skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital death cleaning.

I want create a digital clone of myself. Last month, I scanned decades of journals and recorded music. Next up: organize a personal corpora and apply some ML. Hopefully, the clone will be more interesting than the original.

This is inspired by a conversation I had with Rudy Rucker, who suggested a "headstone". More recently, I read a Wired article where someone used "pullstring" to create an interactive version of his Father, who passed [1]. And then there is Margareta Magnussen's concept of saving your loved ones the chore of slogging through your clutter [2].

I think that I have way too much digital content. Am not famous, so who cares? And yet, my life might make a good toy: worth a few minutes of entertainment. Pull string, indeed.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...
immortality/

[2] https://www.thespruce.com/swedish-death-cleaning-4801461
In germany, you have to buy water in all restaurants. This results in purchasing plastic mineral water bottles. Sad state of things.
Location: Switzerland
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There's waifu2x, it does scaling but also denoising:

https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

And other implementations thereof, e.g:

https://github.com/nihui/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan
I grew up basically expecting clean drinkable water every single time I turned the tap.

It's pretty sad to see that isn't the case anymore, assuming it ever was in the first place. Nobody in a nation with as much wealth as we have in the US should have to plan a glass of water hours in advance to make sure they aren't being harmed or have to buy and maintain expensive filters for their home.

We really need to start demanding better.
For leaving water out to sit, I've heard from fish owners that you have to be careful that it is a chlorine system and not chloramine which doesn't so simply evaporate out:

https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/chloramines-drinking-water
I built https://energygraph.info based partially on ENTSO-E data, it uses grafana and a custom plug-in for the maps, focused on French nuclear and European eletricity with flow, day ahead prices and live and cumulative production by type or individual units.
@malux85 I wonder if you have any spare/used/old thinkpad/laptop that you can give to me for free? It will be life changing for me!

I'm currently really struggling in life (I barely eat once a day at the moment) but I'm really passionate about Linux/free software. So, a free laptop could really help me get local jobs (sysadmin or web developer for SMEs), put food on the table, & pay rent! Thank you!
Well that thing make sense. For example you can wire the console port as one port in a patch panel for ease of access. For example in my current office we did this for the console port of access points on the ceiling, this will save you taking a ladder if you need to change the configuration (and while doing so the access point doesn't have a valid IP) or if something goes wrong.
On the whole, italian part-time hours are fixed. Like fixed. This is to allow people to go to a second, or third, job on time. You can request they change ie come in early, stay later but no is backed up by law. Elastic clauses (contracts) exist, but the employer oays a hefty premium, and even then can only request a certain number/ percentage of hours are 'extra'.
All this is for legal employment,as opposed to cash-in-hand jobs.
Well, if you bill by the resources used, you really have no incentive to run an operation where building clean and resource-effective applications is easy, or where migrating to another platform is painless.
Socrates supposedly loved going to the market. When his students asked him about this, Socrates replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without." :)
Don't bother with a bike helmet! The only safety you need on your bike is the safety of your open carry firearm. When a careless driver pulls out of a side road and takes you out, you can both make them regret their decision and pay for your neurosurgery with a gun.

/s (sadly needed)
At least in the UK, wind right now is over 30% of our power generation [0]. I don't have links handy but wind regularly exceeds most other sources here. How much more do you want it to provide before you'd consider it not just talk?

[0] https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
On my phone (Android, Moto Edge) the contents of text messages are hidden on the lock screen. I'm pretty certain that this is the default behaviour in recent versions of Android that I've seen.

So, at least for me, anyone who stole my phone for the purpose of hacking my paypal account would still need my fingerprint or unlock pattern. Someone with a non-smart phone will have a different experience though.

And yeah, sms is a poor choice from a technical pov but i can see why they did it for a mass-market service.
Map of electricity production and consumption per country
Stop “Testing” Infrastructure as Code
I don't really get what you're upset about. The algorithm seems pretty sane to me. If the Whitehouse wants to hold a press briefing, they can, but when they post on social media they invite engagement.
One doesn't simply buy GitHub for $7.5e+9 to foster the community and the ideals of open source.

Moreover, ideals like that don't simply pop out of the blue and right into the collective psyche without comparable infusions.

To drive it home in case lines between dots are not obvious: open source ideology, github and copilot are merely successive stages in the process of production of profit. The next step is obvious, get rid of human programmers and save on their wages.

This is where ideals lead.
A few months ago I started playing with using Matrix as a janky social media replacement. The idea was to setup a space with rooms that I post in. One room might be a public, unencrypted room that anyone can read (ala Twitter/Mastadon/etc), and another might be just for close friends, etc. Then, I just post to them like you would on any other platform.

It's great because it's the only platform like this where you have the ability to encrypt if you want to, but it is of course missing some features. The biggest being the ability to share posts and have a meta feed. There are also smaller annoyances that would not scale well, such as the fact that people cannot make personal room name aliases.

I still totally recommend it.
SRAM bicycle parts start from X3 for the cheap stuff up to X9 for nice parts, then X0 is better than X9 and XX is the best. XX can be read as "X ten" but why is X0 between X9 and XX?
A service equivalent to Twitter does not cost billions per year to run. In principle, you could boot one up with pocket change and operate it with a small budget. The reason you can't do this in practice is that the network effects are a fundamental requirement, almost impossible to recreate, and all the established operators are forced by shareholder duty to play the adtech game.

If you were an effective altruist worried about adtech's pervasive influence on society and had unlimited funds, you could hardly do better than purchasing one of the few established, global social networks. Trim down its cost structure to the bare minimum, make the economics work without letting the global-reach advertisers dictate terms, preserve the network effects that comprise the real value of your media channel and then shape the discourse to serve whatever positive outcome the current system prevents. You'll have the only privately-owned, global-reach media channel in the whole world that's not fundamentally influenced by advertisers.

Of course, Elon Musk might not be an effective altruist and the billion-dollar interest payment is an impediment to the above plan, I'll grant you that. But hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the guy just ends up subsidising this thing from his other businesses if he can't make it run organically. That's what I would do. It'd be a uniquely independent and influential media channel.

I really don't see why this would make people quit Twitter en masse. The only people quitting Twitter are those who really hate Elon Musk, and there just aren't that many of them. The service works like before and it might well work better, allowing democratic discourse that is viable for a global audience nowhere else.

As I mentioned earlier, the conclusion boils down to whether you think Musk means well or not.
Thank you. Just realised that of course this will be a common thing in the future to talk with your ancestors and the more data the ML has, the more real it will feel.
Many people are saying, "but it is only electricity".

Of course, however, is there anything where the conversion has been from electic to petrol / gas / coal? My car is going electic, my bolier is going electric. This isnt new, it has been the path of travel for a while now.

Unless Nvidia has really f'd up their calculations my 5090 graphics card isnt going to be coal powered.
Also very inexpensive to make, a MAX232 or MAX485 chip costs cents and will allow you to connect to any microcontroller. For sensors and similar stuff it's ideal, more 485 than 232 because with 485 you can have multiple devices on a bus (but unlike 232 is half-duplex).
I don't think it's satire.

STEM is pushed hard, but realistically, science and math dont have that great career prospects. For one thing, a PhD, and the 4-7 year opportunity cost that comes with it, is pretty much required to get anything more than a lab tech job.

After that PhD, where do you go? You can try for an insanely competitive tenure track faculty position. Or a very limited number of industry researcher jobs.

The E in STEM (traditional engineering) isn't exactly tech in terms of salaries and job availability, but it mostly guarantees paying the bills with a decent WLB after "just" a bachelor's.
Wow, lots of anti-water people coming out in the comments. Bizarre.

Our family goes through a 5 gallon jug in less than a week. I have a few jugs, which I'll refill a few times, and then the local grocery store or Walmart has a thing where you can drop off old jugs to replace with new ones, sterilized and pre-filled with fresh water. (Clearly this is a thing many other people are doing since the infrastructure exists, even though it's never advertised and I never see other people doing it.)

There is literally no health risk involved here. Yes, I go to refill or replace jugs every two weeks or so. Not a big deal. Easier than buying soda or smaller bottles of water, IMO.

Edit: We used to use Britas but that was honestly more hassle than just dealing with the jugs.
I don't understand, if you are an hourly worker you are getting paid at least as much for each additional hour? A salaried worker is comparing jobs that claim to be 40 hours and is being cheated out of income per hour if they take one that is actually more hours than another position with the same salary.

There are the same kinds of labor cheats done on hourly laborers, but you can measure the crime and get a significant damages pay out (at least in some states) if you contact a labor attorney.
I happen to have a dietz blizzard--someone gave it to me, or maybe it was left on the property I bought. I don't share your opinion of the aesthetics of the thing, but I dusted it off after reading your first article recently.

I share a similar love for lanterns and their light quality, although I've mainly just used gas lanterns with mantles.
> Mastodon is an ActivityPub client.

I think this is where the confusion stems from, the way I understand it:

Mastodon is a server that implements the federation part of the ActivityPub protocol to exchange objects with compatible server software.
It has functionality which exceeds the ActivityPub client-to-server protocol,
which it doesn't implement, and opts to instead have its own client API. [1]

So if you were to write an application using the ActivityPub C2S protocol,
you could not directly communicate with a Mastodon server,
but could interact with objects created by a Mastodon server through
another server software implementing both the federation and C2S protocol.

So in that sense they are Mastodon frontends because they probably use the Mastodon specific API instead of the ActivityPub C2S protocol.

Here is for example a list of implementations which includes whether the client-to-server protocol is supported [2].

[1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10520
[2]: https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/
>Both bottled and tap water are too often full of stuff you don't want to be drinking.

https://bestlifeonline.com/best-drinking-water/

I guess that depends on where you are.
For those that prefer a non Twitter link - https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-homeland-security-report-an...
Yes you could do that, but then you’d lose type info on the error.
> from my travel experience

You can't taste many industrial chemicals or even biological contaminants. Tap water can taste great and be unsafe. And taste horrible due to minerals and be perfectly safe. You really need to see regular reports on water tests to understand if the local infrastructure provides safe drinking water.
Fairly low mileage but it also spends a fair bit of time inside. Most miles go on the unpowered one as the cargo bike (actually a rear-steer tricycle) is for large cargo.

It's a nominal 200W panel (older fairly inefficient monocrystalline, big enough for a small sunshade which is its main function) and will fill the 1.1kWh battery in about a day (in a near-optimal climate), or two if the weather is meh. Before I mounted it on the trike I could get ~100-150km before plugging it into the panel on flatter ground or about 20-30km on a route with several big hills (12% grade) and a heavy (50kg bike + 50-100kg cargo + 75kg rider) load.

The trike is pretty speed limited by handling though (20-25km/h) and it takes very little effort on the flat to keep it above the 25km/h speed limiter. On flat ground or shallow hills (1-2%) during the sunny part of the day (9-3) I can't use more power than the panel provides without going up hills because of the speed restriction.

I'd imagine on a bakfiets in an area where 32km/h limiters were allowed you'd get about 30-50km depending on the terrain.

Some back of the envelope:

Consider this: https://www.bakfiets.com/elektrische-bakfiets/cargobike-clas...

A less ghetto lid than my arrangement would be 0.63m^2

This would fit okay as a lid: https://www.solar4rvs.com.au/sunman-earc-100w-flexible-solar...

a little narrow and would hang over the edge a little.

Assume it's about 45 degrees from optimal (70%) and that you're getting the average irradiance from somewhere like denmark (1000kWh/yr). You'll get about 71kWh/yr. Cut off 7kWh for charging loss so 62kWh.

A typical bike battery is 500Wh, so 120 charges or 1 full charge every 3 days.

A charge might get you 20km or it might get you 90km, but for a typical rider with moderate hills who puts in a 40-60W contribution (same effort as walking) and doesn't want to risk grinding home the last 10km on a cloudy day, a reasonable ballpark is 50km/day. So you're looking at ~15-20km (but you'll need to charge it in winter), or maybe up to 5x that (and decent range even in winter) if you think very carefully about parking, live in a better climate for solar, and do 25 rather than 32.
Amen. Short-term long hour stints (a week at most) are doable - if they can be motivated.

Beyond that and it's indicative of a failure of planning, to which my response is "Do not attempt to make your failure of planning my problem."
Curl is my preferred SDK.
Fairly low mileage but it also spends a fair bit of time inside. Most miles go on the unpowered one as the cargo bike (actually a rear-steer tricycle) is for large cargo.

It's a nominal 200W panel (older fairly inefficient by new standards monocrystalline, big enough for a small sunshade which is its main function) and will fill the 1.1kWh battery in about a day (in a good climate of 1800kWh/yr), or two if the weather is meh. Before I mounted it on the trike I could get ~100-150km before plugging it into the panel on flatter ground or about 20-30km on a route with several big hills (12% grade) and a heavy (50kg bike + 50-100kg cargo + 75kg rider) load.

The trike is pretty speed limited by handling though (20-25km/h) and it takes very little effort on the flat to keep it above the 25km/h speed limiter. On flat ground or shallow hills (1-2%) during the sunny part of the day (9-3) I can't use more power than the panel provides without going up hills because of the speed restriction (ie. It gains charge).

I'd imagine on a bakfiets in an area where 32km/h limiters were allowed you'd get about 30-50km depending on the terrain.

Some back of the envelope:

Consider this: https://www.bakfiets.com/elektrische-bakfiets/cargobike-clas...

A less ghetto lid than my arrangement would be 0.63m^2 or up to 150W nominal if it was a perfect fit and a high end panel.

This would fit okay as a lid: https://www.solar4rvs.com.au/sunman-earc-100w-flexible-solar...

a little narrow and would hang over the edge a little, not far offour benchmark.

Assume it's about 45 degrees from optimal (70%) and that you're getting the average irradiance from somewhere like denmark on a meh week (1000kWh/yr) where you only think carefully about your parking spot at home. You'll get about 71kWh/yr. Cut off 7kWh for charging loss so 62kWh.

A typical bike battery is 500Wh, so 120 charges or 1 full charge every 3 days.

A charge might get you 20km or it might get you 90km, but for a typical rider with moderate hills who puts in a 40-60W contribution (same effort as walking) and doesn't want to risk grinding home the last 10km on a cloudy day, a reasonable ballpark is 50km/charge. So you're looking at ~15-20km/day (but you'll need to charge it in winter every week or so), or maybe up to 5x that (and decent range even in winter) if you think very carefully about parking, live in a better climate for solar, and do 25 rather than 32.
Signal is a non-web app, but not (afaik?) a client for Mastodon.
If it's sitting in the sun it best environment for algae. Other organisms have much harder time there.
I used the term rougelite instead of rougelike. This is explicitly to distinguish it from games like rouge and nethack. FTL has some elements of these games, procedurally generated levels, permadeath, exploration, PvE, RPG elements, crushing difficulty, but not others. Thus rougelite.

Anyways trying to define what qualifies what a "rougelike" is has started countless semantic slapfights (which is why I tried to use the cop-out word rougelite). Please consult a rougelike alignment chart to know where you stand in the great holy war over the definition of the word "rougelike" [1]. Nowadays most gamers think of indie games like dead cells, hades, enter the dungeon, darkest dungeon, crypt of the necrodancer, and ftl when they think "rougelike" and those games are all tagged with "rougelike" on steam and twitch.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ZLDp5rU.png
If you take a look at their blog[1], you might realize that the Steam release is about more than slapping on a texture pack. AFAICT they overhauled most of the UI.

[1] https://bay12games.com/dwarves/
This is the right answer. Instead of arguing with each about how long others should work, realize that everyone is different. People should find ways to work that maximize the value of their work.
I mean, usually you just end up trading stonk at Renaissance Technologies or PanAgora. I'm not studying anything finance related and haven't even finished my phd and they've still been actively after me to sell my soul for mid six figures. The worst part was, I did the interviews to get an offer and everyone I talked to was tangibly brilliant- like could really be changing the world instead of this. I almost did it for the money + chance to work with a bunch of actually smart people, but the moral implications barely won out.
The correct answer for solving the wrong problem
> I’m more productive in it than with “modern” tools.

Are you objectively more productive, or do you perceive yourself to be more productive?

I was an Emacs diehard for nearly two decades. Then I got introduced to CLion. In retrospect, Emacs was an inferior tool.

While it's certainly true that Emacs can be configured and extended to do all sorts of interesting things, I do suspect many of its users are deluding themselves when it comes to the sheer breadth and depth of functionality offered by a modern IDE. It also doesn't help that its maintainers are living several decades in the past, and haven't kept up with what the "competition" are doing.

I'm certainly not implying that Emacs is a poor editor. Very few IDEs have text editing capabilities on par with that. But its integration with other tools doesn't hold a candle to today's IDEs.
"The workforce is stretched thin as you can make similar money fucking around with your phone on the clock at Walmart"

I don't understand this. "Stretched thin" means there are few of you. If you can make similar money in easier work at Walmart, why wouldn't you do that? Not looking to be oppositional, I just don't understand your point here. I would imagine that what you do is in fact skilled labor that should pay better than Walmart clerking.
>I don't understand,

If you are a software engineer (or even, a "coder", which I think is an incredibly apt analogy for OP to mention), does your work calendar currently say "code this week for 65 hours or else" ?
Yes, of course. That was my point. That the heuristic of "developed country" is not effective just because it's sometimes right.

Also take a look at the number of contaminants in the water for each those cities in your source. It's not zero for any of them.
I'm sorry, but that's just being stupid. Firstly, many of us are not Americans, so we don't vote for those people. Secondly, that's an election you're talking about, and in the US, it's either "your guy" or the other guy - voting for the "ideal guy" is the same as not voting at all. You can in fact think that someone is not morally a good person and still have a solid reason to vote for them. Case in point, Joe "at least he's not Trump" Biden.

Would you like to keep arguing why you have a point or do we stop here?
Related paper:

https://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/Subtle%20Linguistic%20Cu...
I enjoyed the game. However when coming back to it there is always a long relearning curve as I never remember what the mechs do. And then the muscle memory of how to plan/chain attacks takes a while to return... and when it does the fun begins!
HN users routinely try to do things the obtuse way and then complain when its hard. Throw in something about the SDK being spyware or not following the unix philosophy.
Perma-death, with a procedurally generated world, combined with a clear destination / goal (to get to the next system). One can beeline straight for the goal or risk more time exploring for the prospect of a greater reward. It matches the "2010s Indie" definition of a roguelike.
Just added a Github link to the navbar. If you have any ideas or see some here that you like that haven't been implemented go for it !
Procedurally generated content and permadeath are two core concepts of roguelikes. Games that use these concepts are also called roguelites (with a 't'). Binding of Isaac and Spelunky are two other examples of roguelites.
When we look, we count – The plastic number
I really don't like that ActivityPub does not support encryption. I wanted to setup an instance of one of these platforms for friends and family to use, but hated the thought of having to tell them that, by the way I can read all of your messages. I wouldn't, but I hate that that's even possible. So, instead I'm trying to twist Matrix to work more like a social media platform. It's janky, but totally workable, so long as you're not looking for global engagement.
That's fine for your home, but not when you extend your gaze to where all those items are actually produced: Industries.
Ah hah! Thank you