skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as google will tell me, the seal remains in place.

I say burn these Dominion Voting machines, and blacklist the vendor nationwide.

"But the lawsuit, now known as Curling v. Raffensperger, didn’t stop. It instead shifted to alleging that the new system was so insecure as to be unconstitutional."

https://www.votebeat.org/2022/3/2/22959221/alex-halderman-do...
You know airliners carry fuel in their wings today?
I started self hosting recently. I bought a cheap desktop server and installed Ubuntu server on it. Every service I run is docker-compose because it’s easier than wrangling deps and such for multiple services. I use Caddy to proxy traffic and generate ssl certs.

I expose https and ssh through my router but use a non standard ssh port (keeps scripts and bots from knocking) and no root access over ssh and no password auth.

Everything runs very nicely and is simple to maintain and setup.

Data is backed up via Borg and rclone to B2.

So far so good as they say.
Ditto, the search really works for me.
The projects I have in mind actually struggled even with small teams. Python is not good for anything besides scripting and small programs, what it was originally intended for.
The notion that turbine blades are not and cannot be recycled is a bit behind the times. Carbon Rivers is scaling up their turbine blade recycling capacity as we speak.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/carbon-rivers-make...

EOL turbine blades have also been used in several architectural projects as everything from a concrete reinforcing agent to actual structural components.

Solar panels are currently still problematic, however there is huge industry spend on recycling R&D. Are you prepared to bet the farm that recycling tech won't run down the problem in less time than it would take to permit and construct a nuclear power plant given the 5 years it takes to permit one and 7-10 years it takes to construct?
There’s a great interview with Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia on Letterman: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4skH27r5dLc

At some point Dave asks them why they let people tape their shows, and Bob replies with “if we ever make a good album people would probably go out and buy it anyway”

They were open source before it was cool. Also check out https://relisten.net/ for a great index of their shows from the Internet Archive.
One indigenous person gets killed in two days through climate injustice
You need to know the counterfactual rate of war if there were less trade to evaluate that.
Just throwing this out there, that when I get spam calls, I answer it and tell them im answering it to waste their time.

I am not getting a lot of spam calls compared to past years.

Texts however.
Same solution in search of a problem as all Bitcoin proposals. If you occasionally have spare electricity for compute, you might as well do useful work with it like with Charity Engine.
For real content with real experiences from real people, well AI can't really create in the true sense of the word. It can only mix at the moment. That's what most people do too actually. So it can certainly replace most people. Those who can truly create can not be replaced.
That's not at all what the other poster was saying.
Wow that Big Bird meme is really apt.

The other named parties are: Alphabet (a.k.a Google), Bytedance (a.k.a. Tiktok) , HTC, Huawei, Nintendo, Panasonic, Samsung, and last little old SimulaVR... talk about "one of these things is not like the other".

Also this smacks of "lawfare" because the data they are requesting financial performance data, current and future revenue projections, future business plans, and their views on the AR/VR landscape... this is basically a legal demand to tell Meta's (a.k.a. Facebook) how their company intends to compete with Meta in the AR/VR space... and this is an antitrust lawsuit!
This thing gave me some amazingly relevant book recommendations, and when I asked for a link to the books on Amazon, it responded with exquisitely Amazon-like URLs complete with title slug, dp segment, item number and affiliate referral codes, that are all invalid.
IIRC that's why the (Police?) who guard UK nuclear reactors are one of the few police forces in the UK who are always armed.
Ah yes, the legendary 007 wit, or at least half of it.
In the US, returning US citizens have the right to re-enter without a photo or a fingerprint. It's a right I'd like to preserve, and that's getting increasingly harder to exercise as everything in the airport nudges passengers to automated systems with no obvious way to opt out.

Obviously other countries have their own rules.
I worked at Boeing on both the p8 and the kc46, and it's unreal how poorly leadership let things run. Handing thumb drives with excel sheets around, waiting years to provision vms. Etc.
“Between 1991 and 2018, the average price of the batteries that power mobile phones, fuel electric cars, and underpin green energy storage fell more than thirtyfold”

THIRTY FOLD ISNT EXPONENTIAL.

Please reevaluate the plan. It likely contains a lot of optimism and a few required miracles
You are. You can't play for fun when you have no idea if you're playing against another human or Stockfish (or whatever is in fashion this week).
There have been a few national American lotteries in the past handful of years with a jackpot so big ($1.5+ billion) that it was statistically advantageous to buy every number sequence; the total price of the lottery tickets was less than the jackpot. The problem with this lotto hack was that it was not humanly possible to buy that many tickets. Also, if even 1 other person won, the person would be in the hole some 1/2 a billion $ after splitting the winnings.
> Zig's use of comptime is fairly revolutionary in a c-like language

Not revolutionary. Before Zig came out, which was 2016, there was Jonathan Blow talking about and arguably repopularizing it. Lots of people (who knows how many developers) and languages were influenced by him too.

2014, Jonathan Blow, who made lots of videos and gave lots of talks, before going on to officially promote Jai (2016). And it appears he was playing around with prototypes much earlier and talking about it (from 2014).

https://youtu.be/UTqZNujQOlA
(Demo: Base language, compile-time execution)
In Canada we can vote without ID by declaring our name/address and having a friend/family member from the same district vouch that we are eligible to vote.

Source: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&do...
Making out of bounds access on explicitly bound types is an easy memory safety win.

The fact the UB is still being used as an excuse to clearly undermine reasonably expected behaviour remains a BS trope, and WG21's continued acceptance of new features and specifications that say perfectly specifiable behaviour is UB instead of unspecified is a continuing source of avoidable security bugs.

It is inexcusable for new features to be added to C++ that have UB in any case other than the undefinable (invalid memory access, etc). Removing the copious unnecessary UB from the existing specs should be a higher priority that many of the new features being proposed.
If you want a job you can easily switch for an equivalent job, which seemed to be your pitch for using a boring language, then that job is at best going to be a 9-5, which will take up something like half your waking life (at least for the decades when you're the most healthy). I'm a big believer in life and hobbies outside of work (and when I want to learn a new programming language, I look for a way to do it on the clock), but an engaging, interesting job that pays less is often a very worthwhile tradeoff.
I usually use Rich Hickey's phrase when dealing with arguments over solutions: "Don't confuse familiarity with simplicity"

It's such an insightful phrase.
I don’t know about this take. Remember all of the shitstorms that the NYT et. al. kicked up over biased/racist/sexist AI? Remember Tay?

I think if you are Google, you are terrified of the bad PR from someone generating something questionable. And that bad article is inevitable if you open up these models. (See, pornpen.ai being released approximately five minutes after StableDiffusion. Imagine the press if that was built from the mode Google published.)

An open source community is a diffuse target, so the NYT won’t go after them as quickly, and let's be honest, their axe to grind is with big tech, not a bunch of AI hackers.
Yes, insolation is 173 PW. Trying to intimidate with big numbers doesn't make you any less wrong.

Current primary energy is 18TW.

Current GHG radiative forcing is 200-600TW

Everyone living like americans on fusion energy (180TW) is sufficient to be as bad as GHG climate change would be with 90s level emissions.

Everyone taking your attitude would see us back exactly where we are now in a few decades.

PV on asphalt or building has little to no net albedo change. 1W of PV on water or grassland produces ~0.5-1W of heat now and 1W of work-becomes-heat that the dark surface would create anyway. With the advent of tandem cells this will go down to being relatively insignificant. Wind is energy that would thermalise anyway. PV on desert or snow is a concern.

Steam engines from stored fossil fuels or nuclear produce 2-4W of heat (depending on fuel enrichment or extraction/mining inefficiency) and 1W of new work. Magical fusion technogies are at best like PV on water.
What information is being encoded in the QR code? Any details on the size of the barcode payload?
Looks kinda like ASCI-Art used to represent a greyscale image data area, like it could be so they can put "notes data" and someone got the idea to just scan this "notes" and figured ascii-art was the easy way since it was black and white info anyway.

Just a hunch though... If theres a specific reason I'd love to know too.
Maybe Zuck should put himself on PIP as it’s obvious he needs support. He had a money printing machine and managed to fuck it up.
People said the same thing about the UK and Germany at the beginning of 1914.

That led to tens of thousands of English boys drowning in mud over of the course of days at Paschendale and millions of young German men slaughtered in a line running from the Alps to the coast.
I don't think anybody is expecting cryptocurrencies as a whole to cease to exist. I do think a lot of people, including myself, see the current turmoil in the market as only a precursor to what will happen if/when Tether implodes and a whole lot of funny money is suddenly sucked out of the system. In crypto history terms, this would be a Mt Gox level event, which crashed prices by over 80%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#/media/File:Bitcoin_ex... (log scaled)
Wonder how much a computer can dampen/remove/counter these sloshing events by constantly adjusting the control surfaces. super interesting stuff.
Remember reading in some book on probability and statistics that one will be better off betting insignificant amounts of money rather than not playing at all.
> Not a word about Voter ID

Every serious, even-remotely-democratic country on the planet requires voter ID, yet one US party is staunchly against it. Until the US changes this, then its electoral process should be seen with extreme skepticism and electoral fraud should probably be considered the default.
Does the uae even benefit from this? The cable is on the other side of the African continent
> Why don’t we require voters to show ID?

Because in the US the people in charge of issuing suitable state ID have no interest in making it cheap and easy for all eligible voters to obtain such ID.

In fact, in many cases at around the same time they institute voter ID requirements they also reduce the number of places one can go to get ID, with most of the reductions coming to places that mostly serve minority populations.
If you can't reach Stephen directly maybe you can try to reach him via Yaron Minsky.
The language is only easy if you have basically learned the language already. Java, C#, C++, Python, Go etc. all differ but fundamentally they are all the same language with different amounts of window dressing. So yeah if you know one of them it's easy to "learn" the others. But I wouldn't really call this learning a new language.

It's a fundamentally different ask to learn Haskell, datalog, SaC. You are actually learning a new language instead of just the flavour of the week imperative programming.
As of today there are 391 deaths per day, 2,737 per week according to the official stats in the New York Times. It's not a thing of the past.
> If you do think public opinion is consequential

I don't - I thought I made myself clear. The "public" is not a hivemind - what you're talking about is the mob of cancel culture that wants to remove everything they deem to be thoughtcrime from the face of the earth. The mob doesn't donate to FSF. I don't give a shit about the mob, RMS doesn't give a shit about the mob, and neither should you.

> public figure publicly questioning the account of an alleged a rape victim constitutes stepping on someone

People, whether public figures or not, should have the right to discuss any topics as long as they do it in a rational and civilized manner. The fact that you don't like the topic does not give you the right to silence others. Hiding behind the "public opinion" is just an attempt to project your own values onto that intangible boogeyman who you deem, for some reason, an authority.
So every topic has a (Kafka) replication factor of 1, but how do producers find their partition leader if the DO fails? From my understanding, all the DOs are effectively the same broker so they'd never lose the leader?

With regards to Kafka 0.8, I inferred it was due to the protocol being simpler back then, what issues did you hit with newer protocol versions?

Nice way to demo the tech :)
maybe they can use this thing to figure out universal basic income before we all become homeless
I think you meant to reply to me, not Walter Bright.

And yes, this is a trillion dollar problem. I may be just some bloke with an idea, trying to make it happen. However, I have the free time to try, so why not?
Soldiers would still need it to be pressurised which might be hard to do. Easier to transport cargo that doesn't mind a drop in air pressure.
africa's is even 'better' . More people doesnt mean better
If your target is 2030 that's not enough time to permit and construct a single conventional nuclear power plant in North America. The permitting process alone typically runs 5 years or more before ground is even broken on construction.
Ask HN: Wouldn't it be trivial for ISP to determine site via traffic patterns?
Even if you're using a VPN, shouldn't an ISP have access to more than enough data to determine that X packets of roughly Y size, sent with roughly Z timing is 99% likely to be S service? They have the training data...Am I fundamentally misunderstanding some part of how ISPs work?
You already have no choice. While I agree that it's sending a sad message of defeat after such a long time, you either consciously buy "free hardware" anyways, so this doesn't affect you, or you're more of the pragmatic kind and would've installed the non-free blobs anyways after the Installer finished.
Seems to be a trend in the past few years.
I don't think they're getting rid of the C-17. This will be an additional aircraft.
When you are in a regulated industry it’s better to be sure than incur the wrath of the regulator.
I'm curious what ethical reasons you think require that new technology only be used in secret and without oversight by trillion dollar companies. This is supposed to be AI safety? "Do whatever you want, just make sure you conceal the results and impede progress and understanding."

What reasons necessitate keeping image or video generation models private that wouldn't also argue for keeping animation software or picture editing tools private? Should we somehow prevent such tools from getting better or easier or stop people from educating others on how to use them?

No, that's crazy. If the tools are so dangerous we can't trust the public to have them then they are way too dangerous to trust Google with them. If it were actually true that Google was developing AI too dangerous for the public, then we should storm the Google headquarters, kill their engineers, and burn their data centers.

Of course it's not true. Google is developing image and video generation models and equivalent versions will be open source by the year's end I expect. These models aren't especially dangerous. Yes, people will use them to be racist or mean, same as they use their phones or computers or books or whatever to be those things.

As a final note, it's obviously not true that GPT-3 was kept private for the "ethics" reason. I can buy GPT-3 generations now for 2 cents per 1k tokens generated. There is no real oversight into how these generations are used and you could absolutely use them to power social media bots or whatever you are concerned with. The reason they keep GPT-3 private but sell access to it is not because they want to be ethical, but because they want to sell access to it.
Expanding the Mandelbrot Set into Higher Dimensions (2010) [pdf]
It is sad but also was inevitable. The market could only sustain $150,000 a year salaries for grads fresh out of college for so long before someone somewhere along the way ran out of money.

With rates going up there are places besides tech people can hope to park their money, the VC funding is going to disappear and with it some of the distortion of the market for developers. Just a reminder though this happened before in the 2000s with the dotcom crash, things worked out the world kept on spinning, society didn't collapse and many engineers were still able to eventually get new jobs and provide for their families. It will happen again.
Nike said: "Just do it".

I think it's about finding the balance. There's no simple rule to tell us how much effort we should spend planning. It is important to realize that, that it is possible to spend too much time planning.

But just because we can't say what exactly is the optimal amount of planning for each project or task, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. It just means that most likely we are doing either too much planning, or too little planning. That's just the way life is.
Ha ha.. I don't have it anymore, but I also went through ML for the Working Programmer. At my university, some web apps were written in ML, but then our principal was Mads Tofte - He is a good guy, learned a lot from him.
> what societies that aren’t “hunter gatherers” or migratory that have lived in a steady state with their environment?

The majority of indigenous Australian nations were not hunter-gatherers, though all did include hunting and gathering amongst their food production techniques to varying degrees. Though I don't see the relevance of the question. In any case, a 60,000 year civilisation not involving much in the way of capitalism seems to at least point to the possibility that what many contemporaries imagine from their very limited experience of the varieties of human experience to be 'human nature' is, in fact, merely a description of their own local culture.

> Also, how do you define capitalism?

While I find definitions to be rarely useful for physical-world concepts, capitalism to me is the system of political economy based on 'growth'. I also believe that the word 'growth' is a sort of misleading metaphor, supervening over the physical process of increasing entropy by converting complex evolved systems into cruder technological ones. There's a small academic literature on the question of whether or not capitalism does, in fact, require growth. I find the pro case convincing. You'll have to make your own judgement (given the existing literature it's not worth litigating here). I think this dependence on fake 'growth' is what most characteristically distinguishes capitalism from other ways of organising society.

> I am very much against any kind of centrally planned system

So the 3 categories of organising society you consider to contain the universe of possibilities is 'hunter-gatherer', 'capitalist' and 'centrally planned'. That's it, is it? For ever? For all our history to date?

In any case it doesn't matter much what you or me are 'for' or 'against'. That's just punditry. My contention is about the physical world. I think capitalism is literally incompatible with the long-term continuing existence of a healthy living planet. But as all H. Sapiens that I am aware of are mammals, therefore are dependent on ecosystems, capitalism literally cannot continue. So it won't. It's not among the set of long-term possibilities, regardless of political wishes or preferences.
> Mail-in/absentee ballot request forms typically require applicants to sign the form and affirm their eligibility to cast a mail-in/absentee ballot under penalty of law. Upon receipt of a mail-in/absentee ballot request form, election officials implement varying procedures to verify the identity and eligibility of the applicant prior to sending the applicant a mail-in/absentee ballot. Such procedures include checking the signature and information submitted on the form against the corresponding voter registration record, as well as ensuring that multiple mail-in/absentee ballots are not sent in response to applications using the same voter’s information.

Let’s see. In 2020, many duplicates were sent. Ballots were sent for dead people. So the rumour is not only true, it has already been happening across the country as recently as last election.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/duplicates-and-dead-...
Because housing policy is set up so that homeowners in desirable places are the ones who have control over whether more housing gets built there, and unsurprisingly they vote to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else. The only way to fix it is to set planning rules strictly at the national level, but who's going to vote for that?
This news has been submitted multiple times over the last couple of days. The submission with the most comments, 35: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087097
Ignoring unusual languages doesn't guarantee you are financially driven, sometimes it just means you're more interested in the actual use case than the tech.

My favorite programming language is an amazon link. If I can say "I could build this, but it already exists here", I'm happy because I know I've given them something truly professional in a week that would have taken way longer and cost way more to build, plus any random person can work on it and parts will be available on eBay.

Using common languages is just an extension of that.

If someone uses unusual languages, I expect they'll have unusual problems that will become my problem if I'm working with them.
“With unfavorable climate conditions, ICER delivers 96 W/m2 daytime cooling power at the ambient temperature and shows a 300% enhancement over the state-of-the-art radiative cooler.”
The odds of N-1 numbers being “remarkable” diminishes for each number drawn. Unless remarkable can be conjured and retconned for every number combination or every Nth number drawn. Each combination is equally likely before the first number is drawn. And equally likely at the end of the draw. But odds change when you have a partial result that’s already ruled out possibilities for each drawing.

You can’t have 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54 if you draw an 8. The odds of that are zero.
Fission powered machines could do the same and we haven't seen them proliferate, in fact, quite the opposite. A mobile fusion powered device would certainly be harder to make than a fission powered one.
That’s also amazed me. “The depth of the seabed beneath the Soul buoy is around 4,940 metres (16,210 ft).” Didn’t realize people did that sort of thing…