the Russian tv shows western propaganda now?.

Are the videos of the Russian tanks firing on fleeing civilians Western propaganda ?

Are the multiple independent reports that show Russia is committing atrocities such as raping and torturing adults and children in Ukraine western propaganda?.

Are the mass graves in multiple Ukrainian cities Western propaganda?.
It's a piezo speaker without a case around it, so yeah it will sound harsh. I guess you mean the sound missing is kind of like that hollow resonance from the casing that you get in a 3,5" drive; a bit like the thock from typing on a recent MacBook Pro keyboard?
I think you picked the extreme to make your point(Desktop PC in another room and long cable). I’m aware of all the BS that TV manufacturers pull with “smart TV” and chose to never ever let my TV connect to any home network. Instead, I had an old Mac mini laying around(from 2012 that is not up to snuff for main desktop, but is okay for a browser on TV to view Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube and basically anything accessible by a web browser). This is really not as complicated a setup as you were talking about before.. The Mac mini is just behind the TV, and is quiet.. a mini Bluetooth keyboard, and a mouse is all I need to have my own Internet TV.. using smart TV as a dumb display is the best.
I would say literally the first 2 sentences of the first bullet point say something very different:

> TypeScript's (admittedly noble) goal is to cover the entire JavaScript feature set and more. ReScript covers only a curated subset of JavaScript.
Ask HN: Somebody tries to wreck my AWS SES complaint rate
I run a weekly newsletter with ~5000 subscribers.

Sending happens via AWS SES (Simple Email Service) and I implemented all necessary steps to handle bounces and complaints and had no issues for like two years.

For the last two weeks however, I see bots signing up for my newsletter for random addresses and getting sometimes an immediate complaint via AWS, hence the complaint rate is going up and is already above the warning limit.

I am not sure on the motivation there - no spamming is possible via the signup form. Obviously the CSRF protection does not help as the bots pull a page before submitting the signup form.

Has anyone got a clue what the motivation to do that might be? What can they learn from their actions?
Thanks for the link to Basecamp's policies! I think that's exactly what I was looking for.
The blogpost author suggests Flickr. I wish there was something better than that.

I've uploaded similar stuff, in much smaller amounts, to Wikimedia Commons (but it's limited to stuff that's out of copyright).

It's just that I don't find the Flickr corporation trustworthy enough to be treated like a knowledge archive.
If you sneak "eject" into a shell script somewhere then, permissions allowing, it will suddenly open the users optical drive if they have one. This works extra well with laptop drives that are spring loaded.
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I have really sensitive eyes (astigmatism, easily strained, dry, photosensitive) and I can't look at a screen without my glasses for more than a minute without getting a headache (but have otherwise perfect vision). The e-ink screens i own, a last gen Kindle and an Onyx Boox, are really paper-like and do not tire my eyes at all.
> RootMyTV

This will go well in Australia.
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Because there's already thousands of times more wasted blades (by mass as well as land use) from the little wind power we use now. Also, nuclear "waste" is reusable as fuel for other kinds of reactors, waste is a misnomer.

There's never ever going to be this much nuclear "waste" from all reactors worldwide (notice the tiny machine for scale): https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itxthAhXDAL...

For comparison, ALL of Switzerland's nuclear "waste" is on this picture (and it's going to be used as fuel in the future): https://external-preview.redd.it/8EhLSoS5P8Cmi-ytsY_XoDrTnh6...

> Wind turbine blades probably only make up a very small fraction of the nonrecycleable waste we produce.

Then stop producing so much other waste. Producing even more is super-bullshit, and your mentality is exactly what caused the current situation.
I feel word salad like this will be literature's undoing, rather than any scarcity of physical media like paper.
‘We can continue Pratchett’s efforts’: the gamers keeping Discworld alive
Strong disagree.

In a completely unrelated field, I'm seeing pretty great results with knowledge distillation to generate AI language models that fit into 20 mio float16 parameters (40MB) and can process 1GB of raw text in roughly 12 hours.
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This is not how hackers speak. Or are the non-insulting ones less hacker than yourself?

Learning how to be a decent person ain't harder than learning to use a computer.
Nonsense, it’s a private company, they can allow or not any access to their platform. I’m not a fan of Facebook in any way, but they have the right to do this, and ban users for their own reasons. Don’t like their policies? Don’t use the service, I don’t.
Even if most Russian nukes are duds, 5% still working is enough to deter NATO from directly attacking Russian forces. Hell, 1% probably is. Right now NATO is just giving Ukraine weapons and beating Russia that way.
Do any mathematicians around here know if this is a special case of Gödel's incompleteness theorem [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
> The pleasure of a book that feels right in the hand—not too light or too heavy; pages creamy; fonts beetle-black—is something that publishers strive to preserve.

I am having some cognitive dissonance here.

I have hundreds of books in my pocket. Thousands if you count my O'Reilly subscription.

Nothing about them has changed because of inflation. Except maybe the price.

Yes, all my books "feel" about the same now. And if I don't like the way they feel - maybe because of the font size - I can adjust that for any book.

Here is what I am confused about. Nobody calls an old vinyl LP or a CD "music". No one calls a DVD a "movie".

Why is the idea of a "book" tied so closely to the physical medium it is printed on?

Yes, of course I realize that many people prefer those creamy pages and beetle-black fonts. And for some things I do enjoy the printed page.

But for the most part, I am happy that I have all my books handy on whatever device I'm using. I don't think any more of a book as being the printed word.
China is proof you can just create a competitor of TSMC. It's simply a matter of poaching their underpaid talent.

> China throws billions for decades

PRC's first pseudo-serious semi push was 2014 big funds, so far they've spent about 50B, over 8 years. That's less than annual R&D of western semi sector. And basically for first 5 years it wasn't a very serious effort until Trump's Huawei sanctions. PRC semi poached about ~3000 semi engineers from TW, a few hundred top talent from TSMC, and that was enough to realize the recent 7nm breakthrough on DUV in the last couple years once PRC semi started to get serious. US companies wouldn't have any issue accessing western equipment and US could absolutely pressure TSMC / TW into further semi capitulation. So maybe dropping cash and add political sticks to brain drain TSMC. The secret isn't to recreate TSMC, but to paperclip all their people and get to to build US-SMC state side.

> lost chip war

That remains to be seen, so far there hasn't been any sector PRC couldn't successfully indigenize in relatively short order once central gov started turning the screws. It might not be leading edge, or even commercially competitive, but it will likely be enough. They could also destroy critical East Asian semi supply chain before US can reshore in next few years and be the only country with the most comprehensive indigenous semi supply chain even if on older nodes. Still lots of ways chip war can play out.
There is a plan for that too:
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20...
Meritocracy vs. Topocracy
That's obviously not true. I hardly know anyone who uses external devices. I have a Chromecast but never use it after I got a smart TV.
If you want to have any chance at all of understanding this you probably need to listen to all 250+ episodes of the ‘opposing bases’ podcast. Those ATC guys love TLAs.
Historically, goroutines worked like in libdill, only passing control to the scheduler on certain calls. So did the Go runtime suddenly become a VM at version 1.14, when preemption was added?

And why the distinction between OS threads and green threads? Sure, in case of OS threads, it's not the language runtime that does the scheduling, but that just means that the operating system is now our virtual machine.

I would argue that what makes a language runtime a virtual machine is not the presence of a garbage collector, a jit compiler, or a scheduler (with or without preemption), but that it has well-defined semantics in terms of something that looks a bit like a real machine - hence the name! In particular, there's a set of instructions it understands. In case of the JVM, the instruction set is defined in the Java Virtual Machine Specification (with Java bytecode its representation), in case of the CLR, it's defined in the Common Language Infrastructure specification (with CIL bytecode its representation), in case of Smalltalk, it's defined in the Blue Book, in case of WASM, in the WebAssembly core specification.
Used that site recently to implement a cert monitor in just a few minutes than the hours I had planned. Really valueable resource
This is really great!

I wonder if one needs a framework like Hugo, Jekyll, etc. if one only wants to host a personal site without a blog? Is there any advantage compared to starting with one of those bare CSS templates and building a static website that way?
I wonder how the use of static world-prior information is considered here.

Or said in a different way: What stops me from supplying a hard-coded pre-compressed file to circumvent their RAM and HDD limits?
Similar in France, books are enormous - huge fonts, very wide margins everywhere, thick paper. The French editions of A Song of Ice and Fire are spread in more (IIRC all books after the first one are split in two) and bigger books than the English ones. It's a horrible waste.

Meanwhile there are "pocket" editions that are on the small side, but better.

The only positive excuse i can find is that publishers consider that the majority of their readers would be older and with poor vision, so bigger books.
Or alternatively, you just want autonomy over the device you own, and want to predicate how the pixels are being lit up on the screen, and not according to some conglomerate's terms.
It looks great! I started my personal static website more than twenty years ago, and I have maintained it ever since with only a text editor and FTP software. When I began, I learned what I needed from books (!). If I were starting now, your site would be the perfect introduction.
I did indeed, I shortened https://nukemap.org/nukemap/ to just https://nukemap.org/ and unfortunately its now too late to edit my original post.
HN is certainly one of the last bastions of quality discussions online.

On the other hand, having such a high density of people who are probably reasonably intelligent within their subject (which I will broadly define as [Software] Engineering) has shown me that there is a very clear tendency to overestimate ones intelligence when it comes to topics that are outside that realm of expertise. I frequently get the feeling that comments will take on positions that are arguably contraire in what seems to be an attempt to show how deeply one may have thought about a given topic and to have come to a conclusion the majority of people can't even fathom.

It's difficult for me to pinpoint exactly. It is, however, a joy to see how respectful most discussions are, which I will also credit to the tight moderation on this site.
Sometimes I wonder where are we headed. My bet is digitally signed pages that chrome refuses to render in case of failed integrity check.
I don't know why you would call 120 GW massive. Wind (and solar to a lesser degree) have been purposefully hampered by regulation over the last decades (have a look what it takes to install a turbine if you have a big property, or how you can install solar on a house where you rent out portion of it). There are reasons why Germany who was leading in both solar and wind energy, now has hardly any left.

A good example is the plot of installed wind capacity as a function of time here https://www.wind-energie.de/english/statistics/statistics-ge...

You can see there are a couple of bursts of installed turbines and then it slumps down again. The curve very closely correlates with the party in power for the Economy ministry.
I have exactly one reason to fiddle with my smart tv: to use an youtube app with adblocker and sponsorblock. The first could also be achieved by buying premium. But sponsorblock? No, I need to be able to sideload apps for that.
Amazing! Will definitely use this information for my author side.

I have no programming skills and always wanted to have a self hosted website that is quick, small, without any fluff where people can download my stories. Maybe to interact with me and with each other too. End of story.

But when I googled "website programming" it's mostly generic advice for design (everything looks like everything else) and bloated (slow) code.
I guess Roblox is the most successful metaverse app right now. The game aspect is important, what else are you going to do in the metaverse otherwise?
Intel Failed Science
> Teachers in countries with university graduate requirements for teaching and strong education unions

I thought the US required a masters and had extremely strong teacher unions?
It's like selling Eiffel Tower, you're selling art which you yourself don't own.
just installed it in lxc without docker... works like a charm.
Love the quirkiness and that it dose one thing well. For myself I would have loved to make the switches a little less fiddly. A phone I can turn on and dial in my pocket would have been my target.

However I can actually see it being quite attractive for accessibility reasons. Where it always being in one mode ready for dialing the same way every time has its advantages.
You were thinking of Neal Stephenson, right?
What stereotypes? It has been also my experience growing up in a country similar to Poland.
Most of the traditional industries are owned by big corps from West. It's not easy to make it out there and build champions like CD Projekt.
I doubt it that the entire elactorate is accepting nuclear, especially now that we see what is happening in Ukraine. It's pretty scary to see fighting and bombing happing at nuclear plants.
At some point I asked here on HN. I got sent to a Romanian online electronics retailer. Apparently there's a pretty nice selection of non-smart TVs in Romania.
I think they are more at the opposite side of the spectrum, languages like Flow, CoffeeScript and TypeScript are more akin to supersets of JavaScript (with potentially "simpler" syntax). Languages like ReScript and PureScript come from the functional world that as a feature compile to JS, but where the type system are sound without any of the baggage from JS and features that are (at least as of now) not available in JS like pattern matching. They are not an evolution of JS like Flow or CoffeeScript, but are rather for developers who want something more than just "JavaScript with types".
The big thing missing from vanilla HTML is templating.

I dont fully understand why it has never been included in the HTML standard.
I did! I actually wrote a couple of methods and tried them out (including V-clip, a patented algorithm). From what I recall, I ended up sticking with GJK because of how it interacted with EPA (which you need to figure out the actual result of the collision). It's been a few years though so it could have also just been a bad implementation on my part. That code lives in multiple shipped games though, which is cool!
No, Facebook simply showed what other people posted.
I totally understand the convenience. Most people think my setup is indeed complex. Fortunately my family was already used on how to use the Xbox and Switch on the tv. Connecting a MSI Trident computer and teaching them how to use Kodi, Steam and the various streaming services via a web browser was quite easy.
Well, normal people could use Apple TV (or Google or Fire TV) which generally offer a better experience than whatever TV manufacturer has built in to their "smart" TV. I have this same problem with smart home devices, in which every manufacturer has some basic app that does some crappy automations... whereas it'd be much better if they just delegated that exclusively to Google or Alexa or Siri/Homekit.
> So why are Keras creators listed as authors on this post and why is it on Keras' official site?

Because when Keras creators learned about the port done by what you define as an outsider they thought that it was cool - and that it would be nice to make it part of the KerasCV toolbox.

What answer did you expect?

You understand that it was "an outsider" who ported Stable Diffusion to Keras, right?

Timeline:

Aug 22, 2022 [day 1 of the SD era] Public release of stable diffusion

Sep 17, 2022 [day 27 of the SD era] Keras outsider Divam Gupta announces a Keras port

https://twitter.com/divamgupta/status/1571234504320208897

"Stable Diffusion implemented using @Tensorflow and #Keras. [...] Thanks @fchollet and team for building this amazing framework which makes it easy to implement a model like Stable Diffusion."

Sep 19, 2022 [day 29 of the SD era, 2 days after port announcement] François Chollet publishes a Twitter thread about the port (and his own improvements on a fork - two dozen commits dated Sep 18-21 will be pushed upstream)

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1571874757582389250

"Huge thanks to @divamgupta for creating this port! This is top-quality work that will benefit everyone doing creative AI. I'm always amazed by the velocity of the open-source community"

Sep 25, 2022 [day 35 of the SD era, 8 days after port] Divam Gupta talks about the upcoming KerasCV integration

https://twitter.com/divamgupta/status/1574050880000770050

"Last week I implemented Stable Diffusion using Keras / Tensorflow. Now its almost integrated in KerasCV thanks to @fchollet and team. This is the power of open source collaboration."

Sep 27, 2022 [day 37 of the SD era, 10 days after port announcement] Official release of the Stable Diffusion implementation in KerasCV - and TFA (dated Sep 25)

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1574782176633430017

"Stable Diffusion is now available directly in KerasCV! [...] Many thanks to all those who made this implementation possible, in particular @divamgupta @luke_wood_ml and of course the creators of the original Stable Diffusion models!"
No, we don't. We barely started building "massive wind and solar", then stopped at not all massive and passed lots of laws to make it difficult to add more.
Won't this result in "double NAT" and break a lot of NAT bypass techniques?
I think they describe well that Typescript needs a lot of complexity by supporting all of JS. That's both a strength and a weakness, easy to get started for people who know JS, but typings can get crazy complex.

Rescript has a different approach which has lots of benefits, it is much better in terms of type inference, it's much faster, and I think it's fair to say safer. The tradeoff is that it's not JS, making it harder to adopt.

I do think they are doing a great job in taking steps to present the ocaml origins in more JS friendly patterns and syntax, but it still requires learning some new concepts.

I think a somewhat good comparison is; If Typescript is like C# for JS, Rescript is like F#/ocaml for JS. Different technologies have different tradeoffs.
Because books always meant the physical books. ebooks are something else. Don't make it weird.
I'd be interested to see lossy text compression. That would also give much more scope for AI methods. It turned out that recently Stable Diffusion gives excellent compression

https://pub.towardsai.net/stable-diffusion-based-image-compr...

Funny thing is, on a per pixel basis, Stable Diffusion and jpeg are just as good. Stable diffusion looks much better, though. The reason is that when Stable diffusion lacks the information it just invents what it expects to see there. If you zoom in on the background entire appartement buildings are invented, moved or disappeared.

So, one wonders what GPT-3 could do for text compression. On a per-character basis, I would not expect any miracles. On a generally, the same, kind-of, basis, I'd would expect something special.
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I have launched distributed coding community starting in Lisbon with our first free event having a huge uptake, we have OSS-based Budibase founder Martin McKeaveney as well as founder and COO of Remote.com talking about their biggest challenges as a technical founder. If anybody wants to ask them a question feel free and i'll try and ask them live on stream.

This is the result of an idea when I arrived in Lisbon two months ago, I have put this together alongside a full-time job to give something to the community before I leave but would love to share the event further afield.
Why do they even start with auch things?

Pipedreams?

Rich execs who lost all relations to day to day living?

Taxi are expensive, air taxi adds a trained pilot, airspace handling (permission hell), additional space requirements AND airtaxi maintenance.

All the reasons why I don't fly my own little plain.
Helium would perhaps be one of the coolest things ever, if they would drop the dang cryptocurrency.

Does Sidewalk or Tile need it? Nope. The bandwidth is small. You run a node for personal use that happens to serve others. And it clearly works.

The server power needed is relatively small. Especially if heirarchal small community run servers are a thing. It could easily be donation or hardware sales funded.

It could even run on a distributed hash table and not need servers.

All we need is an open source, 2 way version of Tile that has more transports than Bluetooth. Everything is already in place for Helium to be amazing.
Because that is what a book is - a physical item. You’re using the wrong word.

Literature is to music as a book is to vinyl or CD.
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